The Community Studies Department and Indigenous Studies Cluster PRESENT:

A public lecture and colloquium presentation

PROF. ANDREA SMITH
Co-Founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
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PUBLIC TALK

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE FUNDED
Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Thursday, May 22
4-5:45pm
Kresge Town Hall

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Prof. Smith will discuss the collection edited by Incite!:

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE FUNDED
Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex

In this landmark collection, over 25 activists and scholars describe and
discuss the non-profit industrial complex (NPIC)—a system of relationships
between the state, the owning classes, foundations, and social service &
social justice organizations that results in the surveillance, control,
derailment, and everyday management of political movements.

Naming what some might call “the elephant in the room,” the contributors
to this groundbreaking and thought-provoking collection critical assess the
NPIC’s impact on the practice and imagination of the political left in the
U.S. Of central concern is the emerging dominance of the 501(c)(3)
non-profit, a model which some argue threatens to permanently eclipse
autonomous grassroots-movement building in the arena of social justice.

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist
organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end
violence against women of color and their communities through direct
action, critical dialogue, and grassroots organizing.

To learn more, please visit http://www.incite-national.org

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COLLOQUIUM PRESENTATION

Prof. Smith will present her work to the Department of Community Studies

Wednesday, May 21
10am-12pm
Oakes Mural Room

Please RSVP to ktague [at] ucsc.edu

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A recognized Native American scholar and co-founder of INCITE! Women
of Color Against Violence, Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is an established
leader in progressive political circles. Prof. Smith is the author of
Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely
Alliances (Duke) and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian
Genocide (South End Press), which won the Myers Outstanding Book
Award. Through her work with INCITE!, Prof. Smith edited The
Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial
Complex, and is the co-editor of The Color of Violence (both South
End Press). In 2005, Prof. Smith was endorsed by 1000 Women for Peace
for a Nobel Prize nomination, one of only 40 Americans on the list.
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Please contact ktague [at] ucsc.edu for accomodations.


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