You are cordially invited to attend a free national conference organized by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the three other ethnic studies research centers at UCLA: The Struggle for Social Justice: A Symposium on Recognition, Reparations, & Redress FRIDAY, MAY 11th and SATURDAY, MAY 12th, 2001 Covel Commons, UCLA campus A Joint Conference organized by: Center for African American Studies (CAAS) Asian American Studies Center (AAS) American Indian Studies Center (AISC) Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) Admission is FREE with pre-registration (see below). Open to the UCLA community and the general public. PARK AT Sunset Village:$6/day. Take 405 Freeway Exit Sunset Blvd. GO East on Sunset to Westwood Plaza GO Right on Westwood Continue straight to parking booth ________ Controversial and hotly debated, new calls for reparations are making headlines around the nation and across the globe. Mandated by international covenants governing crimes against humanity, the issue of reparations is one that has become increasingly foregrounded in Ethnic Studies scholarship and global intellectual circles as meriting further research and discussion. This event hosted at UCLA brings together scholars, activists and community members to examine the cross-cutting social justice issues significant for reparations seeking for the African American, Asian American, Native American, and Chicano/Latino/Mexicano communities. Despite the unique forces and processes that have had a particular bearing on individual communities, the commonalities in our experiences call for a collective examination of these historical injustices. This symposium is designed to draw upon scholarship already underway as well as to stimulate thinking on future research that needs to be undertaken on this subject. We expect the event to function as a forum to facilitate recognition among scholars, community members and policy makers of the gravity of the historical and political processes that have inflicted cultural subordination, psychological damage, and socio-economic marginalization on populations of color. In addition to hastening recognition of the issues, this symposium is expected to help formulate forward-looking approaches, and pave the way for developing processes of restitution and redressive policy measures. ________ CONFERENCE PROGRAM FRIDAY, May 11th, 2001, Covell Commons 9:00 Gabrielino/Tongva blessing 9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks by Dr. Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies PANEL 1. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Accounting for the Debt: Appeasement, Apology or Accountability? Moderator: Kim Crenshaw, Prof. of Law, UCLA Speakers: Antonia Hernandez, MALDEF Mario Gonzalez, Lawyer, Oglala-Sioux tribe Jerry Kang, Prof. of Law, UCLA Roy L. Brooks, Warren Distinguished Prof. of Law, University of San Diego 11:30 a.m. Lunch - Guest Speaker: Manning Marable, Professor of History and Political Science, Human Rights Activist and Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. PANEL 2. 1:00-3:00 p.m. - Global Movements: International Efforts to Achieve Redress Moderator: Elazar Barkan, Chair Critical Studies, Claremont Graduate University Speakers: Melissa Nobles, Prof. of Political Science, MIT "The politics of official apologies to indigenous populations in Australia, Canada, and the United States" Fernando Conceicao, University of S�o Paulo, Brazil and Co-Founder Brazilian Reparations movement, "Brazil: Reparations in a "Mesti�o" Country" Naseer Aruri, Director, Trans-Arab Research Institute (The Palestinian Case) "Deconstructing Culpability:Denial of Restitution in Palestine and Approaches for Reparations" Michael J. Kurtz, Archivist, NARA (Holocaust era assets and Nazi Gold) Richard Hovannisian, Prof. Emeritus, History, UCLA (Armenian genocide) 2:30 p.m. Parallel Break-out sessions: War & Conflict contexts Theme 1:: Peping Baclig, President, Filipino Veterans' Association Theme 2: Open session PANEL 3. 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. - Land Rights: Sovereignty, Dispossession & Displacement Moderator: Laura Gomez, Faculty of Law, UCLA Speakers: Haunani-Kay Trask, Professor of Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa Carole Goldberg, Law Faculty, UCLA Harold McDougall, Howard University School of Law Deena Gonzalez, History, Pomona College 4:00 p.m. Parallel Breakout sessions: Case Studies on Land-rights Struggles Theme 1: Open session Theme 2: Dr. David Horne, History & Public Administration, Cal State University Northridge (Land Rights for African Americans) 6:00 - 7:00 Wine and cheese reception SATURDAY, May 12th, COVELL COMMONS PANEL 4. 9:00-11:00a.m. - Labor & Economic Injustice: Slavery, indentured & Immigrant labor Moderator: Cheryl Harris, Prof. of Law, UCLA Speakers: Joe Trotter, Mellon Prof. of History, Carnegie Mellon University "African Americans and the Question of Labor Exploitation in Historical Perspective" Kimi Lee, Organizer, Executive Director, Garment Workers Center, Los Angeles Jennifer Lee, Director, Young Korean United of Los Angeles Lisa Duran - Univ. of Colorado Denver, Dept. of Public Admin. on Immigrant labor 11:00 a.m. Breakout sessions Theme 1: Bracero Program - Ventura Gutierrez, Community organizer, Union Sin Fronteras Theme 2: Political Economy of Slavery: Facilitator - Mark Sawyer,Poli Sci, UCLA 12: 00 p.m. Lunch PANEL 5. 1:00 -3:00 p.m. - Environmental Racism and its Health impact Moderator: Mary Pardo, Cal State Northridge, Chicano Studies Speakers: Jenny Joe - Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona "Dying While Waiting: The Fate of Navajo Uranium Miners" Carlos Porras, Executive Director, Communities for Built Environment Elsa Lopez (Executive Director) of Madres del Este de Los Angeles Robert Bullard, Dept. of Sociology and head, Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University PANEL 6. 3:15- 5:15 p.m. Achieving Social Justice: What form of Redress? Moderator: Reynaldo Macias, Director, Cesar Chavez Center, UCLA- confirmed Speakers: Dolores Huerta, Co-founder and Vice President, UFW Suzan Shown Harjo, "Redress for Degradations in Popular Culture: The Struggle to Eliminate Native American References in Sports" Tom Hayden, former California State Senator Mitch Maki , Prof. of Social Work, UCLA, on Japanese American internment and reparations Adrienne Davis, Law Faculty Cornell University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill FOR FREE REGISTRATION, Please fill out registration form ON-LINE at the conference website: www.sscnet.ucla.edu/reparations/, OR FAX information (name, institution, position, mailing address, e-mail/fax) to 310.825.5019. PLEASE REGISTER BY APRIL 27. FOR MORE INFO Please call: 310/206-5384 Or, the Asian American Studies Center, 310/825-2974 Don T. 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