ENST Digest 4/4/22- Happy April!

 

Hi all,

Not a lot to offer today. We have the above ENST/CCAT events happening. If you haven't figured it out yet, the main theme of these few weeks is registration and advising.  I have office hours this Wednesday F2F in FH 107, or via zoom- send me an email if you want the link. Last week, I sent a lot of information about classes this spring, advising tips, etc, so please refer to those emails if you have questions.

Here's a few other bits and bobs happening around the community:

1. SFS Talk April 7--SHELLY COVERT

April 7 @ 5:30 pm (Pacific): Shelly Covert
Raising Nisenan Visibility in 2022 and Beyond

As part of the Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Shelly Covert will present a webinar on “Raising Nisenan Visibility in 2022 and Beyond” on Thursday, December 2, from 5:30-7 p.m. Register here.

In this presentation, Shelly Covert will talk about the importance of raising the visibility of her Tribe in a community, State, and Country that has no idea they still exist. She’ll also share some of the unique and creative projects she has founded that cultivate relationships and bring public education, and how they use art as a means to amplify the visibility of the Nisenan.

Shelly Covert is the Spokesperson for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe. She sits on the Tribal Council and is a community outreach liaison. She is also the Executive Director of the Tribally guided, nonprofit CHIRP – the California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project – whose mission is to preserve, protect and perpetuate Nisenan Culture.

The Sustainable Futures speaker series stimulates interdisciplinary collaboration around issues related to energy, the environment, and society. These lectures are sponsored by the Schatz Energy Research Center, the Environment & Community graduate program, and the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at Humboldt State. All events are free and open to the public, and live captioning is provided for all talks. To request additional support, please contact schatzenergy@humboldt.edu or call 707-826-4345. Visit http://schatzcenter.org/speakers for the full season lineup!

2. DECOLONIZING ECONOMIES CONFERENCE, April 21-23

We are in a moment of profound crisis: The world is teetering on the edge of war. The ecological crisis is not coming––it is here, and getting worse faster than almost anyone predicted. The inherent contradictions of late stage capitalism are creating wealth and income disparity greater than at any time. Fascism is rising as a mass movement. Yet, workers, organizers, students, teachers, activists, land and water protectors, social justice warriors, and others are daring to create something else–something transformative.

It is because of the vibrance emerging during a time of great crisis that we are so pleased to convene Decolonizing Economics Summit: The 3rd Annual Post-Capitalism Conference on April 21st-23rd. Register here.

Join us over Earth Day for this three-day virtual event anchored by the Wiyot Tribe, Cooperation Humboldt, and professors at Cal Poly Humboldt. This summit is being co-sponsored by the Green Eco-Socialist Network, New Economy Coalition, US Solidarity Economy Network, Transition US, the People's Network for Land & Liberation, and several Cal Poly Humboldt Departments: Politics, Sociology, Art & Film, Environmental Studies, and the Cal Poly Humboldt Sustainability Office.

We will highlight ways in which individuals and institutions can create the infrastructure/practices to address economic disparities (often requiring us to protect or restore the land and water), redistribute wealth towards marginalized communities, and invest in the solidarity economy. 

Panels and presentations include Dishgamu Humboldt (a Wiyot-led Community Land Trust), Watershed Restoration Projects, Food Sovereignty, Labor Organizing, Decolonizing Cannabis, Racialized Capitalism, and much more! For a link to all offerings, click here.

Attendance is on a sliding scale, which means you can pay what you can. If you are able to do so, we request a contribution of $25-50 so that we can pay a living wage to organizers, and provide a stipend to presenters. Make a payment here. 

Click here to register.

Sincerely, 

Summit Organizing Team

3. Monument Research Symposium

My name is Elizabeth Mackey and I am a Student Board Member for the Friends of the Cascade- Siskiyou National Monument.

 

I am writing to invite you to our annual Monument Research Symposium event! This is a great opportunity to learn about recently conducted research within the Cascade- Siskiyou National Monument (CSNM) from both students and their professional advisors. This event is hosted by the Friends of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (FCSNM) and is supported by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

 

During this symposium, participants will hear presentations from four student researchers that received grants from the Friends during 2021. Their work is focused on geology, historical land use practices, and lichen species within the Monument. Participants will also have a chance to ask questions and engage with presenters, as well as learn about upcoming programming in the Monument hosted by the FCSNM.

 

 2022 Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Research Symposium      

 

• Thursday, April 21st, 2022

• 6:00 - 8:00pm 

• Free Community Virtual Symposium: Please Register Here for an Invitation

 

2022 Monument Student Research Grants

 

I would also like to announce a potential funding opportunity to support research within the Monument. The Friends Research Fund annually awards individual grants ranging from $250-$1,500 to undergraduate or graduate students for faculty-supervised projects that enhance the understanding, preservation, protection, or appreciation of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. We will be accepting applications until May 6, 2022. View our grant requirements, timeline, and application here.

 

Can you please pass this information along to your students and any other interested parties?

 

Let me know if you have any questions!

 

 

Thank you for your time,

 

Elizabeth Mackey, Administrative Assistant

Friends of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

Pronouns: she/her/hers

info@cascadesiskiyou.org

mackeye@sou.edu 

608-220-4593

A poem for April- Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón - 1976- More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.

Sarah Jaquette Ray (she/her)

Professor & Chair, Environmental Studies

Cal Poly Humboldt

Ancestral Homeland of the Wiyot Tribe

Donate to the Wiyot Tribe Honor Tax

Spring '22 Office hours: Wed 12-2pm PST 

Hyflex: F2F in FH 107 or email me for the zoom link

 

*I AM ON PARTIAL LEAVE FROM Cal Poly Humboldt this semester, so please forgive delayed responses.