<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Community Change Inc.</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Brown Bag</font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></i></b><span style="font-style:normal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2008</font></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style:normal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Changing the Public Discourse around Race</font></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">THE “WRIGHT PROBLEM” IS A “WHITE PROBLEM”</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">The Mainstream Press Reacts to the Audacity of Truth</font></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Join CCI staff & friends for a discussion of the full text* of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright’s speech to the National Press Club on April 28, 2008 and the distortions of mainstream (white) press. Bring your thoughts, questions, comments, and ideas on actions for change!</span></b></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">MAY 8, 2008 (Thursday)</font></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Noon—1:30 p.m.</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Community Change Library on Racism</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">14 Beacon Street, Room 605</font></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Boston MA 02108</font></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">*</font><span style="color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-wrighttranscript-04282008,0,3593201.story">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-wrighttranscript-04282008,0,3593201.story</a></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold; ">Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.</span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">RSVP (617) 523-0555 or </font><u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org">janet@communitychangeinc.org</a></font></u></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 15.3pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 15.3pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">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.</font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 15.3pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:13.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Community Change: 617-523-0555</font><span style="mso-tab-count: 6"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">www.communitychangeinc.org</font><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->
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