Exposiciones y eventos

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.

Register here.

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.”

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: Talking back out 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)