Bard Graduate Center
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2023-04-12 22:00
2023-04-12 23:30
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The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement
A lecture by Caroline Hunter, followed by a conversation with Drew Thompson (BGC)
Bard Graduate Center @ 38 West 86th Street, New York, New York 10024, US
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Share In 1970, Black employees at Polaroid discovered their employer’s equipment was being sold to the South African government to create ID cards and passbooks under the apartheid system and organized as the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement. In this presentation, educator and activist Caroline Hunter recounts her experiences as a co-organizer of a grassroots boycott that forced the Polaroid Corporation to withdraw from South Africa.
Image: Hunter meets Nelson and Winnie Mandela during Boston Tour, 1990.
Wed, Apr 12, 2023 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Bard Graduate Center
38 West 86th Street
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