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In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), an affluent writer, chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Sergio is pessimistic about the revolution's promise to bring sweeping change to his country, and he squanders his days prowling the streets of Havana looking for female companionship. Trouble erupts when his fling with chaste Elena (Daysi Granados) nearly ruins him after her family accuses Sergio of rape.

2021 > Denmark > Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
With Daniel Karimyar, Farhan Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh
Amin arrived in Copenhagen as a teenage refugee from Afghanistan under the Taliban. Now, 20 years later, he relates his story to director Rasumussen as he struggles with secrets from his past on the brink of marrying his boyfriend, in a stunning animated documentary which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. The film has been shortlisted for both Best International Feature and Best Documentary Feature Oscars. Subtitled. More at www.fleemovie.com
1 hr 30 min

The Israeli Black Panthers, founded in 1971, was one of the first movements in Israel fighting for social justice for Jews from Arab and Muslim countries (also known as Mizrahi Jews). On March 22 co-founder and former leader of the Israeli Black Panthers, Reuven Abergel, will give a talk entitled "Darkness in the Holy Land: The Israeli Black Panthers’ Struggle for Human Rights and Against Racism," at 5 p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall G76.

The talk will be in Hebrew with English translation provided by Itamar Haritan, a Cornell University graduate student in anthropology and Jewish Studies who has worked with Abergel for many years. In-person attendance is open to current Cornell employees and students. The public is invited to attend virtually via Zoom.

“Though the Black Panthers were one of the largest and most significant social and political justice movements in Israel’s history, few outside the country have heard about their struggle,” said Haritan. “Abergel’s is a unique and vital perspective from the heart of the ongoing human rights struggle of Jewish and Arab activists in the country, reflecting the perspective of Jews whose language and culture were vilified as the ‘language of the enemy.’”

In his lecture, Abergel will discuss the treatment of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries in Israel by referring to a new translation, published by Jewish Currents Press, of one of the most innovative and important documents produced by the Israeli Black Panthers, according to Jewish Studies Director Deborah Starr: “The Israeli Black Panthers’ Haggadah.”

Written by Abergel and other Black Panthers in 1971, the Black Panthers’ Haggadah uses the original Haggadah text, which recounts the Exodus story and the Israelites’ struggle to go from slavery to freedom, to express their views about the Israeli government’s racism towards and discrimination against Mizrahi Jews. Since 2015, Abergel has spearheaded an initiative to publish a new translation of the Haggadah, complete with original articles and footnotes placing the Black Panther movement in historical and political context. Itamar Haritan has worked closely with Abergel since 2017 to translate the Haggadah into English.

Abergel, a Moroccan-Jew, has been a social and human rights activist in Israel for over 50 years. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1943, Abergel and his family arrived in Israel in 1950. Like hundreds of thousands of other Mizrahi Jews who left Arab countries for Israel after 1948, his life, according to Haritan, was indelibly shaped by the Israeli government’s discriminatory policies against Mizrahi Jews. Because of his activism, Abergel had his citizenship revoked by the Israeli government from 1971-1997.

This event is sponsored by Cornell University's Jewish Studies Program, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Migrations Initiative, Africana Studies & Research Center, Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies and with generous support of the Hope and Eli Hurowitz Fund.

Campus visitors and members of the public must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events.

A recent article featuring Reuven Abergel: 'Our ideology is our pain': Notes of an Israeli Black Panther (972mag.com)

Photo credit: used with the permission of photographer Mati Milstein

In this webcast, you’ll discover how Cornell University and its partners have helped Afghans at risk, what remains to be done, and how you can help. Advocates and immigration policy experts from No One Left Behind, Human Rights First, and the Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative will discuss how they’re working to ensure the rights and safety of Afghans fleeing persecution under the Taliban.

Speakers include Joel Kelsey, chief of staff to U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal; Chis Purdy, director of Veterans for American Ideals and Outreach at Human Rights First; Nell Cady-Kruse from the Evacuate Our Allies Coalition; Camille Mackler, executive director of Immigrant ARC; and Katie Rahmlow, a Cornell law student who has worked on several Afghan cases.

This event is sponsored by the Migrations initiative and Cornell Law School.

This is the second day of a two-day virtual workshop on peacebuilding, climate change, and migration. The first day of the workshop is March 22, 2022; participants are welcome to attend for just one or both days.

On this second day, we will examine understudied regions which are at substantial risk of climate change impacts, including Latin America, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. What resources, methods, and approaches can help us better understand the relationship between peacebuilding, climate change, and migration in these understudied regions? How can we achieve environmental justice in these areas?

The first day of the workshop is March 22, 2022.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Introductory reflection
Karim-Aly Kassam
International Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment & the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University

Dr. George Wilkes
Director, Religion and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace Project
Research Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Presenters
Alpa Shah
Professor, Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Jonathan Padwe
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Fábio Zuker
Journalist, Anthropologist, and Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund Grantee

This workshop is being organized by Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, with support from the Migrations Initiative, and co-sponsorship from the Institute for African Development, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the South Asia Program, the Southeast Asia Program, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

This is the first day of a two-day virtual workshop which takes a novel approach to peacebuilding, climate change and migration. The first day of the workshop is March 22, 2022; participants are welcome to attend for just one or both days.

On this first day we will explore the following questions: What do we know about the relationship between peacebuilding, migration, and climate change? How can we develop a socio-environmental conception of positive peace, which entails developing means of peacefully resolving conflict, and which centers Indigenous perspectives and environmental justice?

The second day is March 24, 2022

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Introduction
Rebecca Slayton, Director, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University
Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies

Rachel Beatty Riedl, Director and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University

Presenters
Marieme Lo, Director, African Studies Program
Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto.

Päivi Lujala, Professor of Geography and Academy of Finland Research Fellow
Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland

Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah, Dean and Professor of Environmental Science, University of Kabul, Afghanistan
Visiting Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment & the South Asia Program, Cornell University

This workshop is being organized by Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, with support from the Migrations Initiative, and co-sponsorship from the Institute for African Development, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the South Asia Program, the Southeast Asia Program, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Against a US backdrop of an agricultural ‘labor shortage’, available data by the Office for Foreign Labor Certification shows that the number of received applications increased between 2019 and 2020 by 8% from 13,081 to 14,131 which translates into an increase from 257,667 to 275,430 certified positions. Despite growers, farmers and contractors’ increasing reliance on agricultural temporary foreign workers, the paper makes the argument for the abandonment of the H-2A program. Such a bold move is necessary to address the ‘recognition gap’ experienced by farmworkers generally speaking which is supported by a range of processes such as ‘legal liminality’ as well as ‘structural violence’ and to rethink the value of agricultural work more generally and the human costs it entails.

Johanna K. Schenner is a visiting fellow at the Industrial Labor Relations School. Her previous work has appeared in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Global Policy and The Political Quarterly.

Matthew Fischer-Daly is a scholar of employment relations, inequities in society, and strategies to mitigate them. Experiences growing up in metropolitan Detroit and advocating for labor rights in multiple countries motivate his interest in inequities in the distribution of resources in the modern international economy and strategies for mitigating them. His international and comparative research focuses on labor standards, global commodity chains, agriculture and food systems, and divisions of labor across gender, race, and national states. In the classroom, his teaching aims to empower students with the theoretical and methodological tools to critically analyze social relations.

Mariteuw Chimère Diaw is an associate and Deputy Director General of the Consortium D’Entreprises in Senegal, and a member of the Multistakeholder Expert Panel of IPBES, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosytem Services. He was until recently the Director General of the African Model Forest Network (AMFN) and a member of the Board of EcoAgricultural Partners and of the International Networking Committee of the International Model Forest Network (IMFN). He holds a PhD in Economic anthropology from Laval University, an MA in Rural Sociology from Michigan State University and a Master in Philosophy and Sociology from the University of Dakar. He has worked 40 years as a researcher and international scientist with the CGIAR and other organisations and has led or contributed to several international programs on Adaptive Collaborative Management, Governance, Verification, Environmental Services and Rural Livelihoods, Alternative to Slash and Burn, Environmental Decentralizations and Criteria and Indicators of sustainable forest management. He was the convener in Cameroon of the Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG), a network active in 11 countries. His research interests and publications include African history, migrations, and modeling of the share system in fisheries; tenure regimes and property rights, climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity governance and multistakeholder landscapes, Model Forests, participatory action research and interactive social methodologies. Chimère has lived and worked in the Congo Basin, West Africa, Southeast Asia, and North America.

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