Nuestra Voz/Our Voice: Migration, Gender & Human Rights
Women & Violence, Women & Resistance
Saturday, December 10, 2011 9:30am-5:30pm
Join us for a day of speakers, workshops, and presentations led by women in the community who are working on issues of global justice. Lunch will be provided.
Workshops/Speakers will be in English & Spanish. Interpretation will be provided.
Also presenting Beyond the Walls: An Evening with the Women of Buen Pastor, Patio Six, a play the brings us the stories of 7 prisoners in Colombia, as well as a community performance by Gabriela Galup!
Wakefield Middle School
101 W. 44th Street, Tucson, AZ
Child Care will be available- please RSVP to reserve.
$10 suggested donation $5 low income.
For more information, contact Derechos Humanos at 520 770-1373
9:00 – 9:30am
Check-in/Registration/breakfast
9:30 – 9:35am
Welcome and logistical info
bathrooms, interpretation, etc.)
9:35 – 11:05am
Plenary: Women and Violence
Panelists
Alana Tchirkine:
Consent
Dereka Rushbrook:
Structural Violence and Economics
Montserrat Caballero:
Immigrant Women and Violence
Anna O’Leary:
Women in the Intersection
11:10 – 12:40pm
Workshops
Prison Divestment
Corazón de Tucson (Spanish)
Know Your Rights
Promotoras de Derechos Humanos (Spanish)
Secure Communities
Promotoras de Derechos Humanos (Spanish with Interpretation)
Violence Against Women
Su Voz Vale (Spanish with Interpretation)
12:40-1:10pm
Lunch
1:10- 2:30pm
Play:
From Beyond the Walls: An Evening with the Women of Buen Pastor, Patio Six
Artistic Performance:
Gabriela Galup
2:30 – 3:45pm
Plenary: Women and Resistance
Panelists
Guillermina Torres, Derechos Humanos
Immigrant Women
Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, UA Mexican American Studies
Ethnic Studies
Elisa Meza, UNIDOS
Youth Organizing
Brenda Límon, Pan Left, Tucson Samaritans
LGBTQ Community
3:50 – 5:20pm
Workshops
Consent
Alana Tchirkine (English)
Food Justice
Tierra y Libertad (English with Interpretation)
Youth Organizing
UNIDOS (English)
Media
Pan Left Productions (English)
5:25pm
Closing Remarks by Isabel Garcia