This is a radical welcoming space for students, faculty, staff, and community members! We will learn, vision, build community and healing, and generate collective energy.
9-9:50am
Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
Social Emergency Response Center Model
Putting #DisarmPSU in Context
PSUSU Organizers
10-10:50am
“Sixty-four Dead, Seventy-one Wounded: Twenty-five Years of Police Shootings in Portland, OR, 1992-2017”
Dr. Leanne Serbulo, Assistant Professor
University Studies
“How Racial Stereotypes Impact Police Use of Force”
Dr. Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
11am- Breakout Sessions
- Black Person’s Caucus
- Aisha Awo,
Community and PR Student Assistant, Pan-African Commons
- Countering White Supremacy Caucus
- Kristin Teigen, Instructor, University Studies
- People of Color Caucus
- Dr. gita mehrotra, School of Social Work
12-1:50pm
“Policing as Environmental Racism”
Shanice Clark
Program Coordinator, Pan-African Commons
Red Hamilton
Cultural and Development Student Assistant, Pan-African Commons
1pm- Bus Riders Unite/Disarm and Demilitarize Trimet
Orlando Lopez
Organizer, OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon
“Sexual/Gender Violence and Policing in the Context of Feminist Anti-Violence Movements” (30 minutes)
Dr. Miriam Abelson
Assistant Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dr. Ericka Kimball
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Shannon Kearns
Women’s Studies Major, Chicano/Latino Studies Certificate
2-3:50pm
Movement Music: Singing the Message
Matthew David Morris, Beloved Community on Campus
- A talk on the history of music in justice movements, followed by praxis of the writing of a song together with all those present.
Student Protest Movement Case Studies
Dr. Michael Mooradian Lupro
Associate Professor, University Studies
Dr. Winston Grady-Willis
Director, School of Gender, Race and Nations
Documentary Clip: Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland
Julie Perini (Director), Associate Professor
Art Practices, Video, and Time-Based Media
Ella’s Song
Lisa Grady-Willis
Director of Diversity Education and Learning
~~~Throughout the day~~~
Tabling/resources from PSUSU and community partners
Participate in sharing your visions about safety, memorial, and community
Plotting to map power, strategy, and action
Community-building and healing with art and sharing food
Caucusing in small identity groups
