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WoCR (Week of Cultural Resistance) & NoCR (Night of Cultural Resistance) are right around the corner!!
The Week of Cultural Resistance (WoCR) is a week-long series of events that culminates with NoCR (03/10/14-03/14/14). The Multicultural Community Center, Cross Cultural Student Development and other collaborating spaces on campus host WoCR. This year, WoCR revolves around the commemoration and continued inspiration of the third world Liberation Front (twLF), founded in 1969! With several events and workshops taking place daily for WoCR, we are coming together in efforts to build-cross cultural understanding.
The Night of Cultural Resistance (NoCR) is the culminating event of WoCR, and will take place on March 14th from 5-10pm on Memorial Glade. Every year NoCR features live performances, art making, food, and various other activities to celebrate our resilience and honor the ways in which communities of color continue to resist and flourish within the university. NoCR is more than a concert or a show, it is an opportunity for communities on and off campus to come together and share stories, skills, and resources.
We are excited to be hosting NoCR on Memorial Glade this year in order to increase visibility and access!!
March 2014 marks the 45th anniversary of the third world Liberation Front at UC Berkeley. In 1969, a multiracial coalition came together to demand that the voices of people of color be reflected in the hxstory we are taught. As a result of cross-community organizing, the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Department was founded. After 45 years, we still hold close to our hearts the legacy of this movement, the memory of the longest student strike, and the work that still has to be continued until people of color reach a revolutionary liberation through access to equitable education and access resources. More than anything, we hope this anniversary serves as more than a reminder of the resilience of people of color in the University, but also as an opportunity to re-ignite, re-imagine, and ROOT Y(OUR) FUTURE. We invite folks to not just remember twLF but to also continue envision and create with a lot of heart and love for y(our) communities and future generations.
All events are free and open to the public!!!
And as always, come by and hang out with us any time. You can find us in:
Hearst Field Annex D-37
Hours: M 9am-6pm Tu-F 9am-10pm Sa 9am-5pm.
MCC Events Calendar & Collective Community Events Calendar
In solidarity,
The Multicultural Community Center
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As part of our weekly MCC Wednesday intern led workshops, we would like to invite you to join us to our Loving Work Ethic workshop.
The goal of this workshop is to imagine working environments, educational spaces and relating in our communities that is rooted in a definition of love that has the capacity to validate and hold true all of our individual complex identities and lived experiences as we work together. Working relationships that are loving will not only nurture our personal growth as individuals, organizers and intellectuals, they also help shift a culture that is often more concerned with productivity and end results to think of sustainability and wellness as crucial parts of having a thriving working environment.
Please come join us in this critical discussion and invite your community and friends!
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"Who Am I?": A Dialogue on Native American Legitimacy and Self-Identification
Thursday March 6th, 2014, 6-8pm
UCB's Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex-D 37
The Native American Student Development Office invites you to come out and join us for the fifth event of the Our Identities, Our Voices identity workshop series in collaboration of the Multicultural Community Center. "Who Am I?": A Native American Dialogue on Legitimacy and Self-Identification will be an open discussion led by Katie Keliiaa and Olivia Chilcote, current doctoral students. We will explore questions and conversations on our different stories and histories concerning our identity and how it's shaped the way we identify and portray ourselves to others.
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Native Roots and Resistance
Harmony Keeper/Martial Art’s Class
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 5 PM -8 PM
@ Richard Oakes Multicultural Center - SF State
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 11 AM - 4 PM
@ UC Berkeley's Multicultural Center
For over 520 years, the native people have been subjected to genocide; nonetheless, the spirit of the people would not be broken. The Harmony Keeper/Martial Arts class will cover the history of the resistance to colonization and the fight for self-determination. In addition, the class will also speak about the importance of supporting movements that promote the preservation of native communities.
We teach to protect and defend the sacred ceremonies, gatherings and community actions of indigenous peoples and of all Native Nations. We practice the discipline of martial arts for self-defense as well as to build inner-awareness and harmony from within. Through the spirituality associated with martial arts and our traditions, responsibility and integrity become the essence of our passion to build a strong community and respect diversity.
Our path as Harmony Keepers is to uplift the integrity of our communities by participating in various native ceremonies, sweat lodges, martial arts training, and classes on history, culture, leadership, and native languages.
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Join us for a discussion with Prof. Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. Lecture organized by the group, Politics of Biology & Race, a UC Center for New Racial Studies working group, and co-sponsored by the Center for Race & Gender and the Haas Center for a Fair and Inclusive Society.
Friday, March 7, 2014
5pm - 6pm: Reception
6pm - 7:30pm: Lecture & Discussion
Alumni House, UC Berkeley (location is wheelchair accessible)
Free & open to the public
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Dear Community members,
Please join us for this year's APIICON, In Solidarity on March 8, 2014 10:00AM at UC Berkeley.
****** REGISTER HERE: http://tinyurl.com/apiicon14reg ******
The Asian Pacific Islander Issues Conference (APIICON) began in 1990 as a critical space for students, professors, and community members to dialogue about pressing issues and come up with solutions together. By bringing underrepresented issues to the forefront, APIICON promotes awareness about ethnic diversity and fosters community-building among API activists and allies. The ultimate goal of this conference is to educate, empower, and organize our communities on API issues.
This year’s theme In Solidarity pays homage to the third-world Liberation Front (twLF) which took place at Bay Area campuses 45 years ago. The twLF was a coalition built of students of color who fought for the establishment of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State College (now University) and UC Berkeley. As the current generation of activists, we want to acknowledge the work of API activists before played major roles in building the communities we are a part of now. As APIs grow increasingly visible in media, politics, and education, we can see that the movement continues to expand and touch on new issues through different lenses.
With this theme, we urge you to reflect on what solidarity means to you. How can we avoid romanticizing the past so that we can stay present and conscious of the changing demographics in this generation? We invite attendees to take away a better understanding of solidarity as a process rather than an end result. In order for our community to grow and move forward, we must first acknowledge that the demographics of the API community are constantly changing and that solidarity does not come easily. Out of our different struggles we can find common goals and take action by working together. We chose this theme to begin to explore and understand our differences in experiences and histories, expand our knowledge, share what we learn, and continue the movement to fight against API issues together.
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On Saturday, March 15, 2014, the University of California at Berkeley’s Women of Color Initiative and Graduate Assembly will host the 29th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC). The 29th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference, “Talking Back! Our Voices Overcoming Violence" seeks to honor a multiplicity of women’s experiences around the survival of physical, emotional, and spiritual violence against us and our communities. As women of color, our journeys are marked by stretches of struggle and moments of victory. We seek to create a space where survivors of violence across generations can share their stories with a supportive community of artists, activists, and scholars dedicated to dismantling the systems that oppress us.
Website: ewocc.wordpress.com
Registration: http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=237380
NOTE: RSVPing on this facebook event does NOT count as registration!
(Admission: Free for workshop leaders, panelists, volunteers, and UC Berkeley students. Reduced rates for students and groups. This conference is open to individuals of all ages and does not require you to be a student.)
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If you have any questions about registration, email ewocc-registration-ga@berkeley.edu!
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