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Comunidad, Familia y Celebracion!
Start the New Year Right! Good Food with Justice at the Table!
Saturday January 26, 2008
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Faith Lutheran Church, 2750 McLeod Rd., Bellingham, WA
(On the corner of NW Ave. and McLeod)Dinner - Traditional Oaxacan Pozole and warm Fruit Ponche
$15 a plate, $10 students/seniors, $5 Child's Plate (under 12)
This is a special treat! Chicken Pozole with that Oaxacan mole touch
and we will have a vegetarian version. The fruit ponche is made from a
combination of guayaba, sugar cane, tamarind, citrus fruits, plums, cinnamon,
cloves and other delights all simmered slowly and blended into a delicious
drink - a traditional way to welcome the new year in Mexico.Program - Panel and Dialogue
Las Margaritas will not be in the kitchen during dinner!
They will be presenting an opportunity to community folks by telling
their stories and their plans for their future in Whatcom County.
You will be able to dialogue with them about immigration reform,
how the group Las Margaritas came to be, why they cook, why ponche
is so important and more."De Colores" Youth Guitar Ensemble
Come and meet the new beginning class, an amazing group of ten year olds
as they play with the seasoned intermediate performers. Listen to their new
repertoire!We invite you to join Las Margaritas and the "De Colores" Youth Guitar Ensemble
at this fundraising dinner to help support the Aguila del Norte Immigrant Justice Project.
All funds will be used for providing assistance to immigrant families, such as interpreting,
legal fees, transportation, photocopying know your rights materials, day care and much more.Call 360-738-0893 to reserve your tickets or go to www.foodjustice.org to purchase on line.
who are trying to integrate human rights
and multicultural education into the classroom.
If you are interested in learning more about available resources, please contact WHRTF at
whrtf@whrtf.org or 733-2233World Issues Forum "Stripped Naked: Divesting the Nation of the Racial Body in the Zuit Suit Wars of 1943"
with Lisa Flores, Associate Professor in Communication at the University of Colorado, BoulderFairhaven College Auditorium
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Noon - 1:30pm
FREE
Approximately 15 years after the Mexican immigration wave of the late 1920s, the children of these immigrants were entering their teenage years. Growing up amidst the economic deprivations and the nativism of the Great Depression, many of these young adults began identifying with a street culture and came to be known as pachucos. It is around the figure of the pachuco or the zoot suiter that one of the largest race riots in U.S. history occurs. Flores argue that the race riots of 1943 emerge out of Mexican American youth’s “crimes of visibility,” and that the riots serve as a disciplinary function designed to restore rhetorical order to the nation.For more information: fairhven college
5. TOWARDS DEEPENING OUR COMMITMENT TO THE GREENING OF OUR COMMUNITY
Thursday, January 31st , 7pm
Whatcom Peace & Justice Center
100 E. Maple StreetFREE and Open to All
The Whatcom Peace and Justice Center will be host to this citizen-sponsored initiative designed to deepen and strengthen our commitment to environmental stewardship through our own individual actions, bringing together four groups that met this past. The purpose of this meeting is to continue to move forward in ways that strengthen and deepen our commitment to environmental stewardship and our connection to each other. Everyone welcome.
For more information contact the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center at 734-0217
6. World Issues Forum “Lessons from Hanford, the most contaminated area in the western Hemisphere: Why nuclear power is not part of the solution to global warming”
with Gerry Pollet, JD Executive Director of Heart of America Northwest
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Wednesday, Febraury 6th, 2008, Noon - 1:30pm
FREE
The federal government is trying - again - to use Hanford as a national radioactive waste dump for the waste from nuclear weapons and reactors. Hanford is the most contaminated place in the Western hemisphere, and threatens the Columbia River which runs through it for fifty miles as well as the health and safety of the entire Northwest. Over a million gallons of High-Level Nuclear Waste has leaked from tanks at Hanford and the contamination is spreading rapidly towards the Columbia River. The federal Energy Department wants to delay cleanup and use Hanford as a national nuclear waste dump. In 2008, USDOE will propose sending up to 100,000 truckloads of High-Level Nuclear Waste for the Bush Administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Expansion Plan to Hanford for storage and reprocessing – the center piece of proposals to expand nuclear power. Yet, reprocessing is the same process that created the liquid High-Level Nuclear Wastes for which there is no solution in sight. The proposals to use Hanford as a national waste dump are also central to plans to expand nuclear weapons production.
For more information:
http://www.wwu.edu/depts/fairhaven
7. Remembering Those Killed in Iraq
Thursday, Feb. 7th, 11:30AM – 12:00PM
Red Square, Western Washington University
Join us Thursday, February 7th from 11:30am-12:00pm in Red Square between Bond Hall and Miller Hall. We gather to remember and honor those killed by naming them, and we gather to keep the consciousness of the daily on-going war in Iraq alive on our campus.
For more information contact Shirley Osterhaus at shirley.osterhaus@wwu.edu
8. World Issues Forum “Global Care Chains: Female Labor Migration”
with Ramya Vijaya, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Economics, Richard Stockton College in New Jersey
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 - 2:00pm
WWU Science Lecture Hall 130
FREE
This talk will discuss the increasing trend of female labor migration which has been called a 'global care chain'. While the push towards globalization and export oriented neo-liberal growth strategy has created new labor market opportunities for women it has also caused a new kind of displacement of people and families. This talk will address the various political economy aspects of this displacement. It will also present a case study of a particular type of care chain - medical tourism and its implications for female labor migration.
For more information: http://www.wwu.edu/depts/fairhaven
9. World Issues Forum “Balancing the Home and the World: The Ascendance of Women Workers in the Global Economy ”
with Ramya Vijaya, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Economics, Richard Stockton College in New Jersey
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Wednesday, Febraury 13th, 2008, Noon - 1:30pm
FREE
The unprecedented rise of women workers in export-oriented production in many parts of the world has been referred to as a trend towards global feminization of the labor force. In this presentation, Ramya Vijaya will discuss the trend and its impact on a wide-range of economic issues such as rising income inequalities, the conflicts between market work and household work, fragmentation of work contracts, labor mobility and the development of a global care chain.
For more information: http://www.wwu.edu/depts/fairhaven
10. World Issues Forum “Russia from the Inside: An American Perspective”
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Wednesday, Febraury 20th, 2008 Noon - 1:30pm
FREE
Carol Davis, a poet, teaches at Santa Monica College, CA and is the 2008 Sandburg-Auden-Stein Poet-in-Residence at Olivet College, MI. In 2007 she received the T.S. Eliot Prize for Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg.
Russia is a country undergoing tremendous changes, yet it remains a country full of contradictions. Its capital, Moscow, is home to more millionaires than anywhere else in the world, but many of its people are impoverished. Carol Davis has been living and working on and off in Russia for the last eleven years. She will address aspects of Russia under presidents Yeltsin and Putin: economic disparities, hate crimes and the status of women and minorities.
For more information: http://www.wwu.edu/depts/fairhaven
11. Ethnic Student Center (ESC) Bowl-A-Thon
Raise Money for Scholarships and give other Students the Opportunity to Attend Western!!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
20th Century Bowl
1411 North State Street
Not only is this a Fundraiser but it is a SOCIAL!! Come out on February 20th and knock down pins to raise money for our ESC scholarship Get your sponsorship sheets in the ESC and find someone (family, friends, staff, teachers) who wants to support access to college education! INVITE everyone!! There will be food and prizes. You don't want to miss the first ever...ESC Bowl-A-Thon!
For more information contact the ESC at 360.650.7277
12. Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival!!February 21 to March 1, 2008 - 7pm
Fairhaven College Auditorium
FREE and Open to All
This 10 day festival features award-winning documentary films and speakers highlighting some of the most compelling human rights situations in the world today. These films illustrate exemplary and inspiring efforts in the quest for greater justice and equity. We attempt to make local connections with the films presented in order to give attendees a way to get involved and help make a difference. Admission is free to all films, as is parking at Fairhaven College.
All films are screened at 7pm at the Fairhaven College auditorium, on the campus of WWU, except the opening night film, Thursday Feb 21, which will be shown at the Pickford Cinema at 7pm, 1416 Cornwall Ave. On Saturday, March 1, matinee films will be shown from 12-6pm at Fairhaven College, in the Auditorium.
This festival is brought to you by the dedicated, volunteer efforts of campus and community members and over 40 local businesses, organizations and church groups. Our primary sponsors include: Whatcom Human Rights Task Force, Fairhaven College, Pickford Cinema, and Amnesty International Puget Sound.
Check our websites for speakers, film times, descriptions, and directions.
www.whrtf.org/filmfest and www.myspace.com/bellinghamhumanrightsfilm
To volunteer for this year's festival, or for more information, call: Jerry Swann 360-319-777613. World Issues Forum - “Plan Mexico or Merida Initiative”
with Carlos Euceda, indigenous rights activist from Honduras
Wednesday, Febraury 27th, 2008 - Noon - 1:30pm
Fairhaven College Auditorium
FREE
On tour with the Mexican Solidarity Network, Carlos Euceda will discuss Plan Mexico, officially dubbed the “Mérida Initiative” but more commonly referred to as “Plan Mexico” because of its similarities to Plan Columbia. Instead of providing aid that would address the current economic crisis caused by past US policy, this plan calls for direct donations of military and intelligence equipment and training programs.
Noon-1:30, Fairhaven College Auditorium
For more information: http://www.wwu.edu/depts/fairhaven
14. WHRTF eNews Submission Guidelines
Any nonprofit organization or community member in the Bellingham/Seattle area may submit info on upcoming events related to Human Rights advocacy, education, legislation, activism, and outreach. Only those events pertaining to human rights issues will be listed in the WHRTF eNewsletter.
Submissions may be e-mailed to Willow Rudiger at whrtf@whrtf.org and should include relevant time, date, location, brief description, and contact information. They should be limited to 100 words, and may be edited for length.
updated - 2.4.08