Event Title
The Common Cause Is Freedom: The Personal Politics of Solidarity Organizing
Location
Hillyer Room, Bird Library
Start Date
19-10-2011 4:00 PM
End Date
19-10-2011 5:30 PM
Description
Join writer-activist Amy Sonnie ('98) for a discussion about "common cause" politics, and the role of coalitions in visionary social change. Drawing inspiration from the solidarity organizing of five little-known community groups from the 1960s-70s, Amy will share historical lessons of racial, economic and gender justice activism and discuss her own organizing for LGBTQ rights, antiracism, juvenile justice and media democracy over the last 15 years.
The Common Cause Is Freedom: The Personal Politics of Solidarity Organizing
Hillyer Room, Bird Library
Join writer-activist Amy Sonnie ('98) for a discussion about "common cause" politics, and the role of coalitions in visionary social change. Drawing inspiration from the solidarity organizing of five little-known community groups from the 1960s-70s, Amy will share historical lessons of racial, economic and gender justice activism and discuss her own organizing for LGBTQ rights, antiracism, juvenile justice and media democracy over the last 15 years.
Comments
Amy Sonnie graduated with degrees in Women's Studies and Journalism from Syracuse University in 1998, and a Master's in Library/Information Science from San Jose State in 2007. She is co-founder and former associate director of the Center for Media Justice. She is editor of the acclaimed LGBTQ youth anthology Revolutionary Voices (Alyson Books, 2000), which was developed as her honor's thesis while attending SU and has since been banned by several schools and libraries. Her most recent book, Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power (Melville House, 2011) documents the lesser-known antiracist activism of working-class white communities during the 1960s-70s. She is a librarian and writer living in California.