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One more week and one day to come together for Racial Justice View this email in your browser Summit Against Racism #16 Day Long Conference for Racial Justice Register Online ---Cut off for online Registration is Friday January 24th at 5pm. Walk In registration welcome! --Childcare will be provided in Room #240 during all the workshops!! Two AWESOME 3 year olds have already RSVPed! Please pre-register! We have our own room! --Sign language available on request - summitaga...@gmail.com --Si ud. necesita traducción entre inglés y español por favor llame al 724-972-5184 lo más pronto posible. --Breakfast and Lunch Included in Registration   Tonight! in Lawrenceville. Fundraiser for South Asian American Perspectives on Yoga. SAAPYA will also be presenting at the Summit! Indian and Black -De-Colonizing Yoga Racism in Mainstream Medical Care This workshop is a discussion of experiences of racism that participants have had or witnessed in hospital and clinical settings.  One goal of the workshop is to acknowledge that racism is rampant within our healthcare system at large and infects the resources that are available or unavailable to neighborhoods and communities in Pittsburgh  This session- 1:45-2:45   "In My Father's House" is a skit of the life of American family that has mixed race children, one child can pass for white and one cannot. The younger child, the jewel of the family, a dark black male gets spoiled by his older brother who can pass.  The table turns when he must face the world as a grown man. His brother was taught by his step father to use his light skin to gain privilege and make more money for the family.  Facilitated by Renee Wilson Gray a long time activist and a member of a mixed race family and her husband Paradise Gray artist, activist, poet, and hip hop historian. The cast will act the skit out followed by a panel discussion with input from the audience. Workshop will be at 11:30 in the Sewing Room on the Ground Floor RACE Talking Circle - 10:15 to 11 in the Ground floor Lounge A tool used throughout the U.S. via the RACE project, Talking Circles are facilitated discussions for groups of 20 or fewer in which only person speaks at a time and the focus is on understanding rather than judging or changing each other. Inspired by Native American traditions, it is a format in which all participants are invited to reflect upon race as a factor in their lives and communities. The goal of this workshop is to create an agenda-free space in which we can individually articulate the effects of racism in our lives, learn about other experiences of racism, and think of ways to empower ourselves and others. The co-facilitators are both experienced at leading discussions of this type; they are anu jain (professor and diversity consultant) and Hannah (professor and social innovation consultant).   1hood Media Academy - line up change! Summit is proud to have K-Rocz who was featured on WTAE's piece on homeless youth in Pittsburgh K-Rocz will be joined by Amil Cook of #HipHopEd fame! Copyright © 2014 Summit Against Racism, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you attended the Summit Against Racism either this year or years prior. We are just getting our contact list together so if you don't wish to be on this list please find the unsubscribe button at the bottom of this email. This intends to be a relatively low volume email list with announcements about local organizing around police brutality and the annual summit against racism. Our mailing address is: Summit Against Racism c/o East Liberty Presbyterian Church 116 S. Highland Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences