Walter Rodney as Agent of Liberation: Organizing the Downpressed for Self-Emancipation

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Oct 14 2016 - 6:00pm - Oct 15 2016 - 4:00pm

 

The Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit

presents

 

Walter Rodney as Agent of Liberation: Organizing the Downpressed for Self-Emancipation

October 14 - 15, 2016

 

Come out and reason and reflect on the 48th anniversary of the 15 October 1968 banning of University of the West Indies’ (UWI) lecturer and historian Dr. Walter Rodney from Jamaica. It is also the 48th anniversary of the 16 October 1968 Walter Rodney Rebellion (aka as the Rodney Riots or Rodney Affairs) that was triggered by working-class, the unemployed, students and others who were sick and tired of the downpression under the newly (in)dependent government. Walter Rodney believed that the oppressed have the ability to lead their struggle for justice, dignity and liberation. The government feared the potential of his groundings or reasoning with Rastas, the poor in the ghetto and the suffarahs in the countryside.

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2016

NEVILLE HALL LECTURE THEATRE (N1) - 6:00 PM

 

Panel Discussion: 

 

The Relevance of Walter Rodney to the Struggle for Justice and Liberation

 

Dr. Rupert Lewis, retired Professor of Political Thought. Dr. Lewis is the author of Walter Rodney: 1968 Revisited and Walter Rodney’s Political and Intellectual Thought

 

Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya, Lecturer in the Institute of Caribbean Studies

 

Shannon Smith, International Politics student and president, Africa Club 

 

Lloyd Aguilar, Longstanding human rights activist and organizer with the Tivoli Committee

 

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2016

NEVILLE HALL LECTURE THEATRE (N1) - 10:00 AM

 

Join us on October 15 for a series of workshops on organizing the people for justice, power and dignity. If the downpressed and their allies are going to build and lead the movement for equality, liberation and solidarity, they must have the knowledge, skills and attitude to make it happen.

WHEN: Saturday October 15, 2016; 10:00AM – 4:00PM

WHERE: Neville Lecture Hall – N1

Workshop Topics:

  • Organizing Communities for Cooperative Economic Development & Power
  •  Organizing the People to Defend their Human Rights and Resist Police Violence
  •  Using Community-based Arts Programme and Culture to Educate and Organize the People
  • Organizing and Transforming Students into Rebels with a Cause

For further information contact Institute of Caribbean Studies: 

 

Faculty of Humanities and Education

University of the West Indies

Mona, Kingston 7. 

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Neville Lecture Hall – N1
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