Mohandas Gandhi once famously said, “The State represents violence in a
concentrated and organized form.”
Throughout history, violence has regularly been used by the State to achieve
political, economic and cultural dominance over people, including its own.
Giving context to recent events and movements, our incredible panel will
draw on their vast expertise and intimate experience to discuss the central place
of State-sanctioned violence in the story of the modern USA, as well as the often
untold stories of those who stand up to resist that violent oppression.
From 1492 to the Trail of Tears to the Homestead Strike to the Black Lives
Matter Movement, this is our history, and it needs to be told.

Panelists:
Chris Mato Nunpa, retired Associate Professor of Indigenous
Nations and Dakota Studies
Karin Aguilar-San Juan, co-editor, The People Make the Peace:
Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
Mel Reeves, Journalist
Ricardo Levins Morales, Artist

Solidarity is a term that’s being tossed around a lot lately, and for good reason. It’s a powerful word, one which conjures up images of the Berlin Wall collapsing, the Civil Rights movement and the labor movements of the turn of 20th century. “Solidarity” is even ensconced as one of the Fundamental Rights of the […]

Solidarity is a term that’s being tossed around a lot lately, and for good reason. It’s a powerful word, one which conjures up images of the Berlin Wall collapsing, the Civil Rights movement and the labor movements of the turn of 20th century. “Solidarity” is even ensconced as one of the Fundamental Rights of the […]

Solidarity is a term that’s being tossed around a lot lately, and for good reason. It’s a powerful word, one which conjures up images of the Berlin Wall collapsing, the Civil Rights movement and the labor movements of the turn of 20th century. “Solidarity” is even ensconced as one of the Fundamental Rights of the […]

Solidarity is a term that’s being tossed around a lot lately, and for good reason. It’s a powerful word, one which conjures up images of the Berlin Wall collapsing, the Civil Rights movement and the labor movements of the turn of 20th century. “Solidarity” is even ensconced as one of the Fundamental Rights of the […]

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Anne Winkler-Morey, Metropolitan State University scholar-activist, collected stories during a 14 month bicycle trip around the perimeter of the United States. In 2011-2012, she pedaled more than 12,000 miles interviewing people in diverse communities across the county. She is now writing a book about what she learned. Come hear her stories and her observations, and […]

Anne Winkler-Morey, Metropolitan State University scholar-activist, collected stories during a 14 month bicycle trip around the perimeter of the United States. In 2011-2012, she pedaled more than 12,000 miles interviewing people in diverse communities across the county. She is now writing a book about what she learned. Come hear her stories and her observations, and […]