<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Community Change, Inc.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Brown Bag Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2009</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><i>Changing the Public Discourse around Race</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><p align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><b>Please join us for a</b></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>COMMUNITY CONVERSATION</b></font></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> <u><b>RACISM THRIVES</b></u></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><u style=""><b style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;">IN A </span></b></u><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">“POST-RACIAL” </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">SOCIETY</span></b></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>July 29, 2009 (Wednesday)</b></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>12 noon – 1:30 pm</b></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Community Change Library on Racism</b></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>14 Beacon Street, Room 605</b></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Boston MA 02139</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> 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.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> Please join Community Change staff and friends for a community conversation about this and other recent events (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. </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">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</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.</span></font></div><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><u><b>RSVP REQUIRED</b></u><b> (617) 523-0555 or </b><a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org"><font color="#1907f1" style="color: #1907f1"><u><b>janet@communitychangeinc.org</b></u></font></a></font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Community Change, Inc 617-523-0555 <a href="http://www.communitychangeinc.org/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#1907f1" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; color: #1907f1">www.communitychangeinc.org</font></a> visit us on FACEBOOK!</font></p>
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