<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:9.0pt;text-indent:-.25in"><b> Community Change Inc. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Brown Bag<i> </i></b><span style="font-style:normal"><b>Anti-Racism Discussion Series 200 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span></b></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:9.0pt;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-style:normal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Changing the Public Discourse around Race</span></b></span></span></b></p> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b><u>FORECLOSURE<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b><u>AN URGENT CRISIS FOR TENANTS AND COMMUNITIES<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>February 20, 2008 (Wednesday)<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b>Noon—1:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b>Community Change Library on Racism<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b>14 Beacon Street, Room 605<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; "></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; ">Boston MA 02108</span></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The majority of people being displaced by foreclosures are low-income tenants and it’s becoming a gigantic problem in Boston’s working class neighborhoods where predatory lending is most common. The numbers are staggering, and increasing rapidly. The most affected targeted households consist of women, African American and Latino at every income level. <i>City Life/Vida Urbana</i></span><span style="color:black"> is helping tenants and owners in foreclosed buildings, both victims of subprime loans, save their homes. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Presenter: Roxan McKinnon: Director: <i>City Life/Vida Urbana </i></span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.clvu.org">http://www.clvu.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>LEARN WHAT YOU CAN DO<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>RSVP (617) 523-0555 or <u><a href="mailto:ernestine@communitychangeinc.org">ernestine@communitychangeinc.org</a></u></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 15.3pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 15.3pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The current public discourse around race assumes that we live in a color-blind society where the American Dream is attainable by all individuals who work hard enough. This deeply flawed discourse obscures the racial disparities in employment, education, criminal justice, housing, health care, etc. and provides a powerful but faulty rationale for leaving our systems and institutions the way they are. The issues presented at the Community Change Brown Bag Discussion Series are concrete examples of the structural racism that affects the lives of all, most acutely communities of color. The 2008 Series places these issues in their social/historical context and gives attendees a truthful discourse, as well as ways to put that discourse into action, in order to challenge institutional and systemic racism.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 15.3pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoBodyText2" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Community Change, Inc 617-523-0555 <a href="http://www.communitychangeinc.org/">www.communitychangeinc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->
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