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12/21 @ 8 p.m. Veterans for Peace Host 27th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Veterans for Peace will host its 27th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 21, at 8 P.M. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4225 N.W. 34th St. The event will feature music from Cherokee Peace Chant, Drums of Peace, A Choir of Heavenly Semi-Angels, John Chambers, Lauren Robinson and Marissa Vario, Quartermoon, […]

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11/6 “Native Americans at Alcatraz: The Untold Story”

At 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, November 6, come to meet Ruby A. Beaulieu and David Narcomey with the Florida American Indian Movement organization and see an excerpt from the PBS documentary, “Alcatraz is not an Island,” illustrating the Native American Occupation at Alcatraz Federal Prison during the late 1960s. This documentary examines the personal sacrifices, […]

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UF in Ethiopia 2014 – Archaeology and Heritage Study Abroad, Deadline 10/31

The UF Anthropology Department, Center for African Studies, and International Center (UFIC) offer students an opportunity to earn 14 credits in SP 2014 participating in ongoing excavations at Mochena Borago, a large rockshelter in the SW Ethiopian highlands containing deposits spanning the last 50-60,000 years, as well as other sites of contemporary age in the […]

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Noam Chomsky (Live and In Person!) at the Philips Center at UF, 8/15 at 8 p.m.

On Tuesday, October 15, Noam Chomsky will speak at the Curtis M. Phillips, M.D. Center for the Performing Arts for the twentieth founding anniversary of Gainesville’s Civic Media Center. Doors open at 7:15 p.m., speech at 8 p.m. The speech is free and open to the public, but advance tickets are required. Professor Emeritus of […]

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The Perennial Racial Divide: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back with Stephen Steinberg for 2013-2014 Civil Society Speaker Series, 8/15 at 5:30 p.m.

On October 15, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. in Smathers Library (East), 1A, Stephen Steinberg of Queens College, CUNY will present a lecture: “The Perennial Racial Divide: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back.” The event is presented by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere for its 2013-2014 speaker series: “Civil” Society? On the […]

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UF’s Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrates Proyecto Algarabía

Proyecto Algarabía is UF Hispanic Heritage Month’s official philanthropy cause for 2013! The Hispanic Heritage Month is a series of events through the month of October celebrating Hispanic Heritage at the University of Florida. HHM’s fundraising and philanthropy efforts are dedicated this year to Proyecto Algarabía, in an effort to empower the youth of Latin […]

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“Blue Revolution” ‘Gator’s Read’ Event at UF, Oct. 2

“Blue Revolution,” the newly released call for a water ethic by journalist and SPOHP alum Cynthia Barnett is this month’s “Gators Read” selection, an event sponsored by the UF Libraries. On October 2, students, staff and faculty members are welcome at a lunchtime book talk event with the author. Librarians have made reserve copies available at the […]

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CIW Farmworker Week, Sept. 18-22

Gainesville, FL–Slavery didn’t end with the Emancipation Proclamation. Farm workers were toiling in Alachua County fields just three years ago when a Haitian labor contractor allegedly held his crew in bondage.  Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice, UF Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, CHISPAS, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and Gators for Free the Slaves are […]

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Prayer by Faith Family Ministries Historical Marker Dedication, Sept. 22

Gainesville, FL–Fifty years have passed since the civil rights movement in Gainesville mobilized UF students and Gainesville women, children and African-American leaders. To celebrate one of the meeting places and rendezvous points for activists, a Florida State Historical Marker will be unveiled at the former Mt. Carmel Baptist Church on September 22nd, 2013 at 4:00 […]

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