<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>Community Change Inc.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>Brown Bag<i> </i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2008<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Changing the Public Discourse around Race</span></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><u>SHIRLEY CHISHOLM<o:p></o:p></u></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><u>ARCHITECT OF CHANGE IN MODERN AMERICA<o:p></o:p></u></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>October 15, 2008 (Wednesday) <o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>12 noon – 1:30 pm<o:p></o:p></b></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"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b>Boston MA 02108</b></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b>Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 presidential campaign was an unprecedented accomplishment.</b></span><span style="color:black"> This Brown Bag opens with a power point on Shirley, a brief presentation of the critical issues of the early ‘70’s, followed by the factual documentary, <u>CHISHOLM 72<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Unbought & Unbossed</u>. During these politically controversial times of corporate movements, women’s equal rights issues, and the issues of black America and the Vietnam war, Shirley Chisholm rose to the occasion to become <i>The Architect and Catalyst of Change in Modern America</i></span><span style="color:black">. We will then explore how and why Shirley Chisholm’s groundbreaking, glass-ceiling shattering presidential campaign is ignored by the main stream media’s discussion of celebrity politics and the current presidential race.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b>Presenter: </b></span><span style="color:black">Joseph Edgecombe, Urban Cultural/Historical-Political Architect, is an educational activist scholar, architectural historian, technologist, and organizational business practitioner. He has participated on urban/sustainable and economic/community development committees and conferences in Greater Boston and has also traveled doing cultural-documentary research on other cities such as Washington DC and Post-Katrina New Orleans Louisiana. He currently hosts the website factxcahnge.com. In 2004 his commentary “One Hundred All-Time Greatest People of African Dissent” was published in NEW AFRICA magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">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.</span></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><b>Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>RSVP (617) 523-0555 or <u><a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org">janet@communitychangeinc.org</a><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b><u> <o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Community Change, Inc 617-523-0555 </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans""><a href="http://www.communitychangeinc.org/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">www.communitychangeinc.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment-->
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