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Starving the Beast
MCC Theater
Starving the Beast tells the story of a potent one-two punch roiling public higher education right now: 35 years of systematic defunding and a well financed market oriented reform effort. It’s the story of a little known and misunderstood ideological fight, the outcome of which will change the future of public higher education.
The film reveals an historic philosophical shift that reframes public higher education as a ‘value proposition’ to be borne by the student as a consumer, rather than an investment in citizens as a ‘public good’. Financial winners and losers emerge in a struggle poised to profoundly change public higher education.
The film vividly illustrates these issues in unfolding dramas at six public research universities: University of Wisconsin, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Louisiana State University, University of Texas, and Texas A&M. (English, 2016, 95 min)
Watch trailer: http://www.starvingthebeast.net/trailer/
Resilient Love in a Time of Hate Series
Black Liberation: The Rose that Grew from Concrete (Alicia Garza)
Campbell Hall
Social justice activist, organizer, and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, Alicia Garza shares her unflinching call-to-action against discrimination in the U.S. while galvanizing individuals to fight for freedom and justice for all Black lives. Alongside Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, Garza helped transform what was once a viral hashtag and social media force into a grassroots national organization and a global human rights movement. Currently the special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Garza has dedicated her life and career to fighting for equality and justice for all.
Presented by the Black Student Engagement Program and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
Co-sponsored by Finance and Business Committee, Queer Commission, Isla Vista Community Relations Committee, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Education Opportunity Program, Office of Student Life, Department of Feminist Studies, and the Center for Black Studies Research.
Social Justice Workshop
#BlackGirlHistory: Reading Race, Gender, and Punishment in the Historical Record
MCC Lounge
Sarah Haley, Assistant Professor of Gender and African American Studies at UCLA, will lead students through late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century primary documents to open a conversation on how the processes of gender, race, and class shape archives. Walking the participants through a sample of the documents interrogated in her new book No Mercy Here, Haley will guide them in how to read resistances to racial capitalism and patriarchy that imprisoned black women faced under local, county, and state convict labor systems in the wake of slavery’s abolition.
Register online: bit.ly/mcc-blackgirlhistory
An Evening of Azerbaijan Folk and Classical Music: Azeri Band
MCC Theater
With countless successful concerts, more than 15 albums in 15 years, and a group of highly talented musicians, it is an honor to present Rahim (garmon & vocals), Armen (piano), Leva (keyboard), Garnik (clarinet), and Gaik (Nagara) as they play the beautiful tunes of Azerbaijan live! Azeri music is a harmonious folk tradition that reaches back to nearly 1,000 years. Come and be dazzled by a performance that will always remain in your heart.
*Purchase tickets online: $5 for UCSB students and youth under 12; $15 for general admission.
