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"Journeying with the Amistad"
March 2010 - Live United Nations Simulcasts
The College of Public and Community Service, along with Africana Studies, the Division of Corporate and Continuing Education, and UMass Boston’s Office of Student Affairs, is sponsoring an unfolding historic event involving the Amistad Schooner and the United Nations. It is part of a joint intercollegiate project that is called "Journeying with the Amistad." Many of you already may be familiar with the history of the Amistad Schooner, and its historical significance to the issue and dynamics of slavery and freedom in the Caribbean and the United States. For more background information, go to http://www.amistadamerica.org
The unfolding historical event is the return of the Amistad Schooner to Cuba in commemoration of the UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the 10th Anniversary of the launch of the re-make of the Amistad Schooner. UMass Boston faculty and students are on the Amistad Schooner as members of the Amistad crew, and are participating in this historical event (see attached article, where a UMass Boston student is quoted). At national and international levels, arrangements for this historic event involved many supportive, state and national figures, including, for example, Representative Delahunt, who facilitated discussions with the United Nations, the U. S. Government, and Cuba.
Please join us on campus for Live United Nations Simulcasts taking place from Cuba and the United Nations on March 25th and March 26th.