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Post by Curtis Ogden on Mar 8, 2015 20:36:05 GMT
This 21 day challenge has been an opportunity to tune in more locally to where I am now living (since August of last year) to see what the conversation and supports are around race and racism. Amherst, MA has an initiative called Coming Together, which has been fueled by some unfortunate incidents at the local high school and elsewhere, and aims to raise awareness about racism locally and to "dismantle" it. More information can be found here - www.coming-together.org. Very curious to hear about initiatives in other towns and cities. |
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2015 15:35:27 GMT
Check out this new blog post on race and the food movement from Marilyn Moore, a member of the Food Solutions New England Network Team, and the CT Ambassador. She is a strong advocate for racial and health equity and lives in Bridgeport, CT. Marilyn was recently elected to the Connecticut State Senate where she is Chair of the Human Services Committee and Vice Chair of the Environment Committee. ow.ly/K6CO1 |
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Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2015 10:41:24 GMT
Be part of the multiracial, multigenerational, multisector equity movement that is gaining momentum around the country. Registration is now open for the PolicyLink Equity Summit 2015, October 27-29 in Los Angeles, CA. plcylk.org/equity2015 |
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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2015 21:36:27 GMT
The Center for Social Inclusion announced the launch of the Maya Wiley Fellowship Program. Nominate a Fellow by March 30th! The Fellowship Program celebrates and supports grassroots leaders seeking to achieve racial equity through structurally transformative policy strategies and campaigns. This is a one-year fellowship program that provides a $25,000 stipend. Fellow's work must be related to CSI's current program areas: food equity, transportation equity, broadband equity, Energy Democracy/climate change or race communications. Click on the link for more info! www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/leadership/maya-wiley-fellowship-program/ |
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Post by refj on Mar 12, 2015 21:37:38 GMT
Lifting up the 50th Anniversary of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, one of the most seminal events in our nation's history!
"Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political or economic changes. In this sense, power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice. One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love."- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
On March 7, 1965, what has become known as "Bloody Sunday", police beat and teargassed marchers at the foot of the Edmund Pettis Bridge in a spasm of violence that shocked the nation. That was power at its worst! What happened later, with President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act, was power at is best!
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2015 18:52:12 GMT
Check out this article: Notes on the practice of food justice in the U.S.: understanding and confronting trauma and inequity by Rachel Slocum and Kirsten Valentine Cadieux in the Journal of Political Ecology The article focuses on "acknowledging and confronting historical, collective trauma and persistent race, gender, and class inequality" and urges "scholars and practitioners to collaboratively document how groups move toward food justice, what thwarts and what enables them." jpe.library.arizona.edu/volume_22/Slocumcadieux.pdf |
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Post by Admin on Mar 17, 2015 2:15:20 GMT
Experiences of People of Color in the Food System webinar recording available ow.ly/Kq4wJ |
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Post by Admin on Mar 17, 2015 14:47:30 GMT
Check out the latest blog post on the Racial Equity Challenge from UNH Professor and Food Solutions New England's Racial Equity and Food Justice Working Group member Joanne Burke ow.ly/Krwbn |
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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2015 19:20:06 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2015 10:50:30 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 20, 2015 10:41:40 GMT
"Did you know that the work that Martin Luther King was doing was for everybody?" -Albert Sykes via Storycorps ow.ly/KzDnx |
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