<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://sexualitystudies.osu.edu/events/nov-27-2017-panel-resisting-repression" target="_blank" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">Resisting Repression: State And Non-State Attacks Against People Power</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-3868081929622226466gmail-m_7940093446105102454m_843435482372320367gmail-m_-5329624451289452174m_-7312016110244030370gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-3868081929622226466gmail-m_7940093446105102454m_843435482372320367gmail-m_-5329624451289452174m_-7312016110244030370gmail-aQJ"><font face="times new roman, serif">Monday Nov. 27 5:30-7:30 p.m.</font></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">OSU African American and African Studies Extension Center</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">@<a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=905+Mount+Vernon+Ave.,+Columbus,+OH+43203&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">905 Mount Vernon Ave., Columbus, OH 43203</a> (off-campus)</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For directions to location:
</span></font><a href="https://aaascec.osu.edu/about-us/facilities" target="_blank">https://aaascec.osu.edu/about-<wbr>us/facilities</a></font></p></div><font face="times new roman, serif"><div><br></div>Join with Columbus community members to talk about safety for<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>ourselves, for our community organizations<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>and for our movements. As day-to-day life has been criminalized and attacked, so to movements for community safety and power have been under attack, from surveillance to disruption and other<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>interventions, including murder. This panel and community discussion<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>will focus on how we can prepare for the tactics that have been and are deployed against people power, from harassing investigation methods to grand jury subpoenas and more. Sparked by the<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>recently publicized Domestic Terrorism<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>report on the FBI's targeting of "Black Identity Extremist[s]"-- this conversation will move community to take seriously the impact this targeting has<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>already had (and will now have in even more intensified ways) on Black racial justice organizers and communities and all communities struggling against different<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>kinds of oppression.<br><br>Light snacks and refreshments<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>will be<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>provided.<br><br><u>PANELISTS:</u><br><b>James Hayes,<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>Momentum</b><br>James Hayes<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns he/him) is a trainer with Momentum.<br><br><b>Amna Akbar, Moritz College of Law</b><br>Amna Akbar<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns she/her)<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>is Assistant Professor of Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University.<br><b><br>Uli Cruz, Immigrant Alliance Ohio</b><br>Uli Cruz<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns he/him) started<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>his<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>activist path 20 years ago with the aftermath of<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> the </div>bracero program and now works with IM ALL OHIO focusing on <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">DACA</div> and other immigrant issues in Ohio.<br><br><b>danielle west, Hummingbird Consultants</b><br>danielle west<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns she/her or they/them)<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>is a cultural worker, educator and community organizer. From a suburb south of Dayton, OH, danni is a mixed-class queer white woman of trans experience.<br><b><br>Wriply Bennet, #BlackPride4<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>& BQIC: Black Queer Intersectional Columbus<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(moderator)</b><br>Wriply Marie Bennet<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns she/her)<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>is an artist, illustrator, actor, writer and singer born and raised in Ohio. She uses her art to uplift her sisters in the black lives/ black transgender lives movement. Wriply’s work expresses the power, strength, and resilience that trans women of color<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>have to persevere, and the grace and beauty of her culture.<br><br><u>CO-SPONSORS:</u><br>Trans/Queer Racial Justice and Transformation<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>Network of the OSU Sexuality Studies Program<br>OSU African American and African Studies Community Extension Center & Department<br>BQIC: Black Queer Intersectional Columbus<br>SURJ: Showing Up For Racial Justice</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Ohio Interfaith Immigrant<div style="display:inline"> and </div></font><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Migrant Justice Coalition </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">SHADES at OSU</span><font face="times new roman, serif"><br>OSU Asian American Studies Program</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">OSU Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department</div></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">Diversity & Inclusion Committee of the OSU Department</div><br></font><div><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">If you have any questions, please contact<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> Jian Chen at</div> <a href="mailto:sexualitystudies@osu.edu" target="_blank">sexualitystudies@osu.edu</a>.</div><br><br><b>This event is free and open to the public<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">.</div></b></font><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_-3868081929622226466gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></font></span></div></div></div></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Toni Calbert<div>Ph.D Candidate</div><div>English Department</div><div>The Ohio State University</div><div><a href="mailto:calbert.5@osu.edu" target="_blank">calbert.5@osu.edu</a></div></div></div>
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