Social Justice Speaker Series-Thursday, April 4th – 2:00pm
the Social Justice Speaker Series continues this Thursday with Dawson Barrett, who will be presenting The Fight of Our Lives: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America (see the attached flyer).
Barrett’s writings on punk rock, youth activism, the 2011 Wisconsin labor crisis, and the history of US social movements have appeared in a various popular and scholarly pubs. He is an assistant professor of History at Del Mar College in Texas and the author of Teenage Rebels: Successful High School Activists from the Little Rock Nine to the Class of Tomorrow and The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America.
This event takes place in Niagara University’s Golisano Center Room 101, Thursday April 4, 2-3:30 PM. It is co-sponsored by the Social Justice House, NUEJAC, and the Department of Political Science.
And, a week from Thursday, also from 2-3:30, we are excited to have Frida Berrigan, who will be speaking on Hope and Resistance.