Don't miss this evening's Place Justice film screening, followed by a lively conversation with filmmakers, educators, and young changemakers who have replaced the names of enslavers with those of Black abolitionists and activists.
Place Justice Event | Language, Land, & Belonging on 4/4/23 in Lewiston, ME
In the context of colonization, slavery, and migration, language has been a site of genocide, erasure, and assimilation. Can it also be a form of resistance against displacement and a tool of solidarity, persistence, and place-making?
Place Justice Event | “Fighting Indians” A film screening and conversation on 2/21
Join the Place Justice Project for a virtual screening of "Fighting Indians" followed by a conversation with filmmakers Mark Cooley and Derek Ellis and Passamaquoddy language-keeper Dwayne Tomah, moderated by Erika Arthur
Place Justice Event | Four Decades & Four Bills: Dealing with Offensive Names & Symbols in Maine 2/7/23
Until very recently, racial slurs remained inscribed on Maine’s landscapes and racist mascots were cherished by schools and their communities. How did these symbols that disparage and dehumanize Black and Indigenous people come to be? Why have they persisted for so long? And what harmful vestiges remain still today?