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1/27/17: SESSIONS



​On January 27th, 2017, people from across the Ithaca community converged to facilitate over 25 sessions, which  created space for constructive conversation and mass action in Ithaca and beyond.

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Session Group 1 
ATRIUM 1: Magnus Fiskesjö // How democracy and human rights come to an end     
ATRIUM 2: Pete Myers // Tompkins County Workers’ Center // Building a Working Class Movement    
ATRIUM 3: Peter Bardaglio // Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative // Campus-Community Collaboration in the Age of Climate Change
PALE FIRE LOUNGE: Eric Cheyfitz // The Disinformation Age: The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the U.S.    
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LOUNGE: Tom McEnaney // Populism in the Americas    
ROMANCE LOUNGE: Carmen Bezner-Kerr // Ithaca High School // Confronting Racial Bias in Academic Streaming 
ENGLISH LOUNGE: Jon Mckenzie // Resistance and Tactical Media 
KG70:    Food Not Bombs // Decentralized Mutual Aid     
KG42:    Elizabeth Gabriel, Anna McKown // Groundswell Center // Community Food Systems: Abundance, Scarcity and Resilience    

Session Group 2
ATRIUM 1: Standing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) // Supporting the Movement for Black Lives Policy Platform as White People
ATRIUM 2: Barbara Regenspan // Useful lessons about “tensions in practice” from 1960’s-1970’s progressive    
ATRIUM 3: Aislyn Colgan // Water protectors: Local indigenous organizing and resistance at Standing Rock    
PALE FIRE LOUNGE: Allen Carlson // Living in Truth in a Post-Truth Age    
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LOUNGE: Cornell Organization for Labor Action (COLA) // Globalization and Capitalism in the 21st Century    
ROMANCE LOUNGE: Sandra Babcock // International Human Rights as an Advocacy Tool    
ENGLISH LOUNGE: ​Lucy Dean Stockton and Kaleb Hunkele  // Protest Art    ​
KG70: MaryJo Dudley // Cornell Farmworker Program // Immigrants’ Rights- Ideas for How to Best Interact with Law Enforcement 
KG42:    Alfie (LGBTQ+ Student Union) & Carla Golden (Ithaca College) // Gender and Sexuality: Away From The Binary

Session Group 3
ATRIUM 1: Russell Rickford and Zifeng Liu // Structural Racism + Black Lives Matter    
ATRIUM 2: Jeff Bergfalk // Decarceration Movement Ithaca    
ATRIUM 3: Ryan Clover-Owens // Alternatives in Action – aka – awesome projects around Ithaca    
PALE FIRE LOUNGE: Tim Shenk, Gabriela LeBaron and José Tomás Sánchez (CUSLAR)  // What Latin American struggles can teach us in this political moment
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LOUNGE: Helen Shanahan and Christopher Hanna // Amnesty International // The Persistence of Feudalistic Norms: Slavery in South Asia    
ROMANCE LOUNGE: Paola Muñoz and Emily Dong // Unpaid labor of student "diversity" groups    
ENGLISH LOUNGE: Sarah Gotowka // Luna Fiber Studio // Weavolution!    
KG70: Climate Justice Cornell // Combatting social, environmental, and structural complacency in the fight for climate justice    
KG42:    OPEN // up for grabs!

Session Group 4
ATRIUM 1: Derek Chang // Democratic Social Movements in the U.S.    
ATRIUM 2: Arwa Awan // Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism    ATRIUM 3: Bunny // Queer Liberation, not Assimilation     
PALE FIRE LOUNGE: Asian Pacific Americans for Action (APAA) // Decolonizing Education: A Case for the Defense of Ethnic Studies    
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LOUNGE: Sena Aydin // Global Feminism    
ROMANCE LOUNGE: Beth Harris // Zionism, Anti-Semitism and White Supremacy: Jewish Voice for Peace Exposes the "Toxic Stew"     
ENGLISH LOUNGE: Liz Wijaya // Screening the Migration Crisis: Dahdi by Kirsten Tan and Anchorage Prohibited by Chiang Wei Liang    
KG70: Allison Wilson and T. T. Colin Campbell // Bioscience Research Project // Can Science Speak Truth to Power?    
KG42: Students for Justice in Palestine // The Cornell-Technion Partnership     



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