You are invited to the BC Philosophy Department’s third Winter Quarter presentation of Philosophy Talks.  Our focus this time will be on the philosophy of non-violence as a means of advancing social justice, and as articulated by Mexican-American Cesar Chavez.

Mark Storey, BC Philosophy | Thursday, March 12, 10:30-11:20 | Location: LMC Event Center (D126). 

Chavez was a dynamic power in pressuring corporate farmers in California and beyond to provide improvement in pay to field workers, respect for female farm employees, and safety for workers against pesticides and herbicides.  While many thoughtful and not so thoughtful activists urged violence, Chavez argued that non-violence was both morally and pragmatically required.  Mark Storey will provide a brief introduction to how Chavez’s position on non-violence contrasts tellingly with activists like Ward Churchill, Che Guevara, Franz Fanon, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

All are welcome.  The entrance to the LMC Event Center (D126) is now from the outside at the northwest corner of the D Building, not through the Library.  For more information, contact Philosophy Department Chair, Russ Payne at: wpayne@bellevuecollege.edu.