Join the academic sub-committee of the Auraria Sustainable Campus Program (ASCP) as they host the fifth Environmental Justice Zoom Book Club. We will read indigenous researcher and activist, Dina Gilio-Whitaker's book,
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock. GoodReads notes that the book "explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle.
As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy."
As Long as the Grass Grows is available as an e-book, audio, and print book at Denver Public Library and Auraria Library.
As in our 4 prior book clubs, we will strive to create a dialogic space of deep listening. We will recognize that participants are likely affected in different ways and with different intensities, by environmental racism; and that participants are likely to have different access to, and experience with, legacies of racism and injustice raised in Gilio-Whitaker's book. We will prioritize in each session conversations about what each of us might do next, individually and collectively, to be responsive to environmental racism and creative toward environmental justice.
Our sessions are scheduled for Tuesdays from 6:30-7:45pm on following dates/times (we will email a Zoom link and password within 3 days of session 1 to all who complete the form below):
September 20: Introduction, Ch. 1
October 4: Chapters 2 & 3
October 18: Chapters 4 & 5
November 1: Chapter 6
November 15: Chapters 7 & 8
Questions? Thoughts? Email Christina Foust (Professor of Communication Studies at MSU-Denver) at
cfoust2@msudenver.edu 