Indigenous Videos

"The Lives of Indigenous Women in a 'Post-Racial' and 'Post-Feminist' World" a talk by Andrea Smith, University of California-Riverside Professor Andrea Smith teaches in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Well known for both her academic and activist work, Smith combines careful scholarship and a commitment to community engagement. In her lecture she will analyze the realities of white supremacy and patriarchy as they play out in the lives of indigenous women in the United States. Smith is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (2008) and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (2005). She is also the editor of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex (2009) and co-editor of The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology (2006). Smith currently serves as the U.S. coordinator for the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians and is a co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color. She recently completed a report for the United Nations on Indigenous Peoples and Boarding Schools. This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Senior Fellows honors program of the College of Communication and the Gender and Sexuality Center. For more information, contact Robert Jensen at 471-1990 or rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu.

Amnesty International Secretary General, Irene Khan, in Australia on a High Level Mission,visited remote Indigenous communities in the Utopia Homelands in central Australia to meet with elders and community leaders. November 2009. See http://www.amnesty.org.au/poverty for more information.

A new play explores the journey of two sisters from Melbourne to their father´s homeland in the Torres Strait and the post-war migration of their Dutch mother. Sisters of Gelam is about the universal search for identity, interwoven with contemporary and traditional song. A murdered Murri assassin returns from the dead to seek revenge in Nicole Watson´s award-winning manuscript The Boundary and we yarn with the Wadi Wadi elder Allan Carriage as he fishes off the point at Port Kembla south of Wollongong.

I m always one of the stragglers finishing geology lab. The reward is seeing the occasional burrowing owl outside the lab window, after the bustle of people have gone. No one keeps watch like an owl.

I m always one of the stragglers finishing geology lab. The reward is seeing the occasional burrowing owl outside the lab window, after the bustle of people have gone. No one keeps watch like an owl.

"Unheard Voices in Latin America: The Plight of Afro Latinos" panel organized by the Congressional Black Caucus 2009 Conference. Video 2 of 2Moderator: Dr. Eva T. Thorne, Meyer and W. Walter Jaffe Assistant Professor of Politics at Brandeis University.Panelists: Rep. Donald M. Payne (D-NJ 10); Mr. Gilberto Amaya, Central American Black Organization (CABO, ONECA); Mr. Leonardo Reales, Afro Colombian Movemente CIMARRON and Consultant for Creador Pictures; Dr. Maria Moreno Vega, Global Afro Latino Dr. Shelton Davis, Consultant formerly with the World Bank; Ms. Juliet Hooker, Assistant Professor at University of Texas Austin.

http://redskyperformance.com. Playwright and author Tomson Highway talks about Canada's Treeline. To learn more about the treeline visit http://redskyperformance.com/treeline and add your own photos and stories to the map!

You can make a difference! Blueprint for a Better World is an interactive exhibition which is traveling around Australia. The exhibition shows the general public how the eight Millennium Development Goals can help end poverty and injustice in our world. Watch this exhibition movie to see what its all about and find out how you can help make a better world! www.blueprintforabetterworld.org