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COSI (Conversations on Social Issues)
Outweigh the Gravity
COSI (Conversations on Social Issues)
Thursdays at noon; Library Classroom A (unless otherwise noted)
Winter 2020
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Peace and Labor Activism in Okinawa and Tokyo
Connecting Stories to the Impact of the Census
Facebook, McGraw Hill, and Fox News: The Problem with Commodifying Information
Fall 2019
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#MMIW-Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Seattle and Beyond
Immigrant and Refugee Students at Central: Building Community
Disability and Social Justice
Hunger: Sustainable Food Systems and the Myth of Scarcity
What is a Veteran?
Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama—the Legacy of Slavery
Multi-Metric Environmental Costs of an Animal-Based Diet: Feeding a 9-billion people earth & the role of individual choices
Interrupting Identifiers: The Limits of Identity Politics
Spring 2019
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Voices that Matter: Poems and Prose
Permaculture Practices and the (R)evolution
Advancing Economic, Racial, and Climate Justice with a Green New Deal
Should I Still Watch This Show? Pop Culture in the #MeToo Era
Cinematic Democracy: Alain Badiou and the Geopolitics of Film
I Got 99 Problems, But My Identities Ain't One (or Two)
A Reading by Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna
Living in a Non-binary World: LGBTQ Issues on Campus
The Legacy of Juneteenth: The Current Struggle for Black Liberation in Seattle
Winter 2019
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The Political Life of Flags
Full-Time Student Parents: The Ultimate Balancing Act
Revolutionary Cuba: Changes in the Post Castro Era
The Pine and the Cherry: Japanese Americans in Washington
Art & Activism: Tariq Touré
Climate Change, Green Jobs, and Social Justice
Conscious Consuming: Purchasing Power and Social Justice
Racism and its Impact on Mental Health and Well-being
Fall 2018
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Effective Political Engagement and Civil Discourse
Gerrymandering and the Midterm Elections
The Power of Palestine: Imperishable in a Transnational World
The Power of Media in Social Movements
Deconstructing Veteran Stereotypes
Student Created Films at Seattle Central College
Prison Labor and Prison Abolition
Spring 2018
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National Poetry Month Open Mic Reading
Urban Agriculture and Social Justice
Why We March: The History of May 1st and its Relevance Today
Denuclearizing Korea: Negotiation and/or Obliteration
Gun Violence: Why Assault Rifles Aren't the Problem
Asian American Women Reclaiming History, Place and Identity
Winter 2018
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Carbon Tax for Climate Justice
Funding College: A Student Panel
Interracial Relations at Seattle Central College
Artivists' Strategies for Creating a Civic Discourse of Belonging
Linked Fate: Race and Political Mobilization
Representations and Readings of Blackness in Historical and Contemporary Film
Re-entry and Education for the Currently and Formerly Incarcerated
Millenials and Unions--The New Labor Movement
Fall 2017
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Post-DACA: Supporting Undocumented Students, Families and Communities
The Fight for Climate Justice and its Impacts on Low-Income People
Immigrant Rights
Beneath the Surface: Heroin in Your Neighborhood
Islamophobia: Uncovering Misconceptions of Islam
Maturing through Military Experience
Privacy and Cybersecurity in the Digital Age
Mindfulness and Social Justice
Spring 2017
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Outweigh the Gravity
5 Valve Turners-Civil Disobedience Against Big Oil
Contemporary Flamenco, Art, Resistance, and Gender
Students at Standing Rock
Outing the Strategy- Outing the 50 Year Old Southern Strategy Against People of Darker Color
Losing Our Public School, Lessons from the Student Revolution in Chile
Financial Stability in Turbulent Times
NCORE Faculty and Staff Roundtable
Web Resources
Battered Yet Beautiful 2013 Leija Farr collection
from Seattle's local Elliott Bay Book Company
We Are poets (streaming video)
by
Films Media Group; Journeyman Pictures
ISBN: 962769484
Publication Date: 2015
Poignant documentary about six remarkable British teenagers competing in a prestigious poetry competition in Washington D.C. hungry for change.
Recommended Reading
The Spoken Word Revolution Redux
by
Mark Eleveld
ISBN: 9781402208690
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
by
Angela Davis; Frank Barat (Editor); Cornel West (Preface by)
ISBN: 9781608465644
Publication Date: 2016-02-09
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by
Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780345514400
Publication Date: 2009-04-21
American Women Poets in the 21st Century
by
Claudia Rankine (Editor); Juliana Spahr (Editor)
ISBN: 9780819574442
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Phenomenal Woman
by
Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780679439240
Publication Date: 1995-01-17
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
by
Langston Hughes; David Roessel (Editor); Arnold Rampersad
ISBN: 0679426310
Publication Date: 1994-11-15
Word Warriors
by
Alix Olson (Editor); Eve Ensler (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781580052214
Publication Date: 2007-10-05
The Purple Wash
by
Minnie A. Collins
Call Number: PS3603.O45446P87 2012
ISBN: 9781598491418
Publication Date: 2012
Threads
by
Georgia McDade
ISBN: 9781438972176
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
Sister Outsider
by
Audre Geraldine Lorde; Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781580911863
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Borderlands (La Frontera)
by
Gloria Anzaldúa
ISBN: 1879960125
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
For All of Us, One Today
by
Richard Blanco
ISBN: 9780807033807
Publication Date: 2013-11-19
Chasing Utopia
by
Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 9780688156978
Publication Date: 2013-10-29
Don't Let Me Be Lonely
by
Claudia Rankine
ISBN: 9781555974077
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
Nobody Knows My Name
by
James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780679744733
Publication Date: 1992-12-01
Sisterfire
by
C. Sherman
ISBN: 9780060950187
Publication Date: 1994-06-01
Today's Conversation
Outweigh the Gravity: A Poetry Reading and Book Signing
A critical Conversation with Leija Farr, Seattle's First Youth Poet Laureate and Seattle Central College Student
Video Archive
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