Wednesday, September 16th @ 7PM – $5 Suggested
Presentation: Dana Frank “Women’s Empowerment in Honduras”
Now emerging as resistance leaders to the military coup in Honduras are the same women whom fought to establish unions for banana workers. Please join Dana Frank for a discussion about the crucial role of women in building popular movements in Honduras. Frank is the director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and is the author of “Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America.” Please note that the “Gaia and the New Politics of Love” reading has been canceled.
From bluestockings.com/events
Marisa JahnMarisa Jahn is an artist/writer/curator who co-founded of REV- (www.rev-it.org), a non-profit organization that fosters socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. Her work has been presented at the MIT Museum; ICA Philadelphia; ISEA/Zero One; Eyebeam; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Asian Art Museum, etc. Jahn received a MS from MIT, a BA from UC Berkeley, and has received awards and grants from Franklin Furnace, UNESCO, and CEC Artslink. In 2009 she was an artist-in-residence at MIT’s Media Lab, artist teacher with Center for Urban Pedagogy, and curator-in-residence at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. She is the co-editor of ‘Recipes for an Encounter’, ‘Byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices’ (2010), and Where We Are Now’ (www.wherewearenow.org). She is the current Director of Architecture at Art Omi (artomi.org). www.marisajahn.com