International Day of Peace, Bellingham

WHATCOM PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER’S DAY OF PEACE EVENTS

Welcome to 2022 International Day of Peace

WPJC “Honoring 20 Years of Peace and Justice”

Sun Sept 11, 2 Events, noon and 4 pm, Bellingham, details below

International Day of Peace is WPJC’s main fundraising and educational event of the year, raising critical funds to support the ever more critical work of the Center in advocating for peace and against wars & militarized systemic violence at home and abroad. This year, our goal is to raise $5,000.

Noon – 1:30 pm at the Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay St, Bellingham, WA 98225.  Pre-recorded screening of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz keynote speech live virtual Q&A

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, a child of tenant farmers.  As a veteran of the 1960s revolution, she has been involved in anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist movements, union organizing, and was one of the founders of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the late 1960s. Since 1973, she has focused on Native American and Ethnic Studies and worked with Indigenous communities for sovereignty and land rights, and helped build the international Indigenous movement.  A historian, writer, and professor emeritus in Native American Studies at California State University, she is the author of numerous Indigenous-related books and articles, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States and Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. Her most recent book Not A Nation of Immigrants – Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States

4 pm at Market Depot Square, 1100 Railroad Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225.  Lifetime and (NEW!) Youth Peacemaker Award Celebration

Info and donations https://www.whatcompjc.org/idp2022,  info 360-734-0217 or office@whatcompjc.org