“Our lives begin
to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~Martin Luther
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FEBRUARY Return to top
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Sat., Feb. 14, 2009 4:00 PM |
WWU Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will host
Schachaf Polakow, a member of Anarchists Against the Wall. His
presentation will include film and photos, and will focus both on AATW's
recent work in solidarity with Gaza and ongoing work in the West Bank.
Anarchists Against the Wall is a direct action group that fights against
Israeli apartheid and oppression in all its forms. For five years the group
has waged a constant struggle against Israel's Wall. In December 2008,
Anarchists Against the Wall and the Bil'in Village Committee were jointly
awarded the prestigious Carl von Ossietzky Medal---an award given annually by
the Berlin-based International League of Human Rights, named after German
Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky who died in a Nazi concentration
camp. http://www.awalls.org/ |
WWU Communications Building Room 120 |
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Wed., Feb. 18, 2009 12:00-1:30 PM |
World Issues Forum presents ‘Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt’ by John Gibler, Global Exchange Media Fellow. John will offer an evocative report on the epic powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the struggle of the indigenous, farmers, and workers who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. He is a special correspondent for Flashpoints on KPFA. He has reported on the ground from the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign, the massive protests against electoral fraud in Mexico City, and the civil disobedience uprising in Oaxaca. |
WWU Fairhaven College Auditorium |
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Feb. 20-28, 2009 |
Whatcom Human Rights Film Festival Click here for schedule, or here for full information (Film Festival URL: http://www.myspace.com/bellinghamhumanrightsfilm) |
Various locations – See film schedule for locations or http://www.myspace.com/bellinghamhumanrightsfilm
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Mon., Feb. 23, 2009 12:00-1:30 PM |
World Issues Forum presents ‘U.S. Immigration Policy
and Human Rights’ by Susan Gzech, Director of the Human Rights Program,
University of Chicago. Dr. Gzech’s research interests include the
inter-relationship between human rights and migration policy, the history of
U.S. immigration policy and Mexico-U.S. relations. From 1996-2001, she was
Director of the Mexico-U.S. Advocates Network. She is a legal commentator for
Univision-TV, Chicago. |
WWU Fairhaven College Auditorium |
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Mon., Feb. 23, 2009 7:00 PM |
Bellingham City Council Meeting |
City Council Chambers 210 Lottie St. |
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Wed., Feb. 25, 2009 12:00-1:30 PM |
World Issues Forum presents ‘Constructing a Visual
Grammar of Political Resistance: The 1935 ‘Art Commentary on Lynching’ as
Counter-Memory to Lynching Photography’ by Susan Owen, Distinguished
Professor in the Communication Studies Department, University of Puget Sound.
Prof. Owen teaches, writes, and lectures about cultural memory, visual
rhetoric, and public representations of gender, race, and sexual relations.
Her most recent co-authored book is titled Bad Girls: Cultural Politics and
Media Representations of Transgressive Women. She is currently working on a
co-authored book project about representations of race lynching in America. |
WWU Fairhaven College Auditorium |
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Wed., Feb. 25, 2009 3:00-4:30 PM |
World Issues Forum presents ‘Communities of Memory
and Claims of the Past on the Present: Reading Race Trauma through The Green
Mile’ by Prof. Susan Owen . |
WWU Communications Building Room 110 |
MARCH Return to top
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Wed., Mar. 4, 2009 12:00-1:30 PM |
World Issues Forum presents 'The Tyranny of Oil:
The World’s Most Powerful Industry—and What We Must Do to Stop It’ by Antonia
Juhasz, a Fellow with Oil Change International and the Institute for Policy
Studies, and author of The Bush Agenda. Ms. Juhasz argues that the oil
industry’s grip on policy and government has never been stronger submitting
that the business and politics of oil production pose such grave implications
on so many fronts –the environment, human rights, the economy, work safety,
public health—that the current state of petroleum industry affairs is
fundamentally antithetical to democracy. Her writing has appeared in numerous
publications including the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. |
WWU Fairhaven College
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Mon., Mar. 9, 2009 7:00 PM |
Bellingham City Council Meeting |
City Council Chambers 210 Lottie St. |
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Mon., Mar. 23, 2009 7:00 PM |
Bellingham City Council Meeting |
City Council Chambers 210 Lottie St. |
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APRIL Return to top
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Mon. Nov. 3, 2008 7:00 PM |
Bellingham City Council Regular
Meeting |
Council Chambers, City Hall 210 Lottie St. |
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Wed., Nov. 5, 2008 12:00-1:30 PM |
WWU World Issues
Forum/Paths to Global Justice Series:
“The Politics of Health” We in the US die much younger than we should for living
in the richest and most powerful country in world history, one that spends
half of the world's health care bill. Although most of us are unaware
of our premature demise. Do you want health or health care? We lack
both. The reason is that today we transfer about a trillion dollars a
year from the rest of us to the rich, something we didn't do fifty years ago
when we were one of the world's healthiest countries. The solution is
to go back to policies proposed by both Republican and Democratic presidents
in the last century that would have shared this country's wealth more
equitably. If we enacted these the
rich and the rest of us would all be healthier. |
WWU Fairhaven College
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Thurs., Nov. 6, 2008 TBA |
WWU World Issues
Forum/Paths to Global Justice Series:
“Resisting Empire: A Soldier of Conscience” Camilo Mejia, first known Iraq
veteran who refused to fight in Iraq, tells his story in Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant
Camilo Mejia, from his upbringing in Central America and his experience
as an immigrant in the United States, to his service in Iraq and subsequent
time in prison for his refusal to redeploy.
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TBA |
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Sat., Nov. 8, 2008 7:00 PM |
“The Corporal’s Diary:
38 Days in Iraq” discussion with film
producers. See Village Books website for details. |
Village Books |
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Mon. Nov. 10, 2008 7:00 PM |
Bellingham City Council
Regular Meeting |
Council Chambers, City Hall 210 Lottie St. |
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Wed., Nov. 12, 2008 12:00-1:30 PM |
WWU World Issues Forum/Paths
to Global Justice Series: “The
Plight of Afghan Women” Heena and Khushboo will illuminate the lives of
Afghan women. In a country where arranged marriages are the rule rather
than the exception, where co-educational schools suffer vandalism due to the
presence of female students and where the feminization of poverty abounds,
the plight of Afghan women bears consideration. |
WWU Fairhaven College
Auditorium |
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Wed., Nov. 12, 2008 7:00 PM |
Whatcom County Council
Regular Meeting |
Council Chambers, Whatcom
County Courthouse |
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Mon., Nov. 17, 2008 12:00-1:30 PM |
WWU World Issues Forum/Paths to Global Justice Series: “Contradictions and the Future of Globalization” Dr.
Richard Robbins, anthorologist at the State University of New York at
Plattsburgh; author of numerous books
and recipient of distinguished awards. |
WWU Fairhaven College
Auditorium |
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Mon. Nov. 24, 2008 7:00 PM |
Bellingham City Council
Regular Meeting |
Council Chambers, City Hall 210 Lottie St. |
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Tues., Nov. 25, 2008 7:00 PM |
Whatcom County Council
Regular Meeting |
Council Chambers, Whatcom
County Courthouse |
DECEMBER Return to top |
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Wed., Dec. 3, 2008 12:00-1:30 PM |
WWU World Issues
Forum/Paths to Global Justice Series:
“Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill” Spanning nearly 40 years, Dr. Ott in her recent book, Not One Drop, describes an extraordinary tale of
ordinary people who take on the world’s richest oil companies and most
powerful politicians to protect Prince William Sound from oil accidents.
Author Riki Ott, a rare combination of commercial salmon
"fisherma'am" and PhD marine biologist, describes the firsthand
impact of this broken promise when the Exxon Valdez oil spill decimated
Cordova, Alaska, a small commercial fishing community set in 38,000 square
miles of rugged Alaska wilderness. |
WWU Fairhaven College
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Wed., Dec. 3, 2008 7:00 PM |
WWU World Issues
Forum/Paths to Global Justice Series:
“Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill” BOOK READING Spanning nearly 40 years, Dr. Ott in her recent
book, Not One Drop, describes an extraordinary tale of
ordinary people who take on the world’s richest oil companies and most
powerful politicians to protect Prince William Sound from oil accidents.
Author Riki Ott, a rare combination of commercial salmon
"fisherma'am" and PhD marine biologist, describes the firsthand
impact of this broken promise when the Exxon Valdez oil spill decimated
Cordova, Alaska, a small commercial fishing community set in 38,000 square
miles of rugged Alaska wilderness. |
Village Books |
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Mon. Dec. 8, 2008 7:00 PM |
Bellingham City Council
Regular Meeting |
Council Chambers, City Hall 210 Lottie St. |
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Tues., Dec. 9, 2008 7:00 PM |
Whatcom County Council
Regular Meeting |
Council Chambers, Whatcom
County Courthouse |
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Mon. Dec. 15, 2008 7:00 PM |
Bellingham City Council
Regular Meeting |
Council Chambers, City Hall 210 Lottie St. |
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Mon. Jan. 5, 2008 7:00 PM |
Bellingham City Council Regular
Meeting |
Council Chambers, City Hall 210 Lottie St. |