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--Dr. J. William T. Youngs,
professor of history at Eastern Washington University.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, has provided the
central point of reference for all subsequent standards, claims, and disputes relating to human rights. Eleanor Roosevelt served as chair of the
committee that drafted this document. Youngs has chronicled the life of this
remarkable woman in his definitive biography, “Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal
and Public Life” (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985).
• 8:30 p.m., PSUB Film Theatre, movie, “Get On The Bus”
--directed by Spike
Lee.
Eighteen men board a bus headed for the historic Million Man March as
strangers but emerge three days and 2000 miles later as brothers.
Thursday, January 23
• 8 a.m., Student Activities Center, lecture, “History of Human Rights in
Idaho”
--Les Bock, executive director, Idaho Human Rights Education Center in
Boise.
This PowerPoint presentation chronicles the development of human rights in
the state of Idaho.
• 9:15 a.m., Student Activities Center, lecture, “Poverty and Human Rights”
--Jessica Sotelo, project director, and Jocabed Compean-Rincon, assistant
project director, Partners for Prosperity grant.
Sotelo and Compean-Rincon will explore the real life stories of poverty that
impact Idaho. They will share their plans to reduce poverty in eastern Idaho
through relationship building and community partnerships.
• 12:15 p.m., Salmon River Suite, panel discussion, “Lack of Equitable
Access to Higher Education for Undocumented Children of Migrant Workers: A
Human Rights Violation”
--Mike Echanis, assistant director, TRIO Student
Services at ISU; Farhana Hibbert, owner/editor of Idaho Unido, a
Spanish/English newspaper; Lew Rodriguez, director, Southeast Idaho Migrant
Council; and Martin Torres, consul general, Mexican Consulate General.
• 1:15 p.m., Quad Lounge, panel discussion, “Hispanic America; Problem
Solving in the Real World”
--Joe Arzola, program coordinator, Children’s
Supportive Services; Mariah Cantu, social worker, Catholic Charities of
Blackfoot; Joe Garcia, former manager, FMC Federal Credit Union; Eva
Martinez, LPN, Blackfoot Migrant Clinic; Sandra Ortiz, counselor, Road to
Recovery; Vera Ramirez, social worker; and Irene B. Robinson, Northwest Area
Foundation Partners for Prosperity.
• 2:45 p.m., lecture, Salmon River Suite, “Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, and Transgendered Rights in Idaho”
--Alan Virta, head of Special Collections at
the Boise State University; Theron McGriff, Idaho Falls father who lost
custody of his children as a result of his sexual status; and Shannon
Minter, attorney, the National Center for Lesbian Rights. McGriff has an
appeal before the Idaho Supreme Court concerning his custody case. Minter is
representing McGriff in the appeal. Virta will present a slide show, “The
Gay Life in Idaho,” which chronicles gays and lesbians in Idaho from the
1890's to the present. McGriff and Minter will join Virta after his
presentation to discuss issues affecting gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and
transgendered people.
• 8:30 p.m., Film Theatre, movie, “Get On The Bus.”
Friday, January 24
• 9:15 a.m., Salmon River Suite, lecture, “Human Rights: A New Idaho
Perspective”
--Bock. The mission of the Idaho Human Rights Education Center
is to
promote respect for human dignity and diversity through education. Bock
received the 1998 Idaho Voices of Faith United Nations Human Rights Day
Award in
1998.
• 11 a.m., Salmon River Suite, lecture, “Human Rights: Where Do We Go From
Here?”
--Robin Phillips, attorney and executive director, Minnesota Advocates for
Human Rights.
Saturday, January 25
• 6 p.m., Ballroom, festival, “Africa Night 2003”
--featuring authentic
African food, fashion, music, and dance with Maya Soleil, an African World
fusion band and its dancers. The fun event has been a tradition of Pocatello
over the last ten years, filling ISU's ballroom to capacity. The courses of
food on the menu for this year's event are chicken and beef pilau, chicken curry, chapattis, fried
plantains, kachumbari salad, and many more. Tickets are $9 for the general
public, $8 for ISU faculty and staff, $5 for students, and free for
children under 5 and seniors above 95. Enjoy the manifold culture of Africa! For ticket information, call (208) 282-2963.
Other Community Events
Friday, January 17
Youthtopia III--An estimated 350 youth and 50 adults will engage in service
projects.
Saturday, January 18
NAACP Multicultural Banquet--To honor youth essay and poster contest winners
from local schools. The proposed theme for this year's contest is "Making a
Day ON not a Day Off"
Sunday, January 19
Interfaith fellowship activities highlighting social responsibility
Monday, January 20
• Breakfast kickoff and service projects--speakers will prepare volunteers
for services; groups of youth and adults will perform direct service in
the community
• Students' Community Service presents "Day of Service." Give back to your
community by designing your own service project. Call the SCSC at 282-3494
for more information.
• Floyd Cochran--Lecture followed by question and answer session. Held in
PSUB Salmon River Suite, at 7p.m. |
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discussion will be held during the Human Rights Week at the Council Chambers at
Pocatello City Hall (911 N. 7th Ave.) on January 21. The discussion is sponsored by the
League of Women Voters of Pocatello and the City of Pocatello Human Advisory
Committee. Admission is free.
Martin Luther King March and Program
3p.m., Monday, January 20
The march will begin at Bonneville Park, behind Holt
Arena, to Memorial Drive, to Martin Luther King Jr. Way, to Caesar Chavez.
Chili and hot chocolate will be served. Following the march, Sunny Joy
Campbell, a guest speaker from Missouri will give a speech at the theatre of PSUB. Sunny, formerly of Blackfoot Idaho, currently of St. Charles,
Missouri, is a student at Lindenwood University, St Charles, Missouri, and
also a licensed Real-estate Agent in Seattle, Washington. The event is
sponsored by ISU and the City of Pocatello. Post-service recognition
ceremonies and the Ron Timpson Humanitarian Award will be presented during
the event.
Chinese Lunar New Year Banquet
6p.m., Saturday, February 1
ISU Chinese Association will present a
Chinese Lunar New Year Banquet at PSUB Ballroom on February 1, the first day
of 2003 by Chinese lunar calendar. The
annual Chinese cultural event, held around the Mid-Autumn Festival in past few years, has been a favorite activity to the Pocatello community. This
year the association saves the event to the Lunar New Year and focuses it
more on Chinese cuisine. The banquet features over 16 traditional festive
dishes from families across the country, including Spring Roll, sweet
and sour ribs, Mapo tofu, Kung Bao chicken, dumpling, Cha Shao,
fruit soup, and many more. During the banquet, a movie will take you on a
tour around China, accompanied by music unique to all
different Chinese regions. You will also have a chance to brush your own
calligraphic art of Chinese characters, meet people in exotic traditional
Chinese costume, and... Tickets will be available from Monday, January 27 in PSUB.
Price: $7 for the general public, $6 for ISU faculty & staff, $5 for students,
and free for children under 6. Please contact Jinming Liu at (208)478-1891
for more information.
Lunar New Year or Spring Festival is by far
the most important festival in China, comparable to
Christmas in the West. The festival starts with the new moon on the first
day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. Each Chinese
year is represented by a repeated cycle of 12 animals. 2003 is the year of
Sheep and Year 4700 by Chinese Calendar. There are similar celebrations in Japan, Korea and Vietnam known
as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival.
Luncheon with ISU Latino Students
"A
Luncheon With Latino Students at ISU" will be sponsored by ISU College of
Education and the Hispanic Task Force on Friday, January 17. The purpose of
the luncheon is to let faculty and Latino students get to know each
other and to find out what Latino students' needs are to be able to graduate
from ISU. Invitations to this event have been extended. All colleges at ISU
take turn to host the luncheon monthly.
Hispanic Projects Seek Donations
The ISU Student Anthropological Society will be collecting
personal hygiene items and baby supplies until the end of February for the
Hispanic Health Projects (HHP). HHP provide health information and education
to Hispanic people in southeast Idaho and Guanajuato, Mexico. All items
collected will be distributed to members of the Hispanic community who work
hard but do not have enough income to purchase items such as feminine hygiene products.
The student group and the HHP can greatly increase
their ability to serve this population by providing hygiene items that
maintain health and prevent illness. Phone cards and cash donations will also be accepted to allow recipients to travel to medical clinics.
Donations are being accepted at the Hispanic Health
Office in Room 264 Graveley Hall on the ISU Pocatello campus. If you have
questions regarding the HHP, contact Diana Campanella, Project Coordinator,
at (208) 282-4390.
Website Review:
"Martin Luther King Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement"
The Web site, sponsored by The Seattle Times, is
dedicated to commemorating Martin Luther King, this civil-rights leader and his sweeping
influence, and providing a forum for students, teachers, and people in other
walks of life to express their perceptions, discussion and reflections about
King and his legacies to today's civil rights education and movement. Seven
discussion questions
are listed for educators and parents to use as a way of talking about these
critical social issues, and of exploring this and other Web sites. Links to
other related sources are listed, such as
National Civil Rights Museum, The Martin Luther King Jr.
Paper's Project at Stanford University,
and
Official NAACP Web Site (the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People).
Film "Two Towns of Jasper" & Guest Speaker
8p.m., Monday, Tuesday, January 20, 21, PSUB Theater
The
movie captures very different racial views by townsfolk in Jasper, Texas,
the location for a racially motivated murder of an African American in 1998.
On January 20, there will be a special guest speaker on the topic that
will lead a discussion after the screening. Free with valid Bengal cards.
Foreign Films
January 13 - 14:
Kandahar (Farsi)
January 27 - 28:
Y Tu
Mama Tambien (Spanish)
February 3 - 4:
Fast
Runner (Inuit)
February 10 - 11:
Nine
Queens (Spanish)
Unless otherwise indicated, all showings will be at 8 PM at the PSUB
theater. All films include English Subtitles. Free with valid Bengal cards.
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