From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Sun Oct 9 18:33:29 2016 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 13:33:29 -0500 Subject: [OccupyCU] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight; "Palestine 101" Thu; SEIU rally Fri; ... 10/28 Harold Koh Not Welcome! Message-ID: <7b7e73ae-fc58-a232-6fca-5fbbd14f8b3a@gmail.com> *Summary: 7pm Sun 10/9 - "Birth of a Nation" film & discussion at Art Theater * ** 6pm Thu 10/13 - "Palestine 101: An Introduction to the Conflict" ***** 4:30pm Fri 10/14 - SEIU Rally for a Fair Contract (in negotiations with U of Illinois)*** **** 1pm-9pm Sat 10/15 - Fundraiser - "CU Stands with Standing Rock" ********* 7pm Thu 10/20 - singer Roy Zimmerman - "This Machine" 11:30am Fri 10/28 - **********Harold Koh: Former Top Legal Advisor to Hillary Clinton & Legal Architect of U.S. Crimes against Humanity - Not Welcome! ****7pm Sun 10/9 *tonight* - "Birth of a Nation" *film at the Art Theater, with panel discussion to follow. (The film is showing at many other times too over the next couple of weeks, but this is the only panel.) Nate Parker's acclaimed film about Nat Turner's slave revolt addresses U.S. history and revolutionary violence, and raises several necessary specters of discussion - on & offscreen. More info: http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/ Post-show panel: Malaika Mckee-Culpepper (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) Charisse Burden-Stelly (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) Robert King (Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and the Breakfast Club) Lou Turner (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) Moderated by Sundiata Cha-Jua (Department of African-American Studies, UIUC) * 6pm Thu 10/13 - "Palestine 101: An Introduction to the Conflict"* Lincoln Hall room 1027, 702 S Wright St, Champaign Come learn more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and hear from students activists organizing around the cause of Palestinian liberation! This event is open to all students at UIUC with any level of knowledge of the conflict. Speakers include: Dr. Kenneth Cuno (History): History of the Conflict Dr. Lila Sharif (AAS): Socio-cultural Effects of Apartheid and Settler-Colonialism Stephanie Skora (UIUC alumna and President of the UP Center of Champaign County): Pinkwashing and Jewish Solidarity with Palestine There will be a Q&A session and time for discussion after all three speakers. Hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine UIUC Co-Sponsors: Campus Union for Trans Equality an Support (CUTES), Native American and Indigenous Student Organization (NAISO), Black Students for Revolution (BSFR) *4:30pm Fri 10/14 - SEIU Rally for a Fair Contract (in negotiations with U of Illinois)* Oak & Kirby, Champaign Next picket: Friday October 14 at 4:30pm, corner of Oak and Kirby. Join us! The $5 billion-plus University still insists on offering no raises, only cuts! BSWs and FSWs, many of whom only make $17,000-30,000 a year, stand to lose thousands to health care increases alone, and management wants to raise parking fees, force employees to work more than 8 hours in a day without overtime, and more. This impacts our communities as workers and their families have less disposable income. Join our fight! *1pm-9pm Sat 10/15 - Fundraiser - "CU Stands with Standing Rock"* Alto Vineyards, 4210 N. Duncan Rd, Champaign https://www.facebook.com/events/161627100954548/ The two CU Stands with Standing Rock fundraising events will consist of a mix of local bands playing their music, interspersed with presentations from Native American speakers about the current situation with DAPL, Native American culture, heritage, and history. Donate (in person, or) at: https://www.gofundme.com/cuswsr (The second such fundraiser will be Nov 12th 1pm-10pm at the IMC. ) *7pm Thu 10/20 - singer Roy Zimmerman - "This Machine"* Allen Hall, 1005 W Gregory Dr, Urbana "This Machine" is ninety minutes of Roy Zimmerman's hilarious, rhyme-intensive original songs. The title is a reference to Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger to be sure, but also an acknowledgement that songwriting does good work in the world. “Sometimes I think satire is the most hopeful and heartfelt form of expression,” says Roy, “because in calling out the world's absurdities and laughing in their face, I'm affirming the real possibility for change.” [I (Stuart) think he's like a modern-day Phil Ochs, but with better music. Come hear him if you can.] ***11:30am-1pm Fri 10/28 - protest former State Dept lawyer Harold Koh* U of I College of Law, 504 E Pennsylvania Ave, Champaign Harold Koh: Former Top Legal Advisor to Hillary Clinton & Legal Architect of U.S. Crimes against Humanity - Not Welcome! Protest Koh’s speech at the University of Illinois Law School! When: 11:30 am, Friday, Oct. 28 Where: North Courtyard, Law Building Complex, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave, Champaign, IL 61820 We live in a time of state-sanctioned murder of Black, brown, and poor people within the U.S. and beyond. Since Obama’s election in 2008, extra-judicial killings have often been perpetrated and justified by former liberal critics of past President Bush’s open practices of torture, war, and occupation. Top lawyers have played a crucial role in this process. One of the most prominent has been Harold Koh, currently a professor of international law and former Yale Law School dean who served as Hillary Clinton’s top legal advisor while she was Secretary of State (2009 to 2013). In that capacity, Koh has planned, promoted, and justified heinous crimes that have cost thousands of lives and devastated whole regions and countries. Anyone with a conscience should protest his appearance as an honored guest at the University of Illinois Law School on October 28. Here are just a few examples of the many crimes for which he must be held to account: Koh helped to conceive, execute, and publicly defend President Obama’s drone assassination program. He participated, based on questionable CIA intelligence, in deciding who ought to live and who ought to die, all without charges, trial, an opportunity to defend themselves or to surrender. The victims include thousands of innocent people in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and other countries, and at least two U.S. citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki, and a few weeks later, his 16-year-old son, again without any due process. He testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Obama’s devastating 2011 bombardment of Libya was not a “hostile action" since there was “limited exposure for US troops," so no Congressional approval was needed. His boss, Hillary Clinton, was an outspoken advocate of the savage NATO bombing. Obama sent Koh to testify after lawyers from the Justice and Defense Departments refused to take the Administration’s line, which was both illegal and immoral. Thousands died in that bombardment, the country’s infrastructure was destroyed, and an open field has been created for reactionary jihadists. Koh was part of the State Dept. team that claimed “it was not clear” whether the coup d’etat in Honduras (2009) was really a coup, so the sanctions that would be required against the coup regime were not applied. A cable from the US Embassy in Honduras to the State Dept. that was revealed by Wikileaks exposed his lies. Instead of sanctions, the U.S. worked with the coup government to drive the elected president out of the country and establish a regime more to US liking. Koh participated in the shocking failure of the US State Dept to investigate the Israeli commando murder (2010) on the Mavi Marmara of passengers attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, including Furkan Dogan, a US citizen. Instead, the US chose to rely on Israel’s investigation of its own murder, not unlike US police investigating their murders. The list could go on. We urge you to join World Can’t Wait Chicago, AWARE, Neighbors for Peace, Central Illinois Prairie Greens, World Labor Hour, and more (list in formation, contact chicago at worldcantwait.org to add your name) at 11:30 am on October 28, North Courtyard, Law Building Complex, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Champaign, Il 61820 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Oct 10 00:57:54 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 19:57:54 -0500 Subject: [OccupyCU] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight... In-Reply-To: <7b7e73ae-fc58-a232-6fca-5fbbd14f8b3a@gmail.com> References: <7b7e73ae-fc58-a232-6fca-5fbbd14f8b3a@gmail.com> Message-ID: [A good note on Birth of a Nation from the editor of CounterPunch, Jeffrey St Clair] Styron’s Historic Libel I never took to William Styron’s writing. He aspired to be Virginia’s William Faulkner, but Styron never had the master’s heart or humor. Behind those ornate, fractured, Cubist sentences, Faulkner was a writer who was haunted the barbarities of his own nation’s history and he had a deep feeling for those on the losing end: the blacks, the poor, the dispossessed and, especially, the women, all straining under the cruel shadow of the debased Southern aristocracy. Check out Light in August, a searing testament to Faulkner’s extraordinary empathy. By contrast, William Styron seemed obsessed by the failures of his own mind, which can make for powerful fiction in the hands of Dostoevsky. But Styron was no Dostoevsky, either. Styron’s self-loathing is projected onto his characters, nowhere more morbidly than in his book The Confessions of Nat Turner. Styron’s portrait of the black revolutionary is depraved. His Turner is almost subhuman, a kind of black Caliban driven by animal instincts and wild emotions that overwhelm his intellect and sense of morality. This is white fantasy, since we know very little about the man himself, except for the brutal treatment he received from the Virginia slave masters. Styron’s own family were slaveowners and the most generous reading of the novel is as a kind of psychological exercise to purge those ancestral demons, at the expense of one of the most heroic black figures in American history. My familial roots grow deep into the Virginia piedmont country and I went to school in DC, where I got to know many Virginia writers–novelists, essayists and poets. Few had any respect for Styron; some were embarrassed for him. Styron later blamed the hostile reaction toConfessions from black writers and intellectuals, such as Cecil Brown, for the onset of his crippling episodes of writer’s block, which seems like one more case of blaming the victims. Once Styron was considered one of the three Great White Male Hopes for the American novel, along with Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer. Now Styron is regarded, if at all, for Darkness Visible, his rather austere chronicle of his battles with depression. Perhaps there’s a measure of cold justice in that fate. Alexander Cockburn used to bump into the Styrons, Bill and Rose, when he lived on Cape Cod. He adored Rose and spoke glowingly to me of their dinner conversations. Alex claimed that Bill was usually plastered by 4 pm, babbling incoherencies deep into the evening. Nat Turner’s life and fiery uprising against the slaveowners has been redeemed from Styron’s libels by Nathan Parker’s powerful new film,Birth of a Nation. Don’t let the manufactured outrage about what Parker may or may not have done as a teenager deter you from seeing this liberating film. Watch the movie and judge it on its own merits. I bet that, like me, you’ll leave the theater uplifted with a joyous anger, rather than depressed, which is exactly the way revolutionary art should make you feel. > On Oct 9, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Stuart Levy via OccupyCU wrote: > > 7pm Sun 10/9 *tonight* - "Birth of a Nation" film at the Art Theater, > with panel discussion to follow. (The film is showing at many other times too over the next couple of weeks, but this is the only panel.) > Nate Parker's acclaimed film about Nat Turner's slave revolt addresses U.S. history and revolutionary violence, and raises several necessary specters of discussion - on & offscreen. > > More info: http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/ > > Post-show panel: > Malaika Mckee-Culpepper (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) > Charisse Burden-Stelly (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) > Robert King (Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and the Breakfast Club) > Lou Turner (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) > Moderated by Sundiata Cha-Jua (Department of African-American Studies, UIUC) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstorm2 at illinois.edu Mon Oct 10 19:38:17 2016 From: rstorm2 at illinois.edu (Storm, Rachel Lauren) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:38:17 +0000 Subject: [OccupyCU] [Peace] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight... In-Reply-To: References: <7b7e73ae-fc58-a232-6fca-5fbbd14f8b3a@gmail.com> Message-ID: <38B5C324C9B0F94C848CD8F0F13FAC0D392458ED@CITESMBX5.ad.uillinois.edu> “Don’t let the manufactured outrage about what Parker may or may not have done as a teenager deter you from seeing this liberating film.” I’m disappointed by this endorsement of a message/an op-ed that dismisses concerns about violence against women as “manufactured outrage” on a listserv allegedly concerned with anti-violence and peace-building. I think we need deeper conversations about gender and race-based violence and a recognition that we can’t separate war and structural violence from interpersonal violence. See the film, sure—but rather than dismiss outrage as “manufactured” and sexual assault allegations as dismissible because of a lapse in time or worse yet, because Parker was a “teenager,” understand that sexual assault survivors are frequently disbelieved, blamed for their own victimization, and failed by the criminal justice system. Parker’s victim, clearly suffering from trauma both from the assault and the aftermath, took her own life after no one was held accountable for the harm she experienced. As people committed to anti-war, anti-violence, and social justice— we must be able to hold our own accountable. From: Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C. G. Estabrook via Peace Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2016 7:58 PM To: Stuart Levy Cc: Peace Discuss; occupycu; Peace Subject: Re: [Peace] [OccupyCU] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight... [A good note on Birth of a Nation from the editor of CounterPunch, Jeffrey St Clair] Styron’s Historic Libel I never took to William Styron’s writing. He aspired to be Virginia’s William Faulkner, but Styron never had the master’s heart or humor. Behind those ornate, fractured, Cubist sentences, Faulkner was a writer who was haunted the barbarities of his own nation’s history and he had a deep feeling for those on the losing end: the blacks, the poor, the dispossessed and, especially, the women, all straining under the cruel shadow of the debased Southern aristocracy. Check out Light in August, a searing testament to Faulkner’s extraordinary empathy. By contrast, William Styron seemed obsessed by the failures of his own mind, which can make for powerful fiction in the hands of Dostoevsky. But Styron was no Dostoevsky, either. Styron’s self-loathing is projected onto his characters, nowhere more morbidly than in his book The Confessions of Nat Turner. Styron’s portrait of the black revolutionary is depraved. His Turner is almost subhuman, a kind of black Caliban driven by animal instincts and wild emotions that overwhelm his intellect and sense of morality. This is white fantasy, since we know very little about the man himself, except for the brutal treatment he received from the Virginia slave masters. Styron’s own family were slaveowners and the most generous reading of the novel is as a kind of psychological exercise to purge those ancestral demons, at the expense of one of the most heroic black figures in American history. My familial roots grow deep into the Virginia piedmont country and I went to school in DC, where I got to know many Virginia writers–novelists, essayists and poets. Few had any respect for Styron; some were embarrassed for him. Styron later blamed the hostile reaction toConfessions from black writers and intellectuals, such as Cecil Brown, for the onset of his crippling episodes of writer’s block, which seems like one more case of blaming the victims. Once Styron was considered one of the three Great White Male Hopes for the American novel, along with Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer. Now Styron is regarded, if at all, for Darkness Visible, his rather austere chronicle of his battles with depression. Perhaps there’s a measure of cold justice in that fate. Alexander Cockburn used to bump into the Styrons, Bill and Rose, when he lived on Cape Cod. He adored Rose and spoke glowingly to me of their dinner conversations. Alex claimed that Bill was usually plastered by 4 pm, babbling incoherencies deep into the evening. Nat Turner’s life and fiery uprising against the slaveowners has been redeemed from Styron’s libels by Nathan Parker’s powerful new film,Birth of a Nation. Don’t let the manufactured outrage about what Parker may or may not have done as a teenager deter you from seeing this liberating film. Watch the movie and judge it on its own merits. I bet that, like me, you’ll leave the theater uplifted with a joyous anger, rather than depressed, which is exactly the way revolutionary art should make you feel. On Oct 9, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Stuart Levy via OccupyCU > wrote: 7pm Sun 10/9 *tonight* - "Birth of a Nation" film at the Art Theater, with panel discussion to follow. (The film is showing at many other times too over the next couple of weeks, but this is the only panel.) Nate Parker's acclaimed film about Nat Turner's slave revolt addresses U.S. history and revolutionary violence, and raises several necessary specters of discussion - on & offscreen. More info: http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/ Post-show panel: Malaika Mckee-Culpepper (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) Charisse Burden-Stelly (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) Robert King (Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and the Breakfast Club) Lou Turner (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) Moderated by Sundiata Cha-Jua (Department of African-American Studies, UIUC) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davegreen84 at yahoo.com Mon Oct 10 22:04:46 2016 From: davegreen84 at yahoo.com (David Green) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 22:04:46 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [OccupyCU] [Peace] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight... In-Reply-To: <38B5C324C9B0F94C848CD8F0F13FAC0D392458ED@CITESMBX5.ad.uillinois.edu> References: <7b7e73ae-fc58-a232-6fca-5fbbd14f8b3a@gmail.com> <38B5C324C9B0F94C848CD8F0F13FAC0D392458ED@CITESMBX5.ad.uillinois.edu> Message-ID: <179172340.1533316.1476137087028@mail.yahoo.com> I agree, Rachel, but I would add a couple of concerns. First, as the events of the past few days have shown, there is a double standard among many of those who call themselves liberals--or to put it more directly, Clinton supporters--regarding sexual violence and objectification of women. Jeffrey St. Clair pointed that out today in his review of the "debate."Second, those who are accused of sexual assault are not always guilty. I discussed this as dispassionately as I could on Counterpunch earlier this year: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/24/rape-culture-the-hunting-ground-and-amy-goodman-a-critical-perspective/.  I received several e-mails from parents who feel that their children have been wrongly accused, and are simply advocating for impartial and evidentiary legal proceedings, especially relating to the campus environment.I would add that in some cases, it's pretty shocking that our nation's history regarding accusations of white women against black men is not taken into account among those who advocate against rape culture; although I have no idea whether this is relevant to the Parker case.DG On Monday, October 10, 2016 2:39 PM, "Storm, Rachel Lauren via Peace" wrote: #yiv7636552506 #yiv7636552506 -- _filtered #yiv7636552506 {font-family:Tahoma;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}#yiv7636552506 #yiv7636552506 p.yiv7636552506MsoNormal, #yiv7636552506 li.yiv7636552506MsoNormal, #yiv7636552506 div.yiv7636552506MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;}#yiv7636552506 a:link, #yiv7636552506 span.yiv7636552506MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv7636552506 a:visited, #yiv7636552506 span.yiv7636552506MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv7636552506 span.yiv76365525064n-j {}#yiv7636552506 span.yiv7636552506wordbreak {}#yiv7636552506 span.yiv7636552506EmailStyle19 {color:#1F497D;}#yiv7636552506 .yiv7636552506MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered #yiv7636552506 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv7636552506 div.yiv7636552506WordSection1 {}#yiv7636552506 “Don’t let the manufactured outrage about what Parker may or may not have done as a teenager deter you from seeing this liberating film.”   I’m disappointed by this endorsement of a message/an op-ed that dismisses concerns about violence against women as “manufactured outrage” on a listserv allegedly concerned with anti-violence and peace-building. I think we need deeper conversations about gender and race-based violence and a recognition that we can’t separate war and structural violence from interpersonal violence.   See the film, sure—but rather than dismiss outrage as “manufactured” and sexual assault allegations as dismissible because of a lapse in time or worse yet, because Parker was a “teenager,” understand that sexual assault survivors are frequently disbelieved, blamed for their own victimization, and failed by the criminal justice system. Parker’s victim, clearly suffering from trauma both from the assault and the aftermath, took her own life after no one was held accountable for the harm she experienced. As people committed to anti-war, anti-violence, and social justice— we must be able to hold our own accountable.       From: Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net]On Behalf Of C. G. Estabrook via Peace Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2016 7:58 PM To: Stuart Levy Cc: Peace Discuss; occupycu; Peace Subject: Re: [Peace] [OccupyCU] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight...   [A good note on Birth of a Nation from the editor of CounterPunch, Jeffrey St Clair]   Styron’s Historic Libel I never took to William Styron’s writing. He aspired to be Virginia’s William Faulkner, but Styron never had the master’s heart or humor. Behind those ornate, fractured, Cubist sentences, Faulkner was a writer who was haunted the barbarities of his own nation’s history and he had a deep feeling for those on the losing end: the blacks, the poor, the dispossessed and, especially, the women, all straining under the cruel shadow of the debased Southern aristocracy. Check out Light in August, a searing testament to Faulkner’s extraordinary empathy. By contrast, William Styron seemed obsessed by the failures of his own mind, which can make for powerful fiction in the hands of Dostoevsky. But Styron was no Dostoevsky, either. Styron’s self-loathing is projected onto his characters, nowhere more morbidly than in his book The Confessions of Nat Turner. Styron’s portrait of the black revolutionary is depraved. His Turner is almost subhuman, a kind of black Caliban driven by animal instincts and wild emotions that overwhelm his intellect and sense of morality. This is white fantasy, since we know very little about the man himself, except for the brutal treatment he received from the Virginia slave masters. Styron’s own family were slaveowners and the most generous reading of the novel is as a kind of psychological exercise to purge those ancestral demons, at the expense of one of the most heroic black figures in American history. My familial roots grow deep into the Virginia piedmont country and I went to school in DC, where I got to know many Virginia writers–novelists, essayists and poets. Few had any respect for Styron; some were embarrassed for him. Styron later blamed the hostile reaction toConfessions from black writers and intellectuals, such as Cecil Brown, for the onset of his crippling episodes of writer’s block, which seems like one more case of blaming the victims. Once Styron was considered one of the three Great White Male Hopes for the American novel, along with Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer. Now Styron is regarded, if at all, for Darkness Visible, his rather austere chronicle of his battles with depression. Perhaps there’s a measure of cold justice in that fate. Alexander Cockburn used to bump into the Styrons, Bill and Rose, when he lived on Cape Cod. He adored Rose and spoke glowingly to me of their dinner conversations. Alex claimed that Bill was usually plastered by 4 pm, babbling incoherencies deep into the evening. Nat Turner’s life and fiery uprising against the slaveowners has been redeemed from Styron’s libels by Nathan Parker’s powerful new film,Birth of a Nation. Don’t let the manufactured outrage about what Parker may or may not have done as a teenager deter you from seeing this liberating film. Watch the movie and judge it on its own merits. I bet that, like me, you’ll leave the theater uplifted with a joyous anger, rather than depressed, which is exactly the way revolutionary art should make you feel.     On Oct 9, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Stuart Levy via OccupyCU wrote: 7pm Sun 10/9 *tonight* - "Birth of a Nation" film at the Art Theater,    with panel discussion to follow.  (The film is showing at many other times too over the next couple of weeks, but this is the only panel.) Nate Parker's acclaimed film about Nat Turner's slave revolt addresses U.S. history and revolutionary violence, and raises several necessary specters of discussion - on & offscreen. More info: http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/ Post-show panel: Malaika Mckee-Culpepper (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) Charisse Burden-Stelly (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) Robert King (Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and the Breakfast Club) Lou Turner (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) Moderated by Sundiata Cha-Jua (Department of African-American Studies, UIUC)   _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Tue Oct 11 15:35:44 2016 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:35:44 -0500 Subject: [OccupyCU] [Peace] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight... In-Reply-To: References: <7b7e73ae-fc58-a232-6fca-5fbbd14f8b3a@gmail.com> <38B5C324C9B0F94C848CD8F0F13FAC0D392458ED@CITESMBX5.ad.uillinois.edu> Message-ID: <43bd7f27-b2a8-8389-656c-8be4e2bc84ea@gmail.com> [I started by omitting the Peace list, but hope the below brings enough new information that I'll copy Peace too for now. But please, try to keep arguments off the Peace list - it's intended for announcements.] tl;dr summary -- * Artists may make great art. They may also do things that are repellent, or criminal. The one does not excuse the other. * Despite the limitations of the "Birth of a Nation" as a film, and the cloud over its director/lead actor, it's an important film. I*hope especially that many white people will see it, and come out wanting to know more.* * You can read Nat Turner's Confessions, made in prison after he turned himself in. Lou Turner, on the panel on Sunday, recommends them. Text is on line here (and likely many places): http://www.melanet.com/nat/nat.html * Many many thanks to the panelists on Sunday! Robert King, Gus Wood, Malaika Mckee-Culpepper,Charisse Burden-Stelly, Lou Turner, Sundiata Cha-Jua. * Glad Paul Mueth worked to make an audio recording - I hope it turns out to be usable. I have to agree that "manufactured outrage" is an unfair dismissal of a real issue. St. Clair deserves to be criticized for putting it that way. Thank you, Rachel. At Sunday night's panel, there was a good deal of discussion over the accusation against Nate Parker, and over artists (male) with a history of sexual bad conduct - Woody Allen, Vladimir Nabokov, it's too easy to name others. Lesson I'd want to take: artists may make great art. They may also do things that are repellent, or criminal. The one does not excuse the other. [In another field: the astronomer Geoffrey Marcy has done groundbreaking work in discovering planets around other stars over the last several decades. He is also, it was revealed, a serial sexual harasser of his female graduate students. His scientific work remains valuable, but that doesn't mean he should be allowed to have anything to do with students. UCBerkeley didn't respond well until they were pushed hard. In another case, Christian Ott, Cal Tech did much better.] One comment from Sunday: Nate Parker has been involved in several feature films, but the focus on the accusation of rape against him is brought up strongly now - when he has made a film about a black rebellion. A few years ago he was prominent in a popular - but non-threatening - film, Red Tails, about Black pilots in the US air force. Were people suggesting boycotting that film, or other Hollywood movies he's been in, over Parker's past? Here's the double standard David Green mentions - a legitimate claim which seems to be selectively used to distract from the substance of the film. There were plenty of complaints in Sunday's panel about the substance of the film as presenting historical events - opportunities missed (from what people said that evening, there is still plenty of room for /better/ historical films about Turner's slave rebellion!). For example: there were frequent small rebellions happening everywhere in the years around this time, though most went no further than a single family. All the great rebellions - including Toussaint L'Ouverture's in Haiti - were led by people who were mobile. (L'Ouverture was a livery driver, and the French colonizers had lots of parties to display their wealth!) Mobile people could gather information, and organize people, and quietly plan and build an organization, over years of work. Turner's preaching travels must have been opportunities for organizing as well. How did movements get built? How did people come to know each other well enough that they'd trust one another with their lives? We don't see anything like that here. It's wrong to think that those organizations just sprouted from one brilliant messianic leader and a bunch of followers, which is pretty much how it looks in this film. The real Black community was important in making Turner's planned rebellion actually happen - a date of July 4th had been set, but Turner got cold feet. The community pushed him to go forward, and the actual uprising came in late August. How were those tensions expressed? The grievances against the slaveowners look personal in the film - brutality, rape - but they had an economic foundation as well. A depression had started in agricultural prices in 1819 - the bursting of a banking bubble! (Grievances against those same bankers were important in the 1830s rise of Andrew Jackson, populist and scourge of the Native Americans.) Slaveowners responded to the loss of income. Some sold their slaves south to Georgia. Some hired brutal overseers to squeeze more labor out of their slaves, as the film does show. Some curious facts are preserved in the film: there /was/ an actual annular solar eclipse, taken as a sign that the time had come - in February of the year of the rebellion, 1831, and Southampton County VA was nearly on its center line. Turner, who had (pre-rebellion) escaped and fasted in the wilderness, had visions during his fast, including of blood coming from the corn, and of black and white angels wrestling in the sky. Lou Turner, on the panel, recommended to us Nat Turner's Confessions, dictated in prison after he turned himself in. They became maybe the first American best-seller book. (Text is on line here and surely elsewhere.) The film doesn't try to show anything about them. And it only hints at the great influence Turner's rebellion had going forward. It really was a wonderful panel (whose good comments the notes above don't begin to summarize). Thanks to all who took part! Paul Mueth made an audio recording - I hope it turns out to be usable. And even with its limitations, this looks to be an important film. I hope people, especially white people, will see it. On 10/10/16 2:44 PM, Irenka Carney wrote: > I couldn't agree more, and that is spectacularly well put, Rachel! > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Storm, Rachel Lauren via Peace > > wrote: > > /“Don’t let the manufactured outrage about what Parker may or may > not have done as a teenager deter you from seeing this liberating > film.”/ > > > > I’m disappointed by this endorsement of a message/an op-ed that > dismisses concerns about violence against women as “manufactured > outrage” on a listserv allegedly concerned with anti-violence and > peace-building. I think we need deeper conversations about gender > and race-based violence and a recognition that we can’t separate > war and structural violence from interpersonal violence. > > > > See the film, sure—but rather than dismiss outrage as > “manufactured” and sexual assault allegations as dismissible > because of a lapse in time or worse yet, because Parker was a > “teenager,” understand that sexual assault survivors are > frequently disbelieved, blamed for their own victimization, and > failed by the criminal justice system. Parker’s victim, clearly > suffering from trauma both from the assault and the aftermath, > took her own life after no one was held accountable for the harm > she experienced. As people committed to anti-war, anti-violence, > and social justice— we must be able to hold our own accountable. > > > > > > > > *From:*Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net > ] *On Behalf Of *C. G. > Estabrook via Peace > *Sent:* Sunday, October 09, 2016 7:58 PM > *To:* Stuart Levy > *Cc:* Peace Discuss; occupycu; Peace > *Subject:* Re: [Peace] [OccupyCU] upcoming events: "Birth of a > Nation" w/panel tonight... > > > > [A good note on Birth of a Nation from the editor of CounterPunch, > Jeffrey St Clair] > > > > Styron’s Historic Libel > > I never took to William Styron’s writing. He aspired to be > Virginia’s William Faulkner, but Styron never had the master’s > heart or humor. Behind those ornate, fractured, Cubist sentences, > Faulkner was a writer who was haunted the barbarities of his own > nation’s history and he had a deep feeling for those on the losing > end: the blacks, the poor, the dispossessed and, especially, the > women, all straining under the cruel shadow of the debased > Southern aristocracy. Check out Light in August, a searing > testament to Faulkner’s extraordinary empathy. > > By contrast, William Styron seemed obsessed by the failures of > his own mind, which can make for powerful fiction in the hands > of Dostoevsky. But Styron was no Dostoevsky, either. Styron’s > self-loathing is projected onto his characters, nowhere more > morbidly than in his book The Confessions of Nat Turner. Styron’s > portrait of the black revolutionary is depraved. His Turner is > almost subhuman, a kind of black Caliban driven by animal > instincts and wild emotions that overwhelm his intellect and sense > of morality. This is white fantasy, since we know very little > about the man himself, except for the brutal treatment he received > from the Virginia slave masters. Styron’s own family were > slaveowners and the most generous reading of the novel is as a > kind of psychological exercise to purge those ancestral demons, at > the expense of one of the most heroic black figures in American > history. > > My familial roots grow deep into the Virginia piedmont country and > I went to school in DC, where I got to know many Virginia > writers–novelists, essayists and poets. Few had any respect for > Styron; some were embarrassed for him. Styron later blamed the > hostile reaction toConfessions from black writers and > intellectuals, such as Cecil Brown, for the onset of his crippling > episodes of writer’s block, which seems like one more case of > blaming the victims. Once Styron was considered one of the three > Great White Male Hopes for the American novel, along with Gore > Vidal and Norman Mailer. Now Styron is regarded, if at all, > for Darkness Visible, his rather austere chronicle of his battles > with depression. Perhaps there’s a measure of cold justice in that > fate. > > Alexander Cockburn used to bump into the Styrons, Bill and > Rose, when he lived on Cape Cod. He adored Rose and spoke > glowingly to me of their dinner conversations. Alex claimed that > Bill was usually plastered by 4 pm, babbling incoherencies deep > into the evening. > > Nat Turner’s life and fiery uprising against the slaveowners has > been redeemed from Styron’s libels by Nathan Parker’s powerful > new film,Birth of a Nation. Don’t let the manufactured outrage > about what Parker may or may not have done as a teenager deter you > from seeing this liberating film. Watch the movie and judge it on > its own merits. I bet that, like me, you’ll leave the theater > uplifted with a joyous anger, rather than depressed, which is > exactly the way revolutionary art should make you feel. > > > > > > On Oct 9, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Stuart Levy via OccupyCU > > wrote: > > * > 7pm Sun 10/9 *tonight* - "Birth of a Nation" *film at the Art > Theater, > with panel discussion to follow. (The film is showing at > many other times too over the next couple of weeks, but this > is the only panel.) > > Nate Parker's acclaimed film about Nat Turner's slave revolt > addresses U.S. history and revolutionary violence, and raises > several necessary specters of discussion - on & offscreen. > > More info: http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/ > > > > Post-show panel: > Malaika Mckee-Culpepper (Department of African American > Studies, UIUC) > Charisse Burden-Stelly (Department of African American > Studies, UIUC) > Robert King (Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and the > Breakfast Club) > Lou Turner (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) > Moderated by Sundiata Cha-Jua (Department of African-American > Studies, UIUC) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > > > > -- > *ɪ'rɛn.**kə* > *ɪ*: like in *i*t > *rɛn* : like a *wren* > *kə*: like in *cu*t -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Oct 11 16:13:19 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:13:19 -0500 Subject: [OccupyCU] [Peace] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight... In-Reply-To: <43bd7f27-b2a8-8389-656c-8be4e2bc84ea@gmail.com> References: <7b7e73ae-fc58-a232-6fca-5fbbd14f8b3a@gmail.com> <38B5C324C9B0F94C848CD8F0F13FAC0D392458ED@CITESMBX5.ad.uillinois.edu> <43bd7f27-b2a8-8389-656c-8be4e2bc84ea@gmail.com> Message-ID: <8C9C5F92-FA4D-4CF3-BC42-A2143E6511EA@newsfromneptune.com> There seem to be two separable issues: in order of importance, [1] how to evaluate the historical and political implications of this “liberating film”; and [2] how to evaluate "the manufactured outrage about what Parker may or may not have done as a teenager…" > On Oct 11, 2016, at 10:35 AM, Stuart Levy wrote: > > [I started by omitting the Peace list, but hope the below brings enough new information that I'll copy Peace too for now. But please, try to keep arguments off the Peace list - it's intended for announcements.] > > tl;dr summary -- > * Artists may make great art. They may also do things that are repellent, or criminal. The one does not excuse the other. > * Despite the limitations of the "Birth of a Nation" as a film, and the cloud over its director/lead actor, it's an important film. I hope especially that many white people will see it, and come out wanting to know more. > * You can read Nat Turner's Confessions, made in prison after he turned himself in. Lou Turner, on the panel on Sunday, recommends them. Text is on line here (and likely many places): http://www.melanet.com/nat/nat.html > * Many many thanks to the panelists on Sunday! Robert King, Gus Wood, Malaika Mckee-Culpepper, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Lou Turner, Sundiata Cha-Jua. > * Glad Paul Mueth worked to make an audio recording - I hope it turns out to be usable. > > > I have to agree that "manufactured outrage" is an unfair dismissal of a real issue. St. Clair deserves to be criticized for putting it that way. Thank you, Rachel. > > At Sunday night's panel, there was a good deal of discussion over the accusation against Nate Parker, and over artists (male) with a history of sexual bad conduct - Woody Allen, Vladimir Nabokov, it's too easy to name others. > > Lesson I'd want to take: artists may make great art. They may also do things that are repellent, or criminal. The one does not excuse the other. > > [In another field: the astronomer Geoffrey Marcy has done groundbreaking work in discovering planets around other stars over the last several decades. He is also, it was revealed, a serial sexual harasser of his female graduate students. His scientific work remains valuable, but that doesn't mean he should be allowed to have anything to do with students. UCBerkeley didn't respond well until they were pushed hard. In another case, Christian Ott, Cal Tech did much better.] > > One comment from Sunday: Nate Parker has been involved in several feature films, but the focus on the accusation of rape against him is brought up strongly now - when he has made a film about a black rebellion. A few years ago he was prominent in a popular - but non-threatening - film, Red Tails, about Black pilots in the US air force. Were people suggesting boycotting that film, or other Hollywood movies he's been in, over Parker's past? Here's the double standard David Green mentions - a legitimate claim which seems to be selectively used to distract from the substance of the film. > > There were plenty of complaints in Sunday's panel about the substance of the film as presenting historical events - opportunities missed (from what people said that evening, there is still plenty of room for better historical films about Turner's slave rebellion!). For example: there were frequent small rebellions happening everywhere in the years around this time, though most went no further than a single family. All the great rebellions - including Toussaint L'Ouverture's in Haiti - were led by people who were mobile. (L'Ouverture was a livery driver, and the French colonizers had lots of parties to display their wealth!) Mobile people could gather information, and organize people, and quietly plan and build an organization, over years of work. Turner's preaching travels must have been opportunities for organizing as well. How did movements get built? How did people come to know each other well enough that they'd trust one another with their lives? We don't see anything like that here. > > It's wrong to think that those organizations just sprouted from one brilliant messianic leader and a bunch of followers, which is pretty much how it looks in this film. The real Black community was important in making Turner's planned rebellion actually happen - a date of July 4th had been set, but Turner got cold feet. The community pushed him to go forward, and the actual uprising came in late August. How were those tensions expressed? > > The grievances against the slaveowners look personal in the film - brutality, rape - but they had an economic foundation as well. A depression had started in agricultural prices in 1819 - the bursting of a banking bubble! (Grievances against those same bankers were important in the 1830s rise of Andrew Jackson, populist and scourge of the Native Americans.) Slaveowners responded to the loss of income. Some sold their slaves south to Georgia. Some hired brutal overseers to squeeze more labor out of their slaves, as the film does show. > > Some curious facts are preserved in the film: there was an actual annular solar eclipse, taken as a sign that the time had come - in February of the year of the rebellion, 1831, and Southampton County VA was nearly on its center line. Turner, who had (pre-rebellion) escaped and fasted in the wilderness, had visions during his fast, including of blood coming from the corn, and of black and white angels wrestling in the sky. > > Lou Turner, on the panel, recommended to us Nat Turner's Confessions, dictated in prison after he turned himself in. They became maybe the first American best-seller book. (Text is on line here and surely elsewhere.) The film doesn't try to show anything about them. And it only hints at the great influence Turner's rebellion had going forward. > > It really was a wonderful panel (whose good comments the notes above don't begin to summarize). Thanks to all who took part! Paul Mueth made an audio recording - I hope it turns out to be usable. > > And even with its limitations, this looks to be an important film. I hope people, especially white people, will see it. > > > > On 10/10/16 2:44 PM, Irenka Carney wrote: >> I couldn't agree more, and that is spectacularly well put, Rachel! >> >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Storm, Rachel Lauren via Peace wrote: >> “Don’t let the manufactured outrage about what Parker may or may not have done as a teenager deter you from seeing this liberating film.” >> >> >> I’m disappointed by this endorsement of a message/an op-ed that dismisses concerns about violence against women as “manufactured outrage” on a listserv allegedly concerned with anti-violence and peace-building. I think we need deeper conversations about gender and race-based violence and a recognition that we can’t separate war and structural violence from interpersonal violence. >> >> >> See the film, sure—but rather than dismiss outrage as “manufactured” and sexual assault allegations as dismissible because of a lapse in time or worse yet, because Parker was a “teenager,” understand that sexual assault survivors are frequently disbelieved, blamed for their own victimization, and failed by the criminal justice system. Parker’s victim, clearly suffering from trauma both from the assault and the aftermath, took her own life after no one was held accountable for the harm she experienced. As people committed to anti-war, anti-violence, and social justice— we must be able to hold our own accountable. >> >> >> >> >> From: Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C. G. Estabrook via Peace >> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2016 7:58 PM >> To: Stuart Levy >> Cc: Peace Discuss; occupycu; Peace >> Subject: Re: [Peace] [OccupyCU] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight... >> >> >> [A good note on Birth of a Nation from the editor of CounterPunch, Jeffrey St Clair] >> >> >> Styron’s Historic Libel >> >> I never took to William Styron’s writing. He aspired to be Virginia’s William Faulkner, but Styron never had the master’s heart or humor. Behind those ornate, fractured, Cubist sentences, Faulkner was a writer who was haunted the barbarities of his own nation’s history and he had a deep feeling for those on the losing end: the blacks, the poor, the dispossessed and, especially, the women, all straining under the cruel shadow of the debased Southern aristocracy. Check out Light in August, a searing testament to Faulkner’s extraordinary empathy. >> >> By contrast, William Styron seemed obsessed by the failures of his own mind, which can make for powerful fiction in the hands of Dostoevsky. But Styron was no Dostoevsky, either. Styron’s self-loathing is projected onto his characters, nowhere more morbidly than in his book The Confessions of Nat Turner. Styron’s portrait of the black revolutionary is depraved. His Turner is almost subhuman, a kind of black Caliban driven by animal instincts and wild emotions that overwhelm his intellect and sense of morality. This is white fantasy, since we know very little about the man himself, except for the brutal treatment he received from the Virginia slave masters. Styron’s own family were slaveowners and the most generous reading of the novel is as a kind of psychological exercise to purge those ancestral demons, at the expense of one of the most heroic black figures in American history. >> >> My familial roots grow deep into the Virginia piedmont country and I went to school in DC, where I got to know many Virginia writers–novelists, essayists and poets. Few had any respect for Styron; some were embarrassed for him. Styron later blamed the hostile reaction toConfessions from black writers and intellectuals, such as Cecil Brown, for the onset of his crippling episodes of writer’s block, which seems like one more case of blaming the victims. Once Styron was considered one of the three Great White Male Hopes for the American novel, along with Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer. Now Styron is regarded, if at all, for Darkness Visible, his rather austere chronicle of his battles with depression. Perhaps there’s a measure of cold justice in that fate. >> >> Alexander Cockburn used to bump into the Styrons, Bill and Rose, when he lived on Cape Cod. He adored Rose and spoke glowingly to me of their dinner conversations. Alex claimed that Bill was usually plastered by 4 pm, babbling incoherencies deep into the evening. >> >> Nat Turner’s life and fiery uprising against the slaveowners has been redeemed from Styron’s libels by Nathan Parker’s powerful new film,Birth of a Nation. Don’t let the manufactured outrage about what Parker may or may not have done as a teenager deter you from seeing this liberating film. Watch the movie and judge it on its own merits. I bet that, like me, you’ll leave the theater uplifted with a joyous anger, rather than depressed, which is exactly the way revolutionary art should make you feel. >> >> >> >> On Oct 9, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Stuart Levy via OccupyCU wrote: >> >> >> 7pm Sun 10/9 *tonight* - "Birth of a Nation" film at the Art Theater, >> with panel discussion to follow. (The film is showing at many other times too over the next couple of weeks, but this is the only panel.) >> >> Nate Parker's acclaimed film about Nat Turner's slave revolt addresses U.S. history and revolutionary violence, and raises several necessary specters of discussion - on & offscreen. >> >> More info: http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/ >> >> Post-show panel: >> Malaika Mckee-Culpepper (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) >> Charisse Burden-Stelly (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) >> Robert King (Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and the Breakfast Club) >> Lou Turner (Department of African American Studies, UIUC) >> Moderated by Sundiata Cha-Jua (Department of African-American Studies, UIUC) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace >> >> >> >> >> -- >> ɪ'rɛn.kə >> ɪ: like in it >> rɛn : like a wren >> kə: like in cut > From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Mon Oct 17 23:49:54 2016 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:49:54 -0500 Subject: [OccupyCU] looking for a 'wardrobe' to hang coats etc in---do you have one to sell? 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