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Tsuru for Solidarity and Detention Watch Network: Organizing Across Generations and Across Communities

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Tsuru for Solidarity and Detention Watch Network: Organizing Across Generations and Across Communities

Civil Discourse and Social Change is hosting an upcoming webinar on activist strategies and efforts to organize against migrant detentions and deportations. Speakers include members of Tsuru for Solidarity, JAs for Justice, and the Detention Watch Network.  The webinar addresses the role of memory in generating intergenerational and cross-racial solidarities against forced removal, incarceration and civil liberties violations. Read more

Call for Student Paper Submissions: Fourth CDSC Social Justice Student Conference

Friday, March 5, 2021 - 11:00pm

CALL FOR STUDENT PAPER SUBMISSIONS: FOURTH CDSC SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Students: Please submit an abstract that provides a short summary (no longer than 200 words) of the content of the presentation/project/creative work. Abstract Submission Deadline: March 5th, 2021 Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0nh2vRwwFMl5Qgxcl7UNXsoUAn1wLp_o2wBeQ6uoyKrvTDg/viewform

The conference features keynote addresses by graphic novel artist Thi Bui and documentary filmmaker Ciara Lacy

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Framing Abolitionist Teaching with Dr. Bettina Love and Sarah Abdelaziz

Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:15pm

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Join Dr. Bettina Love and Sarah Abdelaziz to learn about “abolitionist teaching”—what it is, how it functions, where it comes from, and what it means in relationship to trauma. Dr. Love and Abdelaziz will highlight components of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN) and the ways in which it reinforces abolitionist teaching principles through its programming, grants, and educator resource development, and as a means to conceptualize abolitionist teaching across many different realms and settings. Read more

Pioneering Asian Americans in Media

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm

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This webinar brings filmmakers and social media creatives Wong Fu Productions to campus for an online workshop, screening, and discussion of their video, film and social media work on race and representation. Wong Fu producer Benson Quach is a CSUN alum. Read more

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