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Watch the Air, Water, Land Symposium

The Air, Water, Land: Native/Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Descendent Relationalities and Activism symposium was a powerful intersection of activism and community. Thank you to all who made it possible! A recording is now available. If you were unable to participate or want to watch your favorite session again, please find it linked here.

Air, Water, Land symposium recorded video link

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Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice: Info Session

November 16, 2018
12:00 pmto1:00 pm

Straub Hall, 245
1451 Onyx Street, Eugene, OR 97403

Come talk with UO professor Derrick Hindrey about indigenous communities in Bolivia!

This program will focus on concrete contemporary topics, including indigenous peoples and climate justice; hydrocarbons development and conflicts on indigenous lands; legal developments and challenges; natural resource management in indigenous territories (e.g. community-forestry); development encroachment; transnational indigenous environmental movements; conservation of biodiversity related to indigenous peoples’ intellectual property rights; mining and dams; and finally indigenous agroecology.

Program Dates:

June 22 – July 13, 2019

Application Deadlines:

Priority – February 15 ($100 off your program)

Final – Marh 15

Find out more information and APPLY TODAY:

https://geo.uoregon.edu/programs/bolivia/indigenous-rights-and-environmental-justice-in-bolivia

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Environmental Justice, Race, and Public Lands: A Symposium

May 9, 2018toMay 11, 2018

 

Full Schedule: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/ejrpl/

Cosponsored by CLLAS

This symposium focuses on issues of equity and environmental justice on public lands. The event brings together practitioners engaged in
diversity, equity, and inclusion work throughout the Pacific Northwest with scholars focused on race, environmental justice, and/or Indigeneity as they relate to public lands.

  • Wednesday, May 9th @ 6:30pm in the Many Nations Longhouse: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Lecture featuring Dr. Karletta Chief and Dr. Margaret Hiza-Redsteer.
  • Thursday, May 10th @ 7:30pm in Straub 156: Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte will deliver a keynote entitled “Ironic Storytelling for Public Lands: Indigenizing Justice and Coalition-Building.”
  • Friday, May 11th @ 7:30pm in Straub 156: Dr. Carolyn Finney, the author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors, will deliver the final keynote.

The symposium also includes panels on Practioner Perspectives on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion on Public Lands, Historical perspectives on Race, Environmental Justice, and Public Lands, Decolonizing Public Lands, and Labor as Public Lands Environmental Justice Issue. › Continue reading

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