<div dir="ltr"><div>Recommended –</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://events.ucr.edu/event/BlackLiberation" target="_blank">https://events.ucr.edu/event/BlackLiberation</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Monday, February 27, 12-2 pm<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interdisciplinary Building 1128 (UC Riverside Campus)<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Black Liberation and Revolutionary Struggle <i>NOW</i>: A Roundtable Conversation with Sekou Odinga<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sekou
 Odinga is a globally recognized Black liberation activist, member of 
Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity, founding member of both
 the New York City chapter and the International Section of the Black 
Panther Party, and former US political prisoner who survived 33 years of
 state captivity before his release in 2014. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prosecuted as one of the “Panther 21” in New York City, Odinga is a prominent historical figure, having been featured on <i>Democracy Now!</i>
 and numerous documentaries, concerts, mass public events, and major 
news outlets. A survivor of state torture and the FBI’s notorious 
Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), Sekou Odinga is both 
celebrated and admired by freedom and justice movements worldwide, 
exemplifying persistence, courage, and principled adherence to freedom 
struggle under the most repressive circumstances imaginable.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Join
 us for this highly anticipated conversation with Sekou Odinga on the 
meaning, context, and possibilities of Black liberation and 
revolutionary struggle over a long half-century (and beyond) of 
normalized antiblack state violence, intensifying freedom movements, and
 emerging abolitionist mobilizations. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Featured Roundtable Participants:</span><u></u><u></u></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-4558592735778049197MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Vonya Quarles (Starting Over, All Of Us Or None)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_-4558592735778049197MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Terrance Stewart (UCR graduate student, Underground Scholars, All Of Us Or None)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_-4558592735778049197MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Amanda Soto (UCR undergraduate student, Underground Scholars)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_-4558592735778049197MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alejandra Olvera (UCR undergraduate student, Cops Off Campus)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_-4558592735778049197MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Steph Jones (UCR/UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_-4558592735778049197MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(emcee/host) Dylan Rodríguez (UCR faculty, Cops Off Campus, Co-Director of Center for Ideas and Society)<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Co-Sponsored by UCR </span></b><b><span style="font-size:13pt;color:black">Departments
 of English, History, and Black Study, Blackness Unbound Faculty 
Commons, ASUCR, ASUCR External Affairs Office, and the Decolonizing 
Humanism(?) initiative</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_-4558592735778049197__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">ingat/peace<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">dylan<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">(please send Center for Ideas and Society related emails here: </span></span><a href="mailto:dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)">dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">)<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Dylan Rodríguez<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Professor, Dept. of Black Study and Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies<br>Co-Director, </span></span><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)">Center for Ideas and Society</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><br></span></span><a href="https://caseygrants.org/freedom-scholars/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)">2020 Freedom Scholar</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Past President, American Studies Association (2020-2021)<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>Twitter: </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/dylanrodriguez" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">@dylanrodriguez</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Instagram: </span></span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dylanrodriguez73/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">@dylanrodriguez73</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">“If
 one were forced for the sake of clarity to define [fascism] in a word 
simple enough for all to understand, that word would be ‘reform.’”<br>-George Jackson<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">organizations i support:<br></span></span><a href="http://www.socallib.org/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)">http://www.socallib.org/</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><br></span></span><span></span><a href="https://www.umedics.org/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">https://www.umedics.org/</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span><a href="http://www.criticalresistance.org/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">www.criticalresistance.org</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><br></span></span><span></span><a href="http://scholarsforsocialjustice.com/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)">http://scholarsforsocialjustice.com/</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <br></span></span></p></div></div></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Allison Adelle Hedge Coke</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>2022-2023 Mellon Dean’s Professor</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Center for Ideas & Society</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Distinguished Professor</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Creative Writing, School of Medicine,</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>& the proposed Dept. of Society, Environment, & Health Equity (SEHE) <br></i></font></div><div><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fellowships/" target="_blank"><font face="georgia, serif"><i>2022-2023 Mellon Dean's Professor</i></font></a></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fellowships/" target="_blank">Center for Ideas and Society</a><br></i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i></i></font></div><span><div><table style="width:100%;border-radius:10px;background-color:rgb(247,247,252)"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding-left:16px;vertical-align:top;padding-top:18px"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Weird Times, Be Kind</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/allisonh" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Allison Adelle Hedge Coke</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif">Director, <a href="http://writersweek.ucr.edu" target="_blank">Writers Week 2021, 2022</a>, Co-Director in 2023<br></div></span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif">Along the Chaparral, Sandhill Crane Fest</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif">author/editor of 18 books<br></div><span><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif">Most recent release, National Book Award Finalist, </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif"> </span><i><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Look at This Blue </a></i></div><div><br></div></span><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">She/her</font></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Surname is Hedge Coke, no hyphen</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><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