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Community Provided Questions for Speakers

We invite you to submit questions for any of our speakers before their event using the QR code at right/below, or complete this form.

Call for Workshop Proposals

We invite Seattle Colleges faculty and staff to submit proposals for workshops they wish to present to the community addressing Social Justice issues. To submit your proposal complete this form by Monday, December 16, 2024. Thank you! 
 

Denea Joseph

Tuesday, January 21             
Noon to 1:30 p.m. online via Zoom

  • Speaker: Denea Joseph
  • Denea (pronounced Denae) Joseph is an undocumented Black DACA recipient and national immigrant rights activist.

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Under-Protected, Over-Policed: The Criminalization of Undocumented and Black Immigrants

The mainstream media often correlates Latinx identity to immigration. As a result, Black immigrants are often ignored in conversations surrounding the migrant caravan, mass raids, detention, and deportation. Under-protected, over-policed uncovers the sinister tactics used to disproportionately detain and deport undocumented and Black immigrants.

Dolores Huerta

Wednesday, January 22            
Noon to 1:30 p.m. online via Zoom

  • Speaker: Dolores Huerta
  • Dolores Huerta is a legendary labor leader, women's advocate and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW).

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Weaving Movements Together: Immigration, Environment, Labor, Women’s Rights and LGBT Equality

 

Patty Berne

Wednesday, January 23           
3:30 to 5 p.m. online via Zoom

  • Speaker: Patty Berne
  • Patty Berne is the co-founder, executive and artistic director of Sins Invalid, a disability justice-based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender non-conforming artists with disabilities.

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Disability Justice: A New Vision for the Revolutionary Body

In this presentation, we analyze various ways of understanding the body, landing ultimately on the framework of Disability Justice (DJ). Participants will learn the difference between viewing people's bodies through a medical model, a social model, and a disability justice model; will understand the profoundly differing impacts of these differing views on disabled people; will be exposed to a new liberatory way of understanding our bodies.

DJ centers the experiences of disabled people of color and queer/nonbinary/ trans disabled folks, as we are multiply marginalized within the economy, broad social sectors, and social movements, even within the disability rights movement. We will review the importance of intersectionality in all justice based organizing to best achieve a unified call for liberation.

All Speakers will be captioned during the webinars.

The King Center offers a number of educational resources on enacting nonviolent social change and educating all on the tenets of civic discourse and civil disobedience.

Highlighting surprising facts about King’s life is now available at nmaahc.si.edu/5thingsMLK.