<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;font-family:Arial">Community Change Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Brown Bag<i> </i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2009<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Changing the Public Discourse around Race</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Daily Life in Palestine and the Assault on Gaza</span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">A Report Back/Discussion from a Visit to Israel and the West Bank:</span></b></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b> February 11, 2009 (Wednesday)</b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>12 noon – 1:30 pm<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><b>Community Change Library on Racism<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><b>14 Beacon Street, Room 605, Boston MA 02108 </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><b>(Park Street T Stop, walk up hill toward State House to Beacon Street. Turn right, walk down Beacon to #14 (about 1/2 block)</b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial">Last October Jean Entine and Susan Jacoby were part of a delegation from Boston who planned to attend an international health and human rights conference in Gaza. The Israeli government denied participants entry into Gaza; however, the conference, co-sponsored by the World Health Organization, went on anyway, via video link between Gaza and Ramallah. Boston activists organized a successful press conference in Jerusalem and others organized a large protest at the Gaza checkpoint. Jean and Sue will share their experiences in Israel and the West Bank and discuss the impact of Israel’s most recent assault on Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial">Jean Entine is a member of the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace and Susan is active in both the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights and Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/Palestine. Susan has traveled to the region four times. This was the first trip for Jean.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">CCI prepares a list of resources for further research on the Brown Bag topics. Here is the URL for the resource list for “Daily Life in Palestine and the Assault on Gaza:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT"><a href="http://www.communitychangeinc.org/ResourcesIsrael-PalestineConflict.pdf"><span style="color:#1907F1">http://www.communitychangeinc.org/ResourcesIsrael-PalestineConflict.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">check it out.</span><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:15.3pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">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 2009 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.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><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;font-family:Arial"><b>RSVP (617) 523-0555 or </b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b><u><a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org"><span style="font-family:Arial">janet@communitychangeinc.org</span></a></u></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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:Arial">www.communitychangeinc.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment-->
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