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Title: Radical Politics in the Caribbean
START DATE: 4/9/2009
START TIME: 6:30 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: the low desert, santa barbara, mojave
Location Details:
Location: Embarcadero hall, UCSB
City/Town: Santa Barbara, CA
Event Topic: Radical Politics in the Caribbean
Event Type: presentation
Contact Name: Summer/ UCSB Campus Left
Contact Email: summer.m.gray [at] gmail.com
Contact Phone:
DESCRIPTION:
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april9_radical_politics.jpg, image/jpeg, 612x792 A Discussion with William I. Robinson, Christopher McAuley, Jeb Sprague, and Diana Barahona



Host: UCSB Campus Left

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: Embarcadero hall, UCSB

City/Town: Santa Barbara, CA

Description

You are invited to a discussion on radical political projects in the

Caribbean; looking specifically at Cuba, Grenada, Haiti, Venezuela,

and new inspirational forms of solidarity such as the Bolivarian

Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).

Speakers

Wiliam I Robinson, Professor of Sociology at UCSB, is the author of

Promoting Polyarchy (1996), Transnational Conflicts (2003), A Theory

of Global Capitalism (2004), and Global Capitalism and Latin America

(2008). Working formerly as a journalist in Sandanista Nicaragua in

the 1980s, he is today a world renowned theorist on globalization and

works with the immigrants rights movement in the United States as well

as leftist social movements in the Americas. For more information

see:http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/robinson/

Christopher McAuley, Professor in the Department of Black Studies at

UCSB, teaches Caribbean studies and has written on Oliver C. Cox, the

Caribbean, and World Systems Theory. For more information see:

http://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/people/mcauley.html

Jeb Sprague, a graduate student in Sociology at UCSB, has published

with the Inter Press Service (IPS) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti,

receiving a 2008 Project Censored Award. For more information

see:http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~jhsprague/

Diana Barahona is a master's candidate in Sociology at Cal State

Fullerton. She writes on Latin America, with an emphasis on Venezuela,

Cuba and El Salvador. Writing for CounterPunch in 2005, she was the

first journalist to expose U.S. State Department funding for Reporters

Without Borders. For more information see:

http://dianabarahona.blogspot.com/

The event will be moderated by Summer Gray, a graduate student at UCSB

in Sociology and Global Studies, whose focus of study is on the

Caribbean. The event will include drinks and refreshments. For more

information or to add your organization as a sponsor of this event,

email summer.m.gray [at] gmail.com.

ROOM/LOCATION: Embarcadero hall, UCSB

DATE/TIME: Thursday, Apil 9, 2009 @ 6:30pm

SPONSORED: UCSB Campus Left

CO-SPONSORED: Department of Black Studies, Latin American and Iberian

Studies, Orfalea Center, Global & International Studies Program,

Center for New Racial Studies, U.S.E.U. (Union Salvadorena de

Estudiantes Universitario), Students for Justice in Palestine,

I.D.E.A.S..
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