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By the end of 2022, 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. This includes: 35.3 million refugees. 62.5 million internally displaced people. An estimated 500,000 people in the US are without housing with many more in unstable situations.
Here we look at the worldwide and hyper local effects of the culture of cruelty from Gaza to the front steps of local police stations – wherein the phenomena of endless war, rapacious profiteering, climate catastrophes, stolen resources, and dispossession has created an unprecedented quantum of despair.
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Speakers:
Juan González is a Senior Research Fellow at Great Cities Institute.
Throughout his career, González has become known as one of the most well-regarded Latino journalists in the United States. He was a staff columnist for The Daily News for nearly thirty years, has been a co-host since 1996 of the morning news show Democracy Now, and was the Richard D. Heffner Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers University from 2017 to 2023.
His investigative reports on the labor movement, environmental justice, race relations, and urban policy have garnered numerous accolades, and he became in 2015 the first Latino to be inducted into the New York Journalism Hall of Fame by the Society of Professional Journalists’ Deadline Club. He is the author of five books, including the classic Harvest of Empire (2001), which became the basis of an award-winning documentary film narrated by González. His News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media (2011), which he co-authored with Joseph Torres, was a New York Times best-seller and a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. His Reclaiming Gotham, Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America’s Tale of Two Cities (2017), examines the rise of progressive elected officials in cities across the United States and their efforts to revise urban policies.
Even before he entered journalism, González was already a well-known Latino activist as a leader of the Young Lords in the late 1960s, and later as an organizer and the first president of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights in the 1980s.
Jorge Mujica emigrated to the United States from Mexico in 1987. He currently works as lead strategic campaigns organizer for Arise Chicago, a non-profit organization addressing the needs of low-wage workers. He is also a Congressman in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, representing Mexicans abroad. He is a well-known journalist in the Spanish media, has worked extensively with labor unions, and belongs to a number of community organizations that address immigrant rights. He co-authored the book Voces Migrantes, and is currently working on “We The Immigrants,” on immigrant workers as founders of labor unions in the United States. Jorge was one of the three conveners of the immigration marches during the “Immigrant’s Spring” which brought a million people to the streets on May Day 2006.
Hatem Abudayyeh is co-founder and current National Chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). He is also co-founder and spokesperson for the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine (CJP), which represents all the main Palestinian institutions in Chicagoland and has been leading the mass mobilizations and advocacy campaigns for Palestine in the city since the beginning of the 2nd Intifada in 2000.
Amisha Patel has 30 years of experience organizing for economic, racial, and gender justice. For 15 years, she served as Executive Director of Grassroots Collaborative in Illinois, which innovated community and labor strategic coalition campaigns that built the foundation for many movement victories, including progressive revenue solutions, subsidy reform, raising the minimum wage, and more. Most recently, she served as Senior Advisor to the transition team of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Amisha first began organizing at the age of 19 against a toxic waste facility in East Palo Alto, CA. She spent years leading arts-based violence against women prevention programming with youth of color in the Bay Area. The documentary that her youth created, Young Azns Rising! Breaking Down Violence Against Women, screened in film festivals nationwide and won the Asian Emmy for best documentary. Amisha has received numerous recognitions, including Crain’s Chicago Business 40 under 40 award, and her op-eds have appeared in Crain’s Chicago Business, Bill Moyers, In These Times, and the Chicago Sun Times.
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This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and HotHouse While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
By the end of 2022, 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. This includes: 35.3 million refugees. 62.5 million internally displaced people. An estimated 500,000 people in the US are without housing with many more in unstable situations.
Here we look at the worldwide and hyper local effects of the culture of cruelty from Gaza to the front steps of local police stations – wherein the phenomena of endless war, rapacious profiteering, climate catastrophes, stolen resources, and dispossession has created an unprecedented quantum of despair.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Speakers:
Juan González is a Senior Research Fellow at Great Cities Institute.
Throughout his career, González has become known as one of the most well-regarded Latino journalists in the United States. He was a staff columnist for The Daily News for nearly thirty years, has been a co-host since 1996 of the morning news show Democracy Now, and was the Richard D. Heffner Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers University from 2017 to 2023.
His investigative reports on the labor movement, environmental justice, race relations, and urban policy have garnered numerous accolades, and he became in 2015 the first Latino to be inducted into the New York Journalism Hall of Fame by the Society of Professional Journalists’ Deadline Club. He is the author of five books, including the classic Harvest of Empire (2001), which became the basis of an award-winning documentary film narrated by González. His News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media (2011), which he co-authored with Joseph Torres, was a New York Times best-seller and a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. His Reclaiming Gotham, Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America’s Tale of Two Cities (2017), examines the rise of progressive elected officials in cities across the United States and their efforts to revise urban policies.
Even before he entered journalism, González was already a well-known Latino activist as a leader of the Young Lords in the late 1960s, and later as an organizer and the first president of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights in the 1980s.
Jorge Mujica emigrated to the United States from Mexico in 1987. He currently works as lead strategic campaigns organizer for Arise Chicago, a non-profit organization addressing the needs of low-wage workers. He is also a Congressman in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, representing Mexicans abroad. He is a well-known journalist in the Spanish media, has worked extensively with labor unions, and belongs to a number of community organizations that address immigrant rights. He co-authored the book Voces Migrantes, and is currently working on “We The Immigrants,” on immigrant workers as founders of labor unions in the United States. Jorge was one of the three conveners of the immigration marches during the “Immigrant’s Spring” which brought a million people to the streets on May Day 2006.
Hatem Abudayyeh is co-founder and current National Chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). He is also co-founder and spokesperson for the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine (CJP), which represents all the main Palestinian institutions in Chicagoland and has been leading the mass mobilizations and advocacy campaigns for Palestine in the city since the beginning of the 2nd Intifada in 2000.
Amisha Patel has 30 years of experience organizing for economic, racial, and gender justice. For 15 years, she served as Executive Director of Grassroots Collaborative in Illinois, which innovated community and labor strategic coalition campaigns that built the foundation for many movement victories, including progressive revenue solutions, subsidy reform, raising the minimum wage, and more. Most recently, she served as Senior Advisor to the transition team of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Amisha first began organizing at the age of 19 against a toxic waste facility in East Palo Alto, CA. She spent years leading arts-based violence against women prevention programming with youth of color in the Bay Area. The documentary that her youth created, Young Azns Rising! Breaking Down Violence Against Women, screened in film festivals nationwide and won the Asian Emmy for best documentary. Amisha has received numerous recognitions, including Crain’s Chicago Business 40 under 40 award, and her op-eds have appeared in Crain’s Chicago Business, Bill Moyers, In These Times, and the Chicago Sun Times.
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This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and HotHouse While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
