RESCHEDULED: Tonight's Event with Barbara Smith, Due to Weather

Tonight’s event with Barbara Smith and Susan Arbetter will be RESCHEDULED to Tuesday, March 31^st , same time (7PM, note early start time) and same location (Milne 200, Downtown Campus).

 

Barbara Smith, pioneering activist, will discuss the new book, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith (2014). The book, edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, combines historical documents with new interviews to uncover the deep roots of today’s “identity politics” and serves as an essential primer for practicing solidarity and resistance. Smith, organizer, writer, and publisher, has played key roles in multiple social justice movements. She is Public Service Professor in the School of Social Welfare at UAlbany, and a former member of Albany’s Common Council.

 

Cosponsored by SUNY Press and Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

 

If you would like to attend the rescheduled event, please RSVP to Rockefeller College Director of Communications, as space is limited:

 

Mary Huntmhunt@albany.edu

 

More about Barbara Smith:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/smith_barbara15.html

 

 

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New Event: Richard Ravitch Wednesday

Former lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch
April 23 (Wednesday)
Discussion — 1:00 p.m., Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
411 State Street, Albany

Former New York State Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch will discuss his efforts to advance New York State Government through some of its most troubled times in a candid discussion with WCNY News & Public Affairs Director Susan Arbetter. The event is being held in connection with the upcoming release of Ravitch’s memoir, So Much To Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises.

More:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/ravitch_richard14.html

Free and open to the public.

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