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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all. Visit <b><a href="http://thirdcoastactivist.org/"><span style="font-weight:normal">ThirdCoastActivist.org</span></a></b> for perspective on issues, an events calendar, and more.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Wednesday, November 28, noon-1:30 pm <br>
Ashley Farmer on “The Black Women Intellectuals and Activists Who Revolutionized Black Power”<br>
</b><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>University of Texas professor <a href="https://www.ashleydfarmer.com/bio/">Ashley Farmer</a> will speak research on women in the Black Panther Party, focusing on the multi-faceted roles that they played in
the Party’s organizational and ideological development and how they crafted the ideal of the “black revolutionary woman” in popular and political culture. Farmer is the author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, a comprehensive history
of black women’s political and intellectual contributions to the Black Power movement.<br>
<span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>The event is sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. More <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/cwgs/events/event.php?id=48421">information online</a>.<br>
<b>Location: </b>University of Texas, <a href="https://facilitiesservices.utexas.edu/buildings/UTM/0099">Burdine Hall</a> (BUR 554), Austin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Friday-Saturday, November 30–December 1<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis: Toward a Just (After)life of Disaster<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The symposium on “<a href="https://law.utexas.edu/puerto-rico/">Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis: Toward a Just (After)life of Disaster</a>” brings together scholars, activists, and artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora.
Before September 2017, Puerto Rico—one of the longest-held colonial possessions in the world—was facing a dire economic crisis and large-scale out-migration. With the hurricanes Irma and Maria, the island’s vulnerabilities were exposed for the entire world
to see.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The symposium will feature a keynote event on Friday night with New York-based attorney and activist
<a href="https://www.uprose.org/elizabeth-yeampierre/">Elizabeth Yeampierre</a>, an internationally recognized environmental and climate justice leader who is executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization, and co-chair
of the Climate Justice Alliance. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The event is organized by <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/maj452">
Mónica Jiménez</a>, a professor in the University of Texas Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, with support from many other UT departments and centers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><a href="https://law.utexas.edu/puerto-rico/registration/">Register online</a> for this free, open event. The
<a href="https://law.utexas.edu/puerto-rico/schedule/">full schedule</a> and <a href="https://law.utexas.edu/puerto-rico/participants/#monica-jimenez">
information on speakers</a> is online.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Location:</b> University of Texas, <a href="https://maps.utexas.edu/buildings/utm/ccj">
Law School</a> (Friday) and <a href="https://maps.utexas.edu/buildings/utm/gwb">Gordon White Building</a> (Saturday), Austin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Saturday<span style="color:#1F497D">-</span>Sunday, December 1-2, 9 am-6 pm<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>15th Annual Women & Fair Trade Festival<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://womenandfairtrade.weebly.com/">Women & Fair Trade Festival</a></span> is an annual Austin marketplace, now in its 15th year, that hosts eight artisan producers from
women’s cooperatives from all over the world who gather in Austin to meet local buyers, enjoy local musicians and celebrate cultural exchange.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The event is sponsored by <span class="MsoHyperlink">
<a href="http://www.atcf.org/">Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera</a></span>. More information on the
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/321962268359904/">Facebook event page</a>. For volunteer opportunities, contact
<a href="mailto:robert@atcf.org">robert@atcf.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Location:</b> Ironwood Hall, 505 East 7<sup>th</sup> St., Austin, 78701<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Friday-Sunday, March 29-31<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>New Story Festival<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The <a href="https://www.newstoryfestival.com/">
New Story Festival</a> is a transformational experience of community, creativity, and the common good that will combine art and music, spirituality and social action, big ideas and playful connection. Information on
<a href="https://www.newstoryfestival.com/festivaltickets/">ticket<span style="color:#1F497D"> price</span>s online</a>.
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<p class="gmail-msobodytext3" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Location:</b>
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://htu.edu">Huston-Tillotson University</a></span>, 900 Chicon St, Austin, 78702<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Unless otherwise noted, events are free and open to the public. Please forward where appropriate.<br>
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