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Items such as climate change and the militarization of American policing will be discussed by activists, researchers, and scholars in the Winter World Issues Forum lecture series, organized by Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies.

The following forums are free and open to the campus community and general public. The forums are held from noon to 1:20 p.m. every Wednesday in the Fairhaven College Auditorium, unless otherwise noted below.

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Wednesday, Jan. 28

“Mapping Corporate Education Reform in the Neoliberal State"��

Presenter: Wayne Au,associate professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell and an editor for “Rethinking Schools.”Public education is currently seen as one of the last great “prizes” for proponents of neoliberalism as a large market for potential profit. In this talk, professor Au will analyze how the neoliberal restructuring of the state relative to public education has resulted in a shift from democratic government to an increase in non-democratic network governance by corporations, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropies. Drawing from his upcoming co-edited collection, this talk offers a framing for the rise of neoliberal network governance in education and shares different examples of social network analyses illustrating such governance in the United States, Chile, and elsewhere.

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Wednesday, Feb. 4

“War Comes Home:��The Excessive Militarization of American Policing”

Presenter: Seattle Lawyer Peter Danelo, across the country, heavily-armed SWAT teams are forcing their way into people's homes in the middle of the night, often using explosives to temporarily blind and deafen residents, simply to serve a search warrant for a small amount of drugs.�� As we have seen recently in Ferguson, police officers in camouflage tote military rifles and patrol in the same armored vehicles used in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.�� But this is America: our neighborhoods are not war zones, and our police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies.�� How did we get here and what can we do about it?

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Wednesday, Feb. 11

“Planting Trees: Protecting and Restoring the Environment in Guatemala”

Presenter: Jorge Armando Lopez, community activist with theChico Mendes Reforestation Projectin Guatemala, the greater contexts of environmental justice, climate change, and indigenous peoples’ struggle for survival and sovereignty. Lopez will highlight his work ��in Pachaj, a Maya ��’i�����’ village in Guatemala. The project began in 1998 as an idea conceived by Lopez and two friends who had become disillusioned with the politics of their local government. They created a new environmental initiative with a focus on the reforestation of nearby community lands. It began with a small tree nursery near Jorge’s home in Pachaj—an area highly impacted by heavy logging, mining, agriculture and the deforestation done during the country’s civil war in the 80’s. Come learn about the Project and the environmental crisis in Central America created by civil war, international free trade agreements, and continued social repression.

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Tuesday, Feb. 174:15 p.m. in Communication 110

Elise Chenier (see below)will give a workshop for students and faculty��on Interracial Intimacies (), focusing on historical research, oral testimony, mixed race and feminist and LGTBQI research methodology.��

Sponsored by Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the World Issues Forum.

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Wednesday, Feb. 18

“P���԰�ɲ����󾱲Բ�; The Queer Critique of Israel’s Pro-Lesbian and Gay Politics in Historical Perspective”

Presenter: Elise Chenier, associate professor of History and Director, Archive of Lesbian Oral Testimony, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. Over the past few years the Israeli government and its supporters have been actively promoting the country as the only nation in the Middle East to support lesbian and gay rights, and advertising their beaches to the gay community as an ideal vacation spot. Across the west, lesbians and gays have adamantly rejected this campaign on the grounds that the Israeli government is using gay and lesbian issues, and gays and lesbians themselves, to cover up or "pinkwash" their actions, deemed "criminal" by the United Nations, against Palestinians. In this talk, historian Elise Chenier offers an overview of the history of queer politics in the west to put the current movement of queers against Israeli apartheid in context.

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Wednesday, Feb. 25

“Israel, South Africa and the Jim Crow South: Resisting Apartheid”��������������������������������

Presenter: Omar Barghouti,Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. The presentation will cover the origins, motives, successes and inspirations behind the non-violent global,��Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) human rights movement and the underpinning ethical principles that connect it to the struggle against apartheid South Africa and the Civil Rights movement in the US. The ethical responsibility of Americans in breaking the links of complicity with Israel's regime of occupation, colonization and apartheid are highlighted.

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Wednesday, March 4 and 7 p.m. at TBD place

“Undoing Border Imperialism”

Presenter: Harsha Walia, South Asian activist, writer and popular educator. “Undoing Border Imperialism” is a new book that situates immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire. By providing the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization, Walia will offer relevant insights for all grassroots and social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within our movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. For more information on the World Issues Forum presented by Western’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, contact Shirley Osterhaus at (360) 650-2309 or visit the World Issues Forum Website at .

��������'s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, established in 1967, is nationally recognized for innovation in teaching and ��learning, intensive advising, student-designed majors, narrative assessment, experiential and independent learning and a commitment to social justice.