Long(er)-Form Content
From George Floyd to Chris Cooper: Ibram X. Kendi on “Racist Terror” Facing Black People in America (2021)
In an interview with Democracy Now, Ibram X. Kendi, award-winning author of How To Be An Antiracist and a Phil Lind Initiative speaker for our 2020 series Thinking While Black, speaks to George Floyd’s murder and the terrorized lives of Black people.
“Black people are…running from racist terror, only to run into the face of COVID-19, only to run from COVID-19 into the face of racist terror,” says Kendi, necessitating the removal of police officers who have the capacity to inhumanely harm those they have sworn to protect. The author further flags the Amy Cooper incident as a typical ‘beginning of racist terror’, in which a white woman weaponizes her white womanhood, stating that such weaponization should not be a part of our reality.
Watch the full interview here.
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Take Nature as the Measure: The Search for Sustainability (2021)
Join us for a conversation between Wes Jackson, one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement, author Robert Jensen, as well as UBC professors Ramana and Hannah Wittman. In more than four decades as president of The Land Institute, Wes Jackson became widely known as one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement for his work on perennial grains and Natural Systems Agriculture. Learn about Jackson’s ideas to advance sustainable agriculture and the other dramatic changes necessary if we are to effectively address climate change and other ecological crises and create a sustainable and just society for all to thrive.
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