Human Rights Week 2003 - March 24 to March 28

Monday, March 24

Student groups are tabling on the Brickyard between 10am-2pm.

4:00 PM Community Workshop with Luis Gilberto Murillo, Witherspoon Multipurpose Room.

6:00 PM Reception for Luis Gilberto Murillo, Witherspoon Multipurpose Room.

7:00 PM Speaker Luis Gilberto Murillo, “Fighting for Columbia,” Witherspoon Cinema. Sponsored by Africana Studies.

Luis Gilberto Murillo is a former Colombian governor now exiled in the US. In 1998, Mr. Murillo won a tight victory to become the country’s youngest governor and leader of Choco, the poorest state in Colombia. His aggressive policies on behalf of the country’s indigenous and Afro-Colombian populations and his declaration of Choco as a neutral zone soon earned him the enmity of powerful right-wing forces. As an Afro-Colombian, he wants African Americans and others to know that the war in Colombia is not a drug war; it is about greed and the struggle for local control. Mr. Murillo will speak on human rights problems in Colombia and offer his views on U.S. policies toward his country.

TBA Pro-Choice Religious Leaders Panel, Blue Room, Talley Student Center. Sponsored by Wolfpack National Organization for Women.

This panel will feature Jane Watrous, an Episcopalian priest, Jack McKinney, a Baptist preacher, and Lucy Dinner, a rabbi. The speakers will discuss how being pro-choice intersects with their religious faith and explain how the two do not have to conflict.

Tuesday, March 25

12:00 Noon Kick-off Ceremony, Brickyard, Chancellor Fox ,Provost Barnhardt, members of the Human Rights Week Committee and others will read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

12:15 PM College of Veterinary Medicine Cultural Awareness Seminar : Native American Culture, West Campus, North Theatre

1:00 PM Speaker Dr. Robert Harrison, visiting scholar in Chemical Engineering, Human Rights in South Africa. Witherspoon Multipurpose Room, He addresses the aftermath to apartheid in South Africa as well as the issue of White privilege in South Africa and in Canada (Dr. Harrison's native land).

3:00 PM Keynote speaker and film: Brent Scarpo, “Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium,” Stewart Theatre. Reception follows.

Filmmaker Brent Scarpo is the founder of New Light Media, a production company dedicated to bringing about discussion and change in today’s hate-filled world. Scarpo and his filmmaking partner Martin Bedogne, have created this moving film which includes interviews with Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, the family of Columbine High School victim Rachel Scott, the family of James Byrd, hate crime victim in Jasper, TX, and a former neo-Nazi now working with the Simon Weisenthal Center. Discussion will follow the film and there will be time for audience interaction and suggestions for how we can all begin to tackle this problem in society today.

5:00 PM Peace and Engineering, Witherspoon Multipurpose Room. Sponsored by Engineers Without Borders.

This panel discussion will include four panelists from a variety of disciplines including engineering and sociology, specifically peace studies, chemical warfare, international development, and nuclear energy/weapons development.

7:00 PM Film and Discussion, Chercher La Vie (Looking For Life), Witherspoon Campus Cinema. Sponsored by Africana Studies and the Africa Project.

Anne-Rose and Rosemene, each one has their own particular way of battling through life. The former makes lunches in a factory yard in Port-au-Prince and sells her meals to the factory workers; the latter is employed in the same factory as a production worker making pullovers and T-shirts. Every day she buys her midday meal on credit from Anne-Rose. Through the connection between these two women the film shows part of their daily work and the constant battle for survival that they lead together with other women in Haiti. Going beyond this, however the film demonstrates the extent to which the importation of North American goods has brought about the collapse of Haitian regional production and ruined Haiti's economy. The film's topics reveal the significant role that Haitian women play in an economy that has been bled dry.

7:30 PM Gay History of the Triangle and the South, Tompkins G109. Sponsored by Bisexuals, Gays, Lesbians, and Allies.

A presentation from Chris McGinnis (UNC-W) will focus on the historical perspective of gay culture and the life of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgendered (GLBT) community in the North Carolina Triangle Area.

Wednesday, March 26

12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM Class of 1998 Greenspace (right next to the Brickyard) Rain location TBA

READING--HUMAN RIGHTS IN LITERATURE AND THE MEDIA
From the Dalai Lama to Susan B. Anthony, celebrate the diversity of human rights-related literature. Sponsored by the NCSU Libraries Diversity Committee.

12:30 Film,"Africa, I Will Fleece You" takes a sweeping look at the legacy of colonialism. 88 min. Sponsored by the African American Heritage Society

4:00 PM Speaker on Domestic Violence, Witherspoon Cinema.

All Day Blue Jean Day. Sponsored by BGLA and West Campus Diversity Education.

Wear your blue denim (jeans) today to show support for gays and lesbians, and support equal right for ALL people!

Thursday, March 27

12:30 Film, " Constitution: A Delicate Balance" discusses the relevance and legitimacy of affirmative action within the scope of the Constitution. 60 min. Witherspoon Cinema. Sponsored by African American Heritage Society.

2:00-7:30 PM Park Scholars 5th Annual Symposium, A Sustainable Future: Challenging Communities to Change, Stewart Theatre. Sponsored by Park Scholarships and the Kenan Institute.

2-2:15 Opening Remarks.

2:15- 3:15 Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis, founder of ecological farm and community garden Genesis Farm.

3:30- 4:30 Michael Schuman, director of the Green Policy Institute, writer, and periodic commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered.

4:45-5:45 Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe, mother and daughter food and environmental policy speakers.

Frances is author of Diet for a Small Planet and founder of Food First, and Anna founded the Small Planet Fund.

5:45- 6:30 Reception for speakers

6:30-7:30 Panel Discussion of all four speakers

3:00 PM Keynote speaker: Dr. Peggy McIntosh, “How Privilege Systems Undermine Democratic Ideals,” Witherspoon Cinema. Sponsored by the Office of Diversity and African American Affairs and the Office for Equal Opportunity.

Dr. McIntosh is Associate Director of the Wellesley College Center for Research and Women, and she is also the founder and co-director of the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project on Inclusive Curriculum. Dr. McIntosh directs the Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Program that provides workshops on privilege systems, feelings of fraudulence, and diversifying workplaces, curricula, and teaching methods.

7:00-9:00 PM Tunnel of Oppression, Sullivan Residence Hall. Sponsored by Sullivan Hall.

Students will have the opportunity to journey through a series of sensory experiences relating to oppressive situations. They will have the opportunity to view and dialogue on various “isms” such as racism, homelessness, sexism, homophobia, and body imagism, and others. They will also view images and stereotypes portrayed by the media today surrounding various forms of oppression.