Events

Upcoming Events

Indigenous Peoples' Day on KEXP

Date: 
Monday, October 10, 2022 - 5:00am to 11:30pm
Event Location: 
On the air at 90.3 FM Seattle, online at KEXP.org
ACLU-WA is proud to support KEXP programming in honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, all day October 10.
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David Fenton with Brady Piñero Walkinshaw

Date: 
Friday, October 14, 2022 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Event Location: 
Elliott Bay Book Company
David Fenton brings fifty years of activism to bear to his new book, The Media Activist's Handbook: Lessons from Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator. Join him and Brady Pinero Walkinshaw for a conversation.

Radical Hope: ACLU-WA Annual Celebration 2022

Date: 
Friday, October 21, 2022 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
Join us for an evening of inspiration and connection featuring keynote speaker Valarie Kaur.

What You Missed

SAL Presents Ocean Vuong

Date: 
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
Ocean Vuong is a poet and fiction writer whose work considers class, queerness, family, and identity. His epistolary novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), was an immediate and enduring bestseller described by the Los Angeles Times as a “series of high notes that trembles exquisitely almost without break.” Q&A moderated by musician Perfume Genius.

Projecting Justice

Date: 
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 9:30pm to Tuesday, June 8, 2021 - 11:30pm
Event Location: 
Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral
With Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, we projected names of those killed by police, beginning with George Floyd on May 25. Photo by Brian Smale.

Flights & Rights: Healthcare Equity For Immigrants

Date: 
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
Join ACLU-WA Health Care and Liberty Policy Counsel Leah Rutman for a conversation on healthcare equity for immigrants. Leah will be joined by Adriana Ortiz of El Centro de la Raza and Michael Byun of Asian Counseling and Referral Services (ACRS) to discuss health care access issues facing immigrant communities and current steps being taken to address barriers to care.
 

Ibram X. Kendi: Live & Online

Date: 
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
The author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and the director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University. The format for this event will be a live, online conversation with Dr. Edward Taylor.

This event will be live and online only. Please note: this event begins at 6:00 p.m. (PDT).

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.

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