8:30-8:45 \u00a0 Welcome and Land Acknowledgement <\/b>(Julian Ankney, Nimiipuu, Director, WSU Vancouver\u2019s Native American Programs and Co-director Visiting Writers Series)<\/p>\n
8:45-10:00\u00a0 Plenary:<\/b> Learning from the Past and Propelling the Future for Social and Environmental Justice\u2013Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions, featuring: <\/b> 10:00-10:45: Divestment Work Session (facilitator TBA)<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:45-12:00\u00a0 Breakout Sessions<\/b> (on Zoom: See links for individual sessions)<\/p>\n Session A: Critical Trans Politics: Texts and Contexts<\/b><\/p>\n Chair\/facilitator: Nishant Shahani, Professor, Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies<\/p>\n Session B: The Dangers of a Nuclear Renaissance: Defending <\/b>Nch’i Wana\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n 12-12:30\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Lunch Break<\/b><\/p>\n 12:45-2:00: Ses<\/strong>sion A: Urban Food and Climate Justice: Pathways to Sovereignty and Health <\/b>(Zoom with in person location TBA)<\/p>\n 2:15-3:30 \u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Breakout Sessions<\/b> (on Zoom: see links for individual sessions)<\/p>\n Session A: Architectures of Oppression and Spatial and Relational Determinants of Health\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Session B: The Thin Green Line is People History Project (TGLIP): A Digital Archive of Pacific Northwest Fossil Fuel Resistance 4:00-5:00\u00a0 Keynote by <\/b>Melanie K. Yazzie, Ph.D.: “Decolonization or Extinction: Reclaiming Our Humanity Through Our Love for the Earth.”\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Melanie Yazzie (Din\u00e9) is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and\u00a0coauthor of Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation<\/i>\u00a0and The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save the Earth<\/i>, both of which came out in 2021. She co-hosts and produces the podcast Red Power Hour and serves as lead editor for the open access journal Decolonization<\/i>. She organizes with The Red Nation, a grassroots Native-run organization committed to Indigenous liberation, and is chair of the advisory board for Red Media, a Native-led media organization that platforms Indigenous intelligence and analysis to cultivate movements for decolonization.<\/p>\n 5:15-7:00 pm\u00a0 WSU Vancouver Indigenous Garden Dedication & Refreshments <\/b>(meet in the field adjacent to the Clark Building) 7:00-7:30 pm Celilo Wy’am activist Lana Jack<\/strong> speaks on her experience as a water protector at Standing Rock (location TBA)<\/p>\n 9-10:30 Session A<\/strong>: (In Person) Power to the People: Black Panther Legacy Tour of Albina<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n “Kent Ford, founder of Portland\u2019s chapter of the \u201860s-era black empowerment organization, leads us on a walking tour in NE Portland. Listen to his personal memories of revolutionary activism and community service, and be inspired for today\u2019s fight for change.” (Meeting info available on registering for conference)<\/p>\n 10-12 \u00a0 Session B<\/strong> (on Zoom) Lead Impacts on Health and Towards Community Awareness: An Academic-Community Participatory Storytelling Roundtable Discussion (<\/b>Zoom with in-person location TBA)<\/i><\/p>\n 10-12:\u00a0 Session C <\/strong>(In Person): Chief Redheart Memorial Ceremony, Fort Vancouver:<\/strong><\/a> \u201cJoin the Nez Perce Tribe in their annual memorial to remember Chief Redheart\u2019s band with singing, a\u00a0 \u00a0 drum circle and recognition of veterans\u2026.This event honors Chief Redheart\u2019s band, who were imprisoned for eight months without cause at Fort Vancouver in 1877-78.\u00a0 This event is free and open to the public. This event is hosted by the Nez Perce Tribe with support from Community Military Appreciation Committee, The Historic Trust, National Park Services and the City of Vancouver.\u201d (We are not organizing this session–but promoting it, given its importance to our Indigenous communities and allies.) 1:00-2:15\u00a0 Session A<\/strong>: Artivism: Art and Movement Building, Resistance, Resilience, and\u00a0<\/b>Reclamation<\/b><\/p>\n 2:15-3:30 Session A: WSU Student Panel\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n 4:00-6:00 Session A (Virtual and in the Firstenburg Commons with\u00a0 Refreshments):\u00a0 <\/b>Palestinian, Indigenous, BIPOC Voices: A Reading for Healing in Gaza\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n By donation at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. <\/em><\/p>\n All<\/strong> proceeds will help fund a student organizer for the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice.<\/em><\/p>\n 3:30 pm Screening of Handsome Man<\/em> and Wasteland<\/em>, short films <\/a>by Shoalwater Bay filmmaker Misty Grace, who has a Ph.D. in English from WSU.<\/p>\n 4:00 pm Dialogue with Misty Grace about her life and legacy in film and working with luminaries like Lily Gladstone, and Evan Adams in a vibrant Indigenous film scene.<\/p>\n 15 minute break<\/p>\n 4:15-5:00 pm Screening of Atomic Bamboozle, directed by Jan Haaken\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n 10 minute break<\/p>\n 5:10 pm Screening of Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island, directed by Heidi Hutner<\/a><\/p>\n 6:25 pm Panel on the dangers of the “Nuclear Renaissance”<\/p>\n 5 minute break<\/p>\n 7:00-7:45 pm Documenting the Fight for the Planet: A conversation with filmmakers Misty Grace, Jan Haaken, and Heidi Hutner<\/p>\n WSU SJCon is an interdisciplinary social justice conference launched in 2019 by WSU graduate students in coalition with BIPOC- and LGBTQIA2S-led groups. We are pleased to accept proposals for presentations, panels, films, creative and multimodal media, art, and workshops that focus on action-based approaches to building and sustaining coalitions across communities.<\/p>\n For further information<\/strong>: contact julian.ankney@wsu.edu <\/strong>and desiree.hellegers@wsu.edu <\/p>\n “Health & Environmental Justice: Constructing Coalitions at the Intersections of Extraction, Militarism, and Climate Collapse”<\/p>\n
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An Evening with Activist Women in Film: The Fight for a Livable Planet<\/h4>\n
Sunday, April 21, 3:30 to 8:00 pm<\/h4>\n
A benefit to fund a student organizer for the Collective for Social Movement<\/h6>\n
Unitarian Universalist Church, 4505 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA <\/span><\/h6>\n
About SJCon<\/h6>\n
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Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
<\/strong><\/h3>\nand Sunday, April 21st from 3:30 to 8 pm<\/h2>\n
for an Evening with Activist Women in Film: The Fight for a Livable Planet<\/em><\/h2>\n
Presented virtually (on Zoom) with some in-person sessions<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Proudly Sponsored by: <\/strong><\/h4>\n
WSU Vancouver Native American Programs<\/a><\/h4>\n
WSU Vancouver Collective for Social and Environmental Justice<\/a><\/h4>\n
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