Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez:
Ally or Die: Is Another World Really Possible?
7 pm on Wednesday, May 3
Northwestern University, Fisk Hall rm 217
1845 Sheridan Rd, Evanston

Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez has a lot to teach us. She has committed her life to struggle for liberation and social justice — for longer than most people have been alive, she has been active in movements against war, racism, sexism and other forms oppression.

She is the author of many books, including 500 Years of Chicano History and De Colores Means All Of Us: Latina Views of a Multi-Colored Century. In the 1960’s, she was a full-time staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dedicating her time to the Civil Rights Movement. She then moved the New Mexico and was active in the Chicano/a movements, organizing, teaching, and writing. She was active in the anti-Vietnam war movement and the women’s movement as well, but she never stopped reflecting on the movements themselves. She critiqued the whiteness of the women’s movement and the sexism of the Chicano movement and argued for allied movements that challenged all oppressions. More recently, she founded the Institute for MultiRacial Justice in San Francisco and although she is over 80 years old, she is still active in movements against oppression, including movements against the war, neoliberal globalization, and systemic racism here in the United States.

On Wednesday, May 3rd, come hear Betita speak at Northwestern University about the possibilities of truly diverse and allied social movements collectively working to combat oppressions in our society and within movements themselves. The event is at 7 pm in Fisk Hall room 217, 1945 Sheridan Road, Evanston.

To read more by or about Betita, check out:

www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story3_1_02.html
www.colours.mahost.org/articles/martinez3.html
www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php
colours.mahost.org/articles/crass3.html
www.educationforthepeople.org/martinez_Biography.htm

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Sponsored by Northwestern student group Peace Project.

Funded by the Northwestern University Student Activities Fee (SAF), Latin American Studies Department, African American Studies Department, and the Student Democracy Project at the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.

Also cosponsored by ALIANZA, Rainbow Alliance, College Feminists, English Department, History Department, North Shore Antiwar Coalition, and more.