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- Creator:
- Walia, Harsha
- Description:
- Harsha Walia is an author and activist who is formally trained in the law. She immigrated from India and currently resides in Vancouver, on the lands of the Indigenous Coast Salish people. Harsha has been named one of the most influential South Asians in British Columbia by the Vancouver Sun and one of the ten most popular left-wing journalists by the Georgia Straight in 2010. Naomi Klein has called Harsha “one of Canada’s most brilliant and effective political organizers.” Harsha’s book, Undoing Border Imperialism, was published in 2013 by AK Press. Her writings have appeared in numerous magazines, including Briarpatch, Canadian Dimension, Dominion, Feministing, Fuze, Left Turn, Mondoweiss, People of Color Organize, Rabble, Racilicious, Sanhati, Z Magazine, and others. She has contributed essays to academic journals as well as chapters in the anthologies Power of Youth: Youth and community-led activism in Canada; Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance; Beyond Walls and Cages; Stay Solid; Broken Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution; Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice, and the Winter We Danced. Harsha is a cofounder of the migrant justice group No One Is Illegal and the progressive South Asian network Radical Desis. She is an organizer in numerous social justice organizations, and has made a number of presentations to the United Nations on social and economic justice issues.
- Resource Type:
- Recording, oral and Video
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Creator:
- Gage, Tom
- Description:
- Dr. Tom Gage, OLLI Instructor and Professor Emeritus in English, will be reading and signing his new book "Gulen's Dialogue on Education: a Caravanserai of Idea. A significant influence of this book derives from the HSU graduate course in the Masters Degree in the Teaching of Writing, the course he taught from 1977 to 2000 in the English Department. Since its publications, he has given reading and signing at the University of Toronto; the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin' and at the National Press ?Club., the site of a November Georgetown University Conference, at which he was a feature speaker. Since retiring in 2006, Prof. Gage has been teaching for Osher Lifelong Learning and writing.
- Resource Type:
- Recording, oral and Video
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Creator:
- León, Raina J.
- Description:
- Raina J. León is the author of two prize-wining poetry collections, Canticle of Idols, and Boogeyman Dawn. Her third book, dis(locate), will be released in 2016. She will read in the Library Fishbowl on Wednesday, March 4 at Noon. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online journal devoted to Latino and Latina arts. She is a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, and a fellow of Cave Canem and CantoMundo. She is an assistant professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.
- Resource Type:
- Recording, oral and Video
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt