Turning Point:
End of U. S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico?
How we got here and where we are going after the November 6, 2012 referendum
Thursday, June 13, 2013
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 5th Avenue, Rooms 9204/9205 (and 34th Street)
New York, NY
A conversation with:
■ Ismael Betancourt Jr., President and CEO Institute for Multicultural Communications Cooperation and Development, Inc. (IF-MC-CA-DI), NGO in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council
■ Edwin Meléndez is a Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and the Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies.
■ Antonio Nadal, Professor and Deputy Chairperson of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies and co-coordinator of the Caribbean Studies Program at Brooklyn College.
■ Olga Zanabria, Executive Secretary and Committee for Puerto Rico's representative at the United Nations, and Adjunct Professor of Puerto Rican Studies and History of the Dominican Republic, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Sponsors:
Human Rights Seminar, Ph.D./MA Program in Political Science, Graduate Center * The Center for International Human Rights John Jay College of Criminal Justice * Hostos Community College * Center for Puerto Rican Studies * Orlando Morales, Esq./President - Dr. Antonia Pantoja Fellowship, Inc. * Young Professionals, United Nations Association of America - A Program of the United Nations Foundation * Bronx Transformation Project Inc. * IF-MC-CA-DI
For further information
Ismael Betancourt, Jr.