Darling HRWGers
Hope you rested over the weekend. We will get through this together <3
We will be convening this week as a community for our General Body Meeting! Join us over lunch on Wednesday@1pm to discuss plans for the rest of the semester. We have some tangible advocacy schemes in the works.
See you soon we hope!
As always, yours in love, rights, & solidarity,
HRWG Board
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Events ThiS WEeK:
HRWG GENERAL BODY MEETING !!!!!!!
All Human Rights-Curious SIPA peoples welcome.
Find us Wednesday, Oct. 23, Room 418, 1-2pm. Lunch to be served.
RSVP on CampusGroups RSVP">Here.
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Labor, Global Supply Chains and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh after Rana Plaza | Tuesday October 22, 1:00-2:00PM, IAB 801
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Cultural Rights and Human Rights: Questioning Protection | Tuesday October 22, 12:10-1:10PM, JG 105
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2019 Peacebuilding Fieldwork Symposium
Friday, October 25, 1:00pm - 4:30pm, SIPA 1201
Join Columbia University graduate students as they discuss their fieldwork experiences and the emerging issues facing today's practitioners in the diverse and ever-changing field of peacebuilding. This is the final event for the "Applied Peacebuilding: Core Competencies for Fieldwork" class of 2019. Hear first-hand accounts of work in Mali, Thailand, Palestine & Israel, Timor Leste, Turkey, Tunisia, Lebanon, Myanmar, and Kenya. Students, faculty, practitioners, and others interested in the field of peacebuilding are encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be provided.
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NYC Human Rights Commission Event:
Reckoning with Our Legacy of Slavery and Charting an Anti-Racist Future
Friday, Oct. 25th, 5:30-8:30pm. Register on Eventbrite.
2019 Marks the 400th yr anniversary of the first recorded arrival of enslaved Africans brought to what would become the United States- an important moment in the history of U.S. chattel slavery. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on New York City's history of slavery and how we can work together to build a racism-free world.
Speakers include: Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Professor Alan Singer and April Francis, Deborah Archer, Dennis Parker, and Tiffany McFadden.
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What We're Reading
Domestic Workers search for rights amid pro-democracy protests (Hong Kong)
Labor Reform in Qatar for migrant workers
Bachelet addresses progress and setbacks to human rights globally at UNGA
Top Human Rights Tweets this week from HRW
HRWG New Initiative: We are preparing a community alternative resource (read: beautiful google spreadsheet), listing books, journals, blogs, podcasts, activist collectives and more.
Our aim is to help share, seek, and crowdsource human rights knowledge among seeples, as we continue striving to mainstream alternative voices speaking truth to power outside of the core curriculum. Be on the look out for a link to this resource soon.
Reach out to Morgan if you are interested in collaborating on building out the architecture and community guidelines.
**Call to Action**
Follow and support organizations calling attention to abuses by ICE
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Read Up on the Tech, Data, and Political financing behind ICE in this report.
Check out Torn Apart/Separados a data visualization map (started by a Columbia librarian)
Mijente and other organizations are calling attention to the force-feeding of people in migrant detention on hunger strike in Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center.
You can sign a petition here to call the NWDC to close or browse other Mijente petitions.
Detention Watch Network draws attention to another death in ICE custody. RIP Hernandez Diaz. ICE is reporting Hernández Diaz’s death as a suicide, who was being held in solitary confinement at the time, a practice internationally recognized as torture.
 
SEE YOU AT THE GENERAL BODY MEETING <3 !!!!! (can you tell we are excited?!?!)
Rest In Power, Elijah Cummings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS92jiD7BrA
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