Events

May 7th, 2008 (Weds)
Workshop: WEAVE (Women’s Empowerment and Violence Education) will lead a workshop along with the Men’s Violence Prevention Project entitled “Exploring Gender Violence.”  Exploring Gender Violence is a program that brings awareness to the issue of violence against women in our culture and how this violence is often rooted in societal norms, beliefs and attitudes.  This program also emphasizes the action that students can take to prevent violence, men's roles in ending violence, and ways of supporting survivors of violence.  It will be facilitated by Elizabeth Monk and Brigette Forney from Women's Empowerment and Violence Education, and two members of the Men's Violence Prevention Project.
When: May 7th 2008 (Weds)  6:30-8:30 pm
Where: Fairhaven College Auditorium
Cost: FREE!

May 15, 2008 (Thursday)
Lecture: Professor Julie Helling, Fairhaven College
She will be giving a lecture on domestic violence entitled “Prosecution of Domestic Violence in the U.S.: Questions, Quandaries, and Possible Solutions.”
When: May 15, 2008 (Thursday)
Where: Fairhaven College at 7-9 PM
Cost: FREE! 

 

May 16, 2008 (Friday)

Film: “At The Death House Door,” (2008), a documentary film that tells the story of Carroll Pickett, who served as the Chaplin for the Texas Department of Corrections from 1982-1995 and counseled 95 inmates executed for a crime he didn’t commit, and tracks Pickett’s ideological transformation from supporting to opposing the death penalty.

When: May 16, 2008 (Friday), 6 pm

Where: Fairhaven College auditorium

Cost: FREE! 

 

May 19, 2008 (Monday)
Film: “Honoring Our Voices,” (1992) a documentary film by Judi Jeffrey.  This film features six Native women of different ages and backgrounds who talk about the choices they have made to overcome the hardships of violence and end the cycle of abuse and silence.  Discussion will follow hosted by Professor Raquel Montoya-Lewis (Fairhaven College) who is also a Justice in the Lummi Tribal Court.
When: May 19, 2008 (Monday)
Where: Fairhaven College Auditorium
When: 7-8:30 pm
Cost: FREE!

 

May 27, 2008 (Tuesday)
Panel Discussion: Sexual and Labor Trafficking of Women and Girls in the United States and Globally, and the efforts to end it. Panelists including Liezl Thomas Rebugio, Anti-Trafficking Project Director National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF); Emma Catague, Program/manager at the Asian and Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center; Joanne Alcantara, Chair, Pinay sa Seattle.  
When: May 27, 2008 (Tuesday)
Where: Fairhaven College auditorium at 7-9 pm
Cost: FREE!