Panel discusses peaceful community advocacy movements Tuesday
For a second straight year, the university will honor the memory of Cesar Chavez by hosting a panel discussion, “Cesar Chavez and Peaceful Community Advocacy Movements,†from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in EHS 125.
The event, sponsored by the Office of Transitions and Inclusion and the Center for Peace and Justice, will feature a panel that includes local professors and community advocates. They will discuss grass roots organizing, worker’s rights, structural economics, factors leading to and perpetuating forms of marginalization, and teaching for empowerment, among other issues.
Among those expected to participate is Joseph Orosco, professor of philosophy and director of the Peace Studies Program at Oregon State University; Tom Hastings, who teaches in Portland State University’s conflict resolution master’s program; Romeo Sosa and Pedro Sosa from VOZ Workers’ Rights Education Project; and Andy Coulombe, a George Fox alumnus who works with Latino/Latina populations in running Jubilee Food Pantry and Public Community Gardening efforts in Hubbard, Ore. The evening also will include a poetry reading by longtime English professor Ed Higgins.
To learn more, contact Joel Perez at jperez@georgefox.edu or Clint Baldwin at cbaldwin@georgefox.edu.