<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:center"><div style="text-align: auto;">The Community Change RAPID RESPONSE TEAM invites you to find out how you can ACTIVELY fight racism</div></p> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, November 12, 2008</div> <div class="MsoNormal">6:00 -8:30 pm</div> <div class="MsoNormal">YWCA Building</div> <div class="MsoNormal">140 Clarendon Street, 2<sup>nd</sup> Floor</div> <div class="MsoNormal">Boston MA</div><div class="MsoNormal">(one block from the Orange Line Back Bay Station)</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Enjoy</div> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Good food</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Great company</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Inspiring testimonials by organizers and current team members</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">The celebration of possibility through learning about upcoming antiracist action opportunities</li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><u>What is The Rapid Response Team?<o:p></o:p></u></div> <div class="MsoNormal">We’re a group of individuals in the Greater Boston area who take action against structural racism by following the leadership of people of color organizing for social justice. We participate in protests and rallies, write letters to editors, lobby our legislators, and more. The Rapid Response Team is a project of Community Change, Inc. (CCI), a Boston-based nonprofit organization that has served as a hub of anti-racist learning and action for 40 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><u>The Purpose<o:p></o:p></u></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Our purpose is twofold: 1) To support and to stand in solidarity with people of color and communities of color who are directly affected by structural racism; 2) To improve public understanding of this still-rampant phenomenon by catalyzing antiracist action. </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">REGISTER FOR THIS ENERGIZING, ACTION-ORIENTED EVENT BY NOVEMBER 8!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>send an email to: <a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org">janet@communitychangeinc.org</a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">More info at <a href="http://www.communitychangeinc.org/RRTeam.html">www.communitychangeinc.org/RRTeam.html</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">BECAUSE RACISM<u> REALLY</u> SUCKS!</p> <!--EndFragment-->
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