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

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.