Marjorie Agosin is a moving speaker and this event is sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves (an amazing organization). Below is the blurb from their website. Hope to see everyone there!
Hope and Courage: Women’s Stories of Resistance in Pinochet’s Chile
Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet, human rights activist and the Luella LaMer Professor in Latin American Studies at Wellesley College. She has authored more than twenty books of poetry and memoir and has edited numerous anthologies dedicated to human rights in Latin America, Latin American women writers, and Latin American Jewish culture and experience. Among other topics, Ms. Agosin will speak about her experiences with Chilean women who protested against the terror of Pinochet’s regime by creating arpilleras, colorful tapestries which documented the loss of their fathers, husbands, and sons who were “disappeared” under the dictator’s rule.
7 pm / April 2nd / White Station Middle School
