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Events for September 2010
Wednesday Sep 8, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Jordan Flaherty presents Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
Jordan Flaherty—editor at essential radical magazine Left Turn, and award winning independent journalist who broke the story of the Jena Six—presents his brand new book Floodlines, a firsthand account of community, culture, and resistance in New Orleans. The book weaves the stories of gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, Arab and Latino immigrants, public housing residents, and grassroots activists in the years before and after Katrina. From post-Katrina evacuee camps to torture testimony at Angola Prison to organizing with the family members of the Jena Six, Floodlines tells the stories behind the headlines from an unforgettable time and place in history.
Jordan will also be joined by Manju Rajendran, an amazing community organizer and artist from North Carolina. She is one of many founding members of Ubuntu, a women-of-color and survivor-led organization ending sexual assault and creating transformative love in Durham, NC. Manju is a long-time member and former worker of Southerners On New Ground (SONG), connecting race, class, gender, and sexuality, and she volunteers as a copy editor and occasional writer for Left Turn magazine. On tour, Manju will be telling the story of Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe, her family’s restaurant experiment in creative resiliency and food justice.
Thursday Sep 9, 7PM @ 2640 : The Network of Concerned Anthropologists presents The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual
As the war in Afghanistan drones on, and the armed occupation of Iraq morphs into a more politically palatable "soft occupation" relying on private mercenaries and various forms of diplomatic and economic control, one can only expect an increase in the demand for imperial anthropologists, willing to deploy their professional training in the service of American geopolitical hegemony.
With the release in 2006 of the new Counterinsurgency Field Manual (as a joint U.S. Army/U.S. Marines publication), it became painfully apparent that upper echelons of the American military were deeply interested in finding ways to harness anthropological expertise as a part of their apparatus of strategic control. The strategy outlined in the Manual was put into practice with the launch of the controversial "Human Terrain System" teams, in which anthropologists are "embedded" within the combat structure of the U.S. military, but it has also appeared in more diffuse forms, as seen in the recent revelations about the role of the US military in funding and directing research into the human geography of Oaxaca's insurgent indigenous population.
The Network of Concerned Anthropologists, which believes that such practices are not only ineffective and dangerous, but a serious breach of the ethical constraints to which an academic discipline in the social sciences must subscribe, has been one of the most important critical voices in the struggle to "unembed" anthropology, and we're exceptionally excited to welcome NCA members David Price, Hugh Gusterson, Andrew Bickford, and David Vine for a discussion of their collectively authored book The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society. Reception to follow.
Sunday Sep 19, 4PM @ Red Emma's : Tunnel People: An afternoon with Teun Voeten
At the end of the millennium, thousands of homeless people roamed the streets of Manhattan. A small group of them went underground. Invisible to society, they managed to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city. Join us as we welcome acclaimed war photographer and cultural anthropologist Teun Voeten for a discussion of his book Tunnel People, recently re-released by PM Press. For five months in 1994 and 1995, Voeten lived, slept and worked in the tunnel. He introduces us to Vietnam veterans, macrobiotic hippies, crack addicts, Cuban refugees, convicted killers, computer programmers, philosophical recluses and criminal runaways. He describes their daily work, problems and pleasures with humor and compassion. He also played witness the end of tunnel life: the tunnel people were evicted in 1996, but Amtrak and homeless organizations offered them alternative housing. A very special Sunday afternoon event at Red Emma's!
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