<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-weight: bold; ">Community Change Inc. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""><b></b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""><b>Brown Bag<i> </i></b></span><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""><b>Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2008</b></span></span></span></p> <h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Changing the Discourse around Race</span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "> </span></h2> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""><b><u>UNDOING THE SILENCE:<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""><b><u>Writing for Social Change Action<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans";color:black"><b>MAY 20, 2008 (Tuesday)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans";color:black"><b>Noon—1:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans";color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans";color:black"><b>Community Change Library on Racism<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans";color:black"><b>14 Beacon Street, Room 605<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <h3 align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Sans"">Boston MA 02108<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""> Activist writer and longtime advocate for peace and justice LOUISE DUNLAP will present her book, <u>Undoing the Silence</u>, written to help citizen activists, scholars and professionals use their writing for social change. She will discuss the role structural racism plays in our silencing and how can all of us become more effective voices for transformation.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans";color:black"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>"A valuable, beautifully written resource, this book will certainly inspire and unleash critical thinking and writing for social change - both for activists who never imagined they could be writers and for seasoned writers in need of renewal.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:.25in"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans";color:black"><i>Shamim Meer Activist Writer and Researcher, South Africa<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.</span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""><b>RSVP (617) 523-0555 or <u><a href="mailto:ernestine@communitychangeinc.org">ernestine@communitychangeinc.org</a></u></b></span><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 15.3pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 15.3pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans"">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; "><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoBodyText2" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans"">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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