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ASK 2015: Confronting Anti-Blackness

Help us make a big ASK difference! ASK 2015 Black Lives Matter Confronting Anti-Blackness Symposium.

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ASK 2015: Confronting Anti-Blackness

ASK 2015: Confronting Anti-Blackness

ASK 2015: Confronting Anti-Blackness

ASK 2015: Confronting Anti-Blackness

ASK 2015: Confronting Anti-Blackness

Help us make a big ASK difference! ASK 2015 Black Lives Matter Confronting Anti-Blackness Symposium.

Help us make a big ASK difference! ASK 2015 Black Lives Matter Confronting Anti-Blackness Symposium.

Help us make a big ASK difference! ASK 2015 Black Lives Matter Confronting Anti-Blackness Symposium.

Help us make a big ASK difference! ASK 2015 Black Lives Matter Confronting Anti-Blackness Symposium.

Lillian Rodriguez
Lillian Rodriguez
Lillian Rodriguez
Lillian Rodriguez
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Amherst, United States
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Please contribute to ASK 2015 to help fund the costs of the symposium and to support the organizations that are leading workshops during ASK.  These organizations are contributing significantly towards progress in the movement! 

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Since 2004, the Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center (CC) has spearheaded the organizing of the annual ASK for Social Justice program.  Through workshops, lectures, film screenings and more, ASK 2015 provides an intersectional racial justice lens, that aims to create a multitude of opportunities for participants to question, to challenge, and to confront the legacy of anti-Blackness that we have inherited and perpetuate. We implore you to consider the ways in which you may benefit directly or indirectly from anti-Blackness and/or White Supremacy and how you can contribute the resources necessary to dismantle it.  

Inspired by Ferguson’s uprising, ASK 2015 recognizes the national call to end anti-Black racism in the United States. We cannot sit comfortably while Black people are dying spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically. This is genocide. Thus, this year’s theme is “Black Lives Matter: Confronting Anti-Blackness.”  For the first time, ASK is holding a week-long symposium addressing anti-Blackness as a global phenomenon. At the center of our conference is the political and ideological intervention: Black Lives Matter, co-founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Using Black Lives Matter as a lens, we will understand how White Supremacy is reinforced through the policing of Black communities, racial profiling, state sanctioned violence, the school to prison pipeline, the Prison Industrial Complex, classism, sexism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia. ASK is urging participants to recognize and counteract the ways in which we contribute to anti-Blackness.

Confronting anti-Blackness is crucial when working towards social transformation and community accountability.  As hosts of the symposium, we recognize that Hampshire College is a private, predominantly white, liberal arts institution in Western Massachusetts. Like all institutions and communities, Hampshire College is included in the equation of the global White supremacist system. NO communities are immune; ALL communities must actively do the work to dismantle anti-Blackness.

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