VANCOUVER, Wash. The Collective for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University Vancouver will present its spring symposium, Environmental and Climate Justice Practices, on April 8 on campus. The symposium will run from 10:20 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in the Dengerink Administration Building, Room 110. It is free and open to the public.
Highlights include the following:
11 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
Gail Small, Climate Justice in Indian Country. Small is a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and professor of Native American Studies at Montana State University.
1:30 2:45 p.m.
Rik Scarce, Trajectories of Injustices: Reflections on Three Decades of Radical Environmentalism. He is a WSU alumnus and professor of sociology at Skidmore College.
2:45 4 p.m.
Cindy Wiesner, It Takes Roots: Frontline Communities at COP21 and Beyond. She is national coordinator for the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance and the Our Power Campaign.
The event will open with an invocation by Chief Roy Wilson of the Cowlitz tribe. There will be a break for lunch.
You may attend all or any part of the symposium, and no reservations are required. For more information, contact Pavithra Narayanan, associate professor of English and co-director of CSEJ: pavitraa@wsu.edu, 360-546-9732.
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