Reproductive Justice tomorrow

"BROADENING THE MOVEMENT: FROM REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS TO REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE"
A conversation about the intersections of race, class, gender and reproductive health advocacy
Featuring MIRIAM YEUNG, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

MONDAY, APRIL 19th - 5:30PM

Niebuhr Hall, N123, Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street

Dinner will be provided
RSVP to ydssems4rj@gmail.com

Bulldog Days Community Sing, With Mamouns!

Monday, April 19, 2010 from 11:00 PM until 1:00 AM

Dwight Hall Chapel
67 High St
New Haven, CT 06511-8963

Come learn songs of social justice from around the world in multipart harmony while feasting upon delicious Middle Eastern food! No previous musical experience necessary - all are welcome. Music is taught by ear, and a fully supportive environment and a lot of fun are guaranteed. Bring enthusiasm and an appetite!

Admission: Open to all!
Refreshments will be served.

Yale’s Critical Islamic Reflections Committee’s 9th Annual Conference: Yale's Critical Islamic Reflections Committee would like to invite you to attend its 9th Annual Conference, which will take place on April 10, 2010 in William L. Harkness Hall, Wall St, New Haven, CT from 10 am to 7pm.

This year's conference showcases the latest research by distinguished and promising scholars of the humanities and social sciences on the subject of 'The (Muslim) Woman Question: Competing Representations, Contested Futures.' Based on selections from over 170
worldwide submissions, this interdisciplinary forum will explore the politics of representation vis-à-vis women and gender in Islam and interrogate how representations of and by Muslim women may influence political futures. Please join us as colleagues, friends, and allies for this important intellectual, political, and communal event. Please
visit http://www.yale.edu/cir/program.html for a copy of the program and to register.

Judge & Indian food!

Discussion with Judge Amanda Rockman, Ho-Chunk Nation Judiciary (4/15)

Constituting American Indian Tribal Governments: Jurisprudence in the Ho-Chunk
Nation
(A Discussion with Judge Amanda Rockman, Ho-Chunk Nation Judiciary)
Thursday, April 15th
4:30-6:30 p.m.
Room 120

Please join PANA, NALSA, and Professor Ned Blackhawk of the Yale American
Studies Department for a discussion with Judge Amanda Rockman. Judge Rockman is
a trial court judge for the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. She will speak about
the development of the Ho-Chunk tribal court system and its jurisprudence. A
brief interview with Judge Rockman is available at:
http://www.ecb.org/engage/AmandaRockman.htm, and a poster with more information
is attached.

There will also be a dinner with Judge Rockman at Royal Palace after the talk.

If you can attend either or both events, please RSVP to
maile.tavepholjalern@yale.edu.

Barrio Fiesta!

Friday, April 9, 2010 from 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM

SSS114
Corner of Prospect and Grove

KASAMA: The Filipino Club at Yale

presents

BARRIO FIESTA

A Celebration of Filipino Culture

food-devouring, coconut-banging, and pole-dancing
.... Filipino style.

Friday, April 9 / SSS114

Dinner at 5.30pm, Cultural Show to Follow

$3 pre-sale, $5 at door

Admission: $3 pre-sale, $5 at door
Refreshments will be served.

The Bhagwad Gita & The Matrix

Thursday, April 8, 2010 from 8:30 PM until 9:30 PM

WLH 211
100 Wall St
New Haven, CT 06511-8913

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111227702236160

Yale Hindu Students Council presents:

"The Bhagavad Gita and The Matrix"

An Interactive Talk by Ramnath Subramanian

Confessions of a Cha-cha feminist

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 7:00 PM

Saybrook Underbrook

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=109241272436370&ref=ts

Playwright and performance artist Maria Elena Fernandez will be performing her one-woman play," Confessions of a Cha-Cha Feminist" on Tuesday, April 6th at 7:00pm at the Saybrook Underbrook. Mrs. Fernandez graduated from Yale with a B.A. in American Studies with a concentration in ethnic studies in 1987. Her play is a hilarious presentation of the experiences of a young Latina woman going to Yale after graduating from a Catholic, all-girls high school.

There will also be a reception (with SNACKS) following the performance where you will get to mingle with the artist herself.

Take a study break and join us in learning more about the history of Latinos at Yale through this fabulous performance! RSVP to lacasa@yale.edu

This event is sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speaker Series, Yale College Office of Student Affairs.

Refreshments will be served.

Debate + indian food tonight!

TODAY……..

"RELIGION IS MORE DIVISIVE THAN UNIFYING"

See the attached poster and formal program for details.

Students from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn and NYU will debate this motion at the third annual Yale Hindi Debate! The Preliminary Round: April 1st (LUCE 101), 5.50pm. The National Round: April 16th (LUCE 101), 5.20pm.

Ask the best question from the audience: win a prize!

Opinions will be strong. Competition will be fierce.

Latino Spoken Word!!

Sexual Violence Awareness Events

Social Justice Day: Thursday, April 1—two events!

1. Broken Bodies, Broken Dreams: Join SJN for a dinner discussion with Professors Elisabeth Wood and Jhumka Gupta for a conversation about wartime sexual violence and sex trafficking. Dwight Hall Library

Co-sponsored by STAND, Amnesty International, and the Women’s Center. Thai food and Claire’s cake will be served at 6:30 and the discussion will start at 7:00.

2. Movie Screening: “Trade” |9:00PM at Silliflicks

Join the Social Justice Network in watching “Trade,” inspired by Peter Landesman's chilling NY Times Magazine story on the U.S. sex trade and sex trafficking. See http://www.tradethemovie.com/synopsis.html for a synopsis.