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<div>Community Change, Inc.</div><div>Brown Bag Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2009</div><div><i>Changing the Public Discourse around Race</i></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">Please join us for a</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><b>COMMUNITY CONVERSATION<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">RACISM THRIVES</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><u>IN A <i>“POST-RACIAL” </i></u></b><span style="font-style:normal"><u><b>SOCIETY<o:p></o:p></b></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>July 29, 2009 (Wednesday)<o:p></o:p></b></p><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</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Boston MA 02139</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">On Thursday July 16, noted Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested at his home in Cambridge after a Cambridge police officer, alerted to a possible break-in at the house, appeared at the professor’s front door and demanded to see his identification. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"> Please join Community Change staff and friends for a community conversation about this and other recent events<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(such as what happened at the Valley Swim Club) that demonstrate, unequivocally, that racism is alive and hurting children, adults, and communities in the age of Obama. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;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</span><span style="color:black">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:15.3pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:15.3pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><b>Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u>RSVP REQUIRED</u> (617) 523-0555 or <u><a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org">janet@communitychangeinc.org</a><o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Community Change, Inc 617-523-0555 <span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans""><a href="http://www.communitychangeinc.org/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">www.communitychangeinc.org</span></a></span> visit us on FACEBOOK!<o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></body></html>