DISMANTLING RACISM WORKSHOP
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DISMANTLING RACISM WORKSHOP
July 11 - July 13, 2007
This 18-hour workshop is open to the public and is for people of all
racial/ethnic backgrounds. It will be held in conjunction with the Green
Party of the United States' Annual National Meeting in Reading,
Pennsylvania.
REGISTER BY MAY 31!
Reply to:
Isabelle Buonocore
National Delegate Coordinator
Pennsylvania Task Force
2007 Green Party Annual National Meeting
isab...@gpanc.org [or] isabelle...@hotmail.com
1. Full name:
2. Email address:
3. Phone number:
4. Of the following categories, write the letter of the one that best
describes how you would identify yourself in terms of race-color: a. color
b. white
5. Are you committed to attending the full workshop, beginning with dinner
at 5 PM, July 11 and ending at 12:00 PM, July 13?
6. The registration fee is from $10 to $20 based on ability to pay, and is
due the first night of the workshop. Please specify the amount, from $10 to
$20, that you can afford to pay: $
7. Pledges are being accepted to help pay the travel expenses of the
workshop leaders who are donating their time. Pledges in any amount
(starting at $1.00) will be collected the first night of the workshop if you
attend the workshop. If you can pledge an amount, please specify the amount
here: $
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DISMANTLING RACISM WORKSHOP
July 11-13, 2007
Register by May 31!
This is an intensive workshop for people who work together for change.
There is value in broadening and deepening candidate, party leader, staff,
and volunteer awareness of racial, ethnic, cultural, and class diversity.
This workshop will provide a safe space to begin the journey of exploring
our differences and ways we can work as individuals to examine structures,
policies, and attitudes that allow racism to exist in our organizations and
in our communities.
Through a special series of activities, role playing, and discussions,
workshop attendees will learn to dismantle racism. The workshop is designed
to allow time to reflect on issues of race and class, and think about how to
overcome the barriers that race, class, and culture have on our organizing
efforts, issues campaigns, and our interaction with a diverse public.
This workshop can accommodate up to 40 participants. The entire workshop
takes about 18 hours. Participants must make a commitment to attend the
entire workshop.
Location, to be announced, will be in downtown Reading near the Abraham
Lincoln Hotel.
Registrations must be in by May 31.
Schedule
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
5:00 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop begins w Dinner (first day)
6:00 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop continues w instructions/goals
7:00 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop continues w film "Crash"
Thursday, July 12, 2007
8:30 AM - 8:30 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop continues (second day)
Friday, July 13, 2007
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop (third & last day)
Registration is open to all persons attending the GPUS annual national
meeting.
It is also open to the public. We invite residents, activists, candidates,
elected and non-elected government officials, and school faculty and staff
to attend. This workshop is a rare opportunity. In another setting, this
workshop would cost about $300.
Register without delay to reserve your slot. The workshop is limited to 40
participants.
Persons who register must self-identify as either a person of "color" or
"white." The workshop cannot be held unless 25 to 50 percent of the
participants are people of color.
Register by May 31, 2007, by contacting Isabelle Buonocore by phone at
215-467-9065 or email at isab...@gpanc.org or
isabelle...@hotmail.com.
Workshop Leaders: Bill Price and Rita Harris
Bill Price and Rita Harris are professionals who are donating their time and
service for this workshop. They are not sponsored or being paid by any
employer or any organization. In order to assist them with traveling
expenses to Reading, pledges are being taken and donors will be announced in
the program booklet. Please make a pledge, even if you can't attend the
workshop, by contacting Isabelle Buonocore at 215-467-9065 or by email at
isab...@gpanc.org.
Bill Price was a resident of the southern West Virginia coal fields for more
than 30 years. He has experienced first-hand the impacts when irresponsible
coal mining methods bring economic and environmental devastation to
low-income communities in the coal-producing region of Central Appalachia.
Bill became active in the environmental movement in 2001 after the community
where he lived was heavily damaged by flooding. The failure of a large
sediment pond on a mountaintop removal mining operation directly above this
small community contributed to the severity of the flood, which destroyed
and damaged several hundred homes in the valley downstream.
In 2003, Bill began working with the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice
Program. As the Central Appalachian EJ Resource Coordinator, he works in
coal-producing areas of six states (WV, KY, VA, OH, PA and TN) with members
of grassroots organizations involved in various coal-related issues. Bill
has co-facilitated Dismantling Racism workshops throughout the Sierra Club
for two years now and also offers training in Diversity and Leadership
Development. He now lives in Charleston WV and works locally on anti-racism
initiatives as well as other social justice issues.
Rita J. Harris is a long-time social justice activist/advocate and a
lifelong Memphian. The Sierra Club, the oldest environmental organization
in the country, hired her in 1999 as the first of nine current national
environmental justice community organizers. She has worked on air toxics
and a myriad of environmental justice issues for the past 16 years.
Currently, Ms. Harris heads up the Sierra Club's Memphis, Tennessee,
Environmental Justice Program office and works specifically with low-income
and people-of-color communities dealing with what they feel are
environmental injustices most impacting their lives. She recently helped
design and launch an e-Learning course on Environmental Justice for the
Sierra Club.
Rita has worked over the past 20 years with a number of non-profit
organizations including the NAACP, Girl Scouts, Mississippi River Basin
Alliance, Mid-South Peace & Justice Center and others. Wherever she has
worked she has attempted to make organizations aware of the benefits they
may be missing out on if they are not fully engaging the total community.
Initially trained by the Peace Development Fund's Dismantling Racism
trainers in the early 1990s, Rita has been a participant in many workshops
that deal directly with racism, prejudice reduction, and cultural
sensitivity. She firmly believes each of us can work as change agents to
make a better society that is fully inclusive of all people. Her present
work includes the planning and facilitation of Dismantling Racism and
diversity/inclusion training for staff, volunteer and community leaders.
She has led numerous workshops, facilitated discussions, and led training to
connect people to move beyond invisible barriers.
Rita believes that average citizens, regardless to their race or class, must
be empowered to speak for themselves and be included in decisions that
impact their lives and their communities. As a part of her daily work Rita
has been a driving force and leader in promoting cultural competency and
inclusion. In 2006, she was appointed to the Sierra Club's Diversity
Council, which is planning the course of action to work toward a more
diverse and multicultural organization.
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July 11 - July 13, 2007
This 18-hour workshop is open to the public and is for people of all
racial/ethnic backgrounds. It will be held in conjunction with the Green
Party of the United States' Annual National Meeting in Reading,
Pennsylvania.
REGISTER BY MAY 31!
Reply to:
Isabelle Buonocore
National Delegate Coordinator
Pennsylvania Task Force
2007 Green Party Annual National Meeting
isab...@gpanc.org [or] isabelle...@hotmail.com
1. Full name:
2. Email address:
3. Phone number:
4. Of the following categories, write the letter of the one that best
describes how you would identify yourself in terms of race-color: a. color
b. white
5. Are you committed to attending the full workshop, beginning with dinner
at 5 PM, July 11 and ending at 12:00 PM, July 13?
6. The registration fee is from $10 to $20 based on ability to pay, and is
due the first night of the workshop. Please specify the amount, from $10 to
$20, that you can afford to pay: $
7. Pledges are being accepted to help pay the travel expenses of the
workshop leaders who are donating their time. Pledges in any amount
(starting at $1.00) will be collected the first night of the workshop if you
attend the workshop. If you can pledge an amount, please specify the amount
here: $
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DISMANTLING RACISM WORKSHOP
July 11-13, 2007
Register by May 31!
This is an intensive workshop for people who work together for change.
There is value in broadening and deepening candidate, party leader, staff,
and volunteer awareness of racial, ethnic, cultural, and class diversity.
This workshop will provide a safe space to begin the journey of exploring
our differences and ways we can work as individuals to examine structures,
policies, and attitudes that allow racism to exist in our organizations and
in our communities.
Through a special series of activities, role playing, and discussions,
workshop attendees will learn to dismantle racism. The workshop is designed
to allow time to reflect on issues of race and class, and think about how to
overcome the barriers that race, class, and culture have on our organizing
efforts, issues campaigns, and our interaction with a diverse public.
This workshop can accommodate up to 40 participants. The entire workshop
takes about 18 hours. Participants must make a commitment to attend the
entire workshop.
Location, to be announced, will be in downtown Reading near the Abraham
Lincoln Hotel.
Registrations must be in by May 31.
Schedule
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
5:00 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop begins w Dinner (first day)
6:00 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop continues w instructions/goals
7:00 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop continues w film "Crash"
Thursday, July 12, 2007
8:30 AM - 8:30 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop continues (second day)
Friday, July 13, 2007
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Dismantling Racism Workshop (third & last day)
Registration is open to all persons attending the GPUS annual national
meeting.
It is also open to the public. We invite residents, activists, candidates,
elected and non-elected government officials, and school faculty and staff
to attend. This workshop is a rare opportunity. In another setting, this
workshop would cost about $300.
Register without delay to reserve your slot. The workshop is limited to 40
participants.
Persons who register must self-identify as either a person of "color" or
"white." The workshop cannot be held unless 25 to 50 percent of the
participants are people of color.
Register by May 31, 2007, by contacting Isabelle Buonocore by phone at
215-467-9065 or email at isab...@gpanc.org or
isabelle...@hotmail.com.
Workshop Leaders: Bill Price and Rita Harris
Bill Price and Rita Harris are professionals who are donating their time and
service for this workshop. They are not sponsored or being paid by any
employer or any organization. In order to assist them with traveling
expenses to Reading, pledges are being taken and donors will be announced in
the program booklet. Please make a pledge, even if you can't attend the
workshop, by contacting Isabelle Buonocore at 215-467-9065 or by email at
isab...@gpanc.org.
Bill Price was a resident of the southern West Virginia coal fields for more
than 30 years. He has experienced first-hand the impacts when irresponsible
coal mining methods bring economic and environmental devastation to
low-income communities in the coal-producing region of Central Appalachia.
Bill became active in the environmental movement in 2001 after the community
where he lived was heavily damaged by flooding. The failure of a large
sediment pond on a mountaintop removal mining operation directly above this
small community contributed to the severity of the flood, which destroyed
and damaged several hundred homes in the valley downstream.
In 2003, Bill began working with the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice
Program. As the Central Appalachian EJ Resource Coordinator, he works in
coal-producing areas of six states (WV, KY, VA, OH, PA and TN) with members
of grassroots organizations involved in various coal-related issues. Bill
has co-facilitated Dismantling Racism workshops throughout the Sierra Club
for two years now and also offers training in Diversity and Leadership
Development. He now lives in Charleston WV and works locally on anti-racism
initiatives as well as other social justice issues.
Rita J. Harris is a long-time social justice activist/advocate and a
lifelong Memphian. The Sierra Club, the oldest environmental organization
in the country, hired her in 1999 as the first of nine current national
environmental justice community organizers. She has worked on air toxics
and a myriad of environmental justice issues for the past 16 years.
Currently, Ms. Harris heads up the Sierra Club's Memphis, Tennessee,
Environmental Justice Program office and works specifically with low-income
and people-of-color communities dealing with what they feel are
environmental injustices most impacting their lives. She recently helped
design and launch an e-Learning course on Environmental Justice for the
Sierra Club.
Rita has worked over the past 20 years with a number of non-profit
organizations including the NAACP, Girl Scouts, Mississippi River Basin
Alliance, Mid-South Peace & Justice Center and others. Wherever she has
worked she has attempted to make organizations aware of the benefits they
may be missing out on if they are not fully engaging the total community.
Initially trained by the Peace Development Fund's Dismantling Racism
trainers in the early 1990s, Rita has been a participant in many workshops
that deal directly with racism, prejudice reduction, and cultural
sensitivity. She firmly believes each of us can work as change agents to
make a better society that is fully inclusive of all people. Her present
work includes the planning and facilitation of Dismantling Racism and
diversity/inclusion training for staff, volunteer and community leaders.
She has led numerous workshops, facilitated discussions, and led training to
connect people to move beyond invisible barriers.
Rita believes that average citizens, regardless to their race or class, must
be empowered to speak for themselves and be included in decisions that
impact their lives and their communities. As a part of her daily work Rita
has been a driving force and leader in promoting cultural competency and
inclusion. In 2006, she was appointed to the Sierra Club's Diversity
Council, which is planning the course of action to work toward a more
diverse and multicultural organization.
_________________________________________________________________
---
Information Transmitted herein reflects the views of the individual. The Green Party of Pennsylvania is not responsible for content transmitted on this email list and bears no liability for use or results of any content so transmitted. Please be respectful of all members when posting.
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