[DSOSU] Resisting Repression: State and Non-State Attacks Against People Power - Monday Nov. 27, 2017 - 5:30pm-7:30pm

[Toni Calbert]

Resisting Repression: State And Non-State Attacks Against People Power
<https://sexualitystudies.osu.edu/events/nov-27-2017-panel-resisting-repression>

Monday Nov. 27  5:30-7:30 p.m.

OSU African American and African Studies Extension Center

@905 Mount Vernon Ave., Columbus, OH 43203
<https://maps.google.com/?q=905+Mount+Vernon+Ave.,+Columbus,+OH+43203&entry=gmail&source=g>
(off-campus)

For directions to location: https://aaascec.osu.edu/about-us/facilities

Join with Columbus community members to talk about safety for
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ourselves, for our community organizations
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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
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interventions, including murder.  This panel and community discussion
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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
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recently publicized Domestic Terrorism
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report on the FBI's targeting of "Black Identity Extremist[s]"-- this
conversation will move community to take seriously the impact this
targeting has
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already had (and will now have in even more intensified ways) on Black
racial justice organizers and communities and all communities struggling
against different
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kinds of oppression.

Light snacks and refreshments
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will be
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provided.

*PANELISTS:*
*James Hayes,​ ​Momentum*
James Hayes
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(pronouns he/him) is a trainer with Momentum.

*Amna Akbar, Moritz College of Law*
Amna Akbar
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(pronouns she/her)
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is Assistant Professor of Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State
University.

*Uli Cruz, Immigrant Alliance Ohio*
Uli Cruz
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(pronouns he/him) started
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his
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activist path 20 years ago with the aftermath of
​ the ​
bracero program and now works with IM ALL OHIO focusing on daca and other
immigrant issues in Ohio.

*danielle west, Hummingbird Consultants*
danielle west
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(pronouns: she/her or they/them)
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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.

*Wriply Bennet, #BlackPride4​ ​& BQIC: Black Queer Intersectional Columbus​
​(moderator)*
Wriply Marie Bennet
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(pronouns: she/her)
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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
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have to persevere, and the grace and beauty of her culture.

*CO-SPONSORS:*
Trans/Queer Racial Justice and Transformation
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Network of the OSU Sexuality Studies Program
OSU African American and African Studies Community Extension Center &
Department
BQIC: Black Queer Intersectional Columbus
SURJ: Showing Up For Racial Justice
OSU Asian American Studies Program
Ohio Interfaith Immigrant
​ and ​
Migrant Justice Coalition
SHADES at OSU

​If you have any questions, please contact sexualitystudies at osu.edu.


*This event is free and open to the public*



-- 
Toni Calbert
Ph.D Candidate
English Department
The Ohio State University
calbert.5 at osu.edu
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