Week of Events
Staged Reading of Ida Fink’s “The Table”
Staged Reading of Ida Fink’s “The Table”
directed by WILLIAM SMITHERS In Ida Fink's "The Table," four witnesses testify to mass murder in a small Polish-Jewish town during World War II. But does their testimony matter in a court of law? Cast: Prosecutor: William Smithers First Man: George Backman First Woman: Dianne Hull Second Man: Ed Giron Second Woman: Danielle Aubuchon Ida […]
CCWS Film Series Presents “Good Bye Lenin!”
CCWS Film Series Presents “Good Bye Lenin!”
This German film directed by Wolfgang Becker comically portrays the collapse of communism. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, Alex's (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother Christiane (Katrin Sass), remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the […]
Anti-Poverty Policy in the Obama Administration
Anti-Poverty Policy in the Obama Administration
Peter B. Edelman is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and co-chair of the Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress. In a career devoted to social thought, social justice, and public policy, Professor Edelman has written extensively on poverty, constitutional law, and children and youth. He is the author […]
The AFL-CIA’s Cold War in Honduras– And How Hondurans Felt About It
The AFL-CIA’s Cold War in Honduras– And How Hondurans Felt About It
Professor Dana Frank is Co-Director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. Her books include Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2008), Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (2000), and Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (1994). Workshop participants are invited to read Dana Frank's […]