<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Community Change, Inc</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Brown Bag Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2008</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Challenging Structural Racism since 1968</i></div></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><br></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u>UNNATURAL CAUSES:<o:p></o:p></u></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><u>IN SICKNESS AND IN WEALTH<o:p></o:p></u></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>A FILM SCREENING & COMMUNITY CONVERSATION<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>October 29, 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<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Boston MA </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>In Sickness and in Wealth </b><span style="font-weight:normal">explores the connections between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts, and skin color. Four individuals from different walks of life demonstrate how one’s position in society – shaped by social policies and public priorities – affects health. We see how racial inequality imposes an additional risk burden on people of color. Solutions focus not on more pills but on more equitable social policies. </span><b>In Sickness and in Wealth, </b><span style="font-weight:normal">56 minutes long,</span><b> </b><span style="font-weight:normal">is the first part of the series </span><b>Unnatural Causes…Is Inequality Making Us Sick? </b><span style="font-weight:normal">a four-hour documentary exploring racial and socioeconomic inequities in health. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/">http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><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></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:janet@communitychangeinc.org">janet@communitychangeinc.org</a><o:p></o:p></u></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><u> <o:p></o:p></u></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Community Change, Inc 617-523-0555 <span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans""><a href="http://www.communitychangeinc.org/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">www.communitychangeinc.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></div> <!--EndFragment-->
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