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EYEspeak screening

Monday December 3rd, 2012
Hunter College North Building (entrance on 68th and Lexington)
** new location: Room 543 **
8:00 PM

Sandy threatens NYC grassroots radio!

Join us for a screening of Radio Unnameable and discussion to learn more about why and how to support WBAI and WFMU.

When Sandy hit it trapped seven of WBAI’s staff in studios on the 11th story of a building with seawater up to the second floor. Today, the building’s wiring is still unusable, and the station’s facing a second disaster: because the storm knocked WBAI off the air in the middle of a fund drive, and the station has no way to resume fundraising, it faces the prospect of laying off its entire staff and going dark for good.

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South Africa, the United States, and Human Rights: A Ripple of Hope

South Africa, the United States, and Human Rights: A Ripple of Hope

Tuesday, December 11, 2012
8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065

This workshop will focus on the internationalization of civil rights and human rights. We will explore the links between the United States and South Africa in the struggle for racial equality, and make connections to the work of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the ongoing global struggle for human rights. The morning session will feature the documentary film RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope, about Robert Kennedy’s 1966 visit to South Africa, and his famous “Ripple of Hope” speech.
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