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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: https://csun.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcO2upzwjGdTn7g78Pwl_IJWGVKyfKOEI. 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 (http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P1164.aspx) 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 (https://www.hbo.com/exterminate-all-the-brutes). 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: (http://www.beacon.org/Not-a-Nation-of-Immigrants-P1641.aspx). 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

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