Tag: Social Justice
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AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Liz Olivia Fernandez
Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of segments of two short documentaries featuring Cuban journalist and activist Liz Olivia Fernandez. Fernandez will be present, and will give a talk before the community discussion.
Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.
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Three Sisters Kitchen Food Justice Reading Circle
Come to Three Sisters Kitchen to read about and discuss anticolonial and antiracist approaches to food justice and the importance of local agriculture. Third in a three-part series every other Tuesday.
Third meeting: Indigenous Peoples’ Food Sovereignty (Undoing the Celebration of Conquest) – Reading: Dina Gilio-Whitaker, “Food Is Medicine, Water Is Life,” in As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Register to receive the readings by email!
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Three Sisters Kitchen Food Justice Reading Circle
Come to Three Sisters Kitchen to read about and discuss anticolonial and antiracist approaches to food justice and the importance of local agriculture. Second in a three-part series every other Tuesday.
Second meeting: Mutual Aid (with special guest, by zoom, Marco Saavedra from La Morada in the South Bronx) – Reading: Alexandra Délano Alonso and Daria Samway, “Migrant Community Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mutual Aid at La Morada”
Register to receive the readings by email!
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Three Sisters Kitchen Food Justice Reading Circle
Come to Three Sisters Kitchen to read about and discuss anticolonial and antiracist approaches to food justice and the importance of local agriculture. First in a three-part series every other Tuesday.
First meeting: The Global Capitalist/Colonial Context – Reading: Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, “Cheap Food,” in A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Register to receive the readings by email!
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CANCELLED AfroMundo Social Justice Series: American Revolutionary
CANCELLED: Replaced by https://nmblc.org/events/afromundo-social-justice-series-fernandez/
Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of American Revolutionary, a film about the evolution of 98-year-old Chinese American activist Grace Lee Boggs. 7:00 pm film screening, with panel and community discussion immediately following.
“What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future. The documentary film, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, plunges us into Boggs’s lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy—her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her—drives the story forward..”
More info and trailer HERE. Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.
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AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Lead Me Home
Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of Lead Me Home, a documentary about homelessness in America. 7:00 pm film screening, with panel and community discussion immediately following.
“More than 500,000 people experience homelessness every night in America. Lead Me Home is a documentary short that tells a few of these real-life stories giving the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope, and diversity of what it means to be unsheltered today while calling into question uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies.”
More info and trailer HERE. Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.
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Open Wide Our Hearts webinar: Healing Racism Through Faith
Join two powerful presenters, NMBLC founder and director Cathryn McGill and Asante Award honoree Adolphe Pierre-Louis, for a webinar responding to the Open Wide Our Hearts pastoral letter against racism. They will explore healing racism in the church and community.
Pre-registration is required. Click HERE to register and receive the Zoom link. (Link on flyer is not functional.)
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Black Lives, Black Lungs film screening
Join NMACT for a free screening of the film Black Lives, Black Lungs: Journey of a Stolen Leaf. The film will be followed by a panel discussion on racism in tobacco marketing and public health.
“Black Lives, Black Lungs: The Journey of a Stolen Leaf unravels the tobacco industry’s forward-looking strategy of protecting profits, subverting regulations, and maintaining influence through the promotion of e-cigarettes to hook a new generation to nicotine. The panel discussion will feature topics of racism within commercial tobacco marketing, the lasting health and economic impacts on communities, and discussion of policy initiatives working to address health equity in New Mexico.”
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2023 NMCSW Women’s Summit
At the first annual Women’s Summit, come together with women from diverse backgrounds in a supportive environment to share experiences, network, and discuss pressing issues of gender equality. Join together to build bridges, foster support, and generate transformative solutions.
“Through this annual event, the commission seeks to foster social change, advocate for policy reforms, and create a more inclusive society where women can thrive…. The conference represents a pivotal step towards a more inclusive society where women’s voices are heard, their rights are protected, and their potential is fully realized.”
Childcare is provided for participants. Click HERE to register for the conference and for childcare, or to get the link to attend virtually.
