Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Sunday, September 25
Sunday, July 17
We Are Not Our Past Ft. David Banner July23
- Saturday, July 23 at 3 PM - 8 PM
Purchase Tickets HERE!
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Wake Up With Tayla Andre along with the Mayor’s Office of Resilience will showcase live panel discussions on Boston's 350 year history of racial inequity towards Indigenous and African natives and the alarming yet factual statistics on economic development, housing and education in our community. At the end of each panel discussion there will be an live Q & A from the audience staying true to the radio show format. Wait! This won't be just an event of monotonous talking there will be live performances from local artists and an Electrifying speech from Grammy Award winning recording artist and activist David Banner on his nationwide God Box Tour.
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Wake Up With Tayla Andre along with the Mayor’s Office of Resilience will showcase live panel discussions on Boston's 350 year history of racial inequity towards Indigenous and African natives and the alarming yet factual statistics on economic development, housing and education in our community. At the end of each panel discussion there will be an live Q & A from the audience staying true to the radio show format. Wait! This won't be just an event of monotonous talking there will be live performances from local artists and an Electrifying speech from Grammy Award winning recording artist and activist David Banner on his nationwide God Box Tour.
Cops, Class, & Race: How to Stop Police Violence Jul21
- Thursday, July 21 at 7 PM - 9 PM
From Baton Rouge to Boston, communities around the nation — and the world — have taken to the streets in protest of the racist police murders of #AltonSterling and #PhilandoCastile and in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter. Once again our streets ring with the challenge "Who do you protect? Who do you serve?" as the movement raises the question of the police and their role in society.
According to The Counted, at least 574 Americans have been executed by the police in 2016 so far — with Black and Native people brutalized and killed at nearly 3 times the rate of whites.
The police were invented to repress and control oppressed and exploited people — not to keep us safe. From their beginning as a force to quellstrikes, urban riots, and the threat of slave insurrection, the police have always existed primarily as enforcers for the 1% and defenders of their property.
Join the Boston ISO for a discussion about the origins of the police and their relationship to racism, class and capitalism.
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Free childcare available if reserved before July 19. Please reserve childcare by emailing contact@bostonsocialism.or
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SPEAKER: Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith is a Boston-based activist, researcher, and educator. He has been involved in struggles against racism and in solidarity with Palestine, participating in a relief convoy to Gaza in summer 2009. Khury also focuses on US imperialism and participated in a peace delegation to Occupied Iraq in 2004.
According to The Counted, at least 574 Americans have been executed by the police in 2016 so far — with Black and Native people brutalized and killed at nearly 3 times the rate of whites.
The police were invented to repress and control oppressed and exploited people — not to keep us safe. From their beginning as a force to quellstrikes, urban riots, and the threat of slave insurrection, the police have always existed primarily as enforcers for the 1% and defenders of their property.
Join the Boston ISO for a discussion about the origins of the police and their relationship to racism, class and capitalism.
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Free childcare available if reserved before July 19. Please reserve childcare by emailing contact@bostonsocialism.or
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SPEAKER: Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith is a Boston-based activist, researcher, and educator. He has been involved in struggles against racism and in solidarity with Palestine, participating in a relief convoy to Gaza in summer 2009. Khury also focuses on US imperialism and participated in a peace delegation to Occupied Iraq in 2004.
Confronting Systemic Racism Course Jul28-Aug25
- Thursday, July 28 at 6:30 PM
- Find Tickets
This course will focus on how to bridge a deep understanding of personal and structural racism into commitments and a solid plan to move forward!
Are you looking to understand your role in the dynamics of systemic racism? Are you interested in finding the next step in your journey of taking a stance for racial justice? Are you looking to move beyond talking about racism and social oppression and find ways to take action?
Please join us for an intimate 5-week course facilitated by local community leaders. All are welcome but please note the course takes an explicit view that transforming both ourselves and our society into a racially just place implicates a responsibility in white and privileged folks to engage in this work more robustly.
The course sessions take place in Cambridge from 6:30 -8:30 pm on the following Thursdays:
July 28th, August 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th
Tution is $70 per person. Scholaships are available.
To register please complete the following 2-steps:
1) Fill out our form: http://goo.gl/forms/
2) Pay registration fee $70: http://bit.ly/29CfPYw OR contact antiracismcollab@gmail.com
Are you looking to understand your role in the dynamics of systemic racism? Are you interested in finding the next step in your journey of taking a stance for racial justice? Are you looking to move beyond talking about racism and social oppression and find ways to take action?
Please join us for an intimate 5-week course facilitated by local community leaders. All are welcome but please note the course takes an explicit view that transforming both ourselves and our society into a racially just place implicates a responsibility in white and privileged folks to engage in this work more robustly.
The course sessions take place in Cambridge from 6:30 -8:30 pm on the following Thursdays:
July 28th, August 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th
Tution is $70 per person. Scholaships are available.
To register please complete the following 2-steps:
1) Fill out our form: http://goo.gl/forms/
2) Pay registration fee $70: http://bit.ly/29CfPYw OR contact antiracismcollab@gmail.com
Tuesday, July 12
Free HER Liberation Kitchen July 17
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE:
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If you are unable to attend the dinner, we encourage you to PLEASE DONATE HERE in leiu of purchasing a ticket:
https://www.gofundme.com/
LEARN MORE HERE
justiceashealing.org
thecouncil.us
Prisons destroy lives, families, and community. The fastest growing population of U.S. prisonsers are women of color, most of whom are moms.
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If you are unable to attend the dinner, we encourage you to PLEASE DONATE HERE in leiu of purchasing a ticket:
https://www.gofundme.com/
LEARN MORE HERE
justiceashealing.org
thecouncil.us
Prisons destroy lives, families, and community. The fastest growing population of U.S. prisonsers are women of color, most of whom are moms.
Tuesday, June 28
Free Feminine Leadership Workshop July5
The Power & Practice of Feminine Leadership
The workshop is limited to 12 people, so grab your tickets early! (Again, the workshop is free, but because of limited capacity, pre-registration is required.)
Date
Tuesday, July 5th
Time
6:30-8:30pm
Location
Fields Corner Business Lab, 1452 Dorchester Ave., 4th Floor, Dorchester
Monday, June 27
Implicit Bias Workshop July13
Are you interested in how implicit bias affects your interpersonal interactions and influences your organization and workplace culture? Come to our workshop on July 13th at MassHousing on 1 Beacon Street in Boston from 9:30am-12:30pm.
Implicit biases are our unconscious associations, buried in our subconscious, that generate feelings and attitudes about other people based on race, ethnicity, age, and other identity traits. We all have biases that we are unaware of, and they significantly impact how we move through the world and interact with others. This workshop will introduce participants to the concept of implicit bias: what it is, how it develops, its impacts in the workplace, and research-based debiasing strategies. You will come away with a better understand of your own unconscious biases, and with practical strategies to reduce them and their impact on your beliefs and actions.
Learn more and register here: https://melkinginstitute.org/
Friday, May 20
Herbstalk June4-5
June 4 – June 5
Jun 4 at 9 AM to Jun 5 at 5 PM
The Center for Arts at the Armory
Somerville, Massachusetts
It's our 5th year anniversary event!
Join us for Boston's vibrant community herbal gathering.
Our weekend-long event offerings opportunites to learn about herbalism, natural healing and local plants.
We host classes on herbal and holistic health topics, offer urban plant walks, and bring together herbal crafters & artisans from across New England in a wonderful herbal marketplace.
View more details on our website:
www.herbstalk.org
Jun 4 at 9 AM to Jun 5 at 5 PM
The Center for Arts at the Armory
Somerville, Massachusetts
It's our 5th year anniversary event!
Join us for Boston's vibrant community herbal gathering.
Our weekend-long event offerings opportunites to learn about herbalism, natural healing and local plants.
We host classes on herbal and holistic health topics, offer urban plant walks, and bring together herbal crafters & artisans from across New England in a wonderful herbal marketplace.
View more details on our website:
www.herbstalk.org
Tuesday, May 17
The Legal Institution of Slavery in America June 18
- Saturday, June 18 at 1 PM
- Find Tickets
The pacrticipatory event will address long term, life and life without parole prison sentences. It will provide information about constitutional injustice, connecting it to slavery that seems to still exist today. The event will welcome many distinctive guest speakers
Friday, May 13
Thursday, April 28
Mental Health Matters May 7
- Saturday, May 7 at 10:30 AM - 4:15 PM
Would you know what to do? What to say? How to help them?
We’ve all heard stories about someone in our community acting “strangely”, or perhaps they just seem “a little off”. Too often, these individuals are followed by whispers of ridicule and suspicion, or outright dismissal. However, if we approached them with empathy, more often than not, we would recognize that they are struggling, perhaps with an illness…one that we cannot see. Our reactions, as individuals and as a community, might serve to further isolate our loved ones and community members and keep them from getting the help they need.
What if this person is you?
Just because we cannot see mental illness physically, does not mean it does not exist. Choosing to “battle it alone”, can make an already difficult struggle, an impossible one.
How long can we turn away from discussing such an important part of our wellness?
So, let’s begin the conversation: one that’s long overdue…because, as a community, for too long we’ve been so concerned about the stigma we have associated with it.
Let’s take the first step towards building a compassionate and inclusive Muslim society.
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FREE event:
10:30 - 11am: Check-In
11 - 11:15am: Welcome
11:15 - 12:15pm: Mental Health Matters: What You May Not Know
12:15 - 1:15pm: Lunch (on your own) & Salah
1:15 - 2:15pm: Lived experiences
2:15 - 2:30pm: Break
2:30 - 4pm: Ask the Experts Panel: Q & A (with resources)
4 - 4:15pm: Wellness Activity/Closing
Free Webinar: Stress & Depression May 25
Coping with Stress and Depression: A Personal and Professional View
Families for Depression Awareness is presenting a free, 1-hour Coping with Stress and Depression webinar on Wednesday, May 25 at 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT. Join us as Dr. Susan Noonan shares insights from her work as a physician, her lived experience with a mood disorder, and her role as a certified mental health Peer Specialist. Designed for family caregivers, human resources managers, EAP professionals, and adults concerned about themselves or others, the webinar covers
- Practical ways to reduce the effects of stress
- How to recognize signs of depression
- What to do if you or someone you know is suffering from depression
- What resources are available to you and your family
Susan J. Noonan, MD, MPH, blogs and is the author of Managing Your Depression: What You Can Do to Feel Better (2013) and When Someone You Know Has Depression: Words to Say and Things to Do (coming June 2016). Dr. Noonan brings a dual perspective to her writing – as a physician and as a person who lives with a mood disorder. She is a certified mental health Peer Specialist.
Watch the webinar live to submit questions to Dr. Noonan! Complete the online evaluation form after the webinar to receive a free Coping with Stress brochure.
Can't attend the live webcast? Register today and watch the recorded webinar later at your convenience.
Register at www.familyaware.org/trainings.
Please share information about the free webinar with your network. For your convenience, I have attached a Stress and Depression Fact Sheet as well as a flyer for posting or distribution. You are welcome to forward this email to your distribution list. I have also supplied links below to share on Facebook and Twitter.
Monday, April 25
Thursday, April 21
Creative Leadership & Engagement Intensive Workshop: May 10
Please join Creative Action Institute/ArtCorps for an exciting professional development workshop on May 10!
Turbo charge your abilities to lead and inspire in this one-day intensive!
Develop New Skills & Expand Your Creative Toolkit
Build the four key elements of creative thinking: fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration.
Develop and apply arts-based techniques to engage communities in issue analysis, effective dialogue and social action.
Creativity powers people, and people working together power change.
Connect with the power of your creativity to make it happen!
Date: May 10
Time: 9am-5pm
Cost: $150 per participant
Location: District Hall, 75 Northern Ave, Boston
To register and for more information: creativeleadershipboston.
About us:
Creative Action Institute (home of ArtCorps) works at the intersection of creativity and social change. We build the capacity of leaders and organizations for innovation, collaboration, and resilience to advance conservation, health and human rights globally. We seek an inclusive and just world where individuals, communities and ecosystems flourish.
Our programs serve as the foundation to build grassroots networks, widen scope and deepen impact. We've compiled our best practices gained from a decade in the field into a dynamic, hands-on curriculum that we now offer to educators, advocates and organizations to better realize their missions.
Turbo charge your abilities to lead and inspire in this one-day intensive!
Develop New Skills & Expand Your Creative Toolkit
Build the four key elements of creative thinking: fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration.
Develop and apply arts-based techniques to engage communities in issue analysis, effective dialogue and social action.
Creativity powers people, and people working together power change.
Connect with the power of your creativity to make it happen!
Date: May 10
Time: 9am-5pm
Cost: $150 per participant
Location: District Hall, 75 Northern Ave, Boston
To register and for more information: creativeleadershipboston.
About us:
Creative Action Institute (home of ArtCorps) works at the intersection of creativity and social change. We build the capacity of leaders and organizations for innovation, collaboration, and resilience to advance conservation, health and human rights globally. We seek an inclusive and just world where individuals, communities and ecosystems flourish.
Our programs serve as the foundation to build grassroots networks, widen scope and deepen impact. We've compiled our best practices gained from a decade in the field into a dynamic, hands-on curriculum that we now offer to educators, advocates and organizations to better realize their missions.
Tuesday, April 19
The Summit on Race and Equity: May 16&17
This spring will launch an inclusive cross sector regional network to advance racial equity and ensure opportunities for all. Led by a collaborative of community residents, organizations, and government leaders committed to transformation, resilience, and healing, the City of Boston has joined a national movement to ensure that policies and practices that impact the lives of residents are just and equitable.
More detailed information regarding panels, speakers, and more coming soon!
More detailed information regarding panels, speakers, and more coming soon!
Black Lives Matter Book Discussion May 14
- Saturday, May 14 at 12 PM
This is the first in a series of discussions on From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. We will be discussing the Introduction (Black Awakening in Obama’s America) and Chapter 1 (Culture of Racism).
*if you need a copy of the book, contact contact@bostonsocialism.or
*The author will be speaking at this year's annual Socialism Conference!https://
Over the course of the past two years we’ve witnessed the emergence of Black Lives Matter, a movement that not only demands justice for victims of racist violence of the police, but also acts as a vehicle for redressing the broader systemic racial inequality that characterizes Black life in America. In “#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor raises the question, why, in a nation founded on on a vicious and persisting racism, is a period of Black radicalization happening now?
In an effort to answer this question Taylor examines the context in which the mass protests of the Black Lives Matter Movement have erupted and how these protests reveal the illusion of a post-racial America.
In her in-depth look at the political landscape that gave birth to Black Lives Matter, Taylor offers profound insights into questions of why racism persists, how the predominant strategies for fighting inequality have failed, and argues for how the Black Lives Matter Movement has the potential to reignite a broader push for the ultimate goal: Black liberation.
*if you need a copy of the book, contact contact@bostonsocialism.or
*The author will be speaking at this year's annual Socialism Conference!https://
Over the course of the past two years we’ve witnessed the emergence of Black Lives Matter, a movement that not only demands justice for victims of racist violence of the police, but also acts as a vehicle for redressing the broader systemic racial inequality that characterizes Black life in America. In “#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor raises the question, why, in a nation founded on on a vicious and persisting racism, is a period of Black radicalization happening now?
In an effort to answer this question Taylor examines the context in which the mass protests of the Black Lives Matter Movement have erupted and how these protests reveal the illusion of a post-racial America.
In her in-depth look at the political landscape that gave birth to Black Lives Matter, Taylor offers profound insights into questions of why racism persists, how the predominant strategies for fighting inequality have failed, and argues for how the Black Lives Matter Movement has the potential to reignite a broader push for the ultimate goal: Black liberation.
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