{"id":704,"date":"2015-03-03T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/?page_id=704"},"modified":"2015-03-03T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T19:21:49","slug":"philosophy-talks-cesar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/philosophy-talks-cesar\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Talks: &#8220;Cesar Chavez and Non-Violence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/02\/Cesar-Chavez.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-706\" src=\"\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/02\/Cesar-Chavez.png\" alt=\"Cesar Chavez\" width=\"208\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou are invited to the BC Philosophy Department&#8217;s third Winter Quarter presentation of Philosophy Talks. \u00a0Our 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.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong>Mark Storey, BC Philosophy | Thursday, March 12, 10:30-11:20 | Location: LMC Event Center (D126).\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/02\/Cesar_chavez_union.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-708 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/02\/Cesar_chavez_union-150x150.png\" alt=\"Cesar Chavez\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>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. \u00a0While many thoughtful and not so thoughtful activists urged violence, Chavez argued that non-violence was both morally and pragmatically required. \u00a0<strong>Mark Storey<\/strong> will provide a brief introduction to how Chavez&#8217;s position on non-violence contrasts tellingly with activists like Ward Churchill, Che Guevara, Franz Fanon, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All are welcome<\/strong>. \u00a0The entrance to the LMC Event Center (D126) is now from the outside at the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">northwest corner of the D Building<\/span><\/strong>, not through the Library. \u00a0For more information, contact Philosophy Department Chair, Russ Payne at: wpayne@bellevuecollege.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are invited to the BC Philosophy Department&#8217;s third Winter Quarter presentation of Philosophy Talks. \u00a0Our 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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/philosophy-talks-cesar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-704","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/704\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}