Honoring 50 Years of Student Organizing and Healing for WWU Ethnic Studies

VU 565 A/B/C,Bellingham WA 98225

17 May, 2022

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Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Ethnic Student Occupation: Healing to Organize, Organizing to Heal with Dr. Farima Pour-Khorshid On Monday, May 15, 1972, Ethnic Studies (ES) students, faculty and staff began a three-day occupation of WWU's Old Main building. ES students and faculty successfully organized the takeover to urge the university president and board of trustees to honor WWU's commitment to staffing the growing College of Ethnic Studies. Over the course of 50 years – but especially after the elimination of the College of Ethnic Studies – many students groups organized for the college's reinstatement and support of BIPOC students, faculty and staff. This week's events honor over 5 decades of Ethnic Studies students, faculty and staff organizing, as well as the health and well-being of Ethnic Studies students now and into the future. Healing to Organize, Organizing to Heal with Dr. Farima Pour-Khorshid Tuesday, May 17th 3-5 (Individual)Thursday, May 19th 3-5 (Interpersonal)Friday, May 20th 12-2 (Institutional)Participants are encouraged to attend all three workshops. All are welcome. Refreshments provided and a raffle for prizes. Dr. Pour-Khorshid centers healing within her grass roots community organizing. Building on collaborative and collective work with the Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective, Dr. Pour-Khorshid will be engaging attendees in individual, interpersonal and institutional Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators (2021).