Good day!
The first four (4) items were shared via the Sunday email. The remaining 3 are addtions.
1. We are finalizing the Fall ERG cohorts. There is still room in each group. Is there a current leader or future leader in your company or organization that could benefit from the ERG program? If so, please tell them about the program and send them this link: https://forms.gle/w8bfHR3RTcsdYG9o7
2. ERG Alumni, Kathi Lynch asks us all, including friends and relatives to take Common Ground Health’s 2022 survey. Common Ground Health conducted a similar survey in 2018 and are repeating it this year with additional questions that try to capture the impact COVID has had on residents in the region and to better understand the health inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.
Registration is now open for the virtual 2022 Speak Life! Health Equity Conference, featuring Harriet Washington, author of Medical Apartheid, Dr. S. Michelle Ogunwole, Denise Smith and more, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 23. Register at commongroundhealth.org/speaklife2022.
La inscripción ya está abierta para la Speak Life! Conferencia 2022 Equidad en Salud, con Harriet Washington, autora de Apartheid médico, la Dra. S. Michelle Ogunwole, Denise Smith y más, de 9 a. m. a 12:30 p. m. Sábado 23 de abril. Regístrese en http://www.commongroundhealth.org/speaklife2022.
3. ERG Participant, Matt Geherin shares the following information (with attachments) with the ERG community:
Greetings,
We are asking for your support and attendance to our A Time for Healing, Educating, And Rebuilding VII Conference: “Exploring the Trauma of Community Violence, Strategies for Healing”. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022.
As we know the pandemic has impacted our entire country in ways that has added significantly to the societal and institutional harm already present in our society. We together have a responsibility to heal ourselves while supporting the well-being of our human existence. This conference is one important tool in this struggle.
Ujima Rochester, Inc., WELCOMES BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! KEYNOTE SPEAKER, DR. JOY DEGRUY at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E. Main St. Rochester, NY.
Please consider supporting this important event.
Attached please find the sponsor proposal. Please share with your networks.
4. The Urban League of Rochester’s 3rd Annual “Interrupt Racism”conference is less than a month away, September 20 – 21, https://twitter.com/urbanleagueroc/status/1560608662544154624/photo/1 https://www.instagram.com/p/ChXLJJzLPlb/
5. Please consider this event on September 8 sponsored by the Jewish Federation “: https://jewishfederationofgreaterroche.regfox.com/project-shema-expanding-inclusion-for-dei-professionals
6. John Strazzabosco recommended 3 books that we will add to the Recommended Book list; “Blindspot” by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald, “How The Word is Passed” by Clint Smith and “We Want To Do More Than Survive” by Bettina Love.
7. There were 13 articles appearing in the D&C this week in order of appearance:
a. New York restricts packages to inmateshttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=4db1124fe_13485b4
b. Thao, Kueng reject deals in Floyd killinghttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=4ec732d98_13485b4
c. WHO chief: Lack of help for Tigray crisis due to skin colorhttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=2d1396fec_13485b6
d. RFD captain exits amid probe into racist Juneteenth partyhttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=20384619c_13485b6
e. Protester sentenced to jail for 30 monthshttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=397c76c97_13485b7
f. Germans condemn Holocaust referencehttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=027fb6344_13485b7
g. Judge blocks Florida ‘woke’ law pushed by Gov. DeSantishttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=0c9e703c9_13485b7
h. FOOD https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=0943a1ea5_13485b9
i. Cayuga Nation cries (Part 1) https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=1b6a4d050_13485b9
j. Cayuga Nation cries (Part 2) How years of conflict unfolded https://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=117619640_13485b9
k. 40 years in prison? Marijuana laws need to changehttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=0df5c2574_13485b9
l. Cops charged in Taylor’s death, but justice reform still neededhttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=22deba787_13485b9
m. Black couple alleges bias in appraisalhttps://rochesterdemocrat-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=0abe93a1f_13485b9
Have a great week!
Tom Mitchell