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Calendar of Upcoming Events

September 4, 2008 - December 4, 2008
     SMU Amnesty International Weekly Meeting (every Thursday)
         
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
               Hughes-Trigg Student Center Commuter Lounge
For more information contact smuamnesty@gmail.com or 214/235-5351

September 4, 2008
     Art & Garbage
         
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
               on Bishop in Dallas between 7th & 8th (the alley between the Soda
               Gallery and Artisan's Collective)
Click here for more information on the project and how you can contribute artwork.

September 10, 2008
     Holocaust Lecture:
     Gerda Weissmann Klein:  One Survivor Remembers
         
7:00 pm
          Congregation Shearith Israel, 9401 Douglas Ave.
Free and open to the public.

September 12 - October 11, 2008
     The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh presented by Kitchen Dog Theater
Click here for more information.

September 13, 2008
     Tents of Hope, a live-art collaboration for Darfur
         
6:00 pm to 11:00 pm
          Space Gallery, 2814 Main Street, Dallas, Texas 75226
Click here for more information

September 18, 2008
    
Argentina: Photo Exhibit & An Evening of Reflection
         
Doolin Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts
               Photo Exhibit - All Day
               Reception  5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
               Reflections 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

September 18, 2008
     SMU Amnesty International Officer Elections
         
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
               Hughes-Trigg Commuter Lounge
For more information contact smuamnesty@gmail.com or 214/235-5351

September 19, 2008
    
Free "China Blue" Film Screening
         
7:30 pm - Movie, Discussion to follow with Dr. Rick Halperin,
              Director of SMU Human Rights Education Program and
              Marc Jacobson -- Texas Fair Trade Coalition Director
                   Hughes-Trigg Forum
Click here for more information.

September 24-28, 2008
    
The Overwhelming by J. T. Rogers
         
Margo Jones Theatre (SMU Campus)
          8:00 pm (Wed.-Sat.)
          2:00 pm (Sat.-Sun.)
Click here for more information.

October 1, 2008
     Special Preview Screening
           At the Death House Door:  No Man Should Die Alone
    
Angelika Film Center, 5321 Mockingbird Lane, 7:00 pm
     $10.00 (students $7.00)
For reservations or more information call 214-732-8610 or 214-768-3284
Sponsored by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty www.tcadp.org

October 2, 2008
    
At the Death House Door:  A Prison Chaplain's Reflections on the Death Penalty
         
7:00 pm
          Hughes-Trigg Student Center Forum
    More information forthcoming

October 12, 2008
     Benefit Concert for the Invisible Children
         
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
          North Lake College-Sons of Herman Hall in Dallas
          $5.00
Sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa from North Lake College

October 23, 2008
    
Symposium on the Effects of Global Violence on Women
         
7:00 pm
          Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom
Click here for more information.


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Human Rights Programming at
The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas


September 17, 7:00 p.m.
Postville: Immigrant Abuse Beyond America's Backroads
Stephen Bloom and Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas
Together for the first time, the two experts on the human rights abuses at the hands of both a meat packing plant and federal immigration officials in Postville, Iowa, will discuss ethics, justice and democracy.  Stephen Bloom, professor of journalism at the University of Iowa and author of Postville: A Clash of Cultures in the Heartland, and Cuban-born and Harvard-educated Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas, certified interpreter for United States courts, will discuss the human rights violations in a town hidden away from freeways in the hills of northeast Iowa.  Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas, associate professor of Latin American literature at Florida International University, served as an interpreter for the migrant workers following the largest Immigration, Customs and Enforcement raid in United States history.  His detailed account of the extensive ethical and legal violations which took place during the proceedings made international headlines.  Bloom’s book focuses on the fundamental changes confronting a small, predominately Lutheran, Iowa town after 150 Lubavitcher Jews settled there, bought the local slaughterhouse, and became the community’s new power brokers.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission:
Free

September 21
Robert Fisk
3:00 p.m.-Don't Trust the Press: Why Intelligence Sources Are Not Good Enough
7:00 p.m.-The Lessons of History: Why We Should Not Have Invaded Iraq
Described by the New York Times as “probably one of the most famous foreign correspondents of Britain,” he has had over thirty years of experience in international reporting in Belfast, Sarajevo, Beirut, and Baghdad.  His understanding of journalism is “that it must challenge authority – all authority – especially when governments and politicians take us to war.”  He is considered the world’s most decorated foreign correspondent, having received numerous awards including the British Press Award’s International Journalist of the Year seven times.  His publications include The Point of No Return: the Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster, In the Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War and The Great War for Civilization: the Conquest of the Middle East.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission:
Free

November 24, 7:00 p.m.
I
nside Africa: Three Hidden Wars
Paul Salopek
Paul Salopek, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent, will talk about the underreported conflicts, genocides, and human rights abuses in Africa.  He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on political strife and disease epidemics ravaging Africa, witnessed firsthand as he traveled, sometimes by canoe, through rebel-controlled regions of the Congo.  He also made headlines when he was kidnapped and held for 30 days in Darfur. He will discuss the three wars he has been covering in Africa:  Somalia, Darfur (Sudan) and Congo. Elias Bongmba, professor of religious studies at Rice University, will lead a question and answer session.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission:
Free

The Human Rights Series is funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc. and Lannan Foundation.