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13th Annual We are Power: Community in Action Conference

Saturday, March 5, 2022 - 10:00am to 2:00pm

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The CSUN Department of Social Work and its co-sponsors (Ethnic Studies Education Pathways Project (ESEPP), Civil Discourse & Social Change (CDSC),USU, Division of Student Affairs, Department of Communication Studies Dean Yan Searcy, & Department of Deaf Studies) invite you to participate in the 13th annual We Are Power: Community in Action Conference. The Conference is free and open to the community, and it will be held online via Zoom Saturday March 5th, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (PST). To register please click on the following link: . If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the organizers at wearepowercommittee@gmail.com.
 
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Webinar: Film screening and lecture with Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

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On March 3, 4:00-6:45PM, we are hosting a virtual event with Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, whose An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States () is the basis of Raoul Peck’s HBO docudrama “Exterminate All Brutes.” We will be screening the first episode of “Exterminate All Brutes” at the event (). Please consider building this event into your courses, especially if you address issues of settler colonialism in them. Dr. Dunbar-Ortiz will also speak about their newly published Not ‘A Nation of Immigrants’: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion: (). This event is co-sponsored with the University Student Union, CSUN American Indian Studies, CSUN Chicana/o Studies, and the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. Read more

Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute: Memorializing Legacies

Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

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The DEIG-funded, Africana-Asian Collaboratory for Inclusive Excellence Project is organizing a webinar lecture event with Harry E. Johnson Sr. on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the continued significance of Dr. King’s work today. Read more

Converging Currents: Intergenerational Dialogues in Organizing

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

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This webinar brings together two community organizers from the Asian American Movement of the late 1960s to 1990s and two organizers from the 21st century prison abolition movement to engage in a dialogue about community organizing and activism. In addition to asking how these organizers became involved in organizing, how their involvement in activism has changed over time, what is the meaning of solidarity and liberation to these organizers, this webinar investigates fundamentally how organizing has changed over time from the late 1960s to the present? Thus, this webinar seeks to generate dialogue across different generations of activists and from different communities to delve into questions of social justice and political mobilization. Read more

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