University of Michigan Sponsors	Corporate & Community Sponsors
Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs	UM Credit Union
UM Human Resources and Affirmative Action	Borders Express Briarwood Mall
Michigan Healthy Community Initiative	University Health Services
Center for the Education of Women	TIAA-CREF
UMHS Community Health Services/MFit	A Bone Marrow Wish Registry

Contact Janice Reuben,
WCTF Program Coordinator: 734-998-7080 / wctfadmin@umich.edu .

ONLINE REGISTRATION AND WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS http://www.cew.umich.edu/

Making Links and Breaking Chains Conference

January 27-29, 2006

Michigan League

Conference is centered around learning about a diverse set of different issues
including (But not limited to):

The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
Immigration Issues & Immigrant Rights
The Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Multiculturalism and Social Justice in Community Student Living
Hawaiian Sovereignty
AND MORE!

TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE:

www.umich.edu/~umsafe/mlbc.htm

---There is no cost for registration---

Participating organizations:
Students Allied for Freedom and Equality,
Native American Students Association,
American Civil Liberties Union- UM Chapter,
Muslim Students Association,
Students Supporting Affirmative Action,
Students of Color of Rackham,
Arab Students Association,
Black Student Union,
Inter-Cooperative Council,
And
this list is still growing!

TAX TIPS

Energy Credits for Individuals

Let’s talk energy efficiency improvements
on principal residences. You may be able to
claim a nonrefundable personal tax credit for
a percentage of qualified energy efficiency
improvements installed plus energy property
expenditures paid or incurred in 2006 and
2007. The credit is limited to $500 on principal
residences. So start those improvements
NOW!
Personal tax credit may be available
for equipment placed in
your personal residence too!
30% of:

*Cost of qualified electricity generating
solar water heating equipment.
*Cost of qualified electricity generating
solar photovoltaic property,
*Cost of qualified fuel cell property.

Sorry, no credit allowed for equipment used
to heat swimming pools or hot tubs.

Hybrid Credit

In case you have not already purchased your hybrid car, Congress has sweetened the deal. Hybrid cars purchased after 1/1/06 are now eligible for tax credits ranging up to $3,600!

But there is a catch...the credit actually expires after 60,000 per manufactor

Symptoms of Heart Disease —
For Women

Women may experience early symptoms of cardiovascular disease
differently than men.

The symptoms in women can be far subtler. If you or any woman you know shows these signs, seek medical attention right away.

Shortness of breath, often without chest pain of any kind

Flu-like symptoms — specifically nausea, clamminess or cold sweats

Unexplained fatigue, weakness or dizziness

Pain in the chest, upper back, shoulders, neck, or jaw

Feelings of anxiety, loss of appetite, discomfort

If you even suspect these symptoms, call your doctor. If urgent, call 911 (or your local emergency number if outside the U.S.) or go to a local hospital's emergency room. If you have any doubts, talk to your healthcare provider.

Note: Individual symptoms, situations, and circumstances may vary. Please consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding your condition and appropriate medical treatment. The information provided is not intended to be used for medical diagnosis or treatment, or as a substitute for professional medical advice.

Center for the Education of Women

programs

and events

Job Search Workshops

Mondays: January 23 – February 13

12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.

CEW, 330 East Liberty Street

Your Job Search

4 consecutive Mondays: 12 noon-1:30 p.m.

January 23, January 30, February 6, February 13

Facilitated by CEW Senior Counselors

Pick up job search ideas from CEW counselors and others who are in the job market. Each week features a different topic. Come to one session or to all.

January 23 Beginning Your Job Search -
Valerie Eaglin

January 30: Resumes -
Sally Schmall

February 6: Interviewing -
W. Jean Tennyson

February 13: Negotiating the Job Offer -
Sally Schmall

Registration fee for this 4-session series is $20 and includes a copy of the CEW Job Search Handbook. Individual sessions are $10 each.

Space is limited. To register, call 998-7080.

Co-sponsored with the HR Recruitment and Career Services Office.

Center for the Education of Women
The University of Michigan
330 E. Liberty Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2289

734-998-7080 734-998-6203-fax www.cew.umich.edu

Announcing the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
Film Series: Break Silence

Four films,
each touching on a silenced person, topic or community!
Tuesday January 24
Brother to Brother
6:00 PM;
D1270, William Davidson Hall,
Ross School of Business

A drama that looks back on the Harlem
Renaissance from the perspective of
an elderly, black writer who meets a
gay teenager in a New York homeless
shelter.

Tuesday January 31
Two Towns of Jasper
6:00 PM
D1270, William Davidson Hall,
Ross School of Business

On June 7, 1998, three white men from
Jasper, Texas, chained African-American James Byrd to a pick-up truck and dragged him until his body disintegrated.
This documentary takes
you to both white and black
communities as it records their separate
reactions to the murder.

For more information on the film screenings above, contact:
Gena Flynn
Office of Acadmeic Multicultural Initiatives
734-936-1055
gpb@umich.edu

GHANA
2 0 0 6

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY VENTURE TO WEST AFRICA

This studio/course will travel to Ghana during the spring semester for 5 - 6 weeks.

We will travel through a cross section of Ghana in hopes to reach Burkina Faso.

The agenda of the this studio is to develop your personal project based on this experience.

We will meet with students from the universities throughout and discuss the current developments.

If interested contact:

prof c o l e m a n a. j o r d a n l e b o
Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

and

Center for Afroamerican and African Studies

U n i v e r s i t y o f M i c h i g a n

2000 Bonisteel Boulevard

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

734.358.4820

PBS Series:
Slavery And The Making Of America,
Feb 9 & Feb 16

Coming to PBS on Feb. 9th and the 16th from 9PM to 11PM is the four part
series Slavery And The Making Of America, produced by Dante James, and
narrated by Morgan Freeman. Dante is an incredible filmmaker who has
produced many award wining films among them biographies on Marian Anderson
and A. Philip Randolph. He worked with the late great filmmaker Henry
Hampton at Blackside and was the executive producer of Hampton's last
series This Far By Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys.

Slavery And The Making Of America tells the story of slavery from the point
of view of the enslaved. The series recognizes the strength, humanity and
dignity of the enslaved and redefines them as pro-active
freedom fighters not passive victims.

It is essential to pass this email on to friends and family and encourage
them to watch. If we can create a large audience for this important series
PBS will be forced to produce and air more programs that address the
African-American experience. There are also two web sites for the series
they are

Slavery And the Making Of America
Feb 9th and 16th from 9PM-11PM
On PBS

ABPAFS Membership News

I would like to thank everyone who took the time to fill out the membership survey. The ABPAFS Executive Board is meeting to discuss the results. You will hearing more in the coming Newsletters.

Sincerely,
Charles G. Ransom
Interim President ABPAFS

Hattie Summerhill Obituary

Born July 20, 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest of eight children of Roy and Alberta Talbott. Hattie joined the University of Michigan staff in 1974 and joined the University Library staff in 1983 as an Administative Assistant in Library Personnel and Payroll Services. Hattie took a medical leave of absence in 2001. Hattie passed away in December, 2005.

Memorial contributions may be made to the

The National Kidney Foundation,
1169 Oak Valley Dr.,
Ann Arbor, MI 48108, or

The American Sickle Cell Anemia Association, 10300 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106, or

The Stem Cell Research Foundation Development Department,
2215 Gateway Center Drive,
Clarksburg, Maryland 20871.

Visit Hattie's personal webpage at
http://www.lifestorynet.com/memories/8293/
to read Hattie's life story

This Week At CAAS

The Women’s Studies Program Presents
'Blackface' on the Opera Stage: Intersections of Race and Gender
Naomi André

Associate Professor of Women's Studies

Tuesday January 24, 2006
12 noon – 1:15pm

2239 Lane Hall, 204 S. State Street

Musicologist Naomi André, Assoc. Prof. of Women’s Studies, discusses the intersections of race and gender in four operatic portrays of blackness: Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida (1871) and Otello (1887), George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (1935), and Anthony Davis's Amistad (1998).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies

Free and open to the public

A Conversation on Dialectics, Radicalism
and
the Future of American Studies
with Grace Lee Boggs

Wednesday, January 25

11:30am to 1:00pm

3512 Haven Hall

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Over the past two decades, West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James has become one of the most widely cited theorists in American Studies. During this time, few, however, have taken Martin Luther King seriously as a theorist, instead opting for "progressive" readings that portray MLK as a social democrat whose boldest pursuit was “jobs” and “economic justice.” Activist/philosopher Grace Lee Boggs will argue that a deeper engagement with King is vitally necessary to transcend the limits of intellectual work rooted in Jamesian critiques of race, class and culture. Although like most sixties militants she initially dismissed MLK, she later came to recognize that King's thoughts on the relationship between self and structural transformation marked him as one of the most profound dialectical thinkers in American history. Boggs asserts that overcoming what King called the "giant triplets of racism, militarism and materialism" mandates struggling through the unresolved contradictions with which he was grappling at the time of his death. In light of the moral, social and political crises caused by the collapse of the industrial order, unending warfare, and the demise of the urban school system, King's historical writings, speeches and actions have proven timelier than ever.

A daughter of Chinese immigrants, Grace Lee Boggs received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr in 1940. She has been involved in movement organizing for over six decades, spending most of this time in Detroit. Boggs was a core member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency working in close collaboration with C.L.R. James for twenty years. She is the author of the autobiographical Living for Change and numerous other writings including Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (co-authored with James Boggs). Boggs delivered the Keynote Address of the 2003 MLK Symposium at UM. Please read her 2005 MLK lecture “Now is the Time” at http://boggscenter.org/mlkjackson05.shtml

Hosted by the Program in American Culture in honor of the 2006 MLK Symposium

Photo Credit: Dell Upton

Memorials to the Second Civil War: Commemorating the Civil Rights Movement

A Public Lecture By
Dell Upton
Professor of Architectural History & Anthropology
University of Virginia

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Room 180 Tappan Hal

Sponsored by The Department of the History of Art
and
The Institute for the Humanities and American Culture

The Africa Workshop
presents
ACCRA RE-MIX:
BODIES, GENDER AND KNOWLEDGE IN A WEST AFRICAN CITY

a session devoted to a critical screening of two documentary films set in Accra, Ghana, and produced by the Women’s Health in the City of Accra Research Collective:

"Excuse Me to Say. . .’: Notions of Body and Risk in Accra” (2005, 28 min., director, R. Lane Clark; producer, Nancy Rose Hunt),

a study of women’s notions of health, risk, and beauty

“If All Else Fails . . .’: Tonics, Clinics, and Miracles in Accra”
(2005, 28 min., director, R. Lane Clark; producer, Nancy Rose Hunt),

about therapeutic pluralism in a neoliberal city

To be introduced by
Nancy Rose Hunt,
who directed the Women’s Health in the City of Accra transnational research seminar,
with
CRITICAL COMMENTS BY

JACOB SONGSORE,
an urban geographer at the University of Ghana

with additional comments by UM’s

Sean Jacobs, Frieda Ekotto, and Howard Stein

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25TH, 6-8 P.M., HAVEN 3512

Charles G. Ransom
Multicultural Studies Librarian
209 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
(734) 764-7522 Office Phone
(734) 764-0259 FAX

UM Women of Color Task Force presents its 24th Annual Career Conference

Symptoms of Heart Disease — For Women

The UM Women of Color Task Force