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Three Decades and Counting
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"A Short History—1979-83," reads one of
the reprinted headlines in the program for this
year's Athens Human Rights Festival, taking
place Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4, in
downtown Athens. The article, by early-days
organizer Michael Collins, is one of many
program excerpts from the '80s and '90s repro
duced in the paper, all of which are comple
mented by an extensive history found
at the festival's website, www.
athenshumanrightsfest.org.
A somewhat ever-shifting
cadre of organizers and
activists over the years
has meant a strong
sense of tradition for
the festival, even
if infusions of new
blood are common.
Relative newcomer
Sue Cullen has been
volunteering with the
festival for the past five
years, and says there's
been an effort this year
among its organizers to branch
out to sectors of the community
not necessarily fully reached in recent years.
“As always," she says, “our focus is to get the
word out to a lot of people who aren't aware
of organizations working on human rights."
One example of such community outreach
is the local Latino population; in that regard,
Terry Salguero of Athens community center
Casa de Amistad speaks on Sunday after
noon. Also, the musical act that kicks off
Sunday's activities is local group The Fact, a
Spanish-language punk band which, Cullen
says, brought out an impressive crowd at the
Human Rights Festival's annual battle of the
bands at Tasty World earlier this year.
Another expansion this year, as compared
to recent years' fests: Students involved with
various campus groups make up a bigger por
tion of this year's schedule than has lately
been the case. A greater student-body
presence may function simply
as a return to the festival's
roots: its first incarna
tion in 1970 arose from
student-led organiz
ing in the wake of
the shootings of
students at Kent
State University in
Ohio and at Jackson
State College in
Mississippi. The latter
event was witnessed
by Dr. Gene Young, who
is the featured speaker
at this year's Human Rights
Fest. Young joins many familiar
Athens names in the program, both
among speakers and among musical acts—
and it's worth noting that for this milestone
30th festival, Athens musicians have appar
ently pitched in vigorously. At the top of
the musical list is peerless local songwriter
Vic Chesnutt,’ who's scheduled to close out
Saturday. All festival events take place out
doors on College Square.
Ben Emanuel
SATURDAY, MAY 3
Youth Program:
10 00 a.m. Athens Montessori Singers
10:45 a m. Warren McPherson (Worldwide
Education of Children)
11:00 a.m. Girls with Guitars
11:50 a m. Dancing Flowers for Peace
12:15 p.m. Athens-Oconee CASA
12:30 p.m. Rites of Passage
Voting-Age Program:
1:00 p.m. Festival Welcome ~
Just Equal
1:30 p.m. TTie Squallz
2:00 p.m. Invisible Children United
Teen Matters, Clarke Central H.S.
2:15 p.m. Tacit (Battle of the Bands Teen
Category Winner)
2:45 p.m. Amnesty International
Citizen Advocacy, Festival Chanty
Beneficiary
3:00 p.m. Goodbye Donovan
3:30 p.m. UGAHEROs
Xavier Kim, Depleted Uranium Activist
3:45 p.m. Art Rosenbaum
4:15 p.m. Jim Barksdale, Businessman for Peace
Living Wage Athens
4:30 p.m. Reeta Mitchell
5:00 p.m. UGA Habitat for Humanity
UGA Green Party
5:15 p.m. The Suex Effect
5:45 p.m. OpenMic
6:00 p.m. Jackpot City
6:30 p.m. Millard Farmer, Activist Attorney
Prof. Eugene Wilkes, UGA Law School
6:45 p.m. Kite to the Moon
7:15 p.m. Featured Speaker: Dr. Gene Young
7:45 p.m. Breathlanes
8:15 p.m. Athens Justice Project
Athens FAQ
8:30 p.m. Michael Guthrie Band
9:00 p.m. Common Ground
G.L0.B.E.S.
9:15 p.m. Diva Experience
9:45 p.m. Project SAFE
UGANORML
10:15 p.m. Vic Chesnutt
SUNDAY, MAY A
1:00 p.m. The Fact
2:00 p.m. Gabriela Mejias
2:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Or. Gene Young
2:45 p.m. Jimmy Parr & Michael Crowe (Battle
of the Bands Adult Category Winner)
3:15 p.m. Denise Grier, ticketed for anti-Bush
bumpersticker
Women in Black
3:30 p.m. Incatepec
4:00 p.m. Casa de Amistad
Jubilee Partners
4:15 p.m. Paul Lombard
4.45p.m. OpenMic
5:00 p.m. Tommy Jordan l String Theory
5:30 p.m. Planned Parenthood
UGA StandUP newspaper
6.00 p.m. Sursie
6:30 p.m. Janice Pulliam (Immigration Issues)
Moore’s Ford Committee
6:45 p.m. Squat/Grogus
7:15 p.m. Tamara Best, writer, The Red & Black
Janice Mathis, Operation PUSH/
Rainbow Coalition
7:30 p.m. Music Hates You
8:00 p.m. Ed Tant, Athens Banner-Herald
columnist and festival volunteer
8:15 p.m. Dubconscious
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