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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop with Maya Sanders: Plastic Sucks
DESCRIPTION:Learn why plastic is bad for the environment and our health. We will discuss and brainstorm ways to reduce plastic in our everyday lives. Includes fun eco-friendly craft!  \n\n\n\nMaya Sanders is an Undergraduate Sustainability Studies major at RPI. She has a passion for grassroots science\, ecology and environmental science education. Maya was an Uptown Summer mentor with the Sanctuary this Summer\, and this Fall she continues her work here\, as an intern\, serving the role of the Sanctuary’s “Community Network Coordinator and Science Educator\,” as well as conducting an ethnographic study on the Sanctuary.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-with-maya-sanders-plastic-sucks-2/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop with Heather Dewey-Hagborg: Who Do You Think You Are- DNA Ancestry and Biosurveillance
DESCRIPTION:How much can you learn about a stranger from a stray cigarette butt? Our DNA can reveal stories about us—including our ancestry\, disease risks\, physical characteristics\, and predispositions. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThese stories pass from parent to child hidden within our cells. Today\, millions of people have explored their DNA to uncover these stories using direct-to-consumer sequencing services. In the process\, new questions about ancestry and the predictive power of the genome have arisen.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nWhat does (and doesn’t) your DNA reveal? How are emerging genetic technologies reinforcing age old stereotypes and what can we do to subvert them? \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn this workshop we will take a tour of DIY biotech including DNA extraction\, phenotyping\, and concoction of our own genetic obfuscation spray. We will explore the present and future of biological surveillance and discuss what you can do to resist it. Funded by NEA BioArt Futures… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair\, cigarette butts\, chewed up gum) collected in public places. Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum\, the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale\, the Van Abbemuseum\, Transmediale and PS1 MOMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, and the New York Historical Society\, and has been widely discussed in the media\, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired. Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is an artist fellow at AI Now\, and an affiliate of Data & Society. She is also a co-founder and co-curator of REFRESH\, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of Art\, Science\, and Technology.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-with-heather-dewey-hagborg-who-do-you-think-you-are-dna-ancestry-and-biosurveillance/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Author Ronald Kitchen Presents "My Midnight Years"
DESCRIPTION:My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row tells the story of Ronald Kitchen’s 21 years in prison–including more than a decade on death row–and\, finally\, exoneration. Join author and activist Ronald Kitchen with author/professor/historian Thai Jones\, in a discussion of My Midnight Years. In conversation with Alice Green\, Executive Director\, Center for Law and Justice. Co-sponsored by: Justice for Dahmeek\, Urban Grief\, Amnesty International…. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1988\, Ronald Kitchen was tortured by Chicago Police detectives into confessing to a murder he did not commit. After 21 years in prison and more than a decade on death row\, he was finally exonerated. In My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row\, Kitchen and co-authors Thai Jones and Logan M. McBride tell his story. Check out the New Yorker story\, “How Chicago’s Public Schools Are Teaching the History of Police Torture\,” by Thai Jones\, September 27\, 2018. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRONALD KITCHEN BIO \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRonald Kitchen was walking to buy cookies for his young son on a summer evening in 1988 when Chicago detectives picked him up for questioning. As the officers’ car headed toward the precinct\, the twenty-two-year-old called out the window to his family\, “I’ll be back in forty-five minutes.” It took him twenty-one years to make it home. \n\n\n\nKitchen was beaten and tortured by Chicago’s notorious police commander Jon Burge\, and his cronies\, until finally confessing to a gruesome quintuple homicide he did not commit. Convicted of murder and sentenced to die\, he spent the next two decades in prison—including a dozen years on death row—before at last winning his release and exoneration. Ronald Kitchen’s ordeal was not his alone. He was only one of scores of victims of Jon Burge and his notorious Midnight Crew\, a group of rogue Chicago police detectives who spent decades terrorizing\, brutalizing\, and incarcerating men—more than 120 have come forward so far—in Chicago’s African American communities. \n\n\n\nDuring his years in jail\, Kitchen co-founded the Death Row 10 from his maximum security cellblock. Together\, these men fought to expose the grave injustices that led to their wrongful convictions. The Death Row 10 appeared on 60 Minutes\, Nightline\, Oprah\, and Geraldo Rivera and\, with the help of lawyers and activists\, were instrumental in turning the tide against the death penalty in Illinois. Kitchen was finally exonerated in 2009 and won a high-profile lawsuit against the city of Chicago. My Midnight Years is the first book to be published about the Jon Burge scandal. \n\n\n\nTHAI JONES BIOThai Jones is a lecturer in history at Columbia University\, whose work examines radical social movements and political organizing. He is the author of two previous books his writings have appeared in a variety of national publications\, ranging from the New Yorker and the New York Times to The Nation and the Occupied Wall Street Journal.  \n\n\n\nALICE GREEN BIO \n\n\n\nDr. Alice Green is the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice\, a civil rights organization she founded in 1985. She has a doctorate in criminal justice and advanced degrees in education\, social work\, and criminology. \n\n\n\nIn 1985\, Governor Mario Cuomo appointed Dr. Green to membership on the Citizens Policy and Complaint Review Council of the New York State Commission of Corrections. A year later\, with Senate approval\, he appointed her to the position of Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives. She was put in charge of strategic planning\, policy\, and information. After leaving state service\, she became Legislative Director for the New York Civil Liberties Union where she had served as Director of their Albany Office in 1982. \n\n\n\nAlice Green\, an adjunct professor at the University at Albany\, has also taught at Russell Sage and Siena College. She began her career as a secondary school teacher and social worker. For many years\, she directed Trinity Institution\, a youth and family services center in Albany’s South End.While there\, she also did community organizing and founded the South End Scene\, one of the longest published Black newspapers in Albany.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/author-ronald-kitchen-presents-my-midnight-years/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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