Sustainability and Justice

Fri. Nov. 5, 1-3 pm, Mural Artist Susan Greene on “Art, Trauma, Resilience & Resistance” (Sem 2, E-1107). Public artist, educator and clinical psychologist, Susan Greene is director of the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project located in downtown Olympia, on the Labor Temple (corner of Capitol and State). Her work focuses on borders, migrations, decolonization and memory, with recent integration of social networking technologies to make her ‘murals speak’ across borders, cyberspace, and separation walls. Greene is currently visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, and has led or participated in more than 30 public art projects worldwide, from California’s juvenile hall to refugee camps of Palestine. Sponsored by the Visions & Voices program. Free and open to the public.

Please contact Therese Saliba (X6854 or salibat@evergreen.edu) or Anne Fischel (6416 or fischela@evergreen.edu) if you would like your full program to attend.

Saturday, Oct. 30, 7:30pm, First Christian Church. Marc Ellis speaks on “Jews of Conscience and the Quest for Justice in Palestine and Israel” (701 Franklin Street, Olympia). Free and open to the public.

Please contact Therese Saliba (X6854 or salibat@evergreen.edu) or Anne Fischel (6416 or fischela@evergreen.edu) if you would like your full program to attend.

Fri. Oct. 29, 12-1:30 pm, Lecture Hall: “Towards a Just Peace: A Jewish Perspective on History, Identity and Solidarity,” a talk by Rabbi Marc Ellis. Marc Ellis is a Jewish theologian and philosopher. He is the Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, and author of a number of
books, including Israel and Palestine Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-First Century. Rabbi Ellis calls for a reinterpretation of the Holocaust in order to construct a shared Jewish-Palestinian project “for interdependent empowerment, for justice and ethics, for risk-taking to achieve what seems unachievable” through “solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.” (Sponsored by the following progams: Visions and Voices, Imperialism, Nonfiction Media and Memory and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean.) Free and open to the public.

Mon. Oct. 25, 8 pm, Evergreen Recital Hall–”There is A Field.” This stage performance by Jen Marlow is based on the life and death of Aseel Asleh, a young Palestinian-Israeli who was shot by Israeli police in a non-violent demonstration. Aseel, like the playwright, worked with the organization Seeds of Peace, which brings together Israeli and Palestinian youth. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, languages, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense” (Rumi). Sponsored by the Visions & Voices program, The Rachel Corrie Foundation, and Evergreen Expressions. Free & open to the public.

Sat. Oct. 23, 8pm @Traditions (5th & Water St.) Wild Bill Bailout, the Bard of the Bankers, and satirical songster Dave Lippman bring their Fairly Balanced Cabaret to Olympia. This songster has some very wise cracks about Tea-Baggers, Climate Chaos, oil spills, oil wars, and, of course, Democrats. Attendance is optional but strongly suggested. Sponsored by the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace. Admission is $12, $8 for students and low-income. Info: 360-705-2819.

Thurs. Oct. 7, 4-6 pm “The Conflict Over Palestine and the Imperative of Justice: From Israeli Occupation to Evergreen Divestment,” a talk by Steve Niva, TESC Faculty Middle East Studies (Sem 2, E-1105). Free & open to the public.