2021
Monday 4/5/21
- 2:30-3:30 PM Social Justice Week Welcome: Students, Faculty, Staff
- Event Recording
- 2:30-2:35 Welcome & Land Acknowledgement
- 2:35-2:45 Including: Kelly M. Estrada, Ph.D. Chair, Curriculum Studies & Secondary Education; Co-PI, PUERTA Project
- 2:45-2:55 Wm. Gregory Sawyer, Ph.D, Vice President for Student Affairs
- 2:55-3:30 Icebreaker about increase in anti-Asian bias and violence post COVID-19.
- Flyer: Shannon Ottens
- 4:00-5:00 PM Opening Keynote – How the SSU Community Can Support Local Indigenous Social Justice with Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, and the Graton Rancheria Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University
- Caitlin Henry (Host and email contact)
- Shannon Ottens (Zoom facilitator)
- Alyssa Joyner (Flyer)
- Student coordinators: Danielle Caballero (1/2); Yasmine Flores (1/2); Jamilah Shimi (1/2); Lindsey deRutte (1/3); Jadenn Clauson (1/3)
- 5:30-6:30 PM Mental Health and Social Justice, Movie Screening of Islands of Loneliness, with Malinalli Lopez, Film Producer, SSU Chicano and Latino Studies Professor, and Founder/Member of XQL Media
- Danielle Caballero (Host and email contact)
- Victoria Ortega (Zoom facilitator)
- Danielle Caballero (flyer)
- Student coordinators: Alyssa Joyner (2/3); Danielle Caballero (2/2); Victoria Ortega (1/2); Lindsey deRutte (2/3)
- 7:00-8:00 PM Workshop – Restorative Justice Circles in Prison, and How to Become a Restorative Justice Facilitator with Leonard Rubio, Director, Insight Prison Project, suggests watching The Prison Within, a documentary about Insight Prison Project’s Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG) at San Quentin before.
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Lindsey deRutte (Host and email contact)
- Shannon Ottens (Zoom facilitator)
- Lindsey deRutte (flyer)
- Student coordinators: Danielle Caballero (3/2); Victoria Ortega (2/2); Lindsey deRutte (3/3)
Tuesday 4/6/21
- 2:30-3:30 PM Panel – Understanding Human Trafficking with Maya Babow, Russell Wilson, Rose Mukhar, Lori Frugoli, and Dustin Contreras
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Joe Lofton (Host and email contact)
- Tania Arango Rodriguez (Zoom facilitator)
- Maya Babow (Flyer)
- Student coordinators: Iszael Caballero (1/2); Jamilah Shimi (2/2); Joe Lofton (1/2); Lindsey deRutte (5/3)
- 4:00-5:00 PM Workshop – Actions Organizing for Environmental Justice with Angela Aguilar, Collective Member, Movement Generation: Justice & Ecology Project.
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Alyssa Joyner (Host and email contact)
- Jadenn Clauson (Zoom facilitator)
- Jamilah Shimi (flyer)
- Student coordinators: Alyssa Joyner (3/3); Lindsey DeRutte (6/3); Jadenn Clauson (1/3)
- 5:30-6:30PM Action – Actions You Can Take To Support The Movement To Cancel Student Debt with J.P. Massar and Debbie Notkin, Strike Debt Bay Area, of the National Strike Debt Organization
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Victoria Ortega (Host and email contact)
- Lindsey DeRutte (Zoom Facilitator)
- Victoria Ortega (flyer)
- Student coordinators: Alyssa Joyner (4/3); Victoria Ortega (3/2); Lindsey DeRutte (7/3)
- 7:00-8:00 PM Action – Actions You Can Take For Food Justice with Amy Quichiz, Co-Founder, Veggie Mijas
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Joe Lofton (Host and email contact)
- Alyssa Joyner (Zoom facilitator)
- Iszael Caballero (flyer)
- Student coordinators: Victoria Ortega (5/2); Jamilah Shimi (4/2); Lindsey DeRutte (8/3)
- Wednesday 4/7/21
- 2:30-3:30 PM How Students Can Get Involved In Lobbying & Policy Change with Emily Miller, Vice President of External Affairs, and Yeymi Perez, Senator for Community Affairs, SSU Student Lobby Corps
- Dennis Pesce (Host and Email Contact)
- Yasmine Flores* (Zoom facilitator)
- Jadenn Clauson (Flyer)
- 4:00-5:00 PM Workshop – How to Organize a Union with Diego Santelices, Union Rep, SEIU local 1021.
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Alyssa Joyner (Host and email contact)
- Dennis Pesce* (Zoom facilitator)
- Flyer: Dennis Pesce (2/2)
- 5:30-6:30 PM Forum – How to Talk About Environmental Justice & Climate Change with Sonoma County Chapter, Sunrise Movement, Paulina Lopez, SSU Student
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Iszael Caballero (Host and email contact)
- Jamilah Shimi (Zoom facilitator)
- Alyssa Joyner (flyer)
- Student coordinators: Iszael Caballero (1/2); Victoria Ortega (6/2); Jamilah Shimi (5/2); Lindsey DeRutte (8/3)
- 7:00-8:00 PM Action – Supporting Disability Justice Organizing Leroy F. Moore Jr., Founder, Krip Hop Nation
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Jadenn Clauson (Host and email contact)
- Danielle Caballero* (Zoom facilitator)
- Flyer: Iszael Caballero (2/2)
Thursday 4/8/2
- 2:30-3:30 PM Panel – Indigeneity Beyond Borders: Student Panel with facilitators: Dr. Erica Tom-Director of Native American Studies, Lecturer Sonoma State University, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, American Multicultural Studies & Tori Millendez- Communications and Media Studies, BA Spring 2021/Native American Student Mentor/ Native American Progressive Students Club (NAPS) Vice President
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Lindsey DeRutte (Host and email contact)
- Shannon Ottens (Zoom facilitator)
- Jamilah Shimi & Lindsey DeRutte (flyer)
- Student coordinators: Alyssa Joyner (8/3); Danielle Caballero (4/2); Victoria Ortega (6/2);
- 4:00-5:00 PM Workshop – How to Support Migration Through Public Art, Rima Makaryan, Founder, The Monarch Project.
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Jadenn Clauson (Host and email contact)
- Iszael Caballero* (Zoom facilitator)
- Victoria Ortega (flyer)
- Student coordinators: Alyssa Joyner (9/3); Jamilah Shimi (7/2); Lindsey DeRutte (10/3)
- 5:30-6:30 PM Forum – Organizing to Demand Better Race and Gender Policies from Educational Institutions with Dr. Travis Bristol, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Danielle Caballero (Host and email contact)
- Victoria Ortega* (Zoom facilitator)
- Joe Lofton (Flyer)
- Student Coordinators: Alyssa Joyner (10/3); Iszael Caballero (4/2); Jamilah Shimi (8/2)
- 7:00-8:00 PM Action – Organizing for Releasing Incarcerated People During COVID-19 with Juan Meza, Stop San Quentin Outbreak Coalition #STOPSANQUENTINOUTBREAK Acting With Compassion, Prison Renaissance
- Facebook Event
- Victoria Ortega* (Host and email contact)
- Danielle Caballero* (Zoom facilitator)
- Lindsey deRutte (Flyer)
- Student coordinators: Alyssa Joyner (11/3); Victoria Ortega (9/2); Jamilah Shimi (9/2)
Friday 4/9/21
- 2:30-3:30 PM Panel – Getting Involved in the Fight for Housing Justice with Celeste Austin, The Living Room, Adrienne Lauby, Homeless Action.
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Jamilah Shimi (Host and email contact)
- Lindsey DeRutte* (Zoom facilitator)
- Alyssa Joyner (Flyer)
- Student coordinators: Danielle Caballero (7/2); Victoria Ortega (10/2); Jamilah Shimi (10/2); Joe Lofton (2/2); Jadenn Clauson (4/3)
- 4:00-5:00 PM Workshop with Former California State Senator, Mark Leno.
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Caitlin Henry (Host and email contact)
- Jamilah Shimi* (Zoom facilitator)
- Yasmine Flores (Flyer)
- Student coordinator: Danielle Caballero (8/2); Iszael Caballero (5/2); Joe Lofton (3/2);
- 5:30-6:30 PM Closing Keynote – Actions You Can Take to Intervene or Stop State Sanctioned Violence James Burch, Anti Police Terror Project
- Event Recording
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Alyssa Joyner (Host and email contact)
- Iszael Caballero* (Zoom facilitator)
- Joe Lofton (Flyer)
- Student Coordinators: Yasmine Flores (2/2); Jamilah Shimi (11/2)
- 7:00-8:00 PM Awards & Closing Ceremony
- Event Recording
- 7-7:15 Give Awards & Awardees Speak
- 7:15-7:30 Discuss Deepa Iyer’s graphic on your role in a social justice ecosystem: Take quiz: What kind of changemaker are you?
- 7:30-7:45 Closing Speech Including: Dr. Jerlena Griffin-Desta as Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Diversity
- 7:50-8 Closing Speech Dean Troi Carleton, Dean, School of Social Sciences;
- Zoom registration
- Facebook Event
- Student facilitators:
- Flyer: Shannon Ottens
Social Justice Week 2020
Monday, March 2
12:00-1:00 pm Social Justice Week Introduction and Welcome
Dr. Jerlena Griffin-Desta, Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Diversity Dr. Maureen Buckley, Interim Dean, School of Social Sciences Dr. Peter Phillips, Sociology Department Dr. Diana Grant, Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies Department
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1:00-2:30 pm Michael Nagler: Metta Center for Nonviolence: “Nonviolent Action for Climate Change and Democracy Film: The Third Harmony.”
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2:45-4:00 pm Community & Local Law Enforcement Relations: At A Crossroad: Jerry Threet, Susan Lamont, Elisabeth Cozine speak about Community and Law Enforcement Relations and Committee to Support an Effective Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach
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4:15-5:30 pm Peter Phillips: The Global Power Elite, Challenging the 1%
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6:00-7:00 pm Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl, Grace De La Cruz [Cancelled Day Of].
We will replay content from the earlier sessions in Ballroom A.
Consider attending this film instead “Social Justice Film ft: Peanut Butter Falcon” Mar 2, 2020 , 5:30pm – 7:30pm Location Student Center Ballroom B
7:15 –9:00 Pm Penny Rosenwasser, Author: Hope into Practice, Jewish women choosing justice despite our fears.
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Tuesday, March 3
10:00-11:15 am Dayton Andrews and colleagues, United Front Against Displacement: Solidarity Between Homeless and Housed People: Building a Larger Movement Beyond Struggles Against Displacement
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11:20am – 12:15 pm Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War, Ron Carver and Barbara Doherty, Photo Exhibit
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12:20-1:30 pm Fred Ptucha, Susan Lamont, Derrick West, Dominick Favuzzi, Veterans for Peace: What is the Price We Pay for Perpetual War?
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2:00-3:00 pm Mara Ventura and Tom Woods: Low Wage and Immigrant Workers Rising Up in the North Bay
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3:00-4:30 pm Marianna Yamamoto of NALEO, Soo-Yeon Yoon, Diana Grant, Willie Gin Social Justice and the Census
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5:00-6:15 pm Andy Day TLC Child and Family Services
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7:00-9:00 pm Angela Davis, discusses social justice and what we can do to contribute to a more just world (*location, Green Music Center Weill Hall)
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Wednesday, March 4:
10:00-11:00AM Adrienne Lauby, Homeless Action! and Celeste Austin, The Living Room, Santa Rosa Homelessness in Sonoma County
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11:30-12:30 pm Linda Sartor- Author: Turning Fear into Power – Stories that Inspire Following your Heart Even When Fear is Present
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1:00-2:15 pm Joyce Galindo, Verity: Understanding Sexual Violence
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2:30-3:30 pm Friends of Public Banking Sonoma County– Philip Beard, Debora Hammond
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3:45-4:45 pm Toby Blomé, CODEPINK: U.S. Killer Drones – Resisting Racist Tools of U.S. Empire
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5-8:00 pm Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Molina KPFA FLASHPOINTS: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Corporate Disinformation
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It will also broadcast live on KPFA radio.
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Thursday , March 5
10:30-11:30 am Jane Weil, Restorative Resources Will show a video and discuss using restorative justice with juveniles.
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12:00-1:00 pm Occupy Sonoma County, Rebel Fagin, Climate Change Requires Direct Action
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1:15-2:45 pm Mary Carouba, Women at Ground Zero.
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3:00-4:30 pm Shekeyna Black and Attila Nagy Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center, Round Table Evaluation of Peace and Justice for all
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5:00-6:30 pm Bob Flax, Global Solutions The World Is My Country: A Documentary Film Screening & Discussion.
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7:00-9:00 pm Brian Burton, Ron Lopez, Napoleon Reyes, Benjamin Smith, Kyla Walters, Chingling Wo: Social Justice and Human Rights Realities
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Friday March 6th
10:00-11:30 am José Javier Hernández Ayala, SSU Assistant Professor and Director, Global Warming dangers
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12:00-1:30pm Nicole Wolfe, US Drug Policies
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2:00-3:30 pm Alicia Jrapko, U.S. Coordinator of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity and co-chair of the National Network on Cuba: What to Expect with U.S./Cuba Relations in the Trump Era, Venezuela-what the US corporate media doesn’t want you to know. [Cancelled]
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4:00- 5:30 pm Elliot Currie, A Peculiar Indifference: On Race, Violence, and Social Justice
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7:00- 9:00 pm Mickey Huff, Film and Talk, United States of Distraction: Fighting the Fake News Invasion
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Saturday March 7
10:00 -11:30 am Hanson Lee, Pahn Yi, Dongping Han: China: the last 30 years
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12-1:30 pm John Bertucci, Fukushima Response Campaign: Deep Events & Narrative Literacy in the work of Peter Dale Scott – a conversational discussion
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2- 3:30 pm SSU Socialism Club: Challenging Capitalism
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4:00- 5:30 pm North Coast Coalition for Palestine: Social Justice for Palestine
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