Social Justice Event

For my social justice event, I attended the Geller Lecture for Human Relations: “The Land of Open Graves: Life, Death, and the Politics of Decomposition on the US/Mexican Border”. It was essentially a lecture about the problems, and the inhumane things that occur at the US/Mexican border. This lecture was sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Criminology. The lead, and only presenter of this event was Jason De Le’on. He is very experienced, and involved in the occurrences at the US/Mexican border. He has done years of research at the border, and he has even gone on very long hikes in the same terrain, and using the same limited supplies that illegal Mexican immigrants experience when they make the long walk from Mexico to the United States. The event occurred in the LSC conference room in the student center. There was a good amount of people there who were not students, which I did not expect. The event was a lecture with a Q&A segment. The experience lasted a little over an hour. This event has a few key themes …show more content…
He stated the term for things that happen to bodies after they die is called “taphonomy”. One thing is that their body can be eaten by some group of animals. Another is that their body can be recovered by people who are searching the area for the soul purpose of finding immigrant’s bodies. The final thing he said is that their body can simply lay there to rot for weeks until they naturally decay. Often their families will have no idea what ever happened to them. He even mentioned seeing a dead man laying by a garbage can, and when he asked people about it the next day they did not even remember seeing him. It was just normal to them. These themes connect to class, because we talked about how if God is good, then why do these bad things happen. Also that God makes everything happen for a reason. However, none of these things should every happen to any human