Thursday, May 4, 9:00am-5:00pm, in person, Legends Casino, 580 Fort Road, Toppenish. Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Symposium. The Yakama Nation Behavioral Health Victim Resource Program will have an MMIP Symposium with Keynote Speaker Kelly Jackson. The symposium will continue, Friday, May 5, 8:30am and will end with an Awareness Walk at 11:00am. Register here. Saturday, May 6, 10:00am-4:00pm, in person, Westlake Park, 401 Pine Street, Seattle. March and Gathering for Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women, People & Families. Join grassroots organization MMIWP Families in bringing continued awareness to this epidemic. The march will begin at 11:00am and will end at the Seattle Center Amphitheater, 305 Harrison Street. Register here. Saturday, May 6, 10:00am-noon, in person, Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 911 Stewart Street, Seattle. Farm Worker Ministry Northwest Community Forum, co-sponsored by Faith Action Network. This event features organizers for United Farm Workers, which is supporting the Ostrom Mushroom Farms workers as they continue their struggle for justice. The Ostrom company was sold to Greenwood/Windmill Mushroom Farm, and the workers were all fired and offered different jobs at lower wages, and then forced to sign an arbitration agreement. Management continues to refuse to recognize the union or respond to workers’ concerns. Learn how you can support them. Contact Farm Worker Ministry at fwm-nw@nfwm.org for more information and to register. Sunday, May 7, 10:30am, in person and on line, First United Methodist Church, 180 Denny Way, Seattle. Holy Ground/Earth Month worship series. with Sarah Augustine, a Pueblo (Tewa) descendant, author of The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery, co-founder and executive director of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition, and co-founder of the Suriname Indigenous Health Fund (SIHF). Learn more about the event here.
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