ENDdependence poets add a 5th performance to their East Coast trip. The ENDdependence collective will perform at Columbia University in New York City on Friday April 18th, along with UMASS, Southern Connecticut State, Cornell University, and the historic Taller PuertoRiqueño in Philadelphia, PA.

Columbia University
Friday, April 18th, 2003 8:00p.m.
C155 Lerner Hall located on 115th Street/Broadway
Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race,
Contact Person: Mario B. Lugay- [email protected]

Also added
Reception for the poets by Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Friday, April 18th, 2003 6:00p.m.
Intercultural Resource Center (IRC), hosted by Professor Gary Okihiro
552 West 114th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue

Contact Info:
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.brownpride.com/END-Dependence/
West Coast: 510-883-9873 510-388-3587
East Coast: 413-545-2972,203-392-5112,607-253-8620,914.419.0069

END-Dependence Spoken Word Tour
Historically borderlines, conflicts, and divide and conquer tactics have kept people of color apart. We unite in cross-cultural solidarity to share our struggles, voices and our will, across borderlines, tongues and forms of speech.

Come witness the 2nd ever END-Dependence Spoken Word Tour. 2nd Annual Tour visits the East Coast after 11-city West-Coast Tour!

4 states, 5 shows, in 4 days - Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania

((( SPEaK)))  ((( SPEaK))) ((( SPEaK))) ((( SPEaK))) ((( SPEaK))) ((( SPEaK))) ((( SPEaK)))
       SPEaK, Students Promoting Empowerment and Knowledge, has been speaking truth to power since 1998. Founded by folks with roots in the 1996 hunger strike and struggle that brought Latino Studies and Asian American Studies programs to Columbia, SPEaK believes that as students, we should be active in shaping our education. In the last four years, we have fought for student input in decisionmaking processes and greater autonomy for Ethnic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies programs, created extracurricular spaces for dialogue about race, class, gender, and sexuality including an underground student-run Native American Studies program, and curated public art to express our visions of the world and our interpretations of the historical and existing injustices around us, among other things. Feel free to send questions, ideas, feedback or information to our core committee at

[email protected].

last updated 3.21.03