Rest as Resistance - A Group Zine
This hands-on workshop invites participants to slow down, resist the pressures of overproduction, and reconnect through creativity. Inspired by The Nap Ministry and grounded in art therapy techniques, we will co-create a group zine that reflects our truths about rest, resistance, and belonging. Participants will engage in guided reflection, collage, and storytelling activities, leaving with both individual creations and a collective zine that embodies our shared commitments to healing and reconnection. All materials provided—just bring your voice, imagination, and willingness to pause.
Event Title: CDOR: Rest as Resistance - A Group Zine on Reconnection. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
Tsuru for Solidarity
Tsuru for Solidarity is an origami workshop (Japanese art of paper folding) led by student staff of ADPI-MENA. Tsuru is Japanese for crane. Tsuru for Solidarity is also the name of a direct action collective of Japanese community organizers and their allies. By folding origami cranes, they work to end U.S. concentration camps and support immigrant and refugee populations.
Event Title: CDOR: Tsuru for Solidarity: Origami Against U.S. Concentration Camps. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Angelina Ramirez Peirano.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Nelson Hall 102 - Goodwin Forum.
Technology & the Cost of Disconnection
Many people - especially students of color, first-gen students, and marginalized communities - avoid AI out of fear: fear of being accused of cheating, fear of job loss, fear of bias, or fear that it’s just another system designed against them. This session asks: what does that fear do to us?
In this workshop we'll ask:
- What exactly are people afraid of when it comes to AI?
- When is fear protective? When is it paralyzing?
- How does an economy of fear - reactionary politics, media panic, teacher suspicion, peer shame - rob students of power to shape the tech themselves?
What happens when disinformation thrives around tools that are at once obscure and overhyped? If nothing is truly mysterious, why let secrecy and fear dictate our choices?
How do we balance caution with agency?
Goal of the workshop: To create a safe space to name anxieties honestly and to recognize how disconnection, when rooted in fear, can become its own form of disempowerment. Participants leave with language for…
Event Title: CDOR: Technology & the Cost of Disconnection. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Angelina Ramirez Peirano.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
Resisting Antisemitism and Islamophobia
This panel brings together in dialogue a grassroots coalition of faculty who identify as Jewish and Muslim. We will examine how antisemitism and Islamophobia operate as interconnected systems of racialized oppression on campuses and in our society. We will challenge common conflations of anti-Zionism with antisemitism and accounts of antisemitism that serve to erase Jewish diversity, weaponize Jewish identity for political ends, and fuel Islamophobic narratives. Rooted in lived experience and collective study, the panel affirms that critique of state violence is not equivalent to hatred of a people, and that liberation requires solidarity across communities. In line with this year’s theme of dis/connecting to reconnect, we refuse narratives that divide Jewish and Muslim voices, and instead reconnect through shared commitments to justice, healing, and refusal of systems that harm our collective well-being.
Event Title: CDOR: Naming and Resisting Antisemitism and Islamophobia: Beyond Zionism. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Gutswurrak Student Activities Center 131 - Banquet Room.
Shabbat Spice: Ancient/New Practices
For more than 2,000 years Jewish tradition has centered the practice of withdrawing from everyday pressures and activities to celebrate Shabbat, the once-a-week Sabbath. The term Shabbat derives from a root meaning “to cease from labor.” Together Rabbi Naomi Steinberg and Rabbi Bob Rottenberg have a century of experience in “doing Shabbat” by refraining from productive work in order to make deep connections with spirit, family and community. These elder teachers love to share stories and songs and inspire others to learn how to dis/connect to reconnect. This workshop is appropriate for people of all ages, cultures and faith traditions.
Event Title: CDOR: Shabbat Spice: Ancient/New Practices. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
Vision Boards
Come get creative and crafty with the campus community while envisioning your values, goals, growth, motivation, and future! Vision boards and collage-making are a great way of gathering your ideas for connections you seek, and a great way to get away from screens! In exploring the variety of paper materials, we see artifacts of history and of culture, which opens the questions: What visions, combinations, or possibilities do we want to see reflected in the present day? What does justice, care, and healing mean to you, your identities, and our communities? What do we wish to disconnect from? Come dare to dream up the vision and the change you wish to see realized, whether that be for yourself, your direct community, or the world!
Materials will be provided; feel free to bring materials of your own as well.
Event Title: CDOR: Vision Boards: Dreaming Collective Justice. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Jolly Giant Commons 325 - Klamath River Room.
KEYNOTE: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Reflecting on her personal journey from being a university professor to being a regenerative farmer at Remagination Farm on Eastern Pomo/Lake Miwok land in Lake County, CA, Dr. Rodriguez’s decision to disconnect from academia was prompted by the pandemic as well as the loss of her eldest son, Amado Khaya, while he was working with climate-impacted indigenous communities in the Philippines. Through reflections, Dr. Rodriguez will juxtapose the Asian American "model minority" myth along with the techno-Orientalist trope against Asian/American practices of "unsettlement." She lifts up hopeful and joyful stories of "unsettlement" engaged in by Asians in "America," including the work we do at Remagination Farm.
Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is a teacher, organizer, scholar, writer, mother, and farmer. She is best known for her role as professor emeritus and former chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis, as well as founding director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies. A…
Event Title: CDOR: KEYNOTE: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Nelson Hall 102 - Goodwin Forum.
Community Inquiry in Action
Welcome to an introduction to the Convivial Research process that uses an investigative approach known as the Object of Study. Over the last 18 years local community researchers have used it to examine contradictions related to resource extraction, civil society’s exclusion of farmers of color, houselessness, immigrant rights, native media sovereignty and settler colonialism in Humboldt County.
Event Title: CDOR: Community Inquiry in Action. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
Institutional Diversity Reports
ODEI will share the history and role of diversity reporting on college campuses and how that history evolved at Cal Poly Humboldt. We'll share our vision for reviving this report and open the floor to hear about what campus and community would like to see in future diversity reports.
Event Title: CDOR: Institutional Diversity Reports: Then and Now. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
DIY Transformative Creativity Workshop
Ra Avis (she/her) is a memoirist, artist, facilitator, and community archivist. As a widowed, formerly incarcerated, autistic, Desi-Chicana writer, her work navigates the intersections of grief, disability, incarceration, and collective care. Asia Johnson is a writer, filmmaker, and activist for the rights of incarcerated people. She is the Manager of Storytelling for zealo.us, a national advocacy, arts, education, and media institute. Her debut short film “Out of Place” screened at universities across the country. She is currently working on her first feature length documentary. Tony Wallin-Sato is a justice-impacted scholar and multi-cultural Nisei writer who teaches in the CRGS dept at Cal Poly Humboldt.
Event Title: CDOR: DIY – Transformative Creativity Workshop: You Don’t Need Permission to Create Art. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Behavioral & Social Sciences 508 - Conference Room.
Turn it off and let's talk
Whiteness functions as an ideological framework that reinforces capitalism, patriarchy, and disconnection. This discussion invites participants to examine and release internalized whiteness, reconnecting with ancestral roots, land, and authentic relationships.
Grounded in Vine Deloria Jr.’s God Is Red, this session explores how community, spirituality, and resistance intertwine in healing from systems of dominance and reclaiming shared belonging.
Event Title: CDOR: Turn It Off and Let’s Talk: Disconnecting from White Ideology to Reconnect with Our Roots. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
Conversations to Connect
Join the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (ODEI) for a guided conversation on this year’s CDOR theme. Participants will gather in small circles to reflect on how the theme resonates personally and collectively.
Event Title: CDOR: Conversations to Connect: How Do You Connect to the CDOR Theme? Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM.
Nelson Hall East 106.
Permission to Pause
In a culture that glorifies hustle, slowing down can be revolutionary. This workshop explores toxic overproductivity — how it affects our brains, bodies, and sense of self — and offers ways to cultivate rest as resistance.
Join Scholars Without Borders for a grounding discussion and restorative sound bath designed to help you reconnect with balance, awareness, and wellbeing.
Event Title: CDOR: Permission to Pause. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera. Will your event include amplified sound on the University or Art Quad? TRUE.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
University Lower Quad.
Rest in Public
Join us in the Quad for a collective act of resistance through rest. In a culture that equates worth with productivity and thrives on the exhaustion of human and more-than-human bodies and the earth, this gathering invites participants to rest in public as a practice of refusal, resistance, and reclamation.
Rest in Public creates a communal space to lie, sit, or simply “do nothing” together, pausing to reconnect with body, breath, and one another. The event opens with reflections inspired by Tricia Hersey’s Rest as Resistance and the tenets of The Nap Ministry, among other wise teachers and activists, framing rest as a radical refusal of exhaustion, extraction, and exploitation.
Participants are encouraged to bring a blanket, yoga mat, camping pad, or pillow and rest however they wish. Quotes and reflections will be displayed throughout the Quad and read periodically, and a bell will sound every few minutes as an invitation to embodied presence and collective awareness.
In the event of rain, this…
Event Title: CDOR: Rest in Public: Refusal, Resistance, Reclamation. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera. Will your event include amplified sound on the University or Art Quad? FALSE.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
University Lower Quad.
Rest in the Midst of Activism
Being in community isn’t only about repair – it’s also about pausing. In this workshop, Serah Blackstone-Fredericks – writer, oral historian, mother, and experiential anthropologist – shares tools shaped by lived experience, social movement history, and burnout culture.
Participants will explore boundary clarity, refusal, and pauses as recalibration, renewing perspectives on rest not only as a tool but as a necessity for sustainable activism. ,
Together, we’ll reflect on how intentional rest supports resilience, creativity, and the longevity of justice work.
Event Title: CDOR: Rest in the Midst of Activism: Inviting a Pause into Community Advocacy. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
You’re Not Special
Our harshest critic often lives within us. In this interactive workshop, Dean Jophiel Washington shares personal insights and strategies for interrupting cycles of self-doubt, anxiety, and imposter syndrome through the practice of self-empathy and reflection.
Participants will learn tools to reframe negative self-talk, extend the same compassion we offer others to ourselves, and recognize the “inner critic” as a voice shaped by systems of oppression. Together, we’ll explore how disconnecting from internalized criticism can open space for self-understanding, confidence, and community connection.
Event Title: CDOR: You’re Not Special: Arguing With Your Inner Critic. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Nelson Hall East 106.
Courageous Cuentos Writing/Art Workshop
Join the Courageous Cuentos Team for an interactive writing and art workshop exploring the power of memory as survival and resistance. ,
Participants will learn about the history and community roots of Courageous Cuentos, the importance of storytelling, and the role of memory in personal and collective liberation.
Through guided writing and art prompts, participants will reflect on how remembering can serve as resistance, healing, and connection. Student facilitators will assist attendees and welcome on-the-spot submissions for future Courageous Cuentos publications.
Event Title: CDOR: Courageous Cuentos Writing/Art Workshop: The Power of Memory in Survival. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
Nelson Hall East 106.
KEY NOTE: Micha Cardena
micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, is an artist, author and Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the director of the Critical Realities Studio. Her debut novel Atoms Never Touch (AK Press 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke UP 2022) was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association. She is currently working on her next academic monograph After Man: Fires, Oceans and Climate Justice, as well as The Probability Engine, a multi-disciplinary artwork imagining futures of climate justice. She is a first generation Colombian American.
Event Title: CDOR: In the Horizon of Humanity: Trans/Queer/Crip Ecopoetics at the Tipping Point. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
College Creek Community Center 260 - Great Hall.
Dis/Connect to Reimagine
This experiential workshop invites participants to engage the Ethics of Care as a framework for cultivating a culture of compassion and justice at Cal Poly Humboldt. Drawing on practices of Humble Inquiry, Inclusive Connection, and Responsive Action, the session emphasizes how care emerges in context and is foundational to human flourishing.
Through guided reflection and interactive activities, participants will explore how to sustain critical work while nurturing caring relationships across campus and the community. This workshop equips faculty, staff, and community members with practical strategies to center care in their daily practices, ensuring students feel seen, heard, and supported.
Event Title: CDOR: Dis/Connect to Reimagine: Cultivating an Ethics of Care. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
CDOR
adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation. adrienne is the NYT-bestselling author/editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, and co-creator/host of How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown. adrienne's book Loving Corrections is now available from AK Press.
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Event Title: KEY NOTE: Adrienne Maree Brown. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Jolly Giant Commons 325 - Klamath River Room.
Voting Rights Behind and Beyond Bars
Disenfranchisement is both an everyday harm and a site of resistance. This panel brings together the voices of directly impacted individuals, advocates, and allies to explore how incarceration and voter exclusion function as racialized systems of disconnection — and how community-based advocacy and education can reconnect people to civic life and democratic participation.
Panelists will discuss:
The history and racialized impacts of voter disenfranchisement in the U.S.;
, Lived experiences of exclusion and re-entry;
, Ongoing efforts to expand enfranchisement and civic engagement among formerly and currently incarcerated people.
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The conversation will highlight the collaborative work of Project Rebound and the Politics Club, advancing strategies for restorative justice, public education, and systemic change. Participants will be invited to reflect, share perspectives, and explore practical ways to build a more inclusive democracy.
Event Title: CDOR: Voting Rights Behind and Beyond Bars. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Nelson Hall East 106.
El Leñador
El Leñador, the award-winning bilingual student newspaper at Cal Poly Humboldt, works to create social, political, and cultural diversity in local media. The team covers stories and experiences of diverse communities both on campus and throughout Humboldt County — amplifying voices that are often underrepresented.
In this interactive session, participants will learn about the paper’s mission, newsroom process, and the vital role of journalism as a form of resistance. Together, we’ll explore why local news matters and how storytelling can build bridges, foster inclusion, and challenge dominant narratives.
This workshop connects directly to CDOR’s theme, as El Leñador embodies everyday practices of refusal and reconnection through truth-telling and community-centered reporting. Participants will also be invited to brainstorm story ideas and reflect on how media can advance justice and equity.
Event Title: CDOR: El Leñador: Local News, Voice, and Resistance. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Nelson Hall East 106.
Abolish ICE begins with a Free Palestine
Format: Hybrid – in-person and via Zoom Registration Link https://hum.link/Z62,
Join this discussion connecting struggles for immigrant justice in the U.S. with the movement for Palestinian liberation. Facilitator Gina will examine how state surveillance, border control, and militarization — including technologies developed in occupied Palestine — are mirrored in U.S. immigration enforcement practices.
The session invites participants to reflect on how collective resistance, solidarity, and cross-community organizing can strengthen movements for abolition and liberation. Together, we’ll consider how disconnecting from fear and isolation can help immigrant and allied communities reconnect through shared struggle, care, and hope for justice.
Content Note: This workshop includes discussion of genocide, racialized violence, and displacement. Participants are encouraged to care for themselves and take breaks as needed.
Event Title: CDOR: Abolish ICE begins with a Free Palestine. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
Behavioral & Social Sciences 162 - Native American Forum.
Creating a Better World
Location: Library 209 – The Fishbowl (Hybrid – via Zoom and in-person viewing) Registration Link https://hum.link/Z66 ,
Live from Pelican Bay State Prison, 27 Cal Poly Humboldt students will share lived experiences and reflections on trauma, healing, and community transformation. This workshop offers tools for navigating difficult environments through vulnerability, mindfulness, and compassion – fostering dialogue about creating safer spaces and living with purpose even under extreme conditions. Facilitators will explore how compassion and collective care can transform harmful systems from within, connecting participants to the power of empathy, anti-racism, cultural connection, resistance to assimilation, community empowerment and solidarity. Together, we’ll reflect on what it means to disconnect from cycles of harm and reconnect to our shared humanity.
This presentation uplifts the voices of incarcerated scholars who are building community, nurturing safe spaces, and redefining freedom through…
Event Title: CDOR: Creating a Better World Through Compassion: Pelican Bay, Cultivating Safer Spaces and Living With Purpose. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
Rest is Resistance
This student-led session connects shared governance and activism to well-being through the lens of rest as resistance. After a brief introduction to the work of Tricia Hersey and The Nap Ministry, participants will engage in a collaborative dialogue about rest, activism, and shared governance at Cal Poly Humboldt.
Together, participants will reflect on what it means to rest, refuse overwork, and reclaim agency in systems that perpetuate exhaustion. The workshop will include a community art project visualizing how rest and resistance intersect with student leadership and advocacy.
Prizes and food will be provided. Participants will leave with resources, creative inspiration, and tangible next steps for engaging in shared governance in sustainable, restorative ways.
Event Title: CDOR: Rest is Resistance. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Nelson Hall East 106.
Boycott Film Screening and Discussion
Watch the 2021 documentary Boycott, which details the personal histories and legal battles of individuals fighting against state anti-BDS laws. BDS — the Palestinian-led movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel — challenges state and corporate complicity in human rights violations. The film examines our right to boycott as a legally protected form of freedom of expression under the First Amendment.
Following the screening, participants will join a facilitated dialogue focusing on refusal as a vital form of resistance — exploring the power of non-participation, protest, and solidarity in movements for racial and social justice.
This workshop creates space for collective learning about how refusal and non-violent protest have shaped political resistance in the U.S. and globally.
Event Title: CDOR: Boycott (2021) Film Screening and Discussion: Solidarity Through Refusal. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Siemens Hall 108 - Lecture Room.
Poetry and Spoken Word Open Mic
At a time when technology and productivity cultures are increasingly driving us into embodied states of isolation, alienation, and hopelessness, moments of rest and refusal have become imperative to the survival of our justice and liberation movements. If we are unable to hold ourselves accountable to collective care, then we will be unable to grow and sustain communities of resistance.
In line with Toyon’s forthcoming issue on Palestinian sumud and everyday resistance, Toyon will host an open-mic poetry and spoken word night within CDOR’s theme of dis/connecting to reconnect. The goal is to open the floor to the Humboldt community to broaden our horizons and gain a better understanding of rest and refusal as everyday resistance through poetry and spoken word.
This dialogue invites expression, imagination, and connection — building sustainable habits of care, creativity, and community.
Content Note: Open mic performances may include potentially triggering content (such as sexual assault, racialized…
Event Title: CDOR: Rest and Refusal as Everyday Resistance: Poetry and Spoken Word Open Mic. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Library 209 - Library Fishbowl.
Radical Rest for the Heart of Humanity
Compassionate movement can help us see things that are interfering with our quality of being. Turn tension into drive and anxiety into freedom while exploring somatic processes to help release trauma. This class is for all bodies, and no previous movement experience is required.
Over the course of an hour, participants will experience a series of simple movements paralleling human evolution, sinking into healing relaxation, then rebuilding grounded security through energizing movement. In a quiet, guided process of self-discovery, attendees will connect with their cells and spirit.
While listening to their bodies, they’ll find a place of constructive rest — where the practical becomes a little more mystical, and the mystical becomes a little more practical. Our bodies are wondrous and hold many profound answers.
It’s not a yoga, meditation, or dance class — but it is somehow all of those things.
Notes: Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable, unrestricted clothing and to bring openness…
Event Title: CDOR: Radical Rest for the Heart of Humanity. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Behavioral & Social Sciences 408 - Lecture Room.
Rest Through Coalition
Coalition building can be a difficult process without a catalytic event. This event could be as small as a group conversation identifying concerns within the community. Through this base-building conversation, we can develop an engaged group of students willing to take action when necessary and to support one another during times of rest.
Within our frame of Rest Through Coalition, we intend to identify issues for students on campus that we hope to change in order to make an accessible, welcoming, and just student experience for all. Through the foundation of Students for Quality Education, we hope to foster an interest in becoming politically engaged and provide a productive avenue for individuals to get involved in the community.
We will use a combined strategy of an opening presentation and framing of the space, followed by an open discussion event.
This proposal supports the 2025 theme, dis/connecting to reconnect: everyday rest, refusal, resistance, by highlighting the ways we can continue…
Event Title: CDOR: Rest Through Coalition: Building a Base with Solidarity. Organization: SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER. Responsible Person at Event Name: Frank Herrera.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Nelson Hall East 106.