[News] Edge of Each Other's Battles event - April 8 - SF Women's Building

[Anti-Imperialist News]

The Edge of Each Other’s Battles Project presents

When the Public Defines Its Own Interests


A town hall meeting for social justice organizers, educators, and researchers

Saturday, April 8, 2006
6:00 – 9:30 pm

San Francisco Women’s Building
3543 18th Street (above Valencia)
San Francisco


This town hall style public event will begin with 
food and socializing. A panel representing 
community-based education & research projects 
will set the stage for audience discussion of 
strategies for collaboration between grassroots 
community-based projects and social justice 
academics. National and international educational 
researchers attending the annual meeting of the 
American Educational Research Association will be 
invited. The theme of the AERA conference is 
“Education Research in the Public Interest.”

Panel:
•       Amilcar Shabazz, Past Director of the 
Safehouse Historic Museum of Blackbelt Cultural 
and Civil Rights History, in Greensboro, Alabama
•       Maura Riordan, Executive Director of 
WORLD (HIV+ Women’s education & research organization)
•       Anita Rees, Associate Director of Low 
Income Families' Empowerment Through Education (LIFETIME)
•       Claude Marks, Co-Director of Freedom 
Archives (an intergenerational media production & education project)
•       Chair/facilitator, Norma Smith, The Edge 
of Each Other’s Battles Project


Light refreshments will be served
Sliding scale $5-$20
Wheel-chair accessible
Mission & 16th Street BART stop or #14 (Mission St) Muni Bus to 18th Street


For more information or to reserve a literature table for your organization:
(510) 465-2094 or nsmith at igc.org



Sponsored by The Edge of Each Other’s Battles 
Project, The Freedom Archives, the Critical 
Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class & Gender 
Special Interest Group and the Narrative & 
Research SIG of the American Educational Research 
Association and Critical Educators for Social Justice
The Edge of Each Other’s Battles Project 
functions under the fiscal sponsorship of The 
Agape Foundation/Fund for Nonviolent Social Change.

The Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 863-9977
www.freedomarchives.org 
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