Exhibition & events

Edith Tovar and Juliana Pino Alcaraz with Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO). On LVEJO’s #LaVillitaRespira Campaign in response to the Crawford Plant demolition and future construction of a distribution center by Hilco Co.

Wed. Sep. 16, 2020
4:30-5:30PM CST

Dr. Antonio Lopez, ECJ Scholar & Activist. On current efforts of EJ organizations to protect their communities, and shared lessons of power and environmental racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wed. Sep. 30, 2020
4:30-5:30PM CST

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For more program description, go HERE.

For access needs or questions, email: lcc@uic.edu

All programs 4:30-5:30PM CST

Wed. Oct. 7, 2020
Ian Zeitlin with Sunrise Movement – Chicago Hub

Wed. Oct. 14, 2020
Oscar Chacón with
Alianza Americas

Wed. Oct. 28, 2020
Amalia NietoGomez with Alliance of the SouthEast (ASE) & Olga Bautista with Alliance for the Great Lakes

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The University of Illinois-Chicago’s Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center will host Jessie Fuentes of Chicago’s Puerto Rican Cultural Center for a presentation on Puerto Rico’s reconstruction process after several hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the island. Fuentes, a scholar and activist, will discuss the ways residents have endured an exhausting, draining, and daunting recovery process rooted in Puerto Rico’s history of slavery and racism.

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This event is part of the Latino Cultural Center’s series of virtual presentations and dialogues exploring themes from their local story for Climates of Inequality, “Resisting Cycles of Environmental Injustice in Little Village.”

The University of Illinois-Chicago’s Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center will host Cheryl Johnson of People for Community Recovery (CPR) for a presentation on the organization’s community organizing and advocacy efforts in the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s South Side.

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This event is part of the Latino Cultural Center’s series of virtual presentations and dialogues exploring themes from their local story for Climates of Inequality, “Resisting Cycles of Environmental Injustice in Little Village.”

Join the UIC Latino Cultural Center for a series of online presentations this Fall with environmental and climate justice advocates from across the country and abroad. Their work reveals frameworks and solutions that utilize a justice and equity lens integrating social and economic issues to address toxic pollution and combat the climate crisis. Students in LALS 495/ ANTH 494/ MUSE 400 will facilitate a dialogue with the presenters.

(October 13th, 2021 – 4:30pm-5:30pm CST) Just Transition Alliance Executive Director, José Bravo, will talk about the principles of Just Transition and how climate justice and chemicals policy relate to communities fighting for environmental and labor justice.

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Join the UIC Latino Cultural Center for a series of online presentations this Fall with environmental and climate justice advocates from across the country and abroad. Their work reveals frameworks and solutions that utilize a justice and equity lens integrating social and economic issues to address toxic pollution and combat the climate crisis. Students in LALS 495/ ANTH 494/ MUSE 400 will facilitate a dialogue with the presenters.

(November 3, 2021 – 4:30pm-5:30pm CST )Professor Ricia Anne Chansky along with two graduate students, Natalia M. Betancourt Malave and Aleyshka Estevez Quintana, will discuss the significance of mutual aid as a form of resistance and solidarity in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and during COVID-19. They will focus on the ways in which frontline communities build responses to climate disasters.

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Join the UIC Latino Cultural Center for a series of online presentations this Fall with environmental and climate justice advocates from across the country and abroad. Their work reveals frameworks and solutions that utilize a justice and equity lens integrating social and economic issues to address toxic pollution and combat the climate crisis. Students in LALS 495/ ANTH 494/ MUSE 400 will facilitate a dialogue with the presenters.

(November 10, 2021- 4:30pm CST) Maria Lopez-Nuñez is the Director of Environmental Justice and Community Development at Ironbound Community Corporation. Maria will talk about challenging the current political system and holding power brokers and polluters accountable while fighting for environmental, housing, immigrant, and racial justice.

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Week 1: Taking back our world.
Introduction to a city, its history, and what environmental injustice means for citizens
Saturday August 8, 2020, 11 AM CDT/ Noon EST

Moderator:
Adam Carr (Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service)

Local experts:
Reggie Jackson (Nurturing Diversity Partners, America’s Black Holocaust Museum)
Camille Mays (Peace Garden Project MKE)
Anthony Diaz (Newark Water Coalition)
Neil Maher (Federated History Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark)
Christian Rodriguez (Ironbound Community Corporation)

Click here to view video highlights from Week 1.

Week 2: Taking back our homes.
What do we mean when we say housing justice in our city?
Saturday August 15, 2020, 11 AM CDT/ Noon EST

Moderator:
Adam Carr (Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service)

Local experts:
Robert Smith (Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach, Marquette University)
Lamont Davis (Washington Park Neighborhood Housing Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Pierson (Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc.)
Christian Rodriguez (Ironbound Community Corporation)
Daniel Wiley (Ironbound Community Corporation)

Week 3: Taking back our bodies.
How is food production, distribution, and consumption a contested process in each city?
Saturday August 22, 2020, 11 AM CDT/ Noon EST

Moderator:
Adam Carr (Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service)

Local experts:
Michael Carriere (Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI)
Carena Miles (Ironbound Community Corporation, Newark, NJ)
Tobias Fox (Newark Science and Sustainability, Newark, NJ)
Caroline Carter (Caroline’s Raw Creations, Milwaukee, WI)
Fidel Verdin (True Skool, Milwaukee, WI)

Week 4: Action!: Taking back our world.
What is Action? How can we act?
Saturday August 29, 2020, 11 AM CDT/ Noon EST

Moderator:
Adam Carr

Local experts:
Muneer Bahauddeen (Community Artist, Milwaukee, WI)
Nyheim Carter (Ironbound Community Corporation, Newark, NJ)
Tremerell Robinson (Center Street Bid 39, Milwaukee, WI)
Cheri Fuqua (The Middle Ground MKE, Milwaukee, WI)
Anthony Diaz (Newark Water Coalition, Newark, NJ)
Gregory Powell (Peace Garden Project MKE, Milwaukee, WI)

Climates of Inequality is a project of the Humanities Action Lab (HAL), a coalition of universities, issue-based organizations, and public spaces led by Rutgers University-Newark that collaborate to produce community-curated public humanities projects on urgent social issues.

The HAL-created exhibit will be supplemented by an exhibit created by UW-Milwaukee students under the leadership of Public History Professor, Arijit Sen that will examine food and housing justice in Milwaukee. The exhibitions, located on the second floor mezzanine, will be open from April 3, 2024-May 25, 2024.

Transportation from UWM is available, we will be offering a limited shuttle service for this day.