Good day! We share the following this week:
1. This event is less than 2 weeks away. Consider sponsoring and/or attending UJIMA’s A Time for Healing, Educating and Rebuilding Conference: “Exploring Trauma of Community Violence, Strategies for Healing”, October 28 & 29 at the Frederick Douglas Family Initiative center, 140 East Main St., Rochester. The online registration is open at www.try uplifting our youth.org and the Sponsor application form is attached.
2. We have been sharing that Nanette Massey has pulled together an outstanding event with Robin D’Angelo on Saturday, November 5 at Canisius College titled “Real Conversation about Race”. See the attached flyer. Through the generous sponsorship of 9 ERG participant organizations there will be a shorter program in Rochester on Sunday, November 6 at 3:00 PM. I will send information once the promotional flyer is completed.
3. Fred Beer saw this documentary and was very moved by it. A Veteran’s Islamophobia Transformed, in “Stranger at the Gate” | The New Yorker In short a guy who goes to a mosque to blow it up and ends up becoming a member of the community. A powerful story of overcoming hate.
4. Brave Spaces; Rochester’s 3rd Annual Summit to End Hate will take place this coming Friday, October 21. Open link for more info: https://www.endhateroc.org/brave-spaces-2022
5. Richard Glaser shares a piece on anti-semitism, a key page in the White Supremicist playbook (see attached)
6. Victoria shares The TEA October 22 newsletter, an LGBTQIA+ publication. Find it at the link: https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/tTBUZwcBH_2q13Ow12s-jb5hfyt0KUk0IEAGLFjJl5P5HZ7DCHmwUCO7qr63mTEFQi3agG0qE8eGDUtSOF6nbUHcgdQ8huKrUE8ZpU7idboelM0y1eiFieUs53KIu58K5LrOyNeIR_VIr0Ix0fhMWCnvHj7Ewm0XTsytKHQ9eOCJ_t_O8whRqa5LNw4tmK5orP0V_81rbvFZLWZvluhZnvgRS0pJTvRlPvSIAgcBa_RTagfVWE2RiiDqZ_KUlCSKQGH0woXBnV7k5sJoKbX-hg/3q9/i5wkcV2gSMuUM-GNLQRmFA/h7/c3OAhaneBVogSiga_U89S7nzl9KH5YHbSoRcMIKEyFE
7. Leticia shares this 2020 article “Power Structures; White Columns, White Marble, White Supremacy”. It is an important read.
8. The following 15 articles appeared in the D&C this past week. They are listed in order of appearance:
a. Searching for Black kids often is longer, tougherhttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=1eb095d4d_1348676
b. COVID-19 laid bare NY’s health inequityhttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=0eb095d4d_1348676
c. Tribes to protect coastline in Calif.https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=18c518d3c_1348676
d. ‘OUR CHILDREN … WE’VE LIED TO THEM’https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=37f4a5046_1348677
e. Los Angeles Council president resigns after racist remarkshttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=1fda3f3e4_1348677
f. Twitter, Instagram block Kanye West over antisemitic postshttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=08c4ff9f2_1348677
g. NY gives farm workers a 40-hour workweekhttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=2c38e475b_1348678
h. Rochester’s Indigenous Peoples Day celebration is ‘just the beginning’https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=004bf8eb3_1348679
i. ‘Till’ grippingly reorients an American tragedyhttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=0656fe557_1348679
j. Racist comments could end careers of LA politicianshttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=2ba286d00_1348679
k. Duffy to Hochul: Call special session on bail reformhttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=3bb076861_134867a
l. UPrep tackles gun violence
https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=22f44656a_134867b
m. Schools’ discipline practices explored in report
https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=12f44656a_134867b
n. NY aims to diversify physician workforce
https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=293807277_134867c
o. BETTER LIVING THROUGH MENTORSHIP IN BUFFALO
https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=023bc7da4_134867cq.
9.The Urban League has responsibility for executing the recommendations of the Racial and Structural Equity (RASE) commission report. See the list of recommendations and learn how you can be involved. https://rocrase.com/get-involved
10. Black Agenda; ERG participants should be aware of and consider endorsing the Rochester Black Agenda Group Declaration: “Racism is a Public Health Crisis”.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddsHA40lVULue5wlXDferezB8rdHKr1IXHxd1ADkvm9SldXg/viewform
11. Have you taken the Common Ground Health’s 2022 survey? This year they are trying to capture the impact COVID has had on residents in the region and to better understand the health inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.
https://redcapjnfvq5amx4znm.azurewebsites.net/surveys/?s=NJ7AP97MW9FKTXWF
Wishing you a wonderful week!