The Human Rights Institute proudly presents our Fall event series, Legal Machinery of Repression—a series that brings together voices revealing how repression leaves traces of defiance, memory, and testimony that outlive the machinery itself. This series is co-sponsored by: Columbia Law Students Human Rights Association, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.
First Event - "We Spoke Out": Because Silence Was Not an Option
We invite you to join us for the first event in the series, “We Spoke Out Against Silence”, featuring voices of activists, artists, and journalists who have paid a heavy price for speaking truth to power.
This event centers the work of those who were criminalized not for breaking the law, but for defending it: a Russian advocate whose husband was imprisoned for opposing the Kremlin; a Salvadoran environmental leader who stopped a gold mine from poisoning his community’s water; a Cuban artist who transforms resistance into public performance despite censorship and harassment; and a Brazilian journalist who exposed corporate complicity in Amazon deforestation.
Speakers:
- Evgenia Kara-Murza, Advocacy Director of the Free Russia Foundation.
- Francisco Pineda, Salvadoran environmental activist and 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize winner.
- Tania Bruguera, Cuban artist and activist.
- Marcel Gomes, Brazilian journalist and executive secretary of Repórter Brasil.
When: Monday, September 22 | 12:10pm - 1:10pm
When: Columbia Law School | Jerome Greene Hall 107
Lunch will be provided.
Please register at this link.
