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Poets examine dual cultures in event Event followed series of Indigenous poetry workshops By MAIA SPOTO
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Local poets, musicians and storytellers Thursday shared their experiences living in both Native and Chicagoan cultures in “A Winter Night of Indigenous Tellings.” The event followed a series of Indigenous poetry workshops led both online and in person by Dave Spencer (Mississippi Chata/ Diné) and Vincent Romero (Laguna Pueblo) at the American Indian Center of Chicago. Spencer and Romero partnered with Kathleen McDonald, executive director of Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, to hold the performance in the Mitchell Museum’s library. The museum focuses on North American Native people’s art, history, culture and current events. At the reading, participants with varying levels of poetic experience engaged with the legacy of established local Native American poets, such as the late E. Donald Two Rivers (Ojibwa), as they exercised their own voices. Audience
members also shared poetry in an open mic session at the event’s conclusion. “We have a number of talented, wonderful, fantastic storytellers in the Chicago Native American community,” said Romero, the event ’s emcee. “Tonight, you’re going to hear from just a few.” He said Native American culture sees winter and its “frigidity” as a time to celebrate indoor traditions like oral storytelling. A self-described daydreamer and a storyteller since ear ly childhood, Romero performed poems that bantered about aging, examined spirituality and contemplated nature. He also shared a piece about the legend of La Llorona, which he wove into a conversation on the importance of examining historical context in modern storytelling. Romero said when European conquerors arrived, they distorted traditional narratives. “The heroes of that particular culture… suddenly became evil,” he said. “Someone who will take your soul. When we talk about (the heroes and the villains), please keep in mind, to the people of that culture, it might be something totally different, historically and culturally.” » See POETRY, page 7
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Foxx spoke to Evanston residents at a Thursday event about restorative justice and equity within communities.
Kim Foxx talks restorative justice Cook County State’s Attorney spoke to Evanston residents at forum By JACOB FULTON
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) and Nathan
Norman, the interim program coordinator of Evanston’s Youth and Young Adult division, spoke to residents about the importance of restorative justice and community safety at a Thursday forum. The event, hosted by The
People’s Lobby, Reclaim Evanston and the Organization for Positive Action and Leadership, comes during Foxx’s run for re-election in a highly contested primary for the Cook County state’s attorney position.
She faces three challengers: former prosecutor Donna More, former Chicago Ald. Bob Fioretti and former Assistant State’s Attorney Bill Conway. » See FOXX, page 7
Collins: Russian withdrawal from Ukraine unlikely Retired Col. Liam Collins outlined 2014 invasion of Ukraine to NU community members at Scott Hall event By LINUS HÖLLER
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Retired Col. Liam Collins discussed Thursday how Russia perfected its technique of hybrid warfare, culminating in the invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Collins spoke in Scott Hall at a Russia Policy Forum series event — sponsored by the Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies
Research Program and the political science department, saying Russia has a reliable method for wreaking havoc on its neighbor states and gaining political control over them. It is Russia’s key goal to prevent neighboring countries from entering the European Union or NATO, he explained. The country’s armed forces had advanced these methods through a series of conflicts starting with the Chechen war, Collins said. While the Russian use of cyberwarfare has received a lot
of publicity in recent years, Collins said what made the technique effective was Russia’s multipronged approach, known as “hybrid warfare.” He said there is no clear definition of what hybrid warfare is, though generally it is used to describe the combination of conventional, indirect and information warfare. “Russia showed us how you use cyber at the tactical level,” Collins said.
He explained that combining cyberwarfare with conventional, kinetic weapons is what proved highly effective for Russia in Ukraine. In March 2014, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine following the earlier arrival of unmarked soldiers. Later, they provided covert support to armed uprisings in the country’s Donbass region in the east. In total, over 10,000 people have been killed.
A tentative peace agreement known as the Minsk Protocol has been in place since 2015, however daily clashes continue at the frontline. Russia carried out hybrid warfare in Ukraine by mixing the use of volunteers and unmarked soldiers — irregular warfare — with open military support from Russia and a concerted propaganda effort, Collins explained. He said while cyberwarfare received lots of media attention in
the West, many methods deployed by Russia failed or had limited success. “Ukraine was a testing ground for new Russian technology,” Collins said. Collins said hybrid warfare had never been deployed as successfully by Russia prior to the Ukraine conflict. The first major example of a cyber strike came in the form of an attack on Estonian banks » See UKRAINE, page 7
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