Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

Celebrate Dr. King’s national holiday and birthday. Information available about the week’s events and the life of Dr. King, signup for “Into the Streets: Community Service,” pick up tickets for Friday evening’s event and celebrate with birthday cake.

Celebrate Dr. King’s national holiday and birthday. Information available about the week’s events and the life of Dr. King, signup for “Into the Streets: Community Service,” pick up tickets for Friday evening’s event and celebrate with birthday cake.

Ends Monday, January 24

Celebrate Dr. King’s national holiday and birthday with an opportunity to show your support by signing the Willamette University Pledge. This pledge encourages people to make a personal commitment to adhere to a common belief that all individuals, including those in the majority and those in the minority, are valued. Sign the pledge and take the Pledge Walk, a self-reflection activity about our lives and how we fit into the fabric of our community.

It is estimated that 10,500 children in Marion Polk County are eating out of emergency food box every month. (Harvester Winter 2010, vol. 22 #4, Marion Polk Food Share) These children are “at risk for developmental and academic problems, frequent illness and poor nutrition, resulting in [children being] underweight and paradoxically, overweight.” (Childhood Hunger Coalition Statewide Provider Survey Report Spring 2010)

The ability to eat well and the choice of healthy food is a privilege not everyone has. Here is how you can help. The MLK Food Drive is collecting donations between Monday January 17th and the 25th. Please bring your donation of tuna, and canned fruit or vegetables to one of the food donation barrels located across campus.

• The Bistro
• The University Center 2nd Floor in front of the CAT
• Goudy
• The Hatfield Library
• Sparks
• Kaneko Commons
• The Law School
• The Mary Stuart Rogers Building
• Ford Hall
• Smullin
• Montag
• Atkinson

Featuring Willamette University Law Professor Robin Morris Collin

The struggle for civil rights, equal treatment and equal opportunity are at the very core of the challenges of sustainability. The damage that industrialized development has done to our ecosystems, and to biodiversity are alarmingly cataloged by science. But the damage that the same forces did to vulnerable people, poor people, women and children (even privileged women and children) and to people of color is politically marginalized in contemporary discussions of sustainability. There is a color line between the movement for sustainability and environmental justice and social justice -- but it's not green. These struggles are inextricably linked. This talk will be about the nature of winning our mutual struggles from their common origins to their common future.

Portrayed by Jean Moule; Associate Professor at Oregon State University’s College of Education

The Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers mission is to recognize and commemorate the contributions of pioneering African-Americans in the historical development of Oregon and Washington.

Co-sponsored by the Salem’s Human Rights and Relations Advisory Commission, YWCA Racial Justice and Cultural Diversity Conference, Salem Multicultural Institute, One Community Initiative, NAACP, Salem Keizer Coalition for Equality, Salem Health, Jobs with Justice, Mano a Mano and CAUSA

WU will explore the power of mural painting and artistic expression as tools to combating racial inequities and injustices through painting the Art Wall located outside of the Bistro.

Signup for Luncheon and Service Required
WU ID Required

In 1994 President Clinton signed the Dr. King National Holiday and Service Act, establishing the King holiday as a national day of service. Into the Streets is a program that provides multiple service opportunities throughout Salem in an effort for members of the Willamette community to actively serve together and learn through action.

The Into the Streets event will begin with a luncheon featuring discussion by a panel of several community organization representatives. This educational component will serve as a backdrop to the service event, which will follow the luncheon. Service sites include the Marion Polk Food Share, CAUSA, Colonia Libertad, Easter Seals Children's Therapy Center, and Willamette Family Medical Center.

For questions and sign up email Matt Pitchford, (503) 370-6807.
Co-sponsored by WU’s Office of Community Outreach Programs

Author. Educator. Activist. Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality.

She is a political activist, educator and author. Davis was active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party.

She has spent the last fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is Professor of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary Ph.D program, and Professor of Feminist Studies.

In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She has also conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender and imprisonment.

Tickets available at the Info Desk of the Putnam University Center for WU Faculty, Staff and Students beginning January 17, 2011.
First ticket is free. Each additional (up to 4 total) are $5. WU ID required. WU ID required.

Tickets for the General Public are available at Salem Multicultural Institute, (503)581-2004; and Oregon African American Museum, (503)540-4063.

Proceeds benefit World Beat and the Oregon African American Museum.
Contact (503)370-6265 for ticket information.

Participate in this multi-media, multi-sensory display which gives voice to sites and stories of oppression and injustice facing our lives, communities and world today.

This year’s Tunnel will engage with issues of oppression and injustice within Islamophobia, Sizism and Sexual Education. Participants will be given the opportunity to reflect on our own implications within the systems that produce inequality and be compelled to take informed action.

This event will feature community leaders and voices from Salem-Keizer youth as they reflect and share their perspectives on the history, progress, and current state of equity in the education system.

Panelists:

Eduardo Angulo
Executive Director, Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality

Benny Williams
President, Salem Chapter of NAACP

Professor Jean Moule
Associate Professor, Oregon State University College of Education

Guests from Salem and surrounding areas will share the work they do and the ways in which we can all begin or continue to work towards equity in our communities.