WSU-Vancouver to hold 4th annual Social Justice Conference April 21-22

Washington State University Vancouver’s Native Programs and the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice (csej-wsu.org/) are hosting their fourth annual Social Justice Conference on the theme of “Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations and Environmental Justice: Constructing Coalitions at the Intersections.” 

The conference will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, and from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22. All sessions will be held over Zoom. Pre-registration is required. Registration and more information can be found online at labs.wsu.edu/sjcon-wds/2023/03/28/sjcon/. The event is free and open to the public.

• Salmon Scam: Criminalization and Exoneration of Native Fisher People
• Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge: Decolonizing Academia and Nurturing Healthy Futures Through First Foods and Plant Relatives
• Missing and Murdered Indigenous People: Fossil Fuels, Man Camps and a Case for Divestment, Reinvestment and Reparations
• Indigenous/Black Solidarity: From AIM and the Black Panthers to Standing Rock and the George Floyd Uprising
• Speaking to the Gap: Health Disparities and Death in Indian Country
• Screening and discussion of “Atomic Bamboozle,” a documentary that follows activists as they expose the true costs of new small nuclear reactor designs