On Friday, October 13, 2023, the University of Oregon hosted a day-long symposium entitled “Territories of White Supremacy: Opposing the Far Right in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond.” The idea for an event on white supremacy was proposed by Laura Pulido and Joe Lowndes about two years ago as part of the Pacific Northwest Just Futures Initiative for Racial and Climate Justice at the University of Oregon. Along with Professor Alyosha Goldstein at the University of New Mexico, Professors Pulido and Lowndes invited a group of activists, artists, and scholars to think together about the ongoing material force of state violence and far right and fascist organizing, as well the movements or coalitions that have resisted these forces. About a hundred people attended the symposium throughout the day.

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