SOME EVENTS FOR PROGRESSIVES IN BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES-330
Bob Bender
SOME EVENTS FOR PROGRESSIVES IN BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES-330
Sunday January 11, 1 p.m. Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale
Accomplished activist, researcher, advocate, administrator, pioneer Rebecca Doggett will update South Florida on challenges to the New Jim Crow.
Becky’s life-long social activism was ramped up, like that of hundreds of thousands of others, by Michelle Alexander's landmark The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness . She redoubled her efforts toward building the new social movement for which Alexander called, i.e., the Movement to End Mass Incarceration, Police Terror and the Criminalization of Youth. She will update us on the progress that has been made in this regard during the past four years, nationally and in her home state of New Jersey, and will provide us with an opportunity for discussion about what’s been happening here in Florida.
Rebecca Doggett chairs the Undoing Racism Committee of the UU Congregation at Montclair, New Jersey and has been a leader both within that congregation as well as in the NJ-wide Movement to End Mass Incarceration, Police Terror and the Criminalization of Youth.
Becky is a retired Senior Fellow of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ), a non-profit research and advocacy organization. While there, she helped establish the Essex County Construction Careers Program which successfully enrolled over 400 local residents into union construction trade apprenticeships.
Previously, Becky was Special Assistant for Community Development to the
Superintendent of the Newark Public Schools, where she was instrumental in forging the partnership between the school system and the community based early childhood centers under the New Jersey-funded Abbott Early Childhood Program.
Becky was the first Director of Business and Job Opportunity for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She established the Regional Alliance for Small Contractors and other initiatives which were instrumental in bringing over $100 million per year in business opportunities to minority and small businesses in the region. She was the first Director of the Essex County Department of Citizen Services where she spearheaded welfare and social service reforms.
Prior to her public service career, she was the Executive Director of Tri-City People’s Corporation and founding president of the Newark Preschool Council, Newark’s citywide Head Start agency. She has also served on many non-profit boards, including serving as Chair of the Center for Community Change based in Washington, DC.
The public is welcome at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale
3970 NW 21st Avenue
Oakland Park 33309
“Now and then a book comes along that might in time touch the public and educate social commentators, policymakers, and politicians about a glaring wrong that we have been living with that we also somehow don’t know how to face. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander is such a work. . . Alexander considers the evidence and concludes that our prison system is a unique form of social control, much like slavery and Jim Crow, the systems it has replaced. . . [She] is not the first to offer this bitter analysis, but The New Jim Crow is striking in the intelligence of her ideas, her powers of summary, and the force of her writing. Her tone is disarming throughout; she speaks as a concerned citizen, not as an expert, though she is one. She can make the abstract concrete, as J. Saunders Redding once said in praise of W.E.B. Du Bois, and Alexander deserves to be compared to Du Bois in her ability to distill and lay out as mighty human drama a complex argument and history.”
—The New York Review of Books, March 2011.
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Wednesday December 17, 7-8:30 p.m. PinkSlip—If I Had a Hammer: The Life and Song of Pete Seeger
FAU-Jupiter Lifelong Learning Society
Rosenthal Complex, Florida Atlantic University
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter
(Donald Ross Road Exit off I-95, go east)
Tickets: $25/member; $35/non-member (+$5 if at the door)
Info 561-799-8547 or http://www.fau.edu/divdept/lifelong/LLSJupiter/forms/fall14_catalog_web.pdf
All of our programs have narration accompanied by slides, and live music accompanied by lyrics for sing-along. We do programs for private communities, if you think your HOA might be interested.
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Saturday January 3 2015, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Leonore Tiefer, NYU Educator, Therapist, Author:
Sex is More Like Dancing than Digestion: the Medicalization of Sexuality
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Sunday January 4, 6-8 p.m. Transition Palm Beaches presents
Colony1: Reclaiming our City for Resiliency
A talk by Blair Butterfield, director of The Art of Cultural Evolution
She will be discussing her organization's Colony1 project, a sustainability center being built in the heart of Wynwood Miami. Colony1's programming is geared towards resiliency and connectivity in the community. The center will house a zero packaging bulk food store, a teaching event kitchen, a learning demonstration food garden, an art and science residency program, an exhibition space and a youth classroom. The goal of Colony1 is to share knowledge to help move our cities towards adopting more sustainable practices. Check out more at www.artofculturalevolution.org
Friends Quaker Meeting House
823 N “A” Street
Lake Worth 33460
Pot Luck: Light snacks and finger foods. Beverages provided.
Free and open to the public, but RSVP to yogim...@gmail.com is requested.
Cultural Evolution is a non-profit dedicated to fostering a sustainable future for all.
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Tuesday January 6, 7-8:30 p.m. PinkSlip—Messages in Harmony: The Story and Songs of Peter, Paul and Mary
FAU-Jupiter Lifelong Learning Society
Rosenthal Complex, Florida Atlantic University
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter
(Donald Ross Road Exit off I-95, go east)
Tickets: $25/member; $35/non-member (+$5 if at the door)
More information: 561-799-8547
All of our programs have narration accompanied by slides, and live music accompanied by lyrics for sing-along. We do programs for private communities, if you think your HOA might be interested.
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Saturday January 10, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Brian Jones: Educator, Actor and Social Justice Activist:
The Radical Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Sunday January 11, 1 p.m. Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale
Accomplished activist, researcher, advocate, administrator, pioneer Rebecca Doggett will update South Florida on challenges to the New Jim Crow.
Becky’s life-long social activism was ramped up, like that of hundreds of thousands of others, by Michelle Alexander's landmark The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness . She redoubled her efforts toward building the new social movement for which Alexander called, i.e., the Movement to End Mass Incarceration, Police Terror and the Criminalization of Youth. She will update us on the progress that has been made in this regard during the past four years, nationally and in her home state of New Jersey, and will provide us with an opportunity for discussion about what’s been happening here in Florida.
Rebecca Doggett chairs the Undoing Racism Committee of the UU Congregation at Montclair, New Jersey and has been a leader both within that congregation as well as in the NJ-wide Movement to End Mass Incarceration, Police Terror and the Criminalization of Youth.
Becky is a retired Senior Fellow of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ), a non-profit research and advocacy organization. While there, she helped establish the Essex County Construction Careers Program which successfully enrolled over 400 local residents into union construction trade apprenticeships.
Previously, Becky was Special Assistant for Community Development to the
Superintendent of the Newark Public Schools, where she was instrumental in forging the partnership between the school system and the community based early childhood centers under the New Jersey-funded Abbott Early Childhood Program.
Becky was the first Director of Business and Job Opportunity for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She established the Regional Alliance for Small Contractors and other initiatives which were instrumental in bringing over $100 million per year in business opportunities to minority and small businesses in the region. She was the first Director of the Essex County Department of Citizen Services where she spearheaded welfare and social service reforms.
Prior to her public service career, she was the Executive Director of Tri-City People’s Corporation and founding president of the Newark Preschool Council, Newark’s citywide Head Start agency. She has also served on many non-profit boards, including serving as Chair of the Center for Community Change based in Washington, DC.
The public is welcome at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale
3970 NW 21st Avenue
Oakland Park 33309
“Now and then a book comes along that might in time touch the public and educate social commentators, policymakers, and politicians about a glaring wrong that we have been living with that we also somehow don’t know how to face. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander is such a work. . . Alexander considers the evidence and concludes that our prison system is a unique form of social control, much like slavery and Jim Crow, the systems it has replaced. . . [She] is not the first to offer this bitter analysis, but The New Jim Crow is striking in the intelligence of her ideas, her powers of summary, and the force of her writing. Her tone is disarming throughout; she speaks as a concerned citizen, not as an expert, though she is one. She can make the abstract concrete, as J. Saunders Redding once said in praise of W.E.B. Du Bois, and Alexander deserves to be compared to Du Bois in her ability to distill and lay out as mighty human drama a complex argument and history.”
—The New York Review of Books, March 2011.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 2015 celebration
Sponsored by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Coordinating Committee
For more information: call 561-832-4682
Visit us online: www.mlkcc-1444.org
Friday January 9, 6 p.m. Kick-off Reception
Dr. MLK Jr. Landmark Memorial
Sponsored by In Time Church of God in Christ
Saturday January 10, 9 a.m. MLK—Urban League Basketball
Salvation Army, Northwest Center
600 N. Rosemary Avenue
West Palm Beach
Saturday January 10, 1 p.m. Soccer
Gaines Park
West Palm Beach
Saturday January 10, 7 p.m. Candlelight Service
Dr. MLK Jr. Landmark Memorial
Sponsored by Greater Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
Sunday January 11, 4 p.m. Unity Day
Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church
1220 Pioneer Road
Mangonia Park
Wednesday January 14, 6 p.m. Performing Arts Auditions
Roosevelt Middle School
1900 N. Australian Avenue
West Palm Beach
Friday January 16, 5 p.m. Arts Awards Reception
Classroom Teachers Association (CTA)
715 Spencer Drive
West Palm Beach
Friday January 16, 7 p.m. Freedom Celebration
Temple Israel
1901 N. Flagler Blvd
West Palm Beach
Friday January 16, 7 p.m. Interfaith Service
Jupiter Church of God
18051 Limestone Creek Road Jupiter
Saturday January 17, 9 a.m. Oratorical Contest
Roosevelt Middle School
1900 N. Australian Avenue
West Palm Beach
Saturday January 17, 7 p.m. Performing Arts Finalists Competition
Roosevelt Middle School
1900 N. Australian Avenue
West Palm Beach
Sunday January 18, 3 p.m. Gospel fest
Orthodox Primitive Baptist Church
2900 Australian Avenue
West Palm Beach
Monday January 19, 8 a.m. Annual Breakfast / MLK Essay Contest Awards
Keynote speaker: Elvin J. Dowling
Artistic and cultural awards will be presented to the participants in the MLK Contest, and the high school winner of the Oratorical Contest will present his or her winning speech.
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Blvd.
West Palm Beach
Adults: $45 Students: $25
Saturday January 17, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Ronelle Delmont, Lecturer at FIU and FAU:
World of Our Parents—the Immigrant Story of the Lower East Side
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Saturday January 24, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Alice Rothchild, Activist, Author, Physician: The Israel/Palestine Conflict
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Saturday January 24, 4 p.m. Palm Beach County National Organization for Women and Emergency Medical Assistance of West Palm Beach
If abortion were totally illegal in your country, and if a Dutch physician and crew sailed into international waters, just offshore, to perform safe medical abortions, would you help? On the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, come and view the Florida premiere of the acclaimed human rights film Vessel.
MosArt Theatre
700 Park Avenue
Lake Park (Directions at www.MosArtTheatre.com)
All are welcome. Admission is by donation (suggested $10) to Emergency Medical Assistance Inc.
EMA is a local nonprofit that helps improve lives, by providing funding for abortions, travel and lodging for low income women and girls who are faced with an unintended or problem pregnancy. www.emawpb.org
Palm Beach County National Organization for Women (NOW) www.pbcnow.org
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Saturday January 31, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Medea Benjamin, Human Rights Activist, Co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange: How Creative Activism Leads to Change—Examples from the Street
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Saturday February 7, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Mark Solomon, Professor at Simmons College:
Is the USA Inching toward Fascism at Home?
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Thursday February 12, 2015 7-8:30 p.m. PinkSlip—Feelin’ Groovy: The Life and Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel
FAU-Jupiter Lifelong Learning Society
Rosenthal Complex, Florida Atlantic University
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter
(Donald Ross Road Exit off I-95, go east)
Tickets: $25/member; $35/non-member (+$5 if at the door)
More information: 561-799-8547
All of our programs have narration accompanied by slides, and live music accompanied by lyrics for sing-along. We do programs for private communities, if you think your HOA might be interested.
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Saturday February 14, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Mark Solomon, Professor at Simmons College:
U.S. Imperialism around the World
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Saturday February 21, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Jeffrey Nall, Professor at Florida Atlantic University
The Facts of Fast-Food Life: Having it OUR Way at THEIR Expense
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Saturday February 28, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Caroline Lewis, Environmental Activist: How Climate Change Impacts Our Lives
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Saturday March 7, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Speaker from Center for Constitutional Rights:
Stop and Frisk and Stand Your Ground
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Saturday March 14, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Deepa Kumar, Professor at Rutgers University:
Manufacturing the Terrorist Threat: from the 1970s to the War on Terror
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org
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Saturday March 21, 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. All People’s Day Diversity Festival
To Discover our Connections
9:30-11 a.m. Craft Dough People Workshop (for only 30 kids: to save a space, call (561) 495-9818)
11 a.m.-5 p.m. the Main Event
Twenty live diversity performances
Fifty interactive & selling booths
Ethnic foods, health fair & prizes
Pompey Park (indoors)
1101 N.W. 2nd Street
Delray Beach 33444
All People’s Day is a 501 (c) (3) Nonprofit Organization. All events are free of charge.
For more information, call (561) 495-9818
View a short festival video www.allpeoplesday.org
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Saturday March 21, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Amy Carol Webb, Composer, Performer: Songs of the People
Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum