[Peace] Prexy Nesbitt at Allen Hall 10/29-11/2

[Laura Haber]

  Please forward widely:

  Internationally known speaker on African issues, global education, US foreign policy, and racism, Prexy Nesbitt will be a Guest-in-Residence at Unit One/Allen Hall 10/29-11/2. He will be speaking each night of his residency. All programs are open to the public and take place in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana unless noted. See below for more information about Prexy Nesbitt.

  Sunday, October 29 
      7:00pm - Opening Program: Foot Soldiering Out of Dar Es Salaam: The Making of an Activist
  Monday, October 30 
      7:00pm - US Foreign Policy Towards Africa From Reagan to Bush II

  9:00pm – Skin Deep: Film Screening and discussion – Prexy is the co-writer of the BBC production of The People's Century program Skin Deep, about racism in the United States and South Africa.
  Tuesday, October 31
      7:00pm - The Southern African Liberation Movements: A Retrospective
  Wednesday, November 1
      12:00pm – New Forms of Racism in the 21st Century – Lunch and Learn at the African American Cultural Program 708 S. Matthews, Urbana.

  7:00pm – Read-in! - An informal public read-in of pieces (prose and poetry) we believe in, pieces that have shaped our visions

  9:00pm - Hollywood on Africa: A Sampling and Discussion of the Representation of Africa in Hollywood Films
  Thursday, November 2
      7:00pm - South Africa Then, South Africa Now: An Anti-Apartheid Organizer Reflects on Forty Years of Activism
  Prexy Nesbitt is an internationally known speaker on African issues, global education, US foreign policy, and racism. Beginning with his participation in the Mozambique Liberation Front's fight for national independence in the 1960s, Prexy has devoted himself to anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles across several continents for four decades. He was smuggled inside South Africa during the apartheid years to conduct training sessions with labor, community, and church groups in remote areas of the country while in the United States he played a major role in initiating divestment campaigns on campuses and anti-apartheid campaigns in key cities. He was a special assistant to Chicago mayor Harold Washington and worked as a consultant to the government of Mozambique. Nesbitt has written extensively, publishing a book and articles in more than twenty international journals. He also served as a co-writer on the BBC production of The People's Century program Skin Deep, about
 racism in the United States and South Africa. www.prexynesbitt.com
   
  Laura Haber
  Program Coordinator of Unit One
  University of Illinois
  68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
  1005 W. Gregory
  Urbana, IL 61801
  (217) 244-2317
  lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu
   
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