From cls2001 at swbell.net Thu Oct 1 08:43:21 2009 From: cls2001 at swbell.net (Carrie Stewart) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:43:21 -0500 Subject: [WAsummit] FYI - Green Worker Cooperatives Message-ID: <001e01ca42a5$85e4c580$91ae5080$@net> "Worker Ownership in the Green Economy" - a talk by Omar Freilla, founder of Green Worker Cooperatives in NYC Omar Freilla grew up in the South Bronx and returned home after earning a master's degree in environmental science from Miami University in Ohio. He worked as transportation coordinator for the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and program director for Sustainable South Bronx before founding Green Worker Cooperatives in 2003. Freilla, who also is a board member of the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives, was awarded the 2007 Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Green Worker Cooperatives is a South Bronx-based organization dedicated to incubating worker-owned and environmentally friendly cooperatives. In response to high unemployment and decades of environmental racism, the group creates new ways people can earn a living without polluting the earth or exploiting human labor. One goal of the organization is to turn the estimated 10,000 tons of construction waste that ends up in waste transfer stations in the Bronx each year into green-collar jobs for local residents. The group's first cooperative project is ReBuilders Source, a retail warehouse for surplus and salvaged building materials recovered from construction and demolition jobs. To see an interview with Freilla, visit http://futureofny.org/multimedia/interviews/omar-freilla Carrie L. Stewart, M.C.I.S. 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I see the workshop is scheduled for tomorrow. --Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------- hello all this is an update from the twin cities. this coming saturday, 2 good friends of mine (white racial justice people) are doing an all day white privilege/white supremacy workshop at our local YWCA. it involves body work and feeling whiteness. two different nazi organizations have listed it on their websites and will be demonstrating outside the Y on sat. morn, claiming this is anti-white discrimination. this follows a week where two young black youth were attacked viciously by 2 young white youth who called them a variety of hateful things. there is going to be a counter demo that is being organized as i write by antiracist folks. this is not the kind of update i had hoped would come from a community that will hosting the 2011 white privilege conference. lisa albrecht -- Lisa Albrecht, Ph.D. Morse-Mn. 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Today's Topics: 1. white privilege workshop and Nazi threat (Jeff Hitchcock) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 07:07:11 -0400 From: "Jeff Hitchcock" Subject: [WAsummit] white privilege workshop and Nazi threat To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Lisa, do you have more news about this situation? I see the workshop is scheduled for tomorrow. --Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------- hello all this is an update from the twin cities. this coming saturday, 2 good friends of mine (white racial justice people) are doing an all day white privilege/white supremacy workshop at our local YWCA. it involves body work and feeling whiteness. two different nazi organizations have listed it on their websites and will be demonstrating outside the Y on sat. morn, claiming this is anti-white discrimination. this follows a week where two young black youth were attacked viciously by 2 young white youth who called them a variety of hateful things. there is going to be a counter demo that is being organized as i write by antiracist folks. this is not the kind of update i had hoped would come from a community that will hosting the 2011 white privilege conference. lisa albrecht -- Lisa Albrecht, Ph.D. Morse-Mn. 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URL: ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WAsummit mailing list WAsummit at lists.wacan.org http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit End of WAsummit Digest, Vol 16, Issue 4 *************************************** Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry From jeffhitchcock at euroamerican.org Sat Oct 3 07:37:16 2009 From: jeffhitchcock at euroamerican.org (Jeff Hitchcock) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 09:37:16 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] News article about the situation in Minneapolis Message-ID: <45AC86F255BA44B693FEEDE2D6057EA9@JeffOffice> http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-oppose-neo-nazi -rally-in-minneapolis Community mobilizes to oppose neo-Nazi rally in Minneapolis By Andy Birkey 10/2/09 1:17 PM Nazi SwastikaThe National Socialist Movement, a homophobic and anti-semitic white supremacist group, is threatening to protest a workshop at the Minneapolis YWCA about white privilege and white supremacy. It will be the first public NSM event here since a 2007 book-burning, and several groups of Twin Citians say they plan to make that visit an unwelcome one. The neo-Nazi group, which up until late 2007 was headquartered in Minneapolis, announced it will protest the "More Than Skin Deep: Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy one cell at a time" workshop being held Saturday at the Midtown YWCA. The event "is for white people who already have an understanding of white privilege and white supremacy (WP/WS) and want to learn more about how to dismantle WP/WS through embodiment work, education, visioning and practical action." Attendees will learn to "use critical race content and embodiment exploration to uproot ideologies of white supremacy and systems of white privilege in our lives." And workshop attendees will likely get a first-hand look at white supremacy if members of the NSM show up. A number of counter-protests are planned for Saturday. "The NSM has been holding racist anti-immigrant rallies in southern Minnesota, and now they are seeking to establish a presence inside the City of Minneapolis," reads a flier posted at the May Day Cafe in south Minneapolis. "They plan to bring their racist, homophobic, anti-immigrant, antisemitic message of division and hate right into the heart of the city. They must not go unopposed!" On Wednesday, more than 100 Minneapolis residents attended an emergency meeting to develop strategies for the counter protest. "We need to defend the vibrant, multi-ethnic diversity we have here in Minneapolis," Dan Gannon, an anti-racist community organizer, said in a press release Friday. "Our city must remain a 'no-go' zone where white supremacists cannot organize or build a movement with their hate speech and violence." A Minneapolis resident who attended the meeting, Angelina Vazquez, said, "We're not going to let this happen in our city. This is an attack on our multiracial, multicultural community. We refuse to be put under siege by violent right-wingers." Workshop organizers say they haven't organized a counter-protest, but they're happy the community is coming together to oppose the NSM. Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo are organizing the YWCA workshop. "Susan and I are grateful that people are stepping up against these protesters," said Hackman. "We are also very grateful for the support of the Y." "There are a number of people responding in a number of ways to this protest, and challenging racism and challenging white privilege," she said. "It's clear that this community is not going to stand for this." Hackman says the organizers will address the crowd at 10 am. The Saturday protest will be followed by an NSM-organized rally "against illegal aliens and communism" at the Veteran's Memorial in Austin, Minn., on Oct. 17, according to the group's Web site. --Jeff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 3128 bytes Desc: not available URL: From mpotapchuk at comcast.net Sun Oct 4 10:44:18 2009 From: mpotapchuk at comcast.net (Maggie Potapchuk) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 12:44:18 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] WWW.RACIALEQUITYTOOLS.ORG - NEW RESOURCES Message-ID: <000d01ca4511$eab213a0$c0163ae0$@net> We apologize for any cross-postings. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 3697 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 4295 bytes Desc: not available URL: From pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm Mon Oct 5 13:11:50 2009 From: pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm (Dottye Burt-Markowitz) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:11:50 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] News article about the situation in Minneapolis In-Reply-To: <45AC86F255BA44B693FEEDE2D6057EA9@JeffOffice> References: <45AC86F255BA44B693FEEDE2D6057EA9@JeffOffice> Message-ID: <1254769910.12618.1338166059@webmail.messagingengine.com> Jeff, I am wondering if other folks on the WAsummit listserve are seeing blatant white supremacist activities in their areas. I got a call last week from a white friend who received an anonymous postcard, obviously from a white supremacist group that chose not to identify itself, telling him (after his name appeared in the newspaper in an article about a telephone pole that needed to be replaced) that "he has more to worry about than a phone pole", and then making racist and anti-immigrant statements about the neighborhood where my friend lives. It's been more than 20 years since we've seen this kind of organized white supremacist activity in Baltimore (where the 65% African American population tends to keep the extreme extremists away or at least out of sight). Dottye On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:37 -0400, "Jeff Hitchcock" wrote: [1]http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-o ppose-neo-nazi-rally-in-minneapolis [2]Community mobilizes to oppose neo-Nazi rally in Minneapolis By [3]Andy Birkey 10/2/09 1:17 PM [4]Nazi Swastika The National Socialist Movement, a homophobic and anti-semitic white supremacist group, is threatening to protest a workshop at the Minneapolis YWCA about white privilege and white supremacy. It will be the first public NSM event here since a 2007 book-burning, and several groups of Twin Citians say they plan to make that visit an unwelcome one. The neo-Nazi group, which [5]up until late 2007 was headquartered in Minneapolis, announced it will protest the ?More Than Skin Deep: Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy one cell at a time? workshop being [6]held Saturday at the Midtown YWCA. The event ?is for white people who already have an understanding of white privilege and white supremacy (WP/WS) and want to learn more about how to dismantle WP/WS through embodiment work, education, visioning and practical action.? Attendees will learn to ?use critical race content and embodiment exploration to uproot ideologies of white supremacy and systems of white privilege in our lives.? And workshop attendees will likely get a first-hand look at white supremacy if members of the NSM show up. A number of counter-protests are planned for Saturday. ?The NSM has been holding racist anti-immigrant rallies in southern Minnesota, and now they are seeking to establish a presence inside the City of Minneapolis,? reads a flier posted at the May Day Cafe in south Minneapolis. ?They plan to bring their racist, homophobic, anti-immigrant, antisemitic message of division and hate right into the heart of the city. They must not go unopposed!? On Wednesday, more than 100 Minneapolis residents attended an emergency meeting to develop strategies for the counter protest. ?We need to defend the vibrant, multi-ethnic diversity we have here in Minneapolis,? Dan Gannon, an anti-racist community organizer, said in a press release Friday. ?Our city must remain a ?no-go? zone where white supremacists cannot organize or build a movement with their hate speech and violence.? A Minneapolis resident who attended the meeting, Angelina Vazquez, said, ?We?re not going to let this happen in our city. This is an attack on our multiracial, multicultural community. We refuse to be put under siege by violent right-wingers.? Workshop organizers say they haven?t organized a counter-protest, but they?re happy the community is coming together to oppose the NSM. Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo are organizing the YWCA workshop. ?Susan and I are grateful that people are stepping up against these protesters,? said Hackman. ?We are also very grateful for the support of the Y.? ?There are a number of people responding in a number of ways to this protest, and challenging racism and challenging white privilege,? she said. ?It?s clear that this community is not going to stand for this.? Hackman says the organizers will address the crowd at 10 am. The Saturday protest will be followed by an NSM-organized rally ?against illegal aliens and communism? at the Veteran?s Memorial in Austin, Minn., on Oct. 17, according to the group?s Web site. --Jeff References 1. http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-oppose-neo-nazi-rally-in-minneapolis 2. http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-oppose-neo-nazi-rally-in-minneapolis 3. http://minnesotaindependent.com/author/andy-birkey/ 4. http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/200px-Nazi_Swastika.svg.png 5. http://minnesotaindependent.com/2884/top-neo-nazi-group-leaves-minneapolis 6. http://www.tc.indymedia.org/2009/sep/more-skin-deep-uprooting-white-privilege-and-white-supremacy-one-cell-time -- Dottye Burt-Markowitz Paso Training and Consulting 425 South Chester St. Baltimore MD 21231 phone: 410-327-0134 pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I don't think this necessarily signifies real growth in these groups, per se, but it may indicate a growing boldness in the face of the Obama Administration, and the belief by some of the more fascist type groups that they can harness some of the more mainstream public anger in a blatantly white nationalist/supremacist direction. tim wise On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Dottye Burt-Markowitz wrote: > Jeff, > > I am wondering if other folks on the WAsummit listserve are seeing > blatant white supremacist activities in their areas. I got a call > last week from a white friend who received an anonymous postcard, > obviously from a white supremacist group that chose not to identify > itself, telling him (after his name appeared in the newspaper in an > article about a telephone pole that needed to be replaced) that "he > has more to worry about than a phone pole", and then making racist > and anti-immigrant statements about the neighborhood where my friend > lives. It's been more than 20 years since we've seen this kind of > organized white supremacist activity in Baltimore (where the 65% > African American population tends to keep the extreme extremists > away or at least out of sight). > > Dottye > > On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:37 -0400, "Jeff Hitchcock" > wrote: >> >> http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-oppose-neo-nazi-rally-in-minneapolis >> >> Community mobilizes to oppose neo-Nazi rally in Minneapolis >> >> By Andy Birkey 10/2/09 1:17 PM >> The National Socialist Movement, a homophobic and >> anti-semitic white supremacist group, is threatening to protest a >> workshop at the Minneapolis YWCA about white privilege and white >> supremacy. It will be the first public NSM event here since a 2007 >> book-burning, and several groups of Twin Citians say they plan to >> make that visit an unwelcome one. >> >> The neo-Nazi group, which up until late 2007 was headquartered in >> Minneapolis, announced it will protest the ?More Than Skin Deep: >> Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy one cell at a time? >> workshop being held Saturday at the Midtown YWCA. The event ?is for >> white people who already have an understanding of white privilege >> and white supremacy (WP/WS) and want to learn more about how to >> dismantle WP/WS through embodiment work, education, visioning and >> practical action.? Attendees will learn to ?use critical race >> content and embodiment exploration to uproot ideologies of white >> supremacy and systems of white privilege in our lives.? >> >> And workshop attendees will likely get a first-hand look at white >> supremacy if members of the NSM show up. >> >> A number of counter-protests are planned for Saturday. ?The NSM has >> been holding racist anti-immigrant rallies in southern Minnesota, >> and now they are seeking to establish a presence inside the City of >> Minneapolis,? reads a flier posted at the May Day Cafe in south >> Minneapolis. ?They plan to bring their racist, homophobic, anti- >> immigrant, antisemitic message of division and hate right into the >> heart of the city. They must not go unopposed!? >> >> On Wednesday, more than 100 Minneapolis residents attended an >> emergency meeting to develop strategies for the counter protest. >> >> ?We need to defend the vibrant, multi-ethnic diversity we have here >> in Minneapolis,? Dan Gannon, an anti-racist community organizer, >> said in a press release Friday. ?Our city must remain a ?no-go? >> zone where white supremacists cannot organize or build a movement >> with their hate speech and violence.? >> >> A Minneapolis resident who attended the meeting, Angelina Vazquez, >> said, ?We?re not going to let this happen in our city. This is an >> attack on our multiracial, multicultural community. We refuse to be >> put under siege by violent right-wingers.? >> >> Workshop organizers say they haven?t organized a counter-protest, >> but they?re happy the community is coming together to oppose the NSM. >> >> Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo are organizing the YWCA workshop. >> ?Susan and I are grateful that people are stepping up against these >> protesters,? said Hackman. ?We are also very grateful for the >> support of the Y.? >> >> ?There are a number of people responding in a number of ways to >> this protest, and challenging racism and challenging white >> privilege,? she said. ?It?s clear that this community is not going >> to stand for this.? >> >> Hackman says the organizers will address the crowd at 10 am. >> >> The Saturday protest will be followed by an NSM-organized rally >> ?against illegal aliens and communism? at the Veteran?s Memorial in >> Austin, Minn., on Oct. 17, according to the group?s Web site. >> >> >> --Jeff > > -- > Dottye Burt-Markowitz > Paso Training and Consulting > 425 South Chester St. > Baltimore MD 21231 > phone: 410-327-0134 > pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm > _______________________________________________ > WAsummit mailing list > WAsummit at lists.wacan.org > http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm Mon Oct 5 13:27:54 2009 From: pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm (Dottye Burt-Markowitz) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:27:54 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] News article about the situation in Minneapolis In-Reply-To: References: <45AC86F255BA44B693FEEDE2D6057EA9@JeffOffice><1254769910.12618.1338166059@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <1254770874.15170.1338168733@webmail.messagingengine.com> I don't know either about real growth in the organized movements. But I definitely think those movements are helping to open wide a door that has seemed to be shut on overt racist expression by a significant segment of the white population. Of course, helped by the intentional appeal to racist thinking in the political arena and the clueless way in which the media deals with it all. I'm currently working with a Christian organization that covers the state of MD and I'm seriously thinking about making an appeal to them to monitor and stand up against this kind of activity in our state (where, outside of Baltimore, there is a long history of active white supremacist activity). Has anyone out there been working with churches on this? Dottye On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:16 -0500, "Timothy Wise" wrote: I agree, there is something new happening right now. It had been about 7 years since I'd had a Nazi show up at one of my speeches, but I had one (from the National Alliance) come to my speech last month in Kentucky...also a serious uptick in hate mail lately. I don't think this necessarily signifies real growth in these groups, per se, but it may indicate a growing boldness in the face of the Obama Administration, and the belief by some of the more fascist type groups that they can harness some of the more mainstream public anger in a blatantly white nationalist/supremacist direction. tim wise On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Dottye Burt-Markowitz wrote: Jeff, I am wondering if other folks on the WAsummit listserve are seeing blatant white supremacist activities in their areas. I got a call last week from a white friend who received an anonymous postcard, obviously from a white supremacist group that chose not to identify itself, telling him (after his name appeared in the newspaper in an article about a telephone pole that needed to be replaced) that "he has more to worry about than a phone pole", and then making racist and anti-immigrant statements about the neighborhood where my friend lives. It's been more than 20 years since we've seen this kind of organized white supremacist activity in Baltimore (where the 65% African American population tends to keep the extreme extremists away or at least out of sight). Dottye On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:37 -0400, "Jeff Hitchcock" <[1]jeffhitchcock at euroamerican.org> wrote: [2]http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-o ppose-neo-nazi-rally-in-minneapolis [3]Community mobilizes to oppose neo-Nazi rally in Minneapolis By [4]Andy Birkey 10/2/09 1:17 PM [5]The National Socialist Movement, a homophobic and anti-semitic white supremacist group, is threatening to protest a workshop at the Minneapolis YWCA about white privilege and white supremacy. It will be the first public NSM event here since a 2007 book-burning, and several groups of Twin Citians say they plan to make that visit an unwelcome one. The neo-Nazi group, which [6]up until late 2007 was headquartered in Minneapolis, announced it will protest the ?More Than Skin Deep: Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy one cell at a time? workshop being [7]held Saturday at the Midtown YWCA. The event ?is for white people who already have an understanding of white privilege and white supremacy (WP/WS) and want to learn more about how to dismantle WP/WS through embodiment work, education, visioning and practical action.? Attendees will learn to ?use critical race content and embodiment exploration to uproot ideologies of white supremacy and systems of white privilege in our lives.? And workshop attendees will likely get a first-hand look at white supremacy if members of the NSM show up. A number of counter-protests are planned for Saturday. ?The NSM has been holding racist anti-immigrant rallies in southern Minnesota, and now they are seeking to establish a presence inside the City of Minneapolis,? reads a flier posted at the May Day Cafe in south Minneapolis. ?They plan to bring their racist, homophobic, anti-immigrant, antisemitic message of division and hate right into the heart of the city. They must not go unopposed!? On Wednesday, more than 100 Minneapolis residents attended an emergency meeting to develop strategies for the counter protest. ?We need to defend the vibrant, multi-ethnic diversity we have here in Minneapolis,? Dan Gannon, an anti-racist community organizer, said in a press release Friday. ?Our city must remain a ?no-go? zone where white supremacists cannot organize or build a movement with their hate speech and violence.? A Minneapolis resident who attended the meeting, Angelina Vazquez, said, ?We?re not going to let this happen in our city. This is an attack on our multiracial, multicultural community. We refuse to be put under siege by violent right-wingers.? Workshop organizers say they haven?t organized a counter-protest, but they?re happy the community is coming together to oppose the NSM. Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo are organizing the YWCA workshop. ?Susan and I are grateful that people are stepping up against these protesters,? said Hackman. ?We are also very grateful for the support of the Y.? ?There are a number of people responding in a number of ways to this protest, and challenging racism and challenging white privilege,? she said. ?It?s clear that this community is not going to stand for this.? Hackman says the organizers will address the crowd at 10 am. The Saturday protest will be followed by an NSM-organized rally ?against illegal aliens and communism? at the Veteran?s Memorial in Austin, Minn., on Oct. 17, according to the group?s Web site. --Jeff -- Dottye Burt-Markowitz Paso Training and Consulting 425 South Chester St. Baltimore MD 21231 phone: 410-327-0134 [8]pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm _______________________________________________ WAsummit mailing list [9]WAsummit at lists.wacan.org [10]http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit References 1. mailto:jeffhitchcock at euroamerican.org 2. http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-oppose-neo-nazi-rally-in-minneapolis 3. http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-oppose-neo-nazi-rally-in-minneapolis 4. http://minnesotaindependent.com/author/andy-birkey/ 5. http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/200px-Nazi_Swastika.svg.png 6. http://minnesotaindependent.com/2884/top-neo-nazi-group-leaves-minneapolis 7. http://www.tc.indymedia.org/2009/sep/more-skin-deep-uprooting-white-privilege-and-white-supremacy-one-cell-time 8. mailto:pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm 9. mailto:WAsummit at lists.wacan.org 10. http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit -- Dottye Burt-Markowitz Paso Training and Consulting 425 South Chester St. Baltimore MD 21231 phone: 410-327-0134 pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From coaction at antiracism.com Mon Oct 5 14:14:05 2009 From: coaction at antiracism.com (Lauren Kucera) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:14:05 -0700 Subject: [WAsummit] News article about the situation in Minneapolis In-Reply-To: <1254770874.15170.1338168733@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <45AC86F255BA44B693FEEDE2D6057EA9@JeffOffice><1254769910.12618.1338166059@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1254770874.15170.1338168733@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <7B6827AE-FE43-4422-B7C8-27F056719365@antiracism.com> Hi Everyone - We have a multiracial community coalition here in Santa Cruz organizing to address institutional racism in Santa Cruz County. Our official name is: The Santa Cruz County Coalition for Overcoming Racism (SCCCOR). Over the past 2 years, we've organized 4 listening sessions throughout the county for testimony around racism. We also have bi-monthly community gatherings and 6 action groups (housing, health care, employment, immigration, law enforcement and education) where folks are working on various projects to educate around and combat systemic racism. We have added a group recently to address "crisis intervention." One of our African American community members has been blatantly targeted by the Klan and during a large event we held last summer, some neo nazis were out front with the confederate flag. So for those of you who know of Santa Cruz - it is characterized as a predominantly white, "progressive" (hippy, eco-activists), working to upper middle class, beach, redwoods and farming community. In Watsonville (south county) we have all kinds of immigration rights issues to address. In the San Lorenzo Valley (north county) there is a strong and organized group of Klan. In between is Santa Cruz where most well-meaning white folks think that electing Obama solved the racism problem. I believe Klan type of activity is becoming more active here, including recruitment at two high schools. So while I've painted Santa Cruz in some pretty broad strokes here ( I do like living here), I just wanted to chime in and share about some action we're pursuing on the central coast of California. my best- Lauren Lauren Parker Kucera Producer, Shades Of Youth www.antiracism.com On Oct 5, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Dottye Burt-Markowitz wrote: > I don't know either about real growth in the organized movements. > But I definitely think those movements are helping to open wide a > door that has seemed to be shut on overt racist expression by a > significant segment of the white population. Of course, helped by > the intentional appeal to racist thinking in the political arena and > the clueless way in which the media deals with it all. > > I'm currently working with a Christian organization that covers the > state of MD and I'm seriously thinking about making an appeal to > them to monitor and stand up against this kind of activity in our > state (where, outside of Baltimore, there is a long history of > active white supremacist activity). Has anyone out there been > working with churches on this? > > Dottye > > On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:16 -0500, "Timothy Wise" > wrote: >> I agree, there is something new happening right now. It had been >> about 7 years since I'd had a Nazi show up at one of my speeches, >> but I had one (from the National Alliance) come to my speech last >> month in Kentucky...also a serious uptick in hate mail lately. I >> don't think this necessarily signifies real growth in these groups, >> per se, but it may indicate a growing boldness in the face of the >> Obama Administration, and the belief by some of the more fascist >> type groups that they can harness some of the more mainstream >> public anger in a blatantly white nationalist/supremacist direction. >> >> tim wise >> >> On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Dottye Burt-Markowitz wrote: >> >>> Jeff, >>> >>> I am wondering if other folks on the WAsummit listserve are seeing >>> blatant white supremacist activities in their areas. I got a call >>> last week from a white friend who received an anonymous postcard, >>> obviously from a white supremacist group that chose not to >>> identify itself, telling him (after his name appeared in the >>> newspaper in an article about a telephone pole that needed to be >>> replaced) that "he has more to worry about than a phone pole", and >>> then making racist and anti-immigrant statements about the >>> neighborhood where my friend lives. It's been more than 20 years >>> since we've seen this kind of organized white supremacist activity >>> in Baltimore (where the 65% African American population tends to >>> keep the extreme extremists away or at least out of sight). >>> >>> Dottye >>> >>> On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:37 -0400, "Jeff Hitchcock" >> > wrote: >>>> >>>> http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-oppose-neo-nazi-rally-in-minneapolis >>>> >>>> Community mobilizes to oppose neo-Nazi rally in Minneapolis >>>> >>>> By Andy Birkey 10/2/09 1:17 PM >>>> The National Socialist Movement, a homophobic and >>>> anti-semitic white supremacist group, is threatening to protest a >>>> workshop at the Minneapolis YWCA about white privilege and white >>>> supremacy. It will be the first public NSM event here since a >>>> 2007 book-burning, and several groups of Twin Citians say they >>>> plan to make that visit an unwelcome one. >>>> >>>> The neo-Nazi group, which up until late 2007 was headquartered in >>>> Minneapolis, announced it will protest the ?More Than Skin Deep: >>>> Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy one cell at a time? >>>> workshop being held Saturday at the Midtown YWCA. The event ?is >>>> for white people who already have an understanding of white >>>> privilege and white supremacy (WP/WS) and want to learn more >>>> about how to dismantle WP/WS through embodiment work, education, >>>> visioning and practical action.? Attendees will learn to ?use >>>> critical race content and embodiment exploration to uproot >>>> ideologies of white supremacy and systems of white privilege in >>>> our lives.? >>>> >>>> And workshop attendees will likely get a first-hand look at white >>>> supremacy if members of the NSM show up. >>>> >>>> A number of counter-protests are planned for Saturday. ?The NSM >>>> has been holding racist anti-immigrant rallies in southern >>>> Minnesota, and now they are seeking to establish a presence >>>> inside the City of Minneapolis,? reads a flier posted at the May >>>> Day Cafe in south Minneapolis. ?They plan to bring their racist, >>>> homophobic, anti-immigrant, antisemitic message of division and >>>> hate right into the heart of the city. They must not go unopposed!? >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, more than 100 Minneapolis residents attended an >>>> emergency meeting to develop strategies for the counter protest. >>>> >>>> ?We need to defend the vibrant, multi-ethnic diversity we have >>>> here in Minneapolis,? Dan Gannon, an anti-racist community >>>> organizer, said in a press release Friday. ?Our city must remain >>>> a ?no-go? zone where white supremacists cannot organize or build >>>> a movement with their hate speech and violence.? >>>> >>>> A Minneapolis resident who attended the meeting, Angelina >>>> Vazquez, said, ?We?re not going to let this happen in our city. >>>> This is an attack on our multiracial, multicultural community. We >>>> refuse to be put under siege by violent right-wingers.? >>>> >>>> Workshop organizers say they haven?t organized a counter-protest, >>>> but they?re happy the community is coming together to oppose the >>>> NSM. >>>> >>>> Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo are organizing the YWCA workshop. >>>> ?Susan and I are grateful that people are stepping up against >>>> these protesters,? said Hackman. ?We are also very grateful for >>>> the support of the Y.? >>>> >>>> ?There are a number of people responding in a number of ways to >>>> this protest, and challenging racism and challenging white >>>> privilege,? she said. ?It?s clear that this community is not >>>> going to stand for this.? >>>> >>>> Hackman says the organizers will address the crowd at 10 am. >>>> >>>> The Saturday protest will be followed by an NSM-organized rally >>>> ?against illegal aliens and communism? at the Veteran?s Memorial >>>> in Austin, Minn., on Oct. 17, according to the group?s Web site. >>>> >>>> >>>> --Jeff >>> >>> -- >>> Dottye Burt-Markowitz >>> Paso Training and Consulting >>> 425 South Chester St. >>> Baltimore MD 21231 >>> phone: 410-327-0134 >>> pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WAsummit mailing list >>> WAsummit at lists.wacan.org >>> http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit > > -- > Dottye Burt-Markowitz > Paso Training and Consulting > 425 South Chester St. > Baltimore MD 21231 > phone: 410-327-0134 > pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm > _______________________________________________ > WAsummit mailing list > WAsummit at lists.wacan.org > http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cls2001 at swbell.net Mon Oct 5 14:25:10 2009 From: cls2001 at swbell.net (Carrie Stewart) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:25:10 -0500 Subject: [WAsummit] News article about the situation in Minneapolis In-Reply-To: <1254770874.15170.1338168733@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <45AC86F255BA44B693FEEDE2D6057EA9@JeffOffice><1254769910.12618.1338166059@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1254770874.15170.1338168733@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <024a01ca45f9$f04dbc40$d0e934c0$@net> The Southern Poverty Law Center is the bet Resource monitoring hate groups http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1092 They cite a growing ?anti-government? resurgence. Carrie Stewart carrie.stewart at swbell.net 817-685-2542 (H) 512-350-9030 (M) "Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure" ~ Marianne Williamson From: wasummit-bounces at lists.wacan.org [mailto:wasummit-bounces at lists.wacan.org] On Behalf Of Dottye Burt-Markowitz Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 2:28 PM To: White Anti-racist Summit Subject: Re: [WAsummit] News article about the situation in Minneapolis I don't know either about real growth in the organized movements. But I definitely think those movements are helping to open wide a door that has seemed to be shut on overt racist expression by a significant segment of the white population. Of course, helped by the intentional appeal to racist thinking in the political arena and the clueless way in which the media deals with it all. I'm currently working with a Christian organization that covers the state of MD and I'm seriously thinking about making an appeal to them to monitor and stand up against this kind of activity in our state (where, outside of Baltimore, there is a long history of active white supremacist activity). Has anyone out there been working with churches on this? Dottye On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:16 -0500, "Timothy Wise" wrote: I agree, there is something new happening right now. It had been about 7 years since I'd had a Nazi show up at one of my speeches, but I had one (from the National Alliance) come to my speech last month in Kentucky...also a serious uptick in hate mail lately. I don't think this necessarily signifies real growth in these groups, per se, but it may indicate a growing boldness in the face of the Obama Administration, and the belief by some of the more fascist type groups that they can harness some of the more mainstream public anger in a blatantly white nationalist/supremacist direction. tim wise On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Dottye Burt-Markowitz wrote: Jeff, I am wondering if other folks on the WAsummit listserve are seeing blatant white supremacist activities in their areas. I got a call last week from a white friend who received an anonymous postcard, obviously from a white supremacist group that chose not to identify itself, telling him (after his name appeared in the newspaper in an article about a telephone pole that needed to be replaced) that "he has more to worry about than a phone pole", and then making racist and anti-immigrant statements about the neighborhood where my friend lives. It's been more than 20 years since we've seen this kind of organized white supremacist activity in Baltimore (where the 65% African American population tends to keep the extreme extremists away or at least out of sight). Dottye On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:37 -0400, "Jeff Hitchcock" wrote: http://minnesotaindependent.com/46255/community-mobilizes-to-oppose-neo-nazi-rally-in-minneapolis Community mobilizes to oppose neo-Nazi rally in Minneapolis By Andy Birkey 10/2/09 1:17 PM The National Socialist Movement, a homophobic and anti-semitic white supremacist group, is threatening to protest a workshop at the Minneapolis YWCA about white privilege and white supremacy. It will be the first public NSM event here since a 2007 book-burning, and several groups of Twin Citians say they plan to make that visit an unwelcome one. The neo-Nazi group, which up until late 2007 was headquartered in Minneapolis, announced it will protest the ?More Than Skin Deep: Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy one cell at a time? workshop being held Saturday at the Midtown YWCA. The event ?is for white people who already have an understanding of white privilege and white supremacy (WP/WS) and want to learn more about how to dismantle WP/WS through embodiment work, education, visioning and practical action.? Attendees will learn to ?use critical race content and embodiment exploration to uproot ideologies of white supremacy and systems of white privilege in our lives.? And workshop attendees will likely get a first-hand look at white supremacy if members of the NSM show up. A number of counter-protests are planned for Saturday. ?The NSM has been holding racist anti-immigrant rallies in southern Minnesota, and now they are seeking to establish a presence inside the City of Minneapolis,? reads a flier posted at the May Day Cafe in south Minneapolis. ?They plan to bring their racist, homophobic, anti-immigrant, antisemitic message of division and hate right into the heart of the city. They must not go unopposed!? On Wednesday, more than 100 Minneapolis residents attended an emergency meeting to develop strategies for the counter protest. ?We need to defend the vibrant, multi-ethnic diversity we have here in Minneapolis,? Dan Gannon, an anti-racist community organizer, said in a press release Friday. ?Our city must remain a ?no-go? zone where white supremacists cannot organize or build a movement with their hate speech and violence.? A Minneapolis resident who attended the meeting, Angelina Vazquez, said, ?We?re not going to let this happen in our city. This is an attack on our multiracial, multicultural community. We refuse to be put under siege by violent right-wingers.? Workshop organizers say they haven?t organized a counter-protest, but they?re happy the community is coming together to oppose the NSM. Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo are organizing the YWCA workshop. ?Susan and I are grateful that people are stepping up against these protesters,? said Hackman. ?We are also very grateful for the support of the Y.? ?There are a number of people responding in a number of ways to this protest, and challenging racism and challenging white privilege,? she said. ?It?s clear that this community is not going to stand for this.? Hackman says the organizers will address the crowd at 10 am. The Saturday protest will be followed by an NSM-organized rally ?against illegal aliens and communism? at the Veteran?s Memorial in Austin, Minn., on Oct. 17, according to the group?s Web site. --Jeff -- Dottye Burt-Markowitz Paso Training and Consulting 425 South Chester St. Baltimore MD 21231 phone: 410-327-0134 pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm _______________________________________________ WAsummit mailing list WAsummit at lists.wacan.org http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit -- Dottye Burt-Markowitz Paso Training and Consulting 425 South Chester St. Baltimore MD 21231 phone: 410-327-0134 pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lalbrech at umn.edu Mon Oct 5 17:30:25 2009 From: lalbrech at umn.edu (Lisa Albrecht) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:30:25 -0500 Subject: [WAsummit] minneapolis update from someone who lives in minneapolis In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4ACA8191.2040109@umn.edu> hello all, fyi, the minnesota independent is by no means a very radical on-line rag. i trust twin cities indymedia for thoughtful coverage. below this email is the letter that my friends, susan raffo and heather hackman (the workshop facilitators), sent to many of us. they were fine w/ me sharing their letter on this listserv. but first...there were 5 neo-nazi men. there were over 150 antiracist folks, more white but many POC, especially immigrant rights people, because one of our local farmers' markets is across the street from the Y, where the event happened, and there are many local immigrant farmers selling produce there. this particular neo-nazi group spents lots of time in southern minnesota going after immigrants, so our local immigrant rights community came out to the rally. i was in the Y helping with the workshop registration, and decided that i did not want to put my energy into going outside and giving the neo-nazis more attention. several friends i trust gave me the following info: the antiracist crowd outshouted the neo-nazi men until they walked away from the Y and the police escorted them to their cars. it happened fast and there was no physical violence. the outshouting including throwing of tomatoes and hostile, nasty violent yelling from antiracists in the crowd, and neo-nazi yelling that they'd be back. my friends felt like each "side" was verbally violent. i am glad i wasn't outside, because i don't think that yelling hostile comments to these men is a very effective strategy. the yelling was not just, "leave our community" and "no racists here," but yelling calling these men faggots, pussys and red neck illiterates. interesting language choices, huh? my friends who were at the rally found the behavior of a number of white antiracist people horrible. i feel similarly. if this is our response, i feel like we have a long way to go. at least one of the neo-nazis was young and my friends said he looked incredibly afraid. is what we are doing just feeding that fear, and doesn't that fear strengthen these men? one of my friends wondered what might have happened if the white antiracist people circled the neo-nazis, held hands, and responded back to their violent language with words like...."we are white people like you, we are more similar than different, can't we talk, can't we not scream at each other..." i guess we'll never know. in the workshop, we spent some time feeling what it was like to talk about how we white people in the workshop were not only different than them, but similar. (we're human, we are passionate about many things like them, we care about this country, we feel afraid sometimes, we have families too, etc.) at first, i was pissed at the workshop leaders because i wanted to have nothing to do with neo nazis and did not want to put one iota of energy into listening or responding to them, and certainly not in the workshop space. but isn't it interesting that i didn't sleep the night before as i was working internally to make them invisible? i certainly did have strong feelings and trying to ignore my "enemies" wasn't really working. there was also a rally in the community where the two young black men were beaten up by 3 white kids yelling horrible racial crap at them. the community is a first ring suburb where there's now a large black population. their rally was in a church, with lots of faith talk and over 150 attended. it was also covered in our local mainstream newspapers. the neo-nazi rally was also in our mainstream papers in buried spots with only several paragraphs of text. the 3 young white men have been apprehended and will face hate crime charges. below is the letter from susan and heather..... that's it from me, lisa albrecht Greetings to all of our friends and allies, ?Beyond Skin Deep: Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy One Cell At a Time? is a workshop that in its simplest form is meant to help white people deepen their awareness regarding systems of white privilege and white supremacy, enhance their ability to challenge these systems, and ultimately further their commitment to dismantling them in their own lives and in the larger society. We contend that whiteness, which in this workshop we are identifying as the combination of systems in this society that benefit white people at the expense of people of color with ideas that say that that?s okay, is destroying communities of color, dehumanizing white people, and is a toxin in our society. Though not in equal measure, whiteness clearly harms everyone and therefore requires deeply committed action from /everyone/. Importantly, as two white women, we do not claim ?expertise? on this subject but have designed a workshop that has combined our years of work in a way that simply shares our experience, strength and hope. The result of this combination is a workshop that does more than share information about the framework of white privilege and white supremacy, but instead addresses the ways in which this whiteness informs how we embody our thoughts, our feelings and our beliefs in action to end racism. A white supremacist group called the National Socialist Movement plans to protest ?Beyond Skin Deep.? They have put out a call for the protest on multiple white supremacist websites. In response, a counter-protest has been organized to show solidarity with the workshop, to demonstrate in support of those immigrant communities who have consistently been the target of neo-Nazi activities, and to clearly demonstrate that white supremacists are not welcome in Minneapolis. And while this combination of organizing is powerful, it?s important to remember that it?s one moment in a long history of moments of challenging racism and white supremacy by activists of color and white allies who have given so much to this fight including many of the organizers of today?s event. In addition, the leadership of the YWCA in Minneapolis is committed to supporting this workshop and the work it stands for. Already, in solidarity, we are a community working on many fronts. This workshop has been organized for the past two months. It was filled to capacity with a waiting list two weeks ago. We take that to mean that other white people believe as we do that this work is essential to the overall movement to dismantle racism in this society. A week ago, we learned of the neo-Nazi intent to protest this workshop, citing the event as treason to whiteness. We disagree. Just to be clear, we believe that racism is supported by unchallenged and unquestioned white privilege and white supremacy. We believe that it is the responsibility of white people to be as vigilant and to feel as much urgency about ending racism and dismantling racism as people of color have for centuries. This work happens out of love and a vision for a healthy and whole society where all people and communities are welcome to live in the fullness and complexity of whoever they are. As such, we will not stop the workshop nor will we cease in our work to challenge whiteness wherever and whenever possible. We hold in complicated balance on the one hand, the perception some have that continuing the workshop is a subtle re-manifestation of white privilege, and on the other hand our perception that it is our responsibility to continue for the reasons stated above. We carry in our bodies the painful knowledge that many folks of color do not always have the choice to respond as we do. This knowledge we carefully hold alongside our commitment to fight white supremacy and, in this specific moment, not allow the neo-Nazi agenda to thwart our work. As white people whose bodies hold a history of violence directed against the bodies of many communities of color, for example the attempted genocide against the indigenous communities who live here, we believe it is our responsibility to work against that violence every day of our lives. This is not easy work, it is not uncomplicated work, and it is not painless work for any of us, but we feel strongly that it is the right work and we are honored to be engaging in it individually and in community with you. In solidarity and peace, Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo -- Lisa Albrecht, Ph.D. Morse-Mn. Alumni Association Distinguished Professor of Teaching School of Social Work University of Minnesota 193 Peters Hall St. Paul, MN. 55108 612 624 3669 Social Justice Minor - http://ssw.cehd.umn.edu/Programs/socialjustice.html From OppEd at toad.net Mon Oct 5 18:56:21 2009 From: OppEd at toad.net (Lucy Oppenheim) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:56:21 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] minneapolis update from someone who lives in minneapolis In-Reply-To: <4ACA8191.2040109@umn.edu> References: <4ACA8191.2040109@umn.edu> Message-ID: <4ACA95B5.2080407@toad.net> Augghhh--dismaying choices of things to shout. Good news about the turnout and how fast it was over. I want to call attention to one group you did not mention that this event affected: people who wonder whether the neo-Nazis have a point and might be worth joining. Groups like that feed on the distress people feel in times like these. Various scholars* of social movements have written that such groups offer people who feel real pain and justifiable anger an interpretation of the causes of their problems. An interpretation that scapegoats powerless groups instead of focusing on how our institutions have created the conditions that caused their grievances, it's easy to grasp and it offers convenient targets. If you're starting to consider that message and 150 people show up to shout down and chase away five people carrying it you're more likely to see it as marginal and not want to identify with it. If you're hearing the same interpretation of the causes of your woes increasingly from officeholders in Washington and "think" tankers on the blithering-head shows on TV, not to mention constantly on certain radio stations, there are fewer barriers to buying into it. So energy put into marginalizing such groups isn't just directed to the committed members of those groups. It has the very important effect of damaging the groups' ability to project their message and recruit new members. *A few such scholars: Matthew N. Lyons Chip Berlet Sara Robinson Sara Diamond Frederick Clarkson Lisa Albrecht wrote: > hello all, > fyi, the minnesota independent is by no means a very radical on-line > rag. i trust twin cities indymedia for thoughtful coverage. below this > email is the letter that my friends, susan raffo and heather hackman > (the workshop facilitators), sent to many of us. they were fine w/ me > sharing their letter on this listserv. > > but first...there were 5 neo-nazi men. there were over 150 antiracist > folks, more white but many POC, especially immigrant rights people, > because one of our local farmers' markets is across the street from the > Y, where the event happened, and there are many local immigrant farmers > selling produce there. this particular neo-nazi group spents lots of > time in southern minnesota going after immigrants, so our local > immigrant rights community came out to the rally. > > i was in the Y helping with the workshop registration, and decided that > i did not want to put my energy into going outside and giving the > neo-nazis more attention. several friends i trust gave me the following > info: > > the antiracist crowd outshouted the neo-nazi men until they walked away > from the Y and the police escorted them to their cars. it happened fast > and there was no physical violence. the outshouting including throwing > of tomatoes and hostile, nasty violent yelling from antiracists in the > crowd, and neo-nazi yelling that they'd be back. my friends felt like > each "side" was verbally violent. i am glad i wasn't outside, because i > don't think that yelling hostile comments to these men is a very > effective strategy. the yelling was not just, "leave our community" and > "no racists here," but yelling calling these men faggots, pussys and red > neck illiterates. interesting language choices, huh? my friends who were > at the rally found the behavior of a number of white antiracist people > horrible. i feel similarly. if this is our response, i feel like we have > a long way to go. at least one of the neo-nazis was young and my friends > said he looked incredibly afraid. is what we are doing just feeding that > fear, and doesn't that fear strengthen these men? one of my friends > wondered what might have happened if the white antiracist people circled > the neo-nazis, held hands, and responded back to their violent language > with words like...."we are white people like you, we are more similar > than different, can't we talk, can't we not scream at each other..." i > guess we'll never know. > > in the workshop, we spent some time feeling what it was like to talk > about how we white people in the workshop were not only different than > them, but similar. (we're human, we are passionate about many things > like them, we care about this country, we feel afraid sometimes, we have > families too, etc.) at first, i was pissed at the workshop leaders > because i wanted to have nothing to do with neo nazis and did not want > to put one iota of energy into listening or responding to them, and > certainly not in the workshop space. but isn't it interesting that i > didn't sleep the night before as i was working internally to make them > invisible? i certainly did have strong feelings and trying to ignore my > "enemies" wasn't really working. > > there was also a rally in the community where the two young black men > were beaten up by 3 white kids yelling horrible racial crap at them. the > community is a first ring suburb where there's now a large black > population. their rally was in a church, with lots of faith talk and > over 150 attended. it was also covered in our local mainstream > newspapers. the neo-nazi rally was also in our mainstream papers in > buried spots with only several paragraphs of text. the 3 young white men > have been apprehended and will face hate crime charges. > > below is the letter from susan and heather..... that's it from me, lisa > albrecht > > Greetings to all of our friends and allies, > > ?Beyond Skin Deep: Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy One > Cell At a Time? is a workshop that in its simplest form is meant to help > white people deepen their awareness regarding systems of white privilege > and white supremacy, enhance their ability to challenge these systems, > and ultimately further their commitment to dismantling them in their own > lives and in the larger society. We contend that whiteness, which in > this workshop we are identifying as the combination of systems in this > society that benefit white people at the expense of people of color with > ideas that say that that?s okay, is destroying communities of color, > dehumanizing white people, and is a toxin in our society. Though not in > equal measure, whiteness clearly harms everyone and therefore requires > deeply committed action from /everyone/. > > Importantly, as two white women, we do not claim ?expertise? on this > subject but have designed a workshop that has combined our years of work > in a way that simply shares our experience, strength and hope. The > result of this combination is a workshop that does more than share > information about the framework of white privilege and white supremacy, > but instead addresses the ways in which this whiteness informs how we > embody our thoughts, our feelings and our beliefs in action to end racism. > > A white supremacist group called the National Socialist Movement plans > to protest ?Beyond Skin Deep.? They have put out a call for the protest > on multiple white supremacist websites. In response, a counter-protest > has been organized to show solidarity with the workshop, to demonstrate > in support of those immigrant communities who have consistently been the > target of neo-Nazi activities, and to clearly demonstrate that white > supremacists are not welcome in Minneapolis. And while this combination > of organizing is powerful, it?s important to remember that it?s one > moment in a long history of moments of challenging racism and white > supremacy by activists of color and white allies who have given so much > to this fight including many of the organizers of today?s event. In > addition, the leadership of the YWCA in Minneapolis is committed to > supporting this workshop and the work it stands for. Already, in > solidarity, we are a community working on many fronts. > > This workshop has been organized for the past two months. It was filled > to capacity with a waiting list two weeks ago. We take that to mean that > other white people believe as we do that this work is essential to the > overall movement to dismantle racism in this society. A week ago, we > learned of the neo-Nazi intent to protest this workshop, citing the > event as treason to whiteness. We disagree. Just to be clear, we believe > that racism is supported by unchallenged and unquestioned white > privilege and white supremacy. We believe that it is the responsibility > of white people to be as vigilant and to feel as much urgency about > ending racism and dismantling racism as people of color have for > centuries. This work happens out of love and a vision for a healthy and > whole society where all people and communities are welcome to live in > the fullness and complexity of whoever they are. > > As such, we will not stop the workshop nor will we cease in our work to > challenge whiteness wherever and whenever possible. We hold in > complicated balance on the one hand, the perception some have that > continuing the workshop is a subtle re-manifestation of white privilege, > and on the other hand our perception that it is our responsibility to > continue for the reasons stated above. We carry in our bodies the > painful knowledge that many folks of color do not always have the choice > to respond as we do. This knowledge we carefully hold alongside our > commitment to fight white supremacy and, in this specific moment, not > allow the neo-Nazi agenda to thwart our work. > > As white people whose bodies hold a history of violence directed against > the bodies of many communities of color, for example the attempted > genocide against the indigenous communities who live here, we believe it > is our responsibility to work against that violence every day of our > lives. This is not easy work, it is not uncomplicated work, and it is > not painless work for any of us, but we feel strongly that it is the > right work and we are honored to be engaging in it individually and in > community with you. > > In solidarity and peace, > > Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo From louschoen at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 23:35:16 2009 From: louschoen at gmail.com (Louis Schoen) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 00:35:16 -0500 Subject: [WAsummit] minneapolis update from someone who lives in minneapolis In-Reply-To: <4ACA95B5.2080407@toad.net> References: <4ACA8191.2040109@umn.edu> <4ACA95B5.2080407@toad.net> Message-ID: Thanks very much to Lisa for her reporting and to Heather and Susan for the work that touched off the event that drew public attention once again unavoidably to the reality that this is NOT a "post-racial" society. My most frightening moment this weekend, prompted by the news Lisa and others shared, came in looking at the National Socialist Movement's web site. It is an amalgam of extreme anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, multiply racist, Hitler-apologetic propaganda highlighted at the top of the page by a swastika. At the same time, I was unable to visit the demonstration because a friend drew me, instead, to a unity gathering of Dakota people focusing on their own history, with the aim of building spiritual and community strength to resist the continuing systemic presence of white supremacist ideology, which sadly is no less real - and is more powerful - than the National Socialist Movement. People representing about a dozen Twin Cities organizations have been at work planning a November 6-8 conference on the theme, "Overcoming Racism: Why Is It So Hard?" Among keynoters will be Victor Lewis and Zeus Leonardo, whose recent book on race, whiteness and education is a fresh summary analysis of current critical work in the field. This effort strikes me as a good model of the kind of collaborative anti-racist organizing that's been discussed recently in the WASummit list serve. Lou Schoen, Minneapolis On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Lucy Oppenheim wrote: > Augghhh--dismaying choices of things to shout. Good news about the turnout > and how fast it was over. > > I want to call attention to one group you did not mention that this event > affected: people who wonder whether the neo-Nazis have a point and might be > worth joining. > > Groups like that feed on the distress people feel in times like these. > Various scholars* of social movements have written that such groups offer > people who feel real pain and justifiable anger an interpretation of the > causes of their problems. An interpretation that scapegoats powerless groups > instead of focusing on how our institutions have created the conditions that > caused their grievances, it's easy to grasp and it offers convenient > targets. > > If you're starting to consider that message and 150 people show up to shout > down and chase away five people carrying it you're more likely to see it as > marginal and not want to identify with it. If you're hearing the same > interpretation of the causes of your woes increasingly from officeholders in > Washington and "think" tankers on the blithering-head shows on TV, not to > mention constantly on certain radio stations, there are fewer barriers to > buying into it. > > So energy put into marginalizing such groups isn't just directed to the > committed members of those groups. It has the very important effect of > damaging the groups' ability to project their message and recruit new > members. > > *A few such scholars: > Matthew N. Lyons > Chip Berlet > Sara Robinson > Sara Diamond > Frederick Clarkson > > > Lisa Albrecht wrote: > >> hello all, >> fyi, the minnesota independent is by no means a very radical on-line rag. >> i trust twin cities indymedia for thoughtful coverage. below this email is >> the letter that my friends, susan raffo and heather hackman (the workshop >> facilitators), sent to many of us. they were fine w/ me sharing their letter >> on this listserv. >> >> but first...there were 5 neo-nazi men. there were over 150 antiracist >> folks, more white but many POC, especially immigrant rights people, because >> one of our local farmers' markets is across the street from the Y, where the >> event happened, and there are many local immigrant farmers selling produce >> there. this particular neo-nazi group spents lots of time in southern >> minnesota going after immigrants, so our local immigrant rights community >> came out to the rally. >> >> i was in the Y helping with the workshop registration, and decided that i >> did not want to put my energy into going outside and giving the neo-nazis >> more attention. several friends i trust gave me the following info: >> >> the antiracist crowd outshouted the neo-nazi men until they walked away >> from the Y and the police escorted them to their cars. it happened fast and >> there was no physical violence. the outshouting including throwing of >> tomatoes and hostile, nasty violent yelling from antiracists in the crowd, >> and neo-nazi yelling that they'd be back. my friends felt like each "side" >> was verbally violent. i am glad i wasn't outside, because i don't think that >> yelling hostile comments to these men is a very effective strategy. the >> yelling was not just, "leave our community" and "no racists here," but >> yelling calling these men faggots, pussys and red neck illiterates. >> interesting language choices, huh? my friends who were at the rally found >> the behavior of a number of white antiracist people horrible. i feel >> similarly. if this is our response, i feel like we have a long way to go. at >> least one of the neo-nazis was young and my friends said he looked >> incredibly afraid. is what we are doing just feeding that fear, and doesn't >> that fear strengthen these men? one of my friends wondered what might have >> happened if the white antiracist people circled the neo-nazis, held hands, >> and responded back to their violent language with words like...."we are >> white people like you, we are more similar than different, can't we talk, >> can't we not scream at each other..." i guess we'll never know. >> >> in the workshop, we spent some time feeling what it was like to talk about >> how we white people in the workshop were not only different than them, but >> similar. (we're human, we are passionate about many things like them, we >> care about this country, we feel afraid sometimes, we have families too, >> etc.) at first, i was pissed at the workshop leaders because i wanted to >> have nothing to do with neo nazis and did not want to put one iota of energy >> into listening or responding to them, and certainly not in the workshop >> space. but isn't it interesting that i didn't sleep the night before as i >> was working internally to make them invisible? i certainly did have strong >> feelings and trying to ignore my "enemies" wasn't really working. >> >> there was also a rally in the community where the two young black men were >> beaten up by 3 white kids yelling horrible racial crap at them. the >> community is a first ring suburb where there's now a large black population. >> their rally was in a church, with lots of faith talk and over 150 attended. >> it was also covered in our local mainstream newspapers. the neo-nazi rally >> was also in our mainstream papers in buried spots with only several >> paragraphs of text. the 3 young white men have been apprehended and will >> face hate crime charges. >> >> below is the letter from susan and heather..... that's it from me, lisa >> albrecht >> >> Greetings to all of our friends and allies, >> >> ?Beyond Skin Deep: Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy One Cell >> At a Time? is a workshop that in its simplest form is meant to help white >> people deepen their awareness regarding systems of white privilege and white >> supremacy, enhance their ability to challenge these systems, and ultimately >> further their commitment to dismantling them in their own lives and in the >> larger society. We contend that whiteness, which in this workshop we are >> identifying as the combination of systems in this society that benefit white >> people at the expense of people of color with ideas that say that that?s >> okay, is destroying communities of color, dehumanizing white people, and is >> a toxin in our society. Though not in equal measure, whiteness clearly harms >> everyone and therefore requires deeply committed action from /everyone/. >> >> Importantly, as two white women, we do not claim ?expertise? on this >> subject but have designed a workshop that has combined our years of work in >> a way that simply shares our experience, strength and hope. The result of >> this combination is a workshop that does more than share information about >> the framework of white privilege and white supremacy, but instead addresses >> the ways in which this whiteness informs how we embody our thoughts, our >> feelings and our beliefs in action to end racism. >> >> A white supremacist group called the National Socialist Movement plans to >> protest ?Beyond Skin Deep.? They have put out a call for the protest on >> multiple white supremacist websites. In response, a counter-protest has been >> organized to show solidarity with the workshop, to demonstrate in support of >> those immigrant communities who have consistently been the target of >> neo-Nazi activities, and to clearly demonstrate that white supremacists are >> not welcome in Minneapolis. And while this combination of organizing is >> powerful, it?s important to remember that it?s one moment in a long history >> of moments of challenging racism and white supremacy by activists of color >> and white allies who have given so much to this fight including many of the >> organizers of today?s event. In addition, the leadership of the YWCA in >> Minneapolis is committed to supporting this workshop and the work it stands >> for. Already, in solidarity, we are a community working on many fronts. >> >> This workshop has been organized for the past two months. It was filled to >> capacity with a waiting list two weeks ago. We take that to mean that other >> white people believe as we do that this work is essential to the overall >> movement to dismantle racism in this society. A week ago, we learned of the >> neo-Nazi intent to protest this workshop, citing the event as treason to >> whiteness. We disagree. Just to be clear, we believe that racism is >> supported by unchallenged and unquestioned white privilege and white >> supremacy. We believe that it is the responsibility of white people to be as >> vigilant and to feel as much urgency about ending racism and dismantling >> racism as people of color have for centuries. This work happens out of love >> and a vision for a healthy and whole society where all people and >> communities are welcome to live in the fullness and complexity of whoever >> they are. >> >> As such, we will not stop the workshop nor will we cease in our work to >> challenge whiteness wherever and whenever possible. We hold in complicated >> balance on the one hand, the perception some have that continuing the >> workshop is a subtle re-manifestation of white privilege, and on the other >> hand our perception that it is our responsibility to continue for the >> reasons stated above. We carry in our bodies the painful knowledge that many >> folks of color do not always have the choice to respond as we do. This >> knowledge we carefully hold alongside our commitment to fight white >> supremacy and, in this specific moment, not allow the neo-Nazi agenda to >> thwart our work. >> >> As white people whose bodies hold a history of violence directed against >> the bodies of many communities of color, for example the attempted genocide >> against the indigenous communities who live here, we believe it is our >> responsibility to work against that violence every day of our lives. This is >> not easy work, it is not uncomplicated work, and it is not painless work for >> any of us, but we feel strongly that it is the right work and we are honored >> to be engaging in it individually and in community with you. >> >> In solidarity and peace, >> >> Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo >> > _______________________________________________ > WAsummit mailing list > WAsummit at lists.wacan.org > http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm Tue Oct 6 05:38:58 2009 From: pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm (Dottye Burt-Markowitz) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:38:58 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] minneapolis update from someone who lives in minneapolis In-Reply-To: <4ACA8191.2040109@umn.edu> References: <4ACA8191.2040109@umn.edu> Message-ID: <1254829138.32751.1338339513@webmail.messagingengine.com> Lisa, Thanks for giving us the details on how things went. The sad situation of "anti-racists" yelling sexist, homophobic taunts sends a warning to all of us about the need to really prepare and organize our resistance actions, and to be ready to intervene in as constructive a way as possible when these kinds of behaviors erupt. It also to me demonstrates the need for all anti-racism education and organizing to be done in a broad anti-oppression context. Dottye On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:30 -0500, "Lisa Albrecht" wrote: > hello all, > fyi, the minnesota independent is by no means a very radical on-line > rag. i trust twin cities indymedia for thoughtful coverage. below this > email is the letter that my friends, susan raffo and heather hackman > (the workshop facilitators), sent to many of us. they were fine w/ me > sharing their letter on this listserv. > > but first...there were 5 neo-nazi men. there were over 150 antiracist > folks, more white but many POC, especially immigrant rights people, > because one of our local farmers' markets is across the street from the > Y, where the event happened, and there are many local immigrant farmers > selling produce there. this particular neo-nazi group spents lots of > time in southern minnesota going after immigrants, so our local > immigrant rights community came out to the rally. > > i was in the Y helping with the workshop registration, and decided that > i did not want to put my energy into going outside and giving the > neo-nazis more attention. several friends i trust gave me the following > info: > > the antiracist crowd outshouted the neo-nazi men until they walked away > from the Y and the police escorted them to their cars. it happened fast > and there was no physical violence. the outshouting including throwing > of tomatoes and hostile, nasty violent yelling from antiracists in the > crowd, and neo-nazi yelling that they'd be back. my friends felt like > each "side" was verbally violent. i am glad i wasn't outside, because i > don't think that yelling hostile comments to these men is a very > effective strategy. the yelling was not just, "leave our community" and > "no racists here," but yelling calling these men faggots, pussys and red > neck illiterates. interesting language choices, huh? my friends who were > at the rally found the behavior of a number of white antiracist people > horrible. i feel similarly. if this is our response, i feel like we have > a long way to go. at least one of the neo-nazis was young and my friends > said he looked incredibly afraid. is what we are doing just feeding that > fear, and doesn't that fear strengthen these men? one of my friends > wondered what might have happened if the white antiracist people circled > the neo-nazis, held hands, and responded back to their violent language > with words like...."we are white people like you, we are more similar > than different, can't we talk, can't we not scream at each other..." i > guess we'll never know. > > in the workshop, we spent some time feeling what it was like to talk > about how we white people in the workshop were not only different than > them, but similar. (we're human, we are passionate about many things > like them, we care about this country, we feel afraid sometimes, we have > families too, etc.) at first, i was pissed at the workshop leaders > because i wanted to have nothing to do with neo nazis and did not want > to put one iota of energy into listening or responding to them, and > certainly not in the workshop space. but isn't it interesting that i > didn't sleep the night before as i was working internally to make them > invisible? i certainly did have strong feelings and trying to ignore my > "enemies" wasn't really working. > > there was also a rally in the community where the two young black men > were beaten up by 3 white kids yelling horrible racial crap at them. the > community is a first ring suburb where there's now a large black > population. their rally was in a church, with lots of faith talk and > over 150 attended. it was also covered in our local mainstream > newspapers. the neo-nazi rally was also in our mainstream papers in > buried spots with only several paragraphs of text. the 3 young white men > have been apprehended and will face hate crime charges. > > below is the letter from susan and heather..... that's it from me, lisa > albrecht > > Greetings to all of our friends and allies, > > ?Beyond Skin Deep: Uprooting White Privilege and White Supremacy One > Cell At a Time? is a workshop that in its simplest form is meant to help > white people deepen their awareness regarding systems of white privilege > and white supremacy, enhance their ability to challenge these systems, > and ultimately further their commitment to dismantling them in their own > lives and in the larger society. We contend that whiteness, which in > this workshop we are identifying as the combination of systems in this > society that benefit white people at the expense of people of color with > ideas that say that that?s okay, is destroying communities of color, > dehumanizing white people, and is a toxin in our society. Though not in > equal measure, whiteness clearly harms everyone and therefore requires > deeply committed action from /everyone/. > > Importantly, as two white women, we do not claim ?expertise? on this > subject but have designed a workshop that has combined our years of work > in a way that simply shares our experience, strength and hope. The > result of this combination is a workshop that does more than share > information about the framework of white privilege and white supremacy, > but instead addresses the ways in which this whiteness informs how we > embody our thoughts, our feelings and our beliefs in action to end > racism. > > A white supremacist group called the National Socialist Movement plans > to protest ?Beyond Skin Deep.? They have put out a call for the protest > on multiple white supremacist websites. In response, a counter-protest > has been organized to show solidarity with the workshop, to demonstrate > in support of those immigrant communities who have consistently been the > target of neo-Nazi activities, and to clearly demonstrate that white > supremacists are not welcome in Minneapolis. And while this combination > of organizing is powerful, it?s important to remember that it?s one > moment in a long history of moments of challenging racism and white > supremacy by activists of color and white allies who have given so much > to this fight including many of the organizers of today?s event. In > addition, the leadership of the YWCA in Minneapolis is committed to > supporting this workshop and the work it stands for. Already, in > solidarity, we are a community working on many fronts. > > This workshop has been organized for the past two months. It was filled > to capacity with a waiting list two weeks ago. We take that to mean that > other white people believe as we do that this work is essential to the > overall movement to dismantle racism in this society. A week ago, we > learned of the neo-Nazi intent to protest this workshop, citing the > event as treason to whiteness. We disagree. Just to be clear, we believe > that racism is supported by unchallenged and unquestioned white > privilege and white supremacy. We believe that it is the responsibility > of white people to be as vigilant and to feel as much urgency about > ending racism and dismantling racism as people of color have for > centuries. This work happens out of love and a vision for a healthy and > whole society where all people and communities are welcome to live in > the fullness and complexity of whoever they are. > > As such, we will not stop the workshop nor will we cease in our work to > challenge whiteness wherever and whenever possible. We hold in > complicated balance on the one hand, the perception some have that > continuing the workshop is a subtle re-manifestation of white privilege, > and on the other hand our perception that it is our responsibility to > continue for the reasons stated above. We carry in our bodies the > painful knowledge that many folks of color do not always have the choice > to respond as we do. This knowledge we carefully hold alongside our > commitment to fight white supremacy and, in this specific moment, not > allow the neo-Nazi agenda to thwart our work. > > As white people whose bodies hold a history of violence directed against > the bodies of many communities of color, for example the attempted > genocide against the indigenous communities who live here, we believe it > is our responsibility to work against that violence every day of our > lives. This is not easy work, it is not uncomplicated work, and it is > not painless work for any of us, but we feel strongly that it is the > right work and we are honored to be engaging in it individually and in > community with you. > > In solidarity and peace, > > Heather Hackman and Susan Raffo > > > > > -- > Lisa Albrecht, Ph.D. > Morse-Mn. Alumni Association Distinguished Professor of Teaching > School of Social Work > University of Minnesota > 193 Peters Hall > St. Paul, MN. 55108 > 612 624 3669 > > Social Justice Minor - > http://ssw.cehd.umn.edu/Programs/socialjustice.html > > > _______________________________________________ > WAsummit mailing list > WAsummit at lists.wacan.org > http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit -- Dottye Burt-Markowitz Paso Training and Consulting 425 South Chester St. Baltimore MD 21231 phone: 410-327-0134 pasoconsulting at fastmail.fm From gillianxb at gmail.com Wed Oct 7 11:32:09 2009 From: gillianxb at gmail.com (Gillian Burlingham) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:32:09 -0700 Subject: [WAsummit] News article about the situation in Minneapolis In-Reply-To: References: <45AC86F255BA44B693FEEDE2D6057EA9@JeffOffice> <1254769910.12618.1338166059@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: That's reminding me that the last time I had a chat with self-identified white-supremacist guys was at the 1st or 2nd Seattle Race Conference we organized in about 2003 that Tim spoke at. There were just a couple guys with signs or fliers. I went out to the street, shook hands, introduced myself, chatted awhile and invited them to come in and hear Tim speak, which they declined to do. They left soon after. There wasn't any counter-protest. It seemed like most conference participants ignored them. But that was a different time. There is something in the air these days that could blow something like that situation up just as Lisa's email described. On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Timothy Wise wrote: > I agree, there is something new happening right now. It had been about 7 > years since I'd had a Nazi show up at one of my speeches, but I had one > (from the National Alliance) come to my speech last month in Kentucky...also > a serious uptick in hate mail lately. I don't think this necessarily > signifies real growth in these groups, per se, but it may indicate a growing > boldness in the face of the Obama Administration, and the belief by some of > the more fascist type groups that they can harness some of the more > mainstream public anger in a blatantly white nationalist/supremacist > direction. > tim wise > > On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Dottye Burt-Markowitz wrote: > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From temaokun at earthlink.net Thu Oct 8 06:34:05 2009 From: temaokun at earthlink.net (Tema Okun) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 08:34:05 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] December Dismantling Racism workshop in N.C. Message-ID: <33163C83-3C83-4213-9472-532CB69A07D4@earthlink.net> Please feel free to distribute widely. Thanks, Tema -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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He sent this email to me and I'm sharing it with you. I have written a letter and will place a phone call. I urge you to consider faxing in a letter or placing a phone call. Please contact Juan if you need more specifics. Thanks. juan One more day left as Monday is a holiday for the government! Subject: PLEASE SUPPORT OUR FAMILY MEJIA-PEREZ FROM BEING DEPORTED ON OCT. 13, 2009 Importance: High As if we need a reminder of the urgency in the work we do for social justice. Another family is about to be deported again! I personally know this family and have worked with them in their struggle to support their children's education. Please take the time to call and send your letter of support for the Mejia-Perez Family. As a result of their unlawful arrest by I.C.E. officials in March 6, 2007. I.C.E. officials entered their home with a search warrant for another person who WAS NOT Mejia-Perez and detained the family anyway. Consequently, the father and son were taken into custody. Eventually the mother and father were sent into deportation hearings while staying under house arrest. In the 17 years that this family has been in this country, they have never committed a crime and their three children are excellent students in our schools. In fact, the parents are known in the school community as amazing volunteers. What can you do besides read this email and place it in your deleted folder: Three things you can do on Friday Oct. 9th: (quantity is important) 1) Forward this email to your base and share their story & a video highlighting the plight of immigrants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIWV8-cJ1c0 2) Call Senator Feinstein's office and share this very simple statement (30 seconds of your time) PHONE: (415) 393-0707 "Hello, my name is (your name) and I'm requesting that Senator Feinstein introduces a private bill on behalf Salvador Mejia-Reyes, Elida Perez-Mazariegos and Gilbert Mejia-Perez." 3) Fax Letters of support to the law office fighting for the family at 415-981-3003 (they have received only 10 letters-shame on us) Sample Letter below and attached LETTERS FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS LAWFULLY IN THE U.S. [to be typed on letter head stationery, if available] PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR LETTER DIRECTLY TO SEN. FEINSTEIN PLEASE FAX YOUR LETTER TO ATTN: Amalia Wille at VAN DER HOUT, BRIGAGLIANO & NIGHTINGALE, LLP, and we will pass on the letter Fax Number: 415-981-3003 [Date] Senator Dianne Feinstein One Post Street, Suite 2450 San Francisco, CA 94104 RE: Salvador Mejia-Reyes, Elida Perez-Mazariegos and Gilbert Mejia-Perez Dear Senator Feinstein: . State that you are writing to urge the Senator to introduce a private bill on behalf of Salvador Mejia-Reyes, Elida Perez-Mazariegos and Gilbert Mejia-Perez. . Please state your name and immigration status in the United States (lawful permanent resident or United States citizen) . Please state your relationship to Elida, Salvador and their family members and how long you have known her/him. . Please describe in what capacity you came to know Salvador, Elida and their family. Please describe the activities you do together and any helpful or positive activities that Elida or Salvador does or has done for you or your family. . Please add any other personal comments or observations you may have on Salvador and/or Elida's character, reliability, and their contributions to their community in the United States. . Please write what you know (if anything) about the pain you believe the family would suffer if Salvador and Elida are deported. Please also describe the hardship and pain that his/her deportation would cause you, your family and anyone else close to him/her. . Explain any additional compelling reasons why you believe they should be allowed to stay in the United States. Sincerely, [signature] [name & title] [address and phone number if not on letterhead] "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." 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Message-ID: <020a01ca4cd0$b11125c0$13337140$@net> From: The Praxis Project Fair Count Fair Share Team [mailto:info at thepraxisproject.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:27 PM To: mpotapchuk at comcast.net Subject: Urgent action needed to prevent discrimination in the Census! October 13, 2009 Greetings Maggie! We don't send out many notes like these. However, this proposed legislation is so dangerous that we could not let it go without a fight. Senators Vitter and Bennett have introduced Amendment 2644 to HR 2847, which, if passed, will hold up census forms unless they include questions about your citizenship status. Questioning people about their citizenship status will not only intimidate undocumented people but also scare off anyone worried about the privacy of their information. We need your help to stop this insidious effort as it will discourage millions of people from participating in the Census and cost our communities billions in revenue. You don't have to read between the lines to know that this is a calculated move to choke off resources and political representation from the communities that conservatives fear most. Please take a minute to send an email to the Senate committee that must decide on the amendment. With just a few clicks, you can let them know that SA2644 is discriminatory, wasteful and undermines democracy and privacy. Take action today! Thank you for all that you do to make a difference. Sincerely, The Praxis Project Fair Count Fair Share Team* P.S. Please forward this note to others and encourage them to take action. We need every voice in this fight. * For more information on census organizing and what you can do, please log onto www.buildingpower.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From louisaldavis at verizon.net Wed Oct 14 16:44:23 2009 From: louisaldavis at verizon.net (Louisa Davis) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:44:23 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] A White Ally Speaks on Capital Hill -- Act Now! In-Reply-To: <000d01ca4511$eab213a0$c0163ae0$@net> Message-ID: Dear White Allies who?ve inspired and taught me so much, I ask you to consider a new opportunity to make a difference across the nation and for racial-ethnic justice, an opportunity before us in the coming weeks! I was deeply moved and honored to be among many who spoke today before the Muslim-American Taskforce on Civil Rights and Health Care and before my former Congressman Rev. Walter Fauntroy and current Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and Keith Ellison and Congresswoman Jan Schakoswky in the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill. I attach my testimony largely the result of what I?ve learned among you and in the nonviolent communication world. What I heard there convinces me to ask WHITE ALLIES AND OUR ORGANIZATIONS to help me convince others that the time is NOW for those of us who believe in a truly free, multi-ethnic and multi-faith America to come together across faiths and issues for robust public option(s) in health care (even though many of us might prefer single payer). The Senate-House conference is coming up and a vote will like come forward before Thanksgiving, in six weeks. By coming together now?with articles, letters and organizing , I hear, we stand a good chance, a REAL chance, of pulling the "center off the fence" and being proud of the result of pending Senate and Congressional conferencing, proud of the trust in American people we share with President Obama, and proud for the dream of a healthier and more just America. This means we have to act now to convince the 50 Democrats and more moderate Republicans who are still "on the fence" that people of faith, white allies for racial justice, and people of color will hold them ACCOUNTABLE for doing what is best for ALL Americans over the next few weeks. I have committed to make an all-out effort on this issue over the next few weeks that count. I was too little, too late on the Iraq war. As Congressman Keith Ellison argued today, it took us the Civil Rights bills of 1957 and 1960 (remember them--less than ideal as well), to get us ready for the Civil Rights Bills of 1964/65. I think we can make this the first big Human Rights win of the 21st century. I attach my testimony and experience as a white ally for whatever use it can serve, but please, please do something, forward this to your friends (esp in conservative districts) congregations and/or organizations--and do it soon. With a sense of urgency and importance beyond hardly any I have ever known, Louisa Louisa L. Davis, M.Div., PhD 11330 Dockside Circle Reston, VA 20191 home: (703) 860-1203 cell: (240) 338-5156 ?Get very clear about the kind of world [you] would like and then start living that way.? -- Marshall Rosenberg, Center for Nonviolent Communication ------------------------- MY TESTIMONY BEFORE THE MUSLIM-AMERICAN TASKFORCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND HEALTH CARE, Rayburn House Office Building, October 14, 2009 I am here today as cofounder and outreach coordinator for Greater Washington Allies in Reconciliation, an interfaith antiracism alliance. I am an interfaith religious leader steeped in the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but I am speaking more specifically as a Christian bio-ethicist and from my core commitment as a white antiracist ally for social and health care justice, and ultimately for a powerfully good and healthy, multi-ethnic America. As a Euro-American or white antiracist ally, I know in my heart that despite all the services, opportunities, and access to power (or to people in positions of power who mostly look like me) which I have enjoyed in this great country--many honestly unintentionally, this is not the reality of most people of color. I also know that I will never fully know the joy of ?llfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for all until our government which is charged with upholding and embodying those words, has the courage to insure the health and opportunity for well-being of all my sisters and brothers. Furthermore, these words will have little truth to people of color or to the world until those of us who have so much more access to resources and power decide that their needs are as important as our needs, that their needs matter as much as do the needs of politically-dominant middle-class white Christians like me. For we share common, universal needs--at least for safety, for choice, and for sustainability--for simply being able to make a living. I am mindful that many, many words have been spoken about this issue, about how America finances our health care and occasionally even about who benefits most from the system as it is, a ?system? of largely unregulated private health ?insurer? who insure, it seems, great profit but few people of color. I am mindful that the noise-level and anger and fear level of this discussion has been quite remarkable, and real, and yet I thank President Obama for somehow trusting the American people to work it out--together. Toward this end, I hope to offer just one more spiritual resource, taught perhaps best by the Jewish theologian, Elie Wiesel, in the face of the Holocaust, but at the core of all our religious traditions. I ask you, good people, to listen to the SILENCE behind all these words, all this fear and all this hope. Listen to the silence of those who cannot afford Washington Post ads or to wine and dine those in power. Listen to the forbearing Black women on my old Washington Hospital Center orthopedic ward who are losing feet and legs everyday from lifetimes of under-treated diabetes and over-worked domestic service. Listen to those who cannot afford to challenge their employers stripping them of health care benefits. Listen to those whose insurers, if they are lucky to have one, reject care with unreasonable limits. Listen to the silence of children who have missed school, sports and work opportunities because they cannot afford the vaccinations of common preventive health care. As a white ally, with many words and oh-so-many ideas, I have learned that my silence can be leveling when it opens space for others to be heard, when it allows other to lead on this great new bus we call 21st century civil society. But my silence, our silence, can also be damning. I beg you, please, to listen to the silence. For there you will find your soul, your outrage at injustice, and maybe even your God. I pray that this Congress and Senate will have the courage to speak up for those who have been silenced, sickened and shackled by our sinful human self-interest and indifference. I know in my heart that I and we will never have moral, spiritual OR political integrity until our sisters and brothers of color are no longer disproportionately tracked into emergency rooms across this land for health care that comes too little and too late, after they are marked even before birth, by ?the long heavy chain? of racial-ethnic disrespect. The price they pay for white fear of change and white indifference is environmentally toxic housing, schools, unemployment lines and crowded prisons as well as increasing poverty, illness and hopelessness at now increasing levels we dreamed of overcoming years ago. At levels dangerous to us all. Our US Military and our US Medicare systems are remarkable symbols of what America can both do and be when we get our words and our actions together. When we are willing to speak up and stand up for those who are silenced in this country and across the world, we are truly serving our multiracial country. In the next few weeks, we will either see progress in public options for health care or we will see just more ?insurance care? in Congress. May we stand up and speak up NOW for our common dream of ?life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for all. Thank you and God for this historic opportunity. -- -- Louisa L. Davis, M.Div., PhD 11330 Dockside Circle Reston, VA 20191 home: (703) 860-1203 cell: (240) 338-5156 ?Get very clear about the kind of world [you] would like and then start living that way.? -- Marshall Rosenberg, Center for Nonviolent Communication -- Louisa L. 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Limbaugh called me out by name on his radio show because, along with Bryan Burwell of the /St. Louis Post-Dispatch/ and Drew Sharp of the /Detroit Free Press/ , I challenged Limbaugh's efforts to own a NFL team, saying that his history of racial bombast should count against him. Limbaugh said of us: ?They are the ones with prejudice and bigotry coursing through their vanes [sic], through their hearts, and through their souls. They are consumed with jealousy and rage. They are all liberals--and make no mistake: That's what this is about. It is about ideology. It isn't about race. It's about their being jealous and attempting to discredit me, and they've now sunk to the low of repeating fabricated quotes that they cannot source.... These people are scum.? What we all did was carry a quote from Limbaugh that he absolutely insists he did not say. The quote is: ?We didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.? For all the dittoheads out there, here is how we came up with the quote: it was in the /St. Louis Post-Dispatch/ , the Detroit Free Press , the /Washington Post/ , and in the book /101 People Who Are Really Screwing America/ by Jack Huberman. It has been out in the ether for years. Now that it is endangering his chances to become an NFL owner, Limbaugh is serving up a full heaping of indignation.. As Jason Whitlock, with whom I have had every manner of political disagreement over the years, writes : ?Limbaugh claimed on his radio show Monday that his staff could not find any proof that he ever joked about slavery. I'm sorry. Limbaugh doesn't get the benefit of the doubt on racial matters.... You can argue the comments are presented out of context and were meant as jokes. Then I'd argue that Limbaugh needs to get on the comedy-club circuit and out of the business of attempting to influence presidential politics. Limbaugh wants to be taken seriously.? But let's take Limbaugh at his word, for now, that he didn't say it. We should also look at the myriad of quotes on record he makes no effort to dispute. We can only assume that he is proud to have said , "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons." Or these other gems : ?The NAACP should have riot rehearsal . They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.? ?Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?? To an African-American caller: ?Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.? Or upon hearing that Spike Lee said that black schoolchildren should take off from school to see the movie /Malcolm X/ : ?Spike, if you're going to do that, let's complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater and then blow it up on their way out.? Or calling Barack Obama "Halfrican-American " and saying: ?In Obama's America , the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, ?Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on?.... We need segregated buses--it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama's America.? The real reason Rush is doing a slow-burn on his show and setting loose his army of Internet flame throwers is that his dream of owning an NFL franchise is going up in smoke. After seven players and the union went public and stood up to Rush getting his mitts around the most powerful cultural and athletic brand in America, commissioner Roger Goodell finally spoke out. Goodell said on Tuesday that Limbaugh's "divisive comments " had no place in the NFL. "I have said many times before, we're all held to a higher standard here," Goodell said to reporters. "I would not want to see those kinds of comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the NFL. No. Absolutely not." Goodell's statement was complemented by Colts owner Jim Irsay, who told ESPN, "I, myself, couldn't even think of voting for him.... I'm very sensitive to know there are scars out there. I think as a nation we need to stop it. Our words do damage, and it's something that we don't need. We need to get to a higher level of humanity, and we have." Other owners issued decidedly lukewarm comments about the possibility of sharing space with Rush. Some are surprised that ownership isn't welcoming Limbaugh with a passionate embrace because most owners are to the right of Attila the Hun. They are billionaires who have feasted at the public trough of corporate welfare while basking in tax breaks for the rich. In other words, they constitute Limbaugh's base. But his membership in this exclusive fraternity of billionaires would violate the first rule of ownership: protect the bottom line. The inconvenient truth is that no matter how much he rants and raves, no matter how often he calls columnists like Burwell, Sharp and me "state-run-media scum," it's the commissioner and the owners who believe that his history of ugly vitriol would be just too harmful to the NFL brand. You reap what you sow, and Rush Limbaugh has reaped a whirlwind. [Dave Zirin is the author of ?A People?s History of Sports in the United States? (The New Press) Receive his column every week by emailing dave at edgeofsports.com . Contact him at edgeofsports at gmail.com *Edge of Sports* From OppEd at toad.net Thu Oct 15 01:25:25 2009 From: OppEd at toad.net (Lucy Oppenheim) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:25:25 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] Oppose Vitter-Bennett Senate Amendment 2644 Message-ID: <4AD6CE65.8020506@toad.net> copied from http://buildingpower.org/ Vitter-Bennett Senate Amendment 2644 seeks to prohibit the use of funds by the Department of Commerce for collection of census data that does not include questions regarding citizenship and immigration status. If enacted, the amendment will intimidate people from participating in the census, and will waste billions of tax dollars. The Vitter Amendment makes communities even harder to count. The amendment undermines the fundamental goal of the U.S. Census Bureau, which is to accurately enumerate all people living in the US for the purposes of apportionment and representation. The bureau has stated that its key challenge in 2010 is enumerating what it calls "Hard to Count" communities. Asking about immigration status is unnecessarily intrusive, and will raise concerns among all respondents about the confidentiality and privacy of the census. This will deter many residents from responding, resulting in an inaccurate census count. The Census is about counting residents, regardless of status. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution clearly states that the apportionment of members to the House of Representatives is based on a full count of residents in each state. That amendment was enacted, in part, to repeal the provisions in Article I in the Constitution, which counted Black people as only three-fifths of a person. The Vitter-Bennett amendment seeks to re-establish this shameful legacy by creating a new sub-class of residents that will not be counted fairly. The Amendment wastes billions of tax dollars. If enacted, the Vitter amendment would also stop the 2010 Census in its tracks and prevent census forms from being mailed next spring. This would severely impair the Congressional reapportionment after 2010 and redistricting of congressional and state legislative districts. Ultimately, the Vitter amendment would waste $7 billion in research, planning, and preparation that has already been spent for Census 2010. We need an accurate count! Accurate Census data is essential for the health and well being of all people living in the US. As you know, the data is the basis for critical policymaking in a wide range of areas including education, housing, transportation, health and public safety. This amendment, if enacted, will result in an undercount that will jeopardize health and safety in all communities. It will also disproportionately affect low-income communities and communities of color where trust in the Census is already low. TAKE ACTION The Fair Count to Fair Share Census Initiative seeks to ensure that the census and its ensuing policies, from the count to its implications for money and representation, are conducted fairly and that the interests of people of African descent are on the agenda. Building Capacity Building Power, a project of The Praxis Project, is an effort to empower community based organizations to develop and lead voter outreach campaigns in state, local, and federal elections. Working in partnership with national networks across the country, our goal is to increase civic participation within under represented communities/constituencies across the United States. Our online resource center offers grassroots organizers a comprehensive voter outreach tool kit including: plan development guides, reporting templates, constituency organizing guides, outreach materials, legal guidelines, volunteer recruitment and management tools, sample scripts, sample hiring forms and guidelines, and voter contact formulas among other useful vote outreach tools. From Laura.White at montgomerycollege.edu Thu Oct 15 08:16:20 2009 From: Laura.White at montgomerycollege.edu (White, Laura M. (CPOD)) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:16:20 -0400 Subject: [WAsummit] A White Ally Speaks on Capital Hill -- Act Now! In-Reply-To: References: <000d01ca4511$eab213a0$c0163ae0$@net> Message-ID: <835C3C51D97A6C468657503FE00C07CB0D94E38A@MCMAIL2.mcnte.mc.cc.md.us> This is great! The testimony is very succinct, yet visceral and highly potent! Will send contact info to you for a peacemaker in Portland who forwards potential commentary/editorials like this to papers nationally. Laura White, Multicultural Training Specialist MONTGOMERY COLLEGE OHR-Center for Prof & Org Development 40 West Gude Drive, Suite 250 Rockville, MD 20850 240-567-4297 (ph) 240-567-4282 (fax) laura.white at montgomerycollege.edu From: wasummit-bounces at lists.wacan.org [mailto:wasummit-bounces at lists.wacan.org] On Behalf Of Louisa Davis Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:44 PM To: White Anti-racist Summit Subject: [WAsummit] A White Ally Speaks on Capital Hill -- Act Now! Dear White Allies who've inspired and taught me so much, I ask you to consider a new opportunity to make a difference across the nation and for racial-ethnic justice, an opportunity before us in the coming weeks! I was deeply moved and honored to be among many who spoke today before the Muslim-American Taskforce on Civil Rights and Health Care and before my former Congressman Rev. Walter Fauntroy and current Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and Keith Ellison and Congresswoman Jan Schakoswky in the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill. I attach my testimony largely the result of what I've learned among you and in the nonviolent communication world. What I heard there convinces me to ask WHITE ALLIES AND OUR ORGANIZATIONS to help me convince others that the time is NOW for those of us who believe in a truly free, multi-ethnic and multi-faith America to come together across faiths and issues for robust public option(s) in health care (even though many of us might prefer single payer). The Senate-House conference is coming up and a vote will like come forward before Thanksgiving, in six weeks. By coming together now-with articles, letters and organizing , I hear, we stand a good chance, a REAL chance, of pulling the "center off the fence" and being proud of the result of pending Senate and Congressional conferencing, proud of the trust in American people we share with President Obama, and proud for the dream of a healthier and more just America. This means we have to act now to convince the 50 Democrats and more moderate Republicans who are still "on the fence" that people of faith, white allies for racial justice, and people of color will hold them ACCOUNTABLE for doing what is best for ALL Americans over the next few weeks. I have committed to make an all-out effort on this issue over the next few weeks that count. I was too little, too late on the Iraq war. As Congressman Keith Ellison argued today, it took us the Civil Rights bills of 1957 and 1960 (remember them--less than ideal as well), to get us ready for the Civil Rights Bills of 1964/65. I think we can make this the first big Human Rights win of the 21st century. I attach my testimony and experience as a white ally for whatever use it can serve, but please, please do something, forward this to your friends (esp in conservative districts) congregations and/or organizations--and do it soon. With a sense of urgency and importance beyond hardly any I have ever known, Louisa Louisa L. Davis, M.Div., PhD 11330 Dockside Circle Reston, VA 20191 home: (703) 860-1203 cell: (240) 338-5156 "Get very clear about the kind of world [you] would like and then start living that way." -- Marshall Rosenberg, Center for Nonviolent Communication ------------------------- MY TESTIMONY BEFORE THE MUSLIM-AMERICAN TASKFORCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND HEALTH CARE, Rayburn House Office Building, October 14, 2009 I am here today as cofounder and outreach coordinator for Greater Washington Allies in Reconciliation, an interfaith antiracism alliance. I am an interfaith religious leader steeped in the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but I am speaking more specifically as a Christian bio-ethicist and from my core commitment as a white antiracist ally for social and health care justice, and ultimately for a powerfully good and healthy, multi-ethnic America. As a Euro-American or white antiracist ally, I know in my heart that despite all the services, opportunities, and access to power (or to people in positions of power who mostly look like me) which I have enjoyed in this great country--many honestly unintentionally, this is not the reality of most people of color. I also know that I will never fully know the joy of "llfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for all until our government which is charged with upholding and embodying those words, has the courage to insure the health and opportunity for well-being of all my sisters and brothers. Furthermore, these words will have little truth to people of color or to the world until those of us who have so much more access to resources and power decide that their needs are as important as our needs, that their needs matter as much as do the needs of politically-dominant middle-class white Christians like me. For we share common, universal needs--at least for safety, for choice, and for sustainability--for simply being able to make a living. I am mindful that many, many words have been spoken about this issue, about how America finances our health care and occasionally even about who benefits most from the system as it is, a "system" of largely unregulated private health "insurer" who insure, it seems, great profit but few people of color. I am mindful that the noise-level and anger and fear level of this discussion has been quite remarkable, and real, and yet I thank President Obama for somehow trusting the American people to work it out--together. Toward this end, I hope to offer just one more spiritual resource, taught perhaps best by the Jewish theologian, Elie Wiesel, in the face of the Holocaust, but at the core of all our religious traditions. I ask you, good people, to listen to the SILENCE behind all these words, all this fear and all this hope. Listen to the silence of those who cannot afford Washington Post ads or to wine and dine those in power. Listen to the forbearing Black women on my old Washington Hospital Center orthopedic ward who are losing feet and legs everyday from lifetimes of under-treated diabetes and over-worked domestic service. Listen to those who cannot afford to challenge their employers stripping them of health care benefits. Listen to those whose insurers, if they are lucky to have one, reject care with unreasonable limits. Listen to the silence of children who have missed school, sports and work opportunities because they cannot afford the vaccinations of common preventive health care. As a white ally, with many words and oh-so-many ideas, I have learned that my silence can be leveling when it opens space for others to be heard, when it allows other to lead on this great new bus we call 21st century civil society. But my silence, our silence, can also be damning. I beg you, please, to listen to the silence. For there you will find your soul, your outrage at injustice, and maybe even your God. I pray that this Congress and Senate will have the courage to speak up for those who have been silenced, sickened and shackled by our sinful human self-interest and indifference. I know in my heart that I and we will never have moral, spiritual OR political integrity until our sisters and brothers of color are no longer disproportionately tracked into emergency rooms across this land for health care that comes too little and too late, after they are marked even before birth, by "the long heavy chain" of racial-ethnic disrespect. The price they pay for white fear of change and white indifference is environmentally toxic housing, schools, unemployment lines and crowded prisons as well as increasing poverty, illness and hopelessness at now increasing levels we dreamed of overcoming years ago. At levels dangerous to us all. Our US Military and our US Medicare systems are remarkable symbols of what America can both do and be when we get our words and our actions together. When we are willing to speak up and stand up for those who are silenced in this country and across the world, we are truly serving our multiracial country. In the next few weeks, we will either see progress in public options for health care or we will see just more "insurance care" in Congress. May we stand up and speak up NOW for our common dream of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for all. Thank you and God for this historic opportunity. -- -- Louisa L. Davis, M.Div., PhD 11330 Dockside Circle Reston, VA 20191 home: (703) 860-1203 cell: (240) 338-5156 "Get very clear about the kind of world [you] would like and then start living that way." -- Marshall Rosenberg, Center for Nonviolent Communication -- Louisa L. Davis, M.Div., PhD 11330 Dockside Circle Reston, VA 20191 home: (703) 860-1203 cell: (240) 338-5156 "Get very clear about the kind of world [you] would like and then start living that way." -- Marshall Rosenberg, Center for Nonviolent Communication -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley -----Original Message----- From: name-mce-bounces at nameorg.org [mailto:name-mce-bounces at nameorg.org] On Behalf Of Anselmo Villanueva Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:31 PM To: name-mce at nameorg.org Subject: (NAME-MCE) No Marriage License for Interracial Couple No Marriage License for Interracial Couple By MARY FOSTER AP October 15, 2009 http://news.aol.com/article/interracial-couple-denied-marriage/719806 HAMMOND, La. (Oct. 15) - A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told The Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else." Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said. Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said. "There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it." If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said. "I try to treat everyone equally," he said. Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2? years. Beth Humphrey, 30, and 32-year-old Terence McKay, both of Hammond, say they will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint. Humphrey, an account manager for a marketing firm, said she and McKay, a welder, just returned to Louisiana. She is white and he is black. She plans to enroll in the University of New Orleans to pursue a masters degree in minority politics. "That was one thing that made this so unbelievable," she said. "It's not something you expect in this day and age." Humphrey said she called Bardwell on Oct. 6 to inquire about getting a marriage license signed. She says Bardwell's wife told her that Bardwell will not sign marriage licenses for interracial couples. Bardwell suggested the couple go to another justice of the peace in the parish who agreed to marry them. "We are looking forward to having children," Humphrey said. "And all our friends and co-workers have been very supportive. Except for this, we're typical happy newlyweds." "It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009," said American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana attorney Katie Schwartzmann. She said the Supreme Court ruled in 1967 "that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry." The ACLU sent a letter to the Louisiana Judiciary Committee, which oversees the state justices of the peace, asking them to investigate Bardwell and recommending "the most severe sanctions available, because such blatant bigotry poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the administration of justice." "He knew he was breaking the law, but continued to do it," Schwartzmann said. According to the clerk of court's office, application for a marriage license must be made three days before the ceremony because there is a 72-hour waiting period. The applicants are asked if they have previously been married. If so, they must show how the marriage ended, such as divorce. Other than that, all they need is a birth certificate and Social Security card. The license fee is $35, and the license must be signed by a Louisiana minister, justice of the peace or judge. The original is returned to the clerk's office. "I've been a justice of the peace for 34 years and I don't think I've mistreated anybody," Bardwell said. "I've made some mistakes, but you have too. I didn't tell this couple they couldn't get married. I just told them I wouldn't do it." From kamuhm at yahoo.com Sat Oct 17 09:26:25 2009 From: kamuhm at yahoo.com (Kathy) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [WAsummit] "Clean, Safe and High-Value" Neighborhoods Message-ID: <305907.47438.qm@web110405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> "Clean, Safe and High-Value" Neighborhoods Are Nice Ways of Saying "White" Without Bringing Race into It http://www.alternet.org/rights/143337 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <835C3C51D97A6C468657503FE00C07CB0D94E38A@MCMAIL2.mcnte.mc.cc.md.us> References: <000d01ca4511$eab213a0$c0163ae0$@net> <835C3C51D97A6C468657503FE00C07CB0D94E38A@MCMAIL2.mcnte.mc.cc.md.us> Message-ID: Excellent testimony, Louisa - and I'm especially pleased that it was stirred, in part, by my Congress member whom I've twice helped elect, Rep. Keith Ellison. Lou Schoen Minneapolis On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:16 AM, White, Laura M. (CPOD) < Laura.White at montgomerycollege.edu> wrote: > This is great! The testimony is very succinct, yet visceral and highly > potent! Will send contact info to you for a peacemaker in Portland who > forwards potential commentary/editorials like this to papers nationally. > > > > Laura White, Multicultural Training Specialist > > MONTGOMERY COLLEGE > > OHR-Center for Prof & Org Development > > 40 West Gude Drive, Suite 250 > > Rockville, MD 20850 > > 240-567-4297 (ph) > > 240-567-4282 (fax) > > laura.white at montgomerycollege.edu > > > > > > > > *From:* wasummit-bounces at lists.wacan.org [mailto: > wasummit-bounces at lists.wacan.org] *On Behalf Of *Louisa Davis > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:44 PM > *To:* White Anti-racist Summit > *Subject:* [WAsummit] A White Ally Speaks on Capital Hill -- Act Now! > > > > Dear White Allies who?ve inspired and taught me so much, I ask you to > consider a new opportunity to make a difference across the nation and for > racial-ethnic justice, an opportunity before us in the coming weeks! > > I was deeply moved and honored to be among many who spoke today before the > Muslim-American Taskforce on Civil Rights and Health Care and before my > former Congressman Rev. Walter Fauntroy and current Congressmen Dennis > Kucinich and Keith Ellison and Congresswoman Jan Schakoswky in the Rayburn > Office Building on Capitol Hill. I attach my testimony largely the result of > what I?ve learned among you and in the nonviolent communication world. > > What I heard there convinces me to ask WHITE ALLIES AND OUR ORGANIZATIONS > to help me convince others that the time is NOW for those of us who believe > in a truly free, multi-ethnic and multi-faith America to come together > across faiths and issues for robust public option(s) in health care (even > though many of us might prefer single payer). > > The Senate-House conference is coming up and a vote will like come forward > before Thanksgiving, in six weeks. By coming together now?with articles, > letters and organizing , I hear, we stand a good chance, a REAL chance, of > pulling the "center off the fence" and being proud of the result of pending > Senate and Congressional conferencing, proud of the trust in American people > we share with President Obama, and proud for the dream of a healthier and > more just America. This means we have to act now to convince the 50 > Democrats and more moderate Republicans who are still "on the fence" that > people of faith, white allies for racial justice, and people of color will > hold them ACCOUNTABLE for doing what is best for ALL Americans over the next > few weeks. > > I have committed to make an all-out effort on this issue over the next few > weeks that count. I was too little, too late on the Iraq war. As > Congressman Keith Ellison argued today, it took us the Civil Rights bills of > 1957 and 1960 (remember them--less than ideal as well), to get us ready for > the Civil Rights Bills of 1964/65. I think we can make this the first big > Human Rights win of the 21st century. > > I attach my testimony and experience as a white ally for whatever use it > can serve, but please, please do something, forward this to your friends > (esp in conservative districts) congregations and/or organizations--and do > it soon. > > With a sense of urgency and importance beyond hardly any I have ever known, > Louisa > > > Louisa L. Davis, M.Div., PhD > 11330 Dockside Circle > Reston, VA 20191 > home: (703) 860-1203 > cell: (240) 338-5156 > > ?Get very clear about the kind of world [you] would like and then start > living that way.? > -- Marshall Rosenberg, Center for Nonviolent Communication > > ------------------------- > MY TESTIMONY BEFORE THE MUSLIM-AMERICAN TASKFORCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND > HEALTH CARE, Rayburn House Office Building, October 14, 2009 > > > I am here today as cofounder and outreach coordinator for Greater > Washington Allies in Reconciliation, an interfaith antiracism alliance. I am > an interfaith religious leader steeped in the Abrahamic traditions of > Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but I am speaking more specifically as a > Christian bio-ethicist and from my core commitment as a white antiracist > ally for social and health care justice, and ultimately for a powerfully > good and healthy, multi-ethnic America. > > As a Euro-American or white antiracist ally, I know in my heart that > despite all the services, opportunities, and access to power (or to people > in positions of power who mostly look like me) which I have enjoyed in this > great country--many honestly unintentionally, this is not the reality of > most people of color. I also know that I will never fully know the joy of > ?llfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for all until our government > which is charged with upholding and embodying those words, has the courage > to insure the health and opportunity for well-being of all my sisters and > brothers. > > Furthermore, these words will have little truth to people of color or to > the world until those of us who have so much more access to resources and > power decide that their needs are as important as our needs, that their > needs matter as much as do the needs of politically-dominant middle-class > white Christians like me. For we share common, universal needs--at least > for safety, for choice, and for sustainability--for simply being able to > make a living. > > I am mindful that many, many words have been spoken about this issue, about > how America finances our health care and occasionally even about who > benefits most from the system as it is, a ?system? of largely unregulated > private health ?insurer? who insure, it seems, great profit but few people > of color. > > I am mindful that the noise-level and anger and fear level of this > discussion has been quite remarkable, and real, and yet I thank President > Obama for somehow trusting the American people to work it out--together. > > Toward this end, I hope to offer just one more spiritual resource, taught > perhaps best by the Jewish theologian, Elie Wiesel, in the face of the > Holocaust, but at the core of all our religious traditions. > > I ask you, good people, to listen to the SILENCE behind all these words, > all this fear and all this hope. Listen to the silence of those who cannot > afford Washington Post ads or to wine and dine those in power. Listen to the > forbearing Black women on my old Washington Hospital Center orthopedic ward > who are losing feet and legs everyday from lifetimes of under-treated > diabetes and over-worked domestic service. Listen to those who cannot afford > to challenge their employers stripping them of health care benefits. Listen > to those whose insurers, if they are lucky to have one, reject care with > unreasonable limits. Listen to the silence of children who have missed > school, sports and work opportunities because they cannot afford the > vaccinations of common preventive health care. > > As a white ally, with many words and oh-so-many ideas, I have learned that > my silence can be leveling when it opens space for others to be heard, when > it allows other to lead on this great new bus we call 21st century civil > society. > > But my silence, our silence, can also be damning. I beg you, please, to > listen to the silence. For there you will find your soul, your outrage at > injustice, and maybe even your God. > > I pray that this Congress and Senate will have the courage to speak up for > those who have been silenced, sickened and shackled by our sinful human > self-interest and indifference. > > I know in my heart that I and we will never have moral, spiritual OR > political integrity until our sisters and brothers of color are no longer > disproportionately tracked into emergency rooms across this land for health > care that comes too little and too late, after they are marked even before > birth, by ?the long heavy chain? of racial-ethnic disrespect. The price they > pay for white fear of change and white indifference is environmentally toxic > housing, schools, unemployment lines and crowded prisons as well as > increasing poverty, illness and hopelessness at now increasing levels we > dreamed of overcoming years ago. At levels dangerous to us all. > > Our US Military and our US Medicare systems are remarkable symbols of what > America can both do and be when we get our words and our actions together. > When we are willing to speak up and stand up for those who are silenced in > this country and across the world, we are truly serving our multiracial > country. > > In the next few weeks, we will either see progress in public options for > health care or we will see just more ?insurance care? in Congress. May we > stand up and speak up NOW for our common dream of ?life, liberty and the > pursuit of happiness" for all. Thank you and God for this historic > opportunity. > > -- > > > > -- > Louisa L. Davis, M.Div., PhD > 11330 Dockside Circle > Reston, VA 20191 > home: (703) 860-1203 > cell: (240) 338-5156 > > ?Get very clear about the kind of world [you] would like and then start > living that way.? > -- Marshall Rosenberg, Center for Nonviolent Communication > > > -- > Louisa L. Davis, M.Div., PhD > 11330 Dockside Circle > Reston, VA 20191 > home: (703) 860-1203 > cell: (240) 338-5156 > > ?Get very clear about the kind of world [you] would like and then start > living that way.? > -- Marshall Rosenberg, Center for Nonviolent Communication > > > _______________________________________________ > WAsummit mailing list > WAsummit at lists.wacan.org > http://lists.wacan.org/listinfo/wasummit > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From narvold at sfo.com Wed Oct 21 14:59:11 2009 From: narvold at sfo.com (Nancy) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:59:11 -0700 Subject: [WAsummit] Using the language of privilege In-Reply-To: References: <027DF370800D48E9843EB9CC48BC8454@OWNERPC><99E4646D2E1F4084A0CDDE62948D0A25@OWNERPC><044B4D3A5F5B40879FB7FDB9461B7F81@OWNERPC> Message-ID: <496C1A1530D348FFA65F053BAE9A055A@OWNERPC> tim - I haven't sent you the check for your video yet - I'm still very interested - just been swamped like all of us..again, thanks for your generosity and interest. nancy arvold ----- Original Message ----- From: Timothy Wise To: White Anti-racist Summit Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [WAsummit] Using the language of privilege Glad to know you are doing the work you do! A check would be great: you can send it to me at 4405 Westlawn Dr, Nashville, TN 37209 I will get the video out early next week when I return from the road... Thx Tim Sent from my iPhone On Sep 28, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Nancy wrote: Hi Tim - Thanks for noticing my request - it is generous - and we are worth it!! Thanks for your work. FYI to introduce myself. I'm the senior teacher in The UNtraining, a little Oakland training org, if you want to check us out on the web. I'm also one of four women co-leaders of a group like AWARE LA (Cameron has coached us) in Oakland called Saturday Dialogues - an open workshop we hold every 6 weeks or so for white people to talk about racism at all levels and white privilege, and of course your work is relevant to all we do. I'm in the process of completing my dissertation in Transpersonal Psychology called: Doing our Own Work: A Journey into Whiteness: White Women's Struggles in Becoming Authentic Racial Justice Allies (long title) and I'm starting to do conference presentations in Psych conferences. Several of us heard you in Oakland at the famous First Congregational Church. I was able to preview your video on line, which is a great service. My address is: Nancy Arvold PO Box 1150 Redwood City, CA 94064 How do you want me to pay you. I can send you a check if that will work. best regards, nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: Timothy Wise To: White Anti-racist Summit Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 4:45 AM Subject: Re: [WAsummit] Using the language of privilege I can send you a copy Nancy...for $25 if you give me an address tim wise On Sep 28, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Nancy wrote: Lou - I checked it out - and the video is more than our group can afford, but the transcript is FREE, so we can use that - not as powerful as the guy directly, he's such a good speaker, but thanks - it will be good. nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: Louis Schoen To: White Anti-racist Summit Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [WAsummit] Using the language of privilege I'm not aware that it's available on line. I bought it from the Media Education Foundation in Massachusetts 800 897 0089 or www.mediaed.org. Moderately priced, as I recall. Lou On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Nancy wrote: Is Tim Wise's DVD on line anywhere - at least the short piece? ----- Original Message ----- From: Louis Schoen To: White Anti-racist Summit Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [WAsummit] Using the language of privilege The detail you present parallels my own presentation, Nancy. The Tim Wise DVD I mentioned emphasizes, essentially: Don't dwell in guilt but accept personal responsibility for addressing the systemic realities that have given you privilege and implanted supremacist assumptions either subtly or overtly. Lou On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Nancy wrote: Lou - I agree with much of what you say. But as far as pushing whites past their guilt as quickly as possible, I think that is a mistake because it usually means they just protect themselves from their emotions, and the guilt sits there and festers. I think it is possible to mindfully let people know that while they didn't get to be racist or privileged intentionally, they have "caught" white supremacist and privileged attitudes and they do benefit from the system. The challenge as I see it is to develop some resilience in being mindful about whatever emotions come up - guilt, shame, fear, righteousness, apathy - and to see that they are just defensive reactions to confronting something so profound as racism in the US. In the UNtraining, we remind people that they are fundamentally good, well-meaning people, AND they are privileged and trained as white racists. We can and must struggle with that AND take action in whatever ways to alleviate racism around us. But there is real danger in whites thinking they are now the "good white people" who "get it" because they have completed a training, rather than to expect a lifelong practice of discovering and uncovering more and more of their own racism and privilege. We can support people in being willing to take that on fearlessly, at least sometimes. in solidarity, nancy PS - I'm attaching an aricle by Carmen of the New Demographic - the link should take you to an article which probably won't surprise many of you, but is reflective of this conversation. check it out. ----- Original Message ----- From: Louis Schoen To: White Anti-racist Summit Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [WAsummit] Using the language of privilege Francie, I think it's crucial that we continue to be direct in confronting w.p. - especially in workshops - with both the "privilege" and "supremacy" words as well as "oppression," and asserting them to be real American cultural phenomena still (and perhaps even increasingly, under the huge impact of the Beck/Limbaugh crowd and their talk-alikes thanks to the Rupert Murdoch empire. I heard tonight that Beck's is the third highest watched "news" show on television - the most watched presumably still Jon Stewart. It could be legitimately argued, of course, that there's no longer any such thing as a news show on any commercial TV.) The distinct advantage of "privilege" is that it underlines the personal impact of systemic racism. I'm always quick to acknowledge that we were born with it and didn't necessarily seek it intentionally, and push them past the guilt reaction as quickly as possible. (I've found a three-minute piece on Tim Wise's DVD "ON WHITE PRIVILEGE" very effective in affirming that.) Lou On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Frances Kendall wrote: Hello folks, I need some feedback, please. For the third time in 2 weeks, I have heard people say that ?privilege? is no longer a useful word (when related to oppression, I guess) and that they would prefer me to use another word. My belief is that people are scared that the word puts whites off. Anybody else heard about this? Thanks. Francie On 9/21/09 12:49 PM, "Sharon Martinas" wrote: Larry, I hope your health and work issues have improved since you last posted. I agree with you that this list serve, as a list serve, is unlikely to INITIATE an organizational action. Most of us has not worked together, nor do we necessarily have shared strategies about how best to challenge racism. Many of the people on this list, myself included, just attended a white privilege conference and that's how we elected to participate in this list serve. But I believe the list serve is an excellent place for people to RESPOND to an action that is initiated by others who have and are actually working together-- often in the 'real' world. People on this list serve can sign petitions, donate to ads, forward the action info to our own networks, raise the issues at events or meetings or classes or workshops we participate in. In organizing language, we can help to build an 'anti-racist movement.' Or, in the powerful language of The People's Institute, we can 'network:' we can help to build a net that works. Personally, I think it is helpful to know what a computer-based communication network can and cannot do. In my view, we can help to 'mobilize' around anti-racist issues. But not necessarily, as a list serve, to 'organize'. For many of us, our capacities to 'organize' reside in our home-bases, the communities in which we live. much love and respect, sharon On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Larry Yates wrote: Sorry folks, to have dropped a somewhat large message and then disappeared. I was dealing with a combination of work and health issues, and just had to put this "volunteer" email list to the back of the line. I very much appreciated Tema Okun's input that Highlander is taking some action somewhat similar to what we discussed. Former Pres Jimmy Carter's words have also changed the discussion substantially. And someone had a contact with Color of Change, I believe. I guess at this point my gut feeling is that we aren't going to organize something on this email list -- I counted 3-4 responses with a desire to be active, and I don't think it's enough -- but that this can be a good place for us to check in with each other about what is being done and what we ourselves try to stimlulate. I have heard that one Virginia group is considering assembling various white groups to speak up on the racism ex and implicit in teabagging. Joe Wilson's outburst is one catalyst. When there is more to say on that, I will share it. I am grateful to have this place to discuss these matters, though we are not an organization. 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We're writing to let you know of a special, one-night opportunity this week to see a screening of 9500 Liberty, a compelling new documentary about a suburban community's struggle to manage their changing population in a climate of fear and racial tension. Presente.org is a co-sponsor of the premiere, which will be held beginning at 6 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Theater in San Francisco on Thursday, Oct. 29. Tickets are going fast, so get yours today here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/85868 9500 Liberty chronicles the immigration culture war that tore apart a wealthy suburb of Washington DC. The filmmakers capture the escalating conflict as it unfolds in the streets, in online forums, and in the halls of county government. 9500 Liberty provides a front-row seat to this battle and the ensuing consequences -- a cautionary tale for what could play out nationally in the months to come as the immigration reform debate heats up. (You can view the trailer at www.9500Liberty.com). 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URL: From marycapps at earthlink.net Thu Oct 29 15:00:20 2009 From: marycapps at earthlink.net (Mary Capps) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:00:20 -0500 Subject: [WAsummit] Fw: [D2K-D] Fw: Invite: Bay Area premiere of award-winning film, 9500 Liberty In-Reply-To: <3569E098F2BB4D4293548217B719740F@OWNERPC> References: <3569E098F2BB4D4293548217B719740F@OWNERPC> Message-ID: I have seen the film. It's very relevant to our organizing work. Hope everyone can see it - or at least visit the website http://www.9500liberty.com/ Mary On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Nancy wrote: > Watch the trailer - this is a film to be seen. > > > > I'll be out of town. I hope some of you can go....and even if you > can't perhaps you can offer some support. Sounds like an important > film to get out there. Lee > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: Presente.org Team > To: sfzclee at yahoo.com > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 6:13:53 PM > Subject: Invite: Bay Area premiere of award-winning film, 9500 Liberty > > Don't miss the Bay Area premiere of 9500 Liberty > > > > Click here to watch the trailer of the film: > > > Dear Lee ? > > We're writing to let you know of a special, one-night opportunity > this week to see a screening of 9500 Liberty, a compelling new > documentary about a suburban community's struggle to manage their > changing population in a climate of fear and racial tension. > > Presente.org is a co-sponsor of the premiere, which will be held > beginning at 6 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Theater in San Francisco > on Thursday, Oct. 29. Tickets are going fast, so get yours today here: > > https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/85868 > > 9500 Liberty chronicles the immigration culture war that tore apart > a wealthy suburb of Washington DC. The filmmakers capture the > escalating conflict as it unfolds in the streets, in online forums, > and in the halls of county government. 9500 Liberty provides a > front-row seat to this battle and the ensuing consequences -- a > cautionary tale for what could play out nationally in the months to > come as the immigration reform debate heats up. (You can view the > trailer at www.9500Liberty.com). > > About the Event > Cocktail reception to raise funds for the completion of the film at > the theater attended by VIPs and filmmakers followed by the San > Francisco premiere screening. Markos Moulitsas, Founder of > DailyKos, will introduce the film. > > When > Thursday, October 29th > 6pm-7pm Cocktail Reception > 7pm-9pm Screening followed by Q&A with Filmmakers > > Where > Sundance Kabuki Theater > 1881 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 > > Prices > Cocktail Reception & Screening - $25 > Screening only - $10 > > We hope to see you at the premiere! > > Thank you and Adelante! > > The Presente.org team > > > > Subscription Management: > This is a message from Presente.org. To remove yourself from our > list, click here: http://presente.org/members/edit/dont_email/ > 2233-62610. 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