[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: UCR TALK: Embedded Elsewhere--Native and Women of Color Veterans Reframe Militarism, Occupation and War.

[Amanda J Labagnara]

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>UCR TALK:
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>Embedded Elsewhere--Native and Women of Color Veterans Reframe
>Militarism, Occupation and War.
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>Monday November 27th 2006
>3:00pm - 5:00pm
>HMNSS 1500
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>Co-sponsored by:
>Women's Studies
>Women in Coalition
>Ethnic Studies
>The Film and Visual Culture Program
>The English Department
>The Rhetoric Speaker Series
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>Contact: setsus at ucr.edu
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>Eli Painted Crow is a Native American woman from the Yaqui Nation who
>served in the US Army for 22 years (Sgt first class).  She is also the
>mother of two sons who served in the military and a grandmother of seven
>children. Eli's last "tour of duty" was in Iraq, where she
>engaged in various kinds of resistance inside the military. She has
>worked with
>Iraq Vets against the War and Code Pink. Eli currently lives in Merced
>CA
>and has traveled around the US speaking for Peace.
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>Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati is an ex-marine (Captain)of South
>Asian/Indian descent, who decided to join the Marines after graduating
>from Yale University. After five years in the Marines, Anuradha left to
>earn a Masters Degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. While
>a student at the Kennedy School, Anuradha was a founding member of the
>Palestine Awareness Committee and wrote her masters thesis on the
>effects of EU/Israeli trade on illegal settlement expansion in
>Palestine. She was also involved with counter-recruitment efforts at
>Harvard and participated in a national college tour to reverse the
>discriminatory Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. She now lives in her
>hometown of New York City, where she works as a writer.
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Maurya Simon

Professor
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521-0318

TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)

FAX: (951) 827-3619
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