Film Screening : RBG
Sponsored by Oxy's Pre-Law Department
Reading and Q&A with Author Rachel Kushner
Kushner’s new novel, The Mars Room, was published on May 1st, 2018, and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Kushner is also the author of The Flamethrowers, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Five Novel of 2013. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. A collection of her early work, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2015. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Paris Review.
Screening: The Central Park Five
The Central Park Five, a 2012 film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, explores the story of the miscarriage of justice that engulfed Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise, the black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of the horrific 1989 crime. The brutal beating and rape of a white woman in New York City's Central Park provoked public outrage and sensational headlines during the prosecution and conviction of the five defendants.
Mindfully Working for Social Justice: Part One
Mindfulness through crafting and discussion: Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 7:00 p.m. in FEAST Garden
Panel with lawyers, advocates, and professors: Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7:00 p.m. in UEPI
Holiday Gathering and Poetry Book Release
Building on a long and storied tradition of fine-printing at Occidental, this beautiful book came about as a result of collaboration with LA poet Suzanne Lummis, who taught a 6 week creative writing course in Spring 2017 with the NELA community, Oxy students, and local poets. We very much hope you will join us in this celebration of their accomplishment and of the holiday season!
Bruno Louchouarn Memorial
Beginning in 2001, Bruno taught in many departments at Oxy for 13 years, including courses in Art, Cognitive Science, Film, Music, and Theater, served as director of the Keck Language and Cultural Studio, and composed original music and created sound designs for a number of Theater Department productions.
Food Justice House Community Potluck
RSVP on the Facebook event for a headcount : https://www.facebook.com/events/253004225395835/?notif_t=plan_user_join…
"Why We Fight" A film by Eugene Jarecki
Why We Fight (99 min) describes the rise and maintenance of the United
States military-industrial complex and its more than 50-year
involvement with the wars led by the United States, including he 2003
invasion of Iraq. The film includes interviews with politician John
McCain, political scientist and former-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson,
military policy analyst Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator
William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, Charles Lewis (founder of the