ANGELA DAVIS
Friday, May 06 at 7:00 PM - Music Education Building, Concert Hall
Free and Open to the Public

Davis's Title: "Global Resistance to Global Capitalism: Reformulating Race, Class, and Gender in the 21st Century"

Human rights activist, author, and educator, Angela Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in US and abroad. Davis gained national attention in 1970 after she was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on false charges. Davis was the subject of an intense police search that drove her underground and culminated in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. During her 16-month incarceration, a massive international "Free Angela Davis" campaign was organized, leading to her acquittal in 1972.

Today, Davis is an accomplished cultural theorist and continues to be a strong force for change around the issues of race, class, gender, and reform of the prison industrial complex. Davis is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and has authored numerous books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974); Women, Race & Class (1981); Women, Culture ¯ Politics (1989); Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday (1998); and Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003). She is also the editor of If They Come In The Morning: Voices of Resistance (1971). Davis's books will be available at the University Bookstore and at the Music Building during her talk, where she will be available to sign them immediately after.

Angela Davis's May 6th presentation is held in conjunction with the Central Washington University Social Forum, "Personalizing Change: Making Another World Possible." Sponsors include: Center for Excellence in Leadership, Diversity Education Center, Center for Student Empowerment, ASCWU Equity and Services Council, Department of History, Department of Information Technology and Administrative Management, Political Science Department, Latin American Studies Program, Women Studies Program, The William O. Douglas Honors College, President's Diversity Council, Status of Women Commission and Progressive Student Union.

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Title: How to Stop the Next War Now

Founding Director of the San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange, Medea Benjamin has supported human rights and social justice struggles around the world. Her books, reports and articles examine global issues of hunger, unequal development, and war. Ms. Benjamin's most recent work has focused on improving the labor and environmental practices of US multinational corporations and the policies of international institutions such as the WTO, IMF, and the World Bank.

She is also the co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, a women's group that is organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq. Ms. Benjamin worked for ten years as an economist and nutritionist in Latin America and Africa for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization to develop more sustainable models of development. She is the author of eight books including Bridging the Global Gap: A Handbook to Linking Citizens of the First and Third Worlds and The Peace Corps and More: 175 Ways to Work, Study and Travel at Home & Abroad.