Events

Upcoming Events

Let's Talk About Pride

Date: 
Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Event Location: 
The Boxcar Room, Spokane

Learn about the state of 2SLGBTQIA+ rights in Washington with Roo Ramos (Executive Director, Spectrum Center Spokane),  Kate Bitz (Program Manager and Trainer/Organizer, Western States Center), Jeff DeBray (Eastern Washington Director, Fuse Washington), and  Adrien Leavitt (Staff Attorney, ACLU-WA). Moderated by ACLU-WA Communications Director Brian Robick.

Spokane Pride Festival - ACLU-WA Booth

Date: 
Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Event Location: 
Riverfront Park
Visit ACLU-WA staff and friends at our booth

REVIVAL: Juneteenth Pop-up Market

Date: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Event Location: 
Midtown Plaza

ACLU-WA is honored to be a community partner. Visit the ACLU-WA table to answer Know-Your-Rights trivia questions and get free swag. We'll have plenty of Know-Your-Rights resources. Details for this year's market coming soon. In the meantime, check out past REVIVAL Pop-Up Market events.

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Seattle Pride Parade - ACLU-WA Contingent

Date: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 10:00am to 2:00pm
Event Location: 
Downtown Seattle
Join the ACLU of Washington supporters and staff at the 2024 Pride Parade!

We Keep Us Safe: Public Safety, Crime, and Elections

Date: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Event Location: 
The Forum at Town Hall Seattle

Save the date for a UW Public Lectures panel on what keeps communities safe.

What You Missed

Seattle University APILSA and ABAW: Black Allyship and Reparations Panel

Date: 
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Seattle University’s Asian Pacific Islander Law Student Association (APILSA) and Black Student Law Association (BLSA), and the Asian Bar Association of Washington (ABAW) in collaboration with University of Washington's Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) proudly presents a community panel on the importance of AAPI allyship and racial solidarity with the Black community and on understanding the calls for Black reparations from the Japanese American experience with redress.

A Conversation about The Sum of Us: Live & Online

Date: 
Monday, March 29, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Heather McGhee’s recently released book, The Sum of Us, provides a critical analysis of zero-sum policymaking that creates the false choice between some of us being O.K. and all of us being better off. Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, and SAL will present a free, Youtube Live event with McGhee, in conversation with Dr. Carmen Rojas, moderated by Tom  Perriello.

MLK / FBI Virtual Screening with Director Sam Pollard

Date: 
Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 6:00pm
Please join so co-hosts Equal Rights Washington and ACLU-WA for a screening of MLK/FBI, with a special introduction from film director Sam Pollard and post-screening panel discussion with Michele Storms, Executive Director, ACLU-WA; Monisha Harrell, Chair, Equal Rights Washington; Aneelah Afzali, Executive Director, MAPS-AMEN (American Muslim Empowerment Network); and Kamau Chege, Managing Director, Washington for Black Lives.

Japanese Americans and African Americans Advancing the Movement for Reparations

Date: 
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
Join us to discuss the historical impact of reparations and redress on communities, the precedent, and path forward to passing HR 40.

Seattle Arts & Lectures Luvvie Ajayi Jones: In Conversation—Live & Online

Date: 
Friday, March 19, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Event Location: 
Register Here
Luvvie Ajayi Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of I’m Judging You, and a speaker and podcast host who thrives at the intersection of comedy, technology, and justice.

Flights & Rights: Police Accountability

Date: 
Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
Join ACLU-WA Police Practices and Immigration Counsel Enoka Herat and ACLU-WA Lobbyist Roxana Gomez for a conversation on our integrated advocacy approach to demanding police accountability. Hear from Nickeia Hunter and Sonia Joseph, two impacted family members advocating on the Washington Coalition for Police Accountability. Learn about the bills aimed at reducing police violence that are currently moving through the Washington legislature, and about our amicus work in the court.

CLE - The Crime of Complicity: Law and the Bystander from the Holocaust to Today

Date: 
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join the Holocaust Center for Humanity and legal professionals from around Washington for a special legal CLE program and Lunch-and-Learn on Tuesday, March 9 on the Crime of Complicity: Law and the Bystander from the Holocaust to Today with Professor Amos N. Guiora. 

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America With Jeffery Robinson

Date: 
Monday, March 8, 2021 - 2:30pm
It’s time to rethink everything you think you know about American history. Join ParentMap and The Who We Are Project Founder Jeffery Robinson for a groundbreaking discussion on the history of anti-Black racism in the United States. 
 
Join us for Institutional Racism: Mass Incarceration Virtual Town Hall 03.02.21

Institutional Racism: Mass Incarceration

Date: 
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
This series of virtual conversations moderated by Enrique Cerna will explore the racial disparities and inequities in Washington’s public health and policing systems highlighted by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. Join us to learn how to put equity front and center in the Olympia debates.

Activist in Residence 2021 - Eastern Washington University

Date: 
Friday, February 12, 2021 - 1:15pm
Event Location: 
Online
Learn about activist campaigns in Spokane, and hear from members of the Spokane Community Against Racism (SCAR) steering committee as they discuss the tactics they’ve used individually and as a group to affect local policy.

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