Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Events designed to promote unity, tolerance and understanding will encourage students to force hate out of their daily lives this week as part of the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center’s Hate Out Week.
The event, which was created in 2001, works to raise awareness about the effects of discrimination.
This year The Bandana Project, a national campaign, joined the usual list of events. The campaign works to educate students about the sexual harassment women face while harvesting crops on farms.
Today What: The Devil’s Highway: Stories from the Border and Beyond: Author Luis Alberto Urrea Who: Author Luis Alberto Urrea When: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union Urrea has written 11 books, including an account of 14 undocumented border crossers who died in the Arizona desert in 2001.
Thursday What: Unveiling of the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center Mural and art project When: 11:30 am at the MRC What: Asian American Student Union Speaker Who: Annie Guo, president of Asian Avenue magazine, a monthly magazine that features Asian American culture and lifestyle in the Denver area Where: Olympian room in the Burge Union at 7 p.m.
Friday What: National Day of Silence Vigil When: Time is TBA at the Campanile and information booth on Wescoe Beach from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturday What: 5K Walk/Run for Love146 to abolish child sex trafficking and slavery When: 2 p.m. at the Burge Union, Cost: $10 Regisration Fee (includes T-Shirt)
David Gonzalez, Inglewood, Calif., senior and outgoing president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, helped bring the Bandana Project to the University.
Participants in the project decorate bandanas to symbolize the bandanas women wear to avoid being harassed by their employers while they work in the fields, Gonzalez said.
“I thought it was a really important issue that we had to bring up here to the University and let the students know that there’s a bigger problem than the usual workplace harassment that women go through,” Gonzalez said.
Members of HALO and staff from the MRC decorated bandanas that will be on display all week in the MRC lobby, where students can learn about the project.
“We need to become aware of what is going on with our food and these women who are picking our food every day,” Gonzalez said.
Precious Porras, program associate of multicultural affairs, helped organize other Hate Out Week events such as a mural unveiling that promotes unity, and the Tunnel of Oppression, where students can feel the effects of discrimination and hate by walking through a multimedia experience.
“If you think you’ve never experienced discrimination, you should take a walk on the other side and see what people are going through and make a difference in your own life,” Porras said. “I think that it’s important for students to attend any Hate Out Week event because it gets really easy to forget that discrimination still exists in the world.”
Student decorated bandanas hang in the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center on Tuesday as part of Hate Out Week. The Bandana Project participants put up the bandanas. Hate Out Week includes events such as a Day of Silence to promote unity and tolerance.
At the end of the week, members of Queers and Allies will mark the National Day of Silence by spending a day without speaking. The event works to bring light to the hate that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people experience.
Kellen Bolt, Iola freshman and activities coordinator for Q&A, said that he participated in the Day of Silence during his senior year in high school, but that this would be his first time participating with a large group of people.
“It was hard the first time I did it and I messed up a lot, but it’s definitely worth it,” Bolt said. “It’s a very important day for LGBT, because it’s a way that we can bring more awareness to the prejudice and issues we face.”
— — Edited by Brandy Entsminger
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Event works to eliminate hate
day of silence.. this isn't so cool
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