Abstract Collaboration with the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity Suggested donation $10One of Mexico’s best-known poets, Javier Sicilia, laid down his pen last year after his 24-year-old son was murdered by drug traffickers in Cuernavaca, Mexico. In his son’s memory, Sicilia created the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity to urge an end to the drug violence — violence that has left an estimated 60,000 dead, 10,000 disappeared, and more than 160,000 Mexicans displaced...

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Seminar in association with the Rothko Chapel invited Jennifer Casolo to speak on the importance of inclusiveness and justice in Central America. Attendance: 175.

Abstract This summer, the Rothko Chapel continues its exploration of the key issues facing people living on the U.S.-Mexico border by presenting Cipriana Jurado Herrera, a Mexican human rights activist who was recently awarded political asylum in the United States. Cipriana Jurado has been an activist in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, for over twenty years, since she arrived in the city at age 14 to work in the maquiladoras to help support her family. It was then that she first...

Abstract Juárez: A Killing Field Series “City of Death; City of Hope” Dr. Cecilia Ballí, JournalistThere have been thousands of murders in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and nearby cities, and an escalation in the violence over the past three years. Issues facing commnities along the U.S.-Mexico border include the presence of drug cartels and their business infrastructure, the increasing presence of U.S. security and law enforcement, and the migration of people fleeing the violence. This series...

Abstract Discussion Ana Paula Hernández and Juliet Hooker, Ph.D., moderated by Suzanne Benally Presented in partnership with the Rapoport Center at UT School of Law Event in English; simultaneous Spanish interpretation available.What are indigenous human rights, and why do they matter? More specifically, what’s the status of indigenous rights in Honduras? Join the discussion on this timely and pressing issue.Ana Paula Hernández is a program officer for Latin America at the...

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Jimmy Carter Holdings include videos of a question and answer session with Jimmy Carter (topics include corporal punishment in schools, equal opportunity quotas in higher education, energy conservation, disparities between rich and poor nations, Nicaragua human rights, civil disobedience when God's law contradicts government's law, Iran, immigration, third world debt)

Abstract The Rothko Chapel and Houston Immigration Legal Services partnered to hold a thoughtful, non-partisan community gathering to educate the Houston community on why families are fleeing central America, the resulting separation of families when they arrive to the U.S border, and the issues around family detention and the criminalization of refugees. Program attendees heard first-hand accounts of what is occurring on the border and in Houston area immigration detention centers and learned about...

Abstract International Day of Peace, Film Screening and Discussion, led by Christopher Loperana, Ph.D Film Screening and Discussion Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley Christopher Loperena, Ph.D. Film in Spanish with English subtitles. QandA in English and Spanish; simultaneous Spanish and English interpretation available.Explore the current economic and political situation in Honduras in the aftermath of the 2009 coup, the continued disenfranchisement of poor peasant farmers, and...

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Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.

Abstract “Little Central America, 1984”: A Sanctuary Then, and Now Presented in partnership with DiverseWorks Pay What You Can $5-20 | In-person event with chair seatingIn advance of the Houston premiere of “Little Central America, 1984,” a performance that reanimates the history of the Sanctuary Movement that offered safe space to refugees fleeing Central American civil wars of the 1980s, performer-writers Elia Arce and Rubén Martínez offer a conversation about the role of art in...