Panel: Plan Mexico: Impunity, the ‘Drug War’ and Human Rights in Mexico February 22nd, 2008 7:05 pm CUNY Grad Center: Martin E. Segal Theatre. - video by Amy Wolf and Brandon Jourdan. Moderated by Jason Grote with Harry Bubbins, Laura Carlsen, Hector Sánchez Laura Carlsen is director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy www.americaspolicy.org She has worked as a foreign policy analyst and journalist in Mexico for two decades and is co-editor of Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular resistance in Mexico. Jason Grote is a playwright. His plays include 1001, Box Americana, This Storm is What We Call Progress, Hamilton Township, and Maria/Stuart. Visit him at jasongrote.com. Hector Sánchez is the Policy Education Coordinator for Global Exchange's Mexico Program. He represents the program in Washington, D.C., where he coordinates efforts to inform and organize legislators and key organizations in support of new priorities on trade and immigration. Harry J. Bubbins was a friend and colleague of Brad Will and has been involved in the movement to achieve accountability for his murder. http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/mexico/ THE GRADUATE CENTER THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK DREAMING THE AMERICAS / THE BODY POLITIC IN PERFORMANCE NoPassport presents a one-day conference with the support of The Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, Translation Think Tank, and in collaboration with Frank Hentschker and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. Initiated by Caridad Svich www.caridadsvich.com/NoPassport The conference will focus on a wide range of contemporary works for theatre and performance, viewing the body politic from a variety of formal perspectives. Topics that will be addressed in panels and special presentations include: the myriad articulations of political theatre, the face of theatre and social justice, mending democracy through theatre, dramaturgy affected by new technologies, performing the borderlands in and outside the US, intercultural negotiations in acts of translation, reconfiguring the classics, history, memory and transculturation in new writing. There will also be a book launch event for the release of three volumes from NoPassport Press. NoPassport was founded by playwright Caridad Svich as a Pan-American theatre alliance & press devoted to action, advocacy, and change toward the fostering of cross-cultural diversity and difference in the arts with an emphasis on the embrace of the hemispheric spirit in US Latina/o and Latin-American theatre-making. Special thanks are given to The Segal Center for facilitating book sales at this event, Robert Jereski for help with coordination of the Plan Mexico panel, and the NoPe Conference Steering Committee: Daniel Banks, Daniel Brunet, Rafael Gallegos, Lanna Joffrey and Christina Marin. Note: Preliminary Schedule–Program is subject to radical change. For detailed information and final schedule please check our website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc Friday, Feb. 22nd, 07 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Martin E. Segal Theatre Free. Suggested NoPassport donation at the door: $5. Reservations not required. Seats: First come, first served. Call 1.212.817.8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu. Less