All Events
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
Cup of Culture
Food Chains
MCC Theater
There is more interest in food than there is in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases, they are beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the U.S. In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battles to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers. (85 min, English, 2014)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqZLrXVAde4
