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DESCRIPTION:Sister Solidarity 2017: Art and Activism as Healing\n\nThe Women’s Center 
 at UCSC is pleased to invite you to Sister Solidarity 2017, a series of 
 events throughout the month of February, honoring Women’s Heritage Month! 
 This year’s theme for Sister Solidarity is "Art and Activism as 
 Healing."\n\nThrough Sister Solidarity we seek to celebrate the importance 
 of women’s activism and highlight their contributions to our society. Our 
 events will focus on a feminist and the social justice approach to art 
 collectives, the Israeli occupation of Palestine and its connection to 
 prison industrial complex. Sister Solidarity seeks to reclaim the word 
 “women” by honoring all women across all intersectionalities.\n\nSister 
 Solidarity Events:\n\n“Racialized Violence: from Prisons to 
 Palestine”\nKeynote Wednesday, February 15, 2017\nTime: doors 6:30 p.m., 
 program 7:00 p.m. - 8: 30 p.m.\nKresge Town Hall\n\n“Borderlands: Singing 
 Through The Prison Walls”\nWorkshop Thursday, February 16, 2017\nTime: 
 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.\nLocation: Namaste Lounge, College 
 9/10\n\nSinger/songwriter Naima Shalhoub will perform and speak about her 
 current work, “Borderlands: Singing Through The Prison Walls”, that was 
 recorded in San Francisco County Jail for incarcerated women. She will 
 perform her renowned song Ferguson- Gaza Blues, which connects the white 
 supremacist state violence against Black people and the 2014 Israeli 
 assault on Gaza. Naima will also speak about the prison industrial complex 
 and its relation to the ongoing Palestinian struggle for liberation. 
 Visiting scholar Mikki Stelder will be joining the conversation to talk 
 about the challenge Black-Palestine solidarity poses for the present and 
 how it helps imagine a different kind of future.\n\nNaima Shalhoub is a 
 Lebanese-American composer, musician, and educator who uses her music and 
 songwriting as a vessel for freedom, advocating for social justice and 
 inspiring healing. She has performed all over the Bay Area, as well as 
 internationally (Cairo, Beirut, etc). Naima has also performed for 
 organizations like Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, the Palestinian 
 Children’s Relief Fund, the National Association for Community and 
 Restorative Justice, and has performed her songs in Arabic, Spanish, 
 French, and Italian. She has spoken and performed on programs opening for 
 Cornel West and Angela Davis. \n\nMikki Stelder is a PhD Candidate at 
 University of Amsterdam where she will be completing her dissertation with 
 the working title Queering the Occupation: Towards Different Scenes of 
 Speaking. She is currently a visiting scholar in the History of 
 Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz under the auspices of Prof. Gina 
 Dent (Fall/Winter 2016-2017). She is also a teacher and an activist who has 
 been involved in Palestine solidarity activism since 2010. Amongst other 
 events and campaigns, she co-organized the Palestinian led Queer Visions at 
 the World Social Forum: Free Palestine in Porto Alegre Brazil in 2012. 
 Since 2015, she has been working on a transnational campaign that calls for 
 a boycott of gay tourism to Israel in collaboration with alQaws: for Gender 
 and Sexual Diversity in Palestinian Society. Her work has appeared in 
 outlets such as Mondoweiss, OneWorld.org, and PinkWatching 
 Israel.\n\n"Borderlands: Singing Through The Prison Walls" will be an 
 introduction to songwriting as a form of healing and a vessel for activism. 
 Naima will be building off from the conversations in her keynote 
 presentation to help students develop their own voice and songs. It will be 
 a space for students to learn about the ways in which art can be a form of 
 activism and as a way to start conversations around social injustices 
 through creation.\n\nTo learn more about Naima please visit: 
 http://naimashalhoub.com/borderlands/\n\nThere will also be FREE food from 
 Falafel!\n\nFor additional information and accommodations please contact 
 the Women’s Center at ( 831) 459-2072 (Monday -Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 
 p.m.) or women@ucsc.edu. The Women’s Center is located at the Cardiff 
 House at Lower Campus, next to the Carriage House and TAPS.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/08/18796293.php
SUMMARY:Racialized Violence: From Prisons to Palestine
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall, UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/08/18796293.php
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