CARW’s first monthly meeting of 2012 will take place on January 11, 2012!
6-6:30 potluck, 6:30-9 pm organizing meeting
Location: Downtown YMCA Metrocenter, 909 4th Avenue between Marion and Madison

-Come enjoy some community building time and some dinner at 6:00 (bring delicious food!)
-Learn about CARW’s new structures and commitments to you as a white anti-racist organizer
-Learn about CARW’s allyship with our partner organizations and how you can get involved in the movement for Racial Justice, as a white person

Some exciting upcoming allyship opportunities to be involved in through CARW:
-Childcare for a women’s organizing and empowerment group at Casa Latina
-Study group on Filipin@ history and resistance through a white anti-racist/anti-imperialist lens

-Fundraising for Duwamish Tribe to participate in the regional tribal canoe journey
-Tutors for youth from the Seattle Young People’s Project
-Legislative session campaign against E-Verify
-Fundraising and mobilizing for the May 1st March for worker’s and immigrant rights

-New opportunities with Got Green!

This will be a very special meeting and we need you there. CARW’s monthly meeting structure, as well as membership structure is shifting in response to feedback from members over the past two years. These new structures will be introduced at the January meeting. We will also be forming a NEW ally group for our newest partner organization Got Green!, as well as bringing fresh faces into our existing ally groups.

In case you missed my last emails, here is a super brief summary of the most important changes to CARW:

Member-Organizers -we’re thinking of the people who are committed and invested in CARW and organizing with our ally groups as member-organizers now. It’s pretty similar to membership (1 year commitment, financial contribution, commitment to doing some anti-racist training), but member-organizers will also:

-participate in one or more ally group that organizes with a people-of-color led partner organization
-participate in a mentorship relationship with another CARW member-organizer
-create a leadership development plan with year-long goals for organizing skills you’d like to develop

People who are not member-organizers can still participate in CARW activities and ally groups, but they won’t be able to attend….

Member-Organizer Meetings – monthly meetings will be held with member-organizers and people who are thinking about becoming member-organizers only! They will follow roughly the same structure as our past public meetings (potluck, educational portion, organizing portion), but

- the education portion will be more tailored to the needs and interests of our committed group of white anti-racist organizers,
-the ally-group organizing will be able to involve more decision-making and planning,

-there will also be time to do some planning, discussion, and report-backs for the organization as a whole.
There will still be public meetings, but they will happen less frequently, and not on Wednesdays, as an entry point for new people to CARW.

TAKE CARE,
LEAH MONTANGE, from the CARW Organizing Collective

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Please Save-the-Date for King County’s 30th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration!

This year’s theme to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is
Recapturing MLK Jr.’s Revolutionary Spirit!

WHEN: Monday, January 16th, 2012

· Workshops – 9:30 to 11AM
· Rally – 11AM to 12:30 PM
· March – 12:30 PM

WHERE: Garfield High School (23rd and E. Jefferson St, Seattle)

Spread the word!!!!

For more information visit www.mlkseattle.org

Sponsored by the MLK Celebration Committee

Second of all, here’s a reminder: CARW’s first monthly meeting of 2012 will take place on January 11, 2012! 6-9 pm, Metrocenter YMCA (909 4th Ave –
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). This will be a very special meeting and we need you there. CARW’s monthly meeting structure, as well as membership structure is shifting in response to feedback from members over the past two years. These new structures will be introduced at the January meeting. We will also be forming a NEW ally group for our newest partner organization Got Green!, as well as bringing fresh faces into our existing ally groups.

Third of all, thank you to those of you who have emailed me with questions about the upcoming monthly meeting, and changes coming up in CARW. I am happy to answer any questions. In case you missed my last email, here is a super brief summary of the most important changes to CARW (open the attachment for a little more depth):

Member-Organizers -we’re thinking of the people who are committed and invested in CARW and organizing with our ally groups as member-organizers now. It’s pretty similar to membership (1 year commitment, financial contribution, commitment to doing some anti-racist training), but member-organizers will also:

-participate in one or more ally group that organizes with a people-of-color led partner organization
-participate in a mentorship relationship with another CARW member-organizer
-create a leadership development plan with year-long goals for organizing skills you’d like to develop

People who are not member-organizers can still participate in CARW activities and ally groups, but they won’t be able to attend….

Member-Organizer Meetings - monthly meetings will be held with member-organizers and people who are thinking about becoming member-organizers only! They will follow roughly the same structure as our past public meetings (potluck, educational portion, organizing portion), but

- the education portion will be more tailored to the needs and interests of our committed group of white anti-racist organizers,
-the ally-group organizing will be able to involve more decision-making and planning,

-there will also be time to do some planning, discussion, and report-backs for the organization as a whole.
There will still be public meetings, but they will happen less frequently, and not on Wednesdays, as an entry point for new people to CARW.

TAKE CARE,
LEAH MONTANGE, from the CARW Organizing Collective

CARW Strategic Plan Summary.pdf

Hello all, good news! CARW’s first monthly meeting of 2012 will take place on January 11, 2012! 6-9 pm, location TBA. This will be a very special meeting and we need you there. CARW’s monthly meeting structure, as well as membership structure is shifting in response to feedback from members over the past two years. These new structures will be introduced at the January meeting. We will also be forming a NEW ally group for our newest partner organization Got Green!, as well as bringing fresh faces into our existing ally groups.

Some of you might have questions about what the the structural changes to CARW are:

Member-Organizers -we’re thinking of the people who are committed and invested in CARW and organizing with our ally groups as member-organizers now. It’s pretty similar to membership (1 year commitment, financial contribution, commitment to doing some anti-racist training), but member-organizers will also:

-participate in one or more ally group that organizes with a people-of-color led partner organization
-participate in a mentorship relationship with another CARW member-organizer
-create a leadership development plan with year-long goals for organizing skills you’d like to develop

People who are not member-organizers can still participate in CARW activities and ally groups, but they won’t be able to attend….

Member-Organizer Meetings - monthly meetings will be held with member-organizers and people who are thinking about becoming member-organizers only! They will follow roughly the same structure as our past public meetings (potluck, educational portion, organizing portion), but

- the education portion will be more tailored to the needs and interests of our committed group of white anti-racist organizers,
-the ally-group organizing will be able to involve more decision-making and planning,

-there will also be time to do some planning, discussion, and report-backs for the organization as a whole.
There will still be public meetings, but they will happen less frequently, and not on Wednesdays, as an entry point for new people to CARW.

You can read more about the new structures in the word document that is attached to this email, and/or talk to me or another Organizing Collective members who you know if you have questions. We’re asking you to take this step with us, to try it on. If we don’t like it, we’ll be able to change it, but the hope is that this will be a big moment of growth for CARW, and will mark an increase in the commitment, organizing skills, and relationships among anti-racist white folks organizing against institutionalized and structural racism through CARW.

CARW Strategic Plan Summary.pdf

If you are like me, you have been lying awake at night, troubling yourself over what to get those special someones in your life. Well I’ve got an idea that will help deliver some holiday cheer without contributing to the rank consumerism of the masses.

CARW is raising money in support of Seattle Young People’s Project, and we need your help. And we need it today!

In three short days, CARW will have at least two teams bowling on Saturday, December 17 to support the grassroots fundraising efforts of Seattle Young People’s Project. The Seattle Young People’s Project is a youth-led, adult supported social justice organization that empowers youth (ages 13-18) to express themselves and to take action on the issues that affect their lives. Youth organizers are working on an Education Justice campaign, calling out and organizing around school policies and practices that target and disproportionately impact youth of color. Learn more about SYPP’s work here.

Are you willing and able to join our CARW community in supporting SYPP? Whether you can donate oodles of cash or the change between your couch cushions, it all adds up and will help push us over our fundraising goal. Right now we are $4 short of raising $2,000. Can we get to $2,200 in the next two days? Can we get to $2,400?!?

This is a gift that keeps on organizing! Your social justice-minded loved ones will be proud you made a gift in their honor to support grassroots, youth-led organizing in Seattle. And it’ll make me proud to be in this community with such generous people putting our money where our mouths are.

To donate, simply go to http://bit.ly/sACADA and click on the donate link in the middle of the page. Make sure you are supporting Team Ugly Sweaters, as our bowling team will be decked out in, you guessed it ugly sweaters! Please make sure you donate by Saturday, December 17.

Thanks for considering making a contribution to SYPP, it would mean a lot to me and the Ugly Sweaters to have your support.

Our CARW ally group, who supports the work of Pin@y Sa Seattle, is hosting a screening of a documentary called The Enemy on Monday, December 12. We would love to see you!

The Enemy, a film made by a radical all-youth Filipino film collective called Southern Tagalog Exposure, details the effect of 100 years of imperialism and crony capitalism in the Philippines. It’s a great place for interested white anti-racists to start their self-education on the current state of the Philippines, and of the movements toward national democracy going on there right now. We’ll host a short conversation after the film.

The screening is a fundraiser for Pin@y, so we’re asking for donations, everything from $5 to $1000. There will be light refreshments provided, too. Here are the details:

CARW hosting a screening of The Enemy as a benefit for Pin@y Sa Seattle
Monday, December 12
Hosted at the Third Space, in the INScape Building at 815 Airport Way S. in the International District
Doors at 6:30 pm, film starts at 7 pm
$5 and up suggested donation, includes delicious snacks, wine, and non-booze alternatives

If you’d like to attend, or want to know more, please RSVP! We’d like a headcount to plan our refreshments and seating ahead.

(Space is disability-accessible and striving to be fragrance-free, so please no perfumes or essential oils. The Third Space is on the ground floor, back side, at the INScape Building, 815 Airport Way S. Third Space is, conveniently, the third space over on the building’s back side (there will be signs). INScape is south of Uwajimaya, across Airport Way from a Shell Station. By car, it’s best reached by turning from Jackson onto 5th Ave. heading south, away from downtown. Follow 5th Ave. three blocks, then take the soft left onto Airport Way, then an immediate right into the building’s driveway. We have free parking behind the building! By bus, we’re a short walk from the International District tunnel stop.)

Love
Jay and the Pin@y Sa Seattle ally group