Articles, summaries and speeches

Quotable: Alumni and Collaborators Share

Raymond Offenheiser: Resource rights and protections are fundamental (full talk)

Hannah Wittman: Food Sovereignty: New Challenges

Shailly Gupta Barnes: Global Unity Through the Struggle Against Poverty

Fidel Santana: Latin America Is Land of Resistance to All Forms of Oppression

Photographs from the celebration

Album I: Friday, September 25, 2015. By Rebecca Dearden.
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Album II: Saturday, September 26, 2015. By Rebecca Dearden.
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Album III: Saturday, September 26, 2015. By Scott Nolasco.
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Album IV: September 25-26, 2015. By Margee Rogers.
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News Coverage

United States-Latin American Committee Turns 50
The Cornell Daily Sun
by Kyle Oefelein
September 22, 2015

CUSLAR celebrates 50th anniversary
Cornell Chronicle
by Giorgi Tsintsadze
September 29, 2015

50th Anniversary Celebration Program

Friday, September 25

Celebration and panel with CUSLAR members and alumni

“Toward a New Internationalism”
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Refreshments served at 5:00 pm
Barnes Hall Auditorium, Room 301, Cornell University

On CUSLAR’s history and connection to Latin American social movements:

Mary Jo Dudley, Director, Cornell Farmworker Program; former CUSLAR Coordinator
Joel Gajardo, Ret. former CUSLAR Coordinator
Fidel Santana, Sociologist; President, Frente Amplio; Dominican Republic

On challenges and possibilities in the hemisphere in the coming decades:

Raymond Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America; CUSLAR member
Hannah Wittman, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia; former CUSLAR Coordinator
Shailly Barnes, Kairos Center

Saturday, September 26

9:30 – 10:30 am
Breakfast and informal reunion time for CUSLAR alumni and students
Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University

10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Panel: On the state of social movements in the Americas
with Shailly Barnes, Kairos Center; Fidel Santana, Frente Amplio
Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University

Afternoon and evening: informal gatherings with CUSLAR alumni and students.

Questions about accessibility and parking:
Contact Gabriela LeBaron, 512-565-8583.

If you’re coming in from out of town, we want to hear from you!
Please RSVP to cuslar@cornell.edu.