All Events
Race Matters Series
Environmental Justice and Health Disparities: Passion, Partnerships, and Progress
MCC Lounge
Environmental health scientist and environmental justice advocate Sacoby Wilson will detail the fight to address environmental injustice in the form of environmental racism, environmental classism, and environmental slavery across the U.S. He will discuss his efforts to 'inpower' communities that have been differentially burdened by environmental hazards and his participation in community-university partnerships to address this injustice in Flint, Michigan, the Washington, DC region, and the Carolinas. Dr. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Applied Environmental Health at University of Maryland’s School of Public Health.
Conscious Conversations Series
Environmental Justice Around the World
MCC Lounge
A student-facilitated conversation about environmental justice around the world. The goal of this panel is to de-westernize the narrative surrounding environmental justice and center diverse student perspectives, ultimately, calling to question who is actually at the center of the environmental justice movement? Speakers will include students from the UCSB community and potentially from the following organizations:
- BWHC
- El Congreso
- Mauna Kea Protectors
- SJP
- BSU
- KP
- M.U.J.E.R
- Global gaucho commission
- AIISA
Co-Sponsor: Environmental Justice Alliance
Cup of Culture
Even The Rain
Online
Mexican filmmakers Sebastian and Costa, shooting a film in Bolivia about the conquest by Christopher Columbus, become embroiled in controversy when their film schedule runs up against the Cochabamba protests. With local natives rising up against the privatisation of their water supply. As the production is beset by more and more problems and the riots escalate, the tension rises between the crew members. 1h 44m
To uphold our weekly film screenings and discussions, we will be transforming our cup of culture series into a virtual setting. Every Wednesday, we will watch a Netflix documentary or movie as a collective and we will have a post-film discussion afterwards.
Zoom Link for watching and discussions
Cup of Culture
Finding Dawn
Director: Christine Welsh
Film Screening/Online
Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh brings us a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy – the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The film takes a journey into the heart of Indigenous women's experience, from Vancouver's skid row, down the Highway of Tears in northern BC, and on to Saskatoon, where the murders and disappearances of these women remain unsolved. 2006. 1h 13m
