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Java & Jesus
Indigenous Justice Series
Fall 2023
Please note that the following is a proposed schedule of topics and readings. Facilitators may deviate from this schedule, as they may wish. However, this schedule gives a glimpse at some interesting topics and readings which
may be shared in the coming months.
September 24th – No Java & Jesus. Please consider attending the “Children & Youth Update” in Friendship Hall at 9 am.
October 1st – Mary Neuhaus facilitating
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” by Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK Jr. admonishes white moderate reluctance and provides a roadmap that white-bodied people can still follow in order to support justice movements today.
October 8th – No Java & Jesus. Please consider attending a session on “Indigenous Justice” led by Rev. Kerri Parker, executive director of the Wisconsin Council of Churches, in the Friendship Hall at 9 am.
October 15th – Peg Knueve facilitating
“Embodying Antiracism within a White Body: Readings from The Quaking of America” by Resmaa Menakem – Introduction
Wokeness, Allyship, and Complicity (Chapter 28)
When White Bodies Say “Tell Me What to Do” (Chapter 33)
Optional reading: Proximity as Path to Interdependence, by Sylvia Poareo
October 22nd – Facilitator to be determined
“Introduction to Ecofeminism and Climate Justice”
Possible resources:
- Introduction to Ecofeminism – Excerpted from a paper entitled “An Ecofeminist Reading of Louise Erdrich’s Novel Love Medicine”
- Article from BUST magazine: Ecofeminism or Death (origins of Ecofeminism, a term coined by the French Writer Francoise d’Eaubonne in her 1975 book, Le Feminisme ou La Mort
- Look at The Greenbelt Movement, founded by Wangarĩ Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) for her work on “sustainable development, democracy and peace”
- Article: Reading The Color Purple From the Perspective of Ecofeminism
October 29th – Jim McNamara facilitating
“The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic, May 21, ’14)
How does the case for reparations for African-Americans relate to Indigenous Justice?
November 5th – Peg Knueve facilitating
“Reclaiming Stolen Earth – An Africana Ecotheology” – Introduction
Optional reading: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Chapter 10: Indigenous Action, Indigenous Rights
Optional reading: Gullah-Geechee People Fight Against Erasure of Their Historical Land, September 2023.
November 12th – Dan Rossmiller facilitating
“Reclaiming Stolen Earth” Chapter 2: The Legacy of Stolen Earth
Optional reading: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Chapter 9, The Persistence of Sovereignty
November 19th – Dan Rossmiller: facilitating
“Reclaiming Stolen Earth” Chapter 5: What is Liberation? A Reappraisal Optional reading: “An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Conclusion: Water Is Life
November 26th – No Java & Jesus. Happy Thanksgiving!
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