<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-indent: -24px;"><b><br></b></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">Community Change, Inc.</span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">Antiracism Brown Bag Discussion Series</span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">CCI Challenging Structural Racism since 1968</span></font></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:80.0pt">Come meet some of Boston’s top authorities on the Palestine/Israel conflict, learn the history, ask questions, and hear stories from the occupied territories in our series<i> Understanding Palestine and Israel.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:80.0pt"><b><u>UNDERSTANDING PALESTINE AND ISRAEL: <o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:80.0pt"><b><u>HISTORY MATTERS</u><o:p></o:p></b></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">The first in our series, HISTORY MATTERS will cover the origin and evolution of the conflict, highlighting the pre-and post 1948 war up to the present, including the emergence of Hamas’s dispute with the Palestinian Authority and its Fatah component. The two-state and one-state solutions will be explained and evaluated. Woven into the talk will be the impact of the conflict on the development of racism and discriminatory acts against Arabs and Muslims in this country.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>March 25, 2009 (Wednesday)</b></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>12 noon – 1:30 pm<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><b>Community Change Library on Racism<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><b>14 Beacon Street, Room 605<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <h3><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Boston MA 02108<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-9.0pt"> Presenter: ELAINE C. HAGOPIAN: Professor Emerita of Sociology, Simmons College, Boston. She was Visiting Professor and Distinguished Lecturer at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo respectively. She served with UNESCO and UNICEF in the Middle East. She was awarded two Fulbright-Hays Faculty research Grants for research in the Middle East.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-9.0pt"><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:15.3pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:black">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 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><b> <u>SEATING IS LIMITED: RSVP REQUIRED (617) 523-0555</u> or <u><a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org">janet@communitychangeinc.org</a></u></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:15.3pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:black"><br></span></p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->
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