<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:8.0pt"><b>Community Change Inc.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><b>Brown Bag<i> </i></b></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><b>Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2009<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Changing the Public Discourse around Race</span></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:80.0pt"><i><u>UNDERSTANDING PALESTINE AND ISRAEL</u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:80.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><b>A FRAMEWORK FOR EQUALITY AND JUSTICE IN THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:80.0pt"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">This presentation will include discussion of rights-based framework for addressing the current impasse and injustice in Palestine and a brief workshop empowering groups interested in justice and equality to use an Anti-Racist framework and language to address this struggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></b></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><b>May 27, 2009 (Wednesday)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><b>12 noon – 1:30 pm<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"><b>Community Change Library on Racism<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"><b>14 Beacon Street, Room 605</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"><b>Boston MA</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 1.8pt; margin-left: 3.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Presenter: <b>Salma Abu Ayyash</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> is a Palestinian born in Jordan. She is co-founder of the Palestinian arts and culture organization <a href="http://www.Tawassul.org">www.Tawassul.org</a> and the Boston Palestine Film Festival and is a local Palestinian rights activist. She is an Electrical Engineer by training. Salma is interested in education and was a high school math and science teacher in the Boston public school system. She currently does freelance Arabic-English translations. Salma is also interested in acting and directing and has been in a couple of small film productions. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; "></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; ">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.</span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:15.3pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; color:black"><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.</span></b></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b>RESERVATIONS REQUIRED!!!</b></span></font></u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b> RSVP (617) 523-0555 or </b></span></font><u><a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b>janet@communitychangeinc.org</b></span></font></a><o:p></o:p></u></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Community Change, Inc 617-523-0555 </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans""><a href="http://www.communitychangeinc.org/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">www.communitychangeinc.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:296.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->
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