Global studies department, MRC present LOCO Festival Screenshot by Martin Dolan Marisol Marcin, program coordinator for the global studies department and a lecturer of global studies, organized the LOCO Festival.
The LOCO Festival was first created in Spain to inform students about the importance of human rights activism, issues of migration
May 10, 2021
This past week, the global studies department and the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) hosted a digital event called the LOCO Festival at Binghamton University. The event ran from May 3 to May 6 with a series of virtual webinars that students could attend on topics related to human rights and the refugee crisis.
BU to host virtual LOCO Festival Provided by LOCO Festival Binghamton will be helping host the LOCO Festival this year to raise awareness of refugee human rights.
Educational project will be run by the Spanish Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
May 3, 2021
Next week from May 3 to 6, Binghamton University will be helping to host the 2021 virtual LOCO Festival. The LOCO Festival is an educational project organized by the Spanish Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to raise students’ awareness of refugees’ situations and the importance of getting actively involved in the defense of human rights. While many versions of the program have been hosted, Marisol Marcin, lecturer of global studies and program coordinator for the global studies department, has been working to build a team of members of the University and the outside community to bring LOCO Festival to the United States.
All around the world, individuals flee their hometowns and homelands, driven by war, poverty and oppression. But in the steady stream of news coverage, the innate humanity of refugees, immigrants and asylum-seekers is often lost, drowned out by a drumbeat of politics and fear.
The educational project was originally created in Spain by the Spanish Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados, or ACNUR) to raise student awareness of refugee issues and the importance of human rights, compassion and activism. The name comes from the idea that when indifference is normal, the only hope comes from being crazy, or