Social Justice Recorded Events
Watch and listen to recordings of past programs and discussions exploring social justice topics like civil rights, intellectual freedom and the criminal justice system. Learn about the Library's work with our community partners and explore diverse viewpoints and perspectives.
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Exploring Black Brilliance And Black Joy Through Storytelling And Writing: Nature & The Outdoors
Part two in an intergenerational series that celebrates Black joy and brilliance with local authors from African-American Writers’ Alliance, storytellers, and elders from Seattle’s Black community.
View Video (01:05:22) | Posted August 2021
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Exploring Black Brilliance & Black Joy Through Storytelling & Writing: Food & Celebration, July 8th
Listen to stories and explore fun writing prompts that can help you explore, create and share your own stories.
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Reflections: What The Water Holds
A unique dance festival in partnership with Friends of the Waterfront, Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
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Love in the Time of Covid: Ask an Abolitionist
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID is a new series putting its fingers on the pulse of social justice issues during the pandemic in a heart-and-community centered way. Recorded presentation includes segments in English and Spanish with captions available.
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BLOOM (Build Leadership Organizing & Orchard Management)
BLOOM is a program of Seattle Together, a collaboration between City of Seattle departments and local communities to foster feelings of belonging, connection, and joy in Seattle. This program took place in 2020.
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“A Time for Unity”: The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Native Communities
A Native-led talking circle about the impact of mass incarceration on Indigenous communities. Recorded on May 21, 2019
Listen to Audio (01:39:05) | View transcription (pdf) | Posted May 2019
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Over the Moon, Under the Bridge: Building a Stronger Music Community
A community conversation surrounding the intersection of poverty, mental illness and addiction in the local music industry. Recorded on May 12, 2019.
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The impact of incarceration - Part III: Serving your time too often is not the end of punishment for the court involved
Judge David Keenan speaks on the individual and community impacts of incarceration. Judge Keenan knows multiple sides of our justice system: he was raised by his mother on public assistance, was arrested and charged as a youth, and dropped out of school after repeated suspensions, later earning his GED. Recorded on Nov. 27, 2017.
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The impact of incarceration - Part II: Root causes, challenges to reentry work, the impact of mentorship and the way forward
Willard Jimerson, Franklyn Smith, and Keith Whiteman speak from their personal experiences with incarceration, as well as their professional work and studies, in this stimulating discussion addressing root causes of incarceration, challenges people face re-entering communities after incarceration, the school to prison pipeline and this work going forward. Recorded on Oct. 27, 2017.
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The Impact of Incarceration - Part I: Incarcerated parents and reunification
Learn about the impacts of incarceration on incarcerated parents, children and families in this conversation between D'Adre Cunningham, the Incarcerated Parents Project attorney at Washington Defender Association in Seattle, Washington, and Alise Hegle, the Advocacy Lead for Children's Home Society of Washington and coordinator of Parent Ally work across the state.
In this conversation, they discuss the challenges incarcerated parents face, as well as their parent advocacy work and the challenges to reaching the goal of parent/child reunification. Recorded on Oct. 24, 2017.