<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">While we celebrate a great victory, we know there is more to do.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">We must keep demanding racial equality in education...</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">YES, WE CAN!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">...in health care....</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">YES, WE CAN!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">...in employment, housing, criminal justice...</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">YES, WE CAN!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">With renewed optimism and hope</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">COMMUNITY CHANGE invites you to find out how you can ACTIVELY fight racism</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Wednesday, November 12, 2008</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">6:00-8:00 pm</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">YWCA Building</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">140 Clarendon Street, 2nd floor</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Boston MA</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Enjoy</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal">Good food<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Great company<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Inspiring testimonials by organizers and current team members<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">The celebration of possibility through learning about upcoming antiracist action opportunities</li></ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">What is the Rapid Response Team?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">We’re a group of individuals in the Greater Boston area who take action against structural racism when it rears its ugly head. We participate in protests and rallies, write letters to the editor, 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=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></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 impacted by structural racism; 2) To improve public understanding of this still-rampant phenomenon by catalyzing antiracist action.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">REGISTER BY NOVEMBER 10!<span> </span>send an email to: <a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org">janet@communitychangeinc.org</a><o:p></o:p></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><o:p></o:p></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>
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