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DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the University of California Riverside’s Center for Ideas 
 and Society’s “Decolonizing Humanities (?)” initiative and UCR 
 Faculty for Justice in Palestine\n\nA roundtable with Angela Y. Davis, 
 Jess, Ghannam, and Robin D.G. Kelley.\n\nThrough the 1980s, campuses 
 throughout the United States and internationally were the sites of a 
 student-led movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against South 
 Africa’s apartheid regime, a campaign called for by South Africa’s 
 African National Congress (ANC). In many cases, anti-apartheid campaigns 
 conjoined with demands for an end to “apartheid on campus” as students 
 contested racial and gender discrimination and the rollback of affirmative 
 action in their own institutions. Administration buildings were occupied, 
 shanty-towns constructed on campus, and the meetings of Regents or Trustees 
 disrupted. This was a campus movement that also coordinated with trades 
 unions, religious communities, and a broad spectrum of social movements. 
 And over the course of several years or organizing and protests, and 
 despite obdurate administrative resistance, it succeeded in bringing many 
 universities to divest and contributed greatly to the mainstreaming of the 
 anti-apartheid movement as a moral and political cause for civil society as 
 a whole. Notably, this campaign succeeded despite the Reagan and Bush 
 administration’s deep support for the apartheid regime as a significant 
 Cold War ally and source of raw materials.\n\nNow the campaign for 
 divestment from Israeli and from corporations that support its genocidal 
 war and apartheid regime is spreading across US campuses in response to 
 Palestinian civil society’s call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions 
 (BDS). This round table is intended to offer insights for the present from 
 the history of the previous anti-apartheid movement. How was it organized? 
 What were its overall strategies? What varieties of practice were used to 
 advance the campaign? What tactics succeeded most effectively? How did 
 campus organizations succeed in growing and drawing support? How were 
 coalitions built with other civil society movements? In what ways did 
 university administrations and police seek to repress or contain the 
 divestment movement? And how does the present conjuncture differ from the 
 1980s in ways that demand new thinking and strategies? What has changed 
 since the Reagan era, both in terms of the experience of social movement 
 activism in neoliberal America and in terms of the strengthening of the 
 state’s forces of repression? How specifically must the campaign against 
 Israeli apartheid differ in its language, analysis, and strategies from the 
 campaign against South Africa?\n\n\nAngela Y. Davis, Distinguished 
 Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is known 
 internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in 
 the U.S. and abroad. Over the years she has been active as a student, 
 teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. She is the author of nine 
 books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography; Women, Race, and Class; 
 Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and 
 Billie Holiday; Are Prisons Obsolete?; and The Meaning of Freedom. She is a 
 founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated 
 to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she 
 is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in 
 Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison.\n\nDr. 
 Jess Ghannam is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences 
 in the School of Medicine at UCSF. His research areas include evaluating 
 the long-term health consequences of war on displaced communities and the 
 psychological and psychiatric effects of armed conflict on children. Dr. 
 Ghannam also does research in the area of Global Health and Post Traumatic 
 Stress Disorder and has developed community health clinics in the Middle 
 East that focus on developing community-based treatment programs for 
 families in crisis. Past president of the Arab Cultural and Community 
 Center and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in San 
 Francisco, Dr. Ghannam is also a consultant with the Center for 
 Constitutional Rights, Reprieve and other international NGO's that work 
 with torture survivors. He has been a frequent visitor to Gaza over the 
 past several decades.\n\nRobin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and 
 Gary B. Nash Professor of History at UCLA. His research has explored the 
 history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; 
 Black intellectuals; music and visual culture; Surrealism, Marxism, among 
 many other things. His many books include Africa Speaks, America Answers: 
 Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 
 2012); Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original  (The 
 Free Press, 2009); and the classic Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical 
 Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002, reprinted in 2023). Professor Kelley is a 
 long-time Palestine solidarity activist and has written about the 
 Ferguson/Gaza convergence that catalyzed the current wave of 
 Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity.   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/12/18866170.php
SUMMARY:Divesting from Apartheid: Continuity, Difference, and Historical Lessons
LOCATION:Virtual Event. Register Here: 
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