Events and News

Prof. Laurie Mercier helps commemorate Voting Rights and Immigration actsanniversaries

During fall semester 2015, Professor Laurie Mercier organized a series of public events to commemorate the 50th anniversaries of the 1965 Voting Rights and Immigration acts. Held on the WSU Vancouver campus, the series “Race, Immigration, and Citizenship” featured:

Nov. 3 – Alabama civil rights leader Joanne Bland: “Selma’s Bloody Sunday, the Voting Rights Movement and the Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights.”

Nov. 10 –  Actor and playwright Ariel Luckey: “Amnesia: Immigration, Assimilation and White Privilege”

Nov 19 – Screening of the film 14: Dred Scott, Wong Kim Ark & Vanessa Lopez and discussion with filmmakers

Dec 1 – “Immigration and the Law” Discussion with Attorney Gretel Ness

Professor Goucher, co-director of the Collective for Social & Environmental Justice (CSEJ) helped organize and host a conference on April 8 at WSUV, “Environmental and Climate Justice Practices,” featuring Gail Small (Northern Cheyenne), professor of Native American Studies at Montana State University, and other speakers.

As Goucher noted in her summary comments at the end of the conference, history is important for not only understanding peoples’ connections to the land and how we arrived in the environmental present, but it informs our reckoning with paths forward.     

http://events.vancouver.wsu.edu/environmental-and-climate-justice-practices