Introducing the Place Justice Project: A Statewide Truth-seeking and Historical Recovery Initiative of the Permanent Commission
What: Each Friday, Maine Conservation Voters hosts a one-hour webinar focused on important and timely topics.
Who gets memorialized through place names, statues, and historical markers is a strong indicator of a society’s values and its dominant sense of collective identity. The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations has launched a Place Justice Project that seeks to engage Wabanaki and Maine communities in examining a wide range of commemorative practices to better understand and respond to the ways in which racialized and Indigenous populations are represented in or absent from the narratives inscribed on our natural and built environment. Whose memory is visible and celebrated, and whose has been erased or misrepresented? How do the politics and practices of public remembrance and forgetting continue to impact our communities today?
Learn from Meadow Dibble, Place Justice Project Lead, Executive Director of Atlantic Black Box; Erika Arthur, Place Justice Consultant, Policy Analyst at the Catherine Cutler Institute; and Angela Okafor, Director of Community Engagement at the Permanent Commission, about how you can take part in this collective examination of the memory scape in which we exist and yet have largely come to take for granted.
When: Friday, March 3, 12-1 p.m.
Where: Online. This is a free event hosted, but you must register to join. Click here to register.