Social Justice in Action: What We Can Do

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Schedule
Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
(unless otherwise noted)

10:00        Registration

10:30        Welcome

11:00-12:00    Concurrent Workshop Sessions

12:00-12:30    Lunch
        Ekstrom Library Lower Level

12:30-2:00    Lunchtime Plenary
Keynote Speakers:  Dr. Chad Montrie and the Beehive Collective

2:15 – 3:15    Concurrent Workshop Sessions
        Ekstrom Library Classrooms

3:30-4:30    Film and Beehive Collective Presentation
        Ekstrom Library Classrooms

4:30 – 5:15    Open House at the Ali and Braden Institutes

5:30        Afternoon Plenary
Keynote Speaker:  Rosa Clemente-Delrow    

About Our Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Chad Montrie

Dr. Montrie is an Associate Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Lowell.  He received a Ph.D. and M.A. in History from Ohio University and a B.A. in History from the University of Louisville.

Dr. Montrie is the author of Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States and To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia

Recent articles include:

“’Marts of Business’ and ‘Spreading Abodes’: Environmental Conflict
On the Lower Concord River,” Journal of Urban History (under
review).

 “Unions, the Environment, and Social Justice: Mining Struggles in
Colombia and Appalachia,” with Aviva Chomsky, in The Struggle for Appalachia: Identity, Place, and Movement-Building, eds., Steve Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith (forthcoming).

 “We Mean to Stop Them, One Way or Another: Coal, Power, and the
Fight Against Strip Mining in Appalachia,” Journal for a
Sustainable Future (forthcoming).

“Class,” in A Companion to American Environmental History, ed.,
Douglas Sackman (Blackwell, forthcoming).

“Continuity in the Midst of Change: Work and Environment for West
Virginia Mountaineers,” West Virginia History 1 (Spring 2007), 1-22

With Vanessa Gray, Whitley Kaufman, and Daniel Egan, “Education for
Sustainable Development: The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences,” in Universities, Education, and Sustainable Development (Amityville, New York: Baywood Press, 2006), and The Declaration (University Leaders for a Sustainable Future) 7 (Summer 2004)

““’Men Alone Cannot Settle a Country’: Domesticating Nature in the
Kansas-Nebraska Grassland,” Great Plains Quarterly 25 (Fall 2005), 245-258

“‘To Have, Hold, Develop, and Defend’: Natural Rights and the
Movement to Abolish Strip Mining in Eastern Kentucky,” Journal of Appalachian Studies 11 (Spring/Fall 2005), 64-82

“From Dairy Farms to Housing Tracts: Environment and Race in the
Making of a Memphis Suburb,” Journal of Urban History 31 (January 2005), 219-40

The Beehive Design Collective’s mission is to cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools.
In the process of this effort they seek to take the “who made that!?” and “how much does it cost!?” out of our creative endeavors, by anonymously functioning as word-to-image translators of the information they convey. They build, and disseminate these visual tools with the hope that they will self-replicate, and take on life of their own.
The work of the Beehive Collective has three major facets: the Hive is appreciated internationally for its educational graphics campaigns, at a regional level for stone mosaic murals and apprentice program, and locally for it’s dedication to the revitalization of the old Machias Valley Grange Hall, a landmark building in their small, rural town. The Hive has been going and growing since 2000, at full speed! 

Rosa Clemente-Delrow

Ms. Clemente-Delrow is a community organizer, journalist and Hip-Hop activist. Born and raised in the South Bronx she is a graduate of the University of Albany and Cornell University. A much sought after commentator, political activist, community organize and independent reporter, Rosa has been delivering workshops, presentations and commentary for over ten years.  She currently serves as Human Rights Campaigner, Immigrant Rights for Amnesty International, USA.

Chuck D says "When you need a dynamic, stylish women to get your campaign going or to get your organization excited about activism, Rosa is the person you are looking for, she speaks from the heart with truth, fire and passion. She is one of this generations' most important political voices and community organizers."

Rosa's academic work has been dedicated to researching national liberation struggles inside the United States, with a specific focus on the Young Lords Party and the Black Liberation Army. While a student at SUNY Albany, she was President of the Albany State University Black Alliance (ASUBA) and Director of Multicultural Affairs for the Student Association. At Cornell she was a founding member of La Voz Boriken, a social/political organization dedicated to supporting Puerto Rican political prisoners and the independence of Puerto Rico.

Rosa has written for Clamor Magazine, The Ave. magazine, The Black World Today, The Final Call and numerous websites. She has been the subject of articles in the Village Voice, The New York Times, Urban Latino and The Source magazines. She has appeared on CNN, C-Span, Democracy Now and Street Soldiers. In 2001, she was a youth representative at the United Nations World Conference against Xenophobia, Racism and Related Intolerance in South Africa and in 2002 was named by Red Eye Magazine as one of the top 50 Hip Hop Activists to look out for. In 1995, she developed Know Thy Self Productions, a full service speakers bureau, production company and media consulting service. Seeing a need for young people of color to be heard and taken seriously she began presenting workshops and lectures at colleges, universities, high schools, and prisons. In the past ten years she has presented at over 200 colleges, conferences and community centers on topics such as; African-American and Latino/a Intercultural Relations; Hip-Hop Activism; The History of the Young Lords Party; and Women, Feminism and Hip Hop. KTSP now includes an expanded college speakers bureau which has produced three major Hip Hop activism tours, "Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win" with M1 of dead prez and Fred Hampton Jr.; "The ACLU College Freedom Tour" with dead prez,