Community Change Inc.
 Kicking Off Our Fall Discussion Series

CCI is on the move as we kick off our fall evening discussion series October 2, 2014, at the Irish International Immigrant Center. We hope you come out to join us for an evening of lively discussion as we grapple with the state of race relations in our country, looking back through the years and pondering our future. We also have other events scheduled for October (two of them featured at right), and we hope to see you soon!

 

50 Years of Reflections from the Civil Rights Act to Ferguson, Missouri

Join us for a panel discussion with CCI's board of directors, reflecting on 50 years of movement work as board members share their own insights, observations, experiences, and efforts over those decades. We will ponder where we are as a nation when it comes to matters of race and where we need to go. This panel kicks off our fall series and is also for gathering and reconnecting with CCI staff, board and friends (old and new). 

 

Where & When: 

Thursday, October 2, 2014

6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Irish International Immigrant Center

100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA

 

This discussion will be facilitated by our executive director, Shay Stewart-Bouley, and is an opportunity to connect with CCI

RSVP to kelly@communitychangeinc.org  

 

Our Panelists are:  

Antonieta Gimeno
Antonieta has worked for more than three decades as community organizer and educator addressing racial, gender/sexuality, and class disparities as human rights issues. She supports the leadership of low-income women and girls, people of color, LGBT, youth, and immigrants in their efforts to achieve justice. As an educator and organizer she believes in the power of art and writing as tools for radical social change and healing. She uses the Theatre of the Oppressed techniques and currently facilitates theater workshops for survivors of sexual assault and immigrant women, creating performances based on their stories. Among other things, Antonieta is a member of the Network of Immigrants and African Americans in Solidarity (NIAAS) and a board member of CCI.
Meck Groot
Meck has been working for racial justice in various ways for nearly 30 years. She spent many years as co-director of the Women's Theological Center, which developed a spiritual leadership model for supporting transformation internally, interpersonally, institutionally, and culturally. She has been on the CCI board for about five years and is a Drylongso Award recipient. She currently serves as operations director and justice ministries lead for the New England Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Chris Messinger
Chris is executive director of Boston Mobilization, a community-based organization that has worked against what Dr. Martin Luther King called "the Triple Evils" (racism, materialism, militarism) for more than 30 years. Currently the home of the Sub/Urban Justice Program, Boston Mobilization works primarily with teens and young adults to support community organizing, social justice education, and regional anti-oppression networking. Chris has been on the CCI board since 2006.
Ernestine Washington
A native of Boston and a recently appointed CCI board member (as well as a former CCI staff member), Ernestine has a long history of working for social change and justice.  She holds a master's degree in intercultural relations with a focus on deaf culture from Lesley University. Ernestine has worked many campaigns on behalf of CCI such as healthcare reform, CORI reform, and affirmative action. A product of the early 60's, Ernestine has always participated in civil rights activities even during her tenure in the travel industry, retiring when her son became a teenager in 1992. Since then she has been an advocate, supporter, and volunteer with DEAF Inc. located in Brighton MA. Some of her other work includes contributing time to Project Aftershock to work with veterans and their families and serving as an advance attitudinal trainer for STRIVE Inc.
Community Change Inc.
14 Beacon Street, Suite 605
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
info@communitychangeinc.org
(617) 523-0555
SEP 26, 2014
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Other October Happenings:

On Being a White Novelist
A talk by Cathy Jacobowitz about her journey toward racial self-awareness, why she chooses to write about characters of color, and the ways in which institutional racism plays out in contemporary fiction by white authors. Cathy is a  
Boston writer and member of the Knapsack discussion meet-up hosted by CCI. Her novel The One-Way Rain has been called "the most comprehensive and non-offensive racially conscious dystopian book that I have ever read" by Kayla Ancrum, author of the essay "How to Write Men of Color and Women of Color if You Are White." Copies of the book will be on sale at the event, with the full purchase price going to CCI.

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014

6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Community Change Inc.
14 Beacon Street
Room 605
Boston, MA


BROWN BAG

Domestic Violence and Cultural Competency

 

One of our monthly Brown Bag events, featuring Robert Le from the Asian American Task Force Against Domestic Violence, who will come and talk about the impact of systemic racism on survivors of domestic violence, as well as the structural barriers that prevent survivors, especially people of color, from receiving adequate care. He will also explore in discussion the importance of cultural competency of social workers in working with domestic violence victims from different cultures, as well as the difficulties that white social workers have in working across racial and cultural lines, and the importance of understanding systemic racism in that work.  

 

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Community Change Inc.
 14 Beacon Street
Room 605
Boston, MA


For More Information...

...about the above events,

contact Kelly@communitychangeinc.org or  info@communitychangeinc.org