[Peace] Fwd: AFST Upcoming Events

[Alfred Kagan]

FYI.  Zackie Achmat is really a hero of the Treatment Action Campaign  
in South Africa, arguably the most important political movement  
currently active there.  I encourage all to attend.


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> From: Center for African Studies <ecorr at uiuc.edu>
> Date: March 27, 2006 10:18:18 AM CST
> To: mmcrump at uiuc.edu
> Subject: AFST Upcoming Events
>
>
>  1. Zackie Achmat Lecture and Radio Program -- 03-28-06
>  2. Kathleen Cleaver Lecture -- 03-31-06
>
> _______________________________________________________________________ 
> __________
> 1.
> Realizing Human Rights: Access to HIV/AIDS-related Medication
>  and the Role of Civil Society in South Africa
>
> March 28, 2006
>  Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.
> Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
>  919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
>
> Zackie Achmat
> Chairperson, Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa
>
> Zackie Achmat lives with HIV/AIDS. He is an activist with roots in the  
> anti-Apartheid struggle and is at the forefront of campaigns for the  
> rights to health care and medicine. Among his numerous awards, he has  
> received The Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights and was  
> voted one of 35 heroes of 2003 by Time Magazine.
>
>  "For children, women and men with HIV/AIDS, the rights to dignity,  
> life, equality and their inter-connections with the right to health  
> care access, particularly access to medicines including  
> anti-retrovirals stands between us and death. This is particularly  
> true in poor countries and poor communities in wealthy countries.  
> These rights 'dignity, life, equality' are essential tools in our  
> struggle to remove the barriers to HIV treatment and health care for  
> all." - Zackie Achmat
>
>
> Sponsored by:
> Center for African Studies
>
> In conjunction with:
> Center for Global Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of  
> Geography, Department of History, Department of Psychology, Department  
> of Sociology, Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Crossroads  
> Living/Learning Community, Institute of Communications Research,  
> International Programs and Studies, Medical Humanities and Social  
> Science Program, Medical Scholars Program, Office of Lesbian, Gay,  
> Bisexual and Transgendered Concerns, School of Social Work, Unit for  
> Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women and Gender in Global  
> Perspectives Program
>
>
> NOTE: **Interview with Zackie Achmat, March 28- 11 a.m. on WILL AM  
> 580**
>
>
>   
> _______________________________________________________________________ 
> ____________
> 2.
>
> The Black Power Movement: Self-Determination, Transformation and  
> Sabotage
>
> March 31, 2006
>  Friday, 4:00 p.m.
> Room 112, Gregory Hall
>  810 South Wright Street, Urbana
>
> Kathleen Cleaver
> Senior Lecturer in Law, Emory School of Law, Emory University
>  Senior Lecturer, Department of African and African American Studies,  
> Yale University
>
>  Kathleen Cleaver, former National Press Secretary for the Black  
> Panther Political Party, discusses her experiences in one of the most  
> recognized and revered groups of the Black Power Movement. She also  
> provides insight on the anti-colonial thesis of the Black Power  
> Movement.
>
>
>
> Sponsored by:
> African American Studies and Research Program
>
> In conjunction with:
> African American Cultural Program, Asian American Studies Program,  
> College of Education, Department of Anthropology, Department of  
> English, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Gender and  
> Women’s Studies Program, Illinois Program for Research in the  
> Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Latina/o Studies  
> Program, Native American Studies Program, S.P.E.A.K. Café, Unit for  
> Cinema Studies, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
>
>
> This lecture is held in conjunction with the conference, Race, Roots,  
> Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies of the Black Power Movement to be  
> held March 29-April 1, 2006. For more information, visit  
> www.aasrp.uiuc.edu.
>
>
>
>
> The Center for African Studies, UIUC
> to be removed from this list email ecorr at uiuc.edu


Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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