The gift that keeps on organizing!
Hello CARW friends and family!
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.
Monday 12/12: movie night in support of Pin@y Sa Seattle
Hi everybody!
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
Join CARW at the SYPP Bowl-a-thon!
Hey CARW!It’s time once again for the annual Bowl-A-Thon to support the Seattle Young People’s Project!
SYPP’s Bowl-a-thon is a youth-organized, grassroots fundraising event that brings together youth, allies, and community members dedicated to supporting youth power and youth activism in Seattle.
Interested in joining the CARW bowling team and raising at least $100 for SYPP? Join us for a planning meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 29 from 5:30-7pm (Capital Hill- rsvp for address). We cover social justice fundraising basics like demystifying how to ask for money, tools to help raise funds, and decide on our team name and costumes. Email (kylackie at gmail dot com) to rsvp for the meeting, ask questions or join the team.
Can’t make it to the meeting but want to be on the team? No problem! Just email to let us know.
Can’t be on the team but want to donate? Great! Watch for another email soon with details about donating or email us.
Blast to the Past:
Classic fashion through the decades
DATE: DECEMBER 17, 2011 Saturday
TIME: 12-6pm
There will be food, fantastic prizes, free t-shirts, and incredible flashbacks to fashion firsts, fits and flops!
Somatics, Trauma, and Social Justice Intensive in Seattle! *Applications due Dec. 11th*
The Capacity Project and Generative Somatics are excited to announce the upcoming
Somatics, Trauma, and Social Justice Intensive
Jan. 20, 21, 22, 9am-5pm, Central District/Seattle, *application required*
This course will introduce somatics as a strategy for addressing the impacts of individual and collective trauma, while organizing for sustainable social change. This body of work was developed by Staci Haines, author of The Survivor’s Guide to Sex and co-founder of Generation Five, an organization committed to ending the sexual abuse of children within five generations. Members of the Generative Somatics teaching team will be facilitating this training as a part of the ongoing somatics and social justice work that The Capacity Project is building in this area. This is a unique opportunity to engage with this work in Seattle, and we hope that you will consider joining us!
This intensive will introduce you to:
- a somatic understanding of how trauma and oppression impact individuals and communities
- body-centered practices for accessing resilience, experiencing mutual connection, boundary setting, centered accountability, and being present amidst deep emotion and transformation
- processes for transforming trauma and oppression in individual and collective bodies through somatic awareness, skills-building and bodywork
More about somatics:
From the Generative Somatics orientation, the aim of healing is to create more choice, more well-being and the ability to take more powerful and effective action in our lives and in the world. We don’t see healing as separate from our participation in our communities, the world, and social change, but rather as an essential part of it.
While somatics as a discipline has historically been used as a vehicle to bring increasing resilience and capacity to the individual body – we believe that this framework can also be used in principle and in practice to inform a deeper understanding of systemic trauma and collective social change, and increase the holistic effectiveness of community organizing and movement building. We recognize that this framework is not only powerful for individuals and groups working on themselves, but has the potential to be a transformative framework for individuals and groups working to change relations of power in the world.
Logistics:
This intensive will be held January 20th, 21st, and 22nd from 9am-5pm in the Central District neighborhood of Seattle (exact location TBA). Participants must attend all three days. Participation is limited and application is required.
The fee for this training is on a sliding scale, from $150-450. We hold a strong commitment to making this training financially accessible, and we will not turn anyone away for inability to pay. Solidarity funds are available for up to the full cost, as needed. Low-income and working class folks are encouraged to apply.
To apply, please fill out the attached application and return it to (seattlesomatics at gmail.com) by Sunday, Dec. 11th. Please include your name in the subject line of your emailand feel free to email with further questions.
Facilitation:
The lead trainers for this intensive will be Generative Somatics teaching team members, Vassilisa Johri, Elizabeth Ross, and Liu Hoi Man, with assistant trainers Briana Herman-Brand and Nathaniel Shara.
This training is being organized by The Capacity Project, which works at the intersection of personal and social transformation to build the capacity and sustainability of individuals, collectives, and organizations doing social movement work. We do this by offering individual and group-based politicized healing work, political education/consciousness raising workshops, and transformative justice education and organizing. For more information about The Capacity Project, email (seattlesomatics at gmail.com)
December Undoing Institutionalized Racism Workshop
| People’s Institute Northwest is holding an Undoing Institutionalized Racism training on Thursday and Friday December 8-9, 2012. Space is still available. Please complete the attached registration form or you can register online at pinwseattle.org. Space is limited so register soon.
If you have any questions, please contact the office at 206-938-1023 or email us at (pinwseattle at yahoo dot com) Thank you, Mimi People’s Institute Northwest |
(pinwseattle at yahoo dot com)
Reading on Working Class Whites Organizing for Racial Justice in the Late 1960′s as Part of the New Left
Come learn about Working Class Whites in the New Left & The Original Rainbow Coalitions
Amy Sonnie and James Tracy discuss their new book:
"Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times"
Saturday, November 12 · 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Eliot bay books
1521 10th Avenue
Seattle, WA
check out this video: http://vimeo.com/31630457
Amy Sonnie and James Tracy present the hidden histories of Jobs Or Income Now Community Union, The Young Patriots, Rising Up Angry, October 4th Organization, and White Lightning.
The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a small group of white college activists and the Black Panthers, activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. Most Americans, the story goes, just watched the political movements of the sixties go by.
Sonnie and Tracy, who have been interviewing activists from the 1960s for nearly ten years, reject this old narrative. In five tightly conceived chapters, they show that poor and working-class whites, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party, started to organize significant political movements against racism and inequality during the 1960s.
Their book explores an untold history the New Left. Challenging the Right for the allegiance of white workers, a diverse network of new political groups helped to redefine community organizing at a pivotal moment in the history of the United States, collaborating with their better known colleagues in SDS and the Black Panthers.
These organizations kept the vision of an interracial movement of the poor alive by working arm in arm with Dr. Martin Luther King and the Puerto Rican Young Lords and, in so doing, gave rise to a generation of community organizers. In the best tradition of people’s history, Tracy and Sonnie bring these diverse and groundbreaking movements alive.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amy Sonnie is an activist, educator and librarian who has worked with U.S. grassroots social justice movements for the past 17 years. She is co-founder of the national Center for Media Justice. Her first book, Revolutionary Voices, an anthology by queer and transgender youth (Alyson Books, 2000), is banned in parts of New Jersey and Texas. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications including the San Franscisco Bay Guardian, Alternet, Philadelphia Inquirer, Clamor, the Oxygen Television Network, Bitch magazine, Area magazine and The Sojourner. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and two Bachelors degrees from Syracuse University in Women’s Studies and Public Communications.
James Tracy is a long-time social justice organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust and has been active in the Eviction Defense Network and the Coalition On Homelessness, SF. He has edited two activist handbooks for Manic D Press The Civil Disobedience Handbook, and The Military Draft Handbook. His articles have appeared in Left Turn, Race Poverty and the Environment, Contemporary Justice Review and the Political Edge, a City Lights Foundation anthology.
Help us develop a plan for racial equity! – Saturday, November 12th from 9 am – 1 pm at the Rainier Community Center
Help us develop a Race and Social Justice Plan!
Please join us on Saturday, November 12th from 9 am to 1 pm at the Rainier Community Center (4600 – 38th Ave South). Come share your ideas on how to end racial inequity in jobs, housing, education, and other areas. We want to hear from you. The event will be an opportunity to share the work the City’s Race and Social Justice Initiative to date, and for you to provide your input in developing a three-year work plan for the City of Seattle.
· What should the City’s priorities be in racial equity?
· What opportunities exist for Partnership between the City and community?
Help us create a Seattle that has opportunity and equity for all!
Free childcare and food will be provided. (interpretation provided upon request). RSVP at www.seattle.gov/rsji
We will also be providing tables for organizations to share information and resources. limited space available, please register at www.seattle.gov/rsji
If you have questions, please contact Maria Rodriguez at 206-684-0548, or email (maria.rodriguez at seattle dot gov)
(At this link ( http://www.seattle.gov/rsji/planningEvent.htm ) are flyers in English and translated into Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya, and Oromo)
Learn more about the Race and Social Justice Initiative, including a short video, at www.seattle.gov/rsji
Glenn Harris
Race and Social Justice Initiative Manager
Seattle Office for Civil Rights
810 Third Avenue, Suite 750
Seattle, WA 98104
Exciting Updates from SURJ/US for All of Us
Hello CARW folks,
Below is the latest news from Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), formerly U.S. for All of Us. I am a member of the leadership team and represent CARW nationally on this network.
Take care,
Scott Winn
Organizing Collective, CARW
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El Comite’s Haunted House this weekend
El Comité Pro-Reforma Migratoria y Justicia Social Presents:
Scary Haunted House
2021 S. Weller St, Seattle WA 98144
Oct. 29-30, 2011
4-9pm
Adults: $7
Youth/Kids: $5
Bring your whole family! We will have games for children, music, art, poetry, and food. This event is organized to fund-raise for our community organizing work. Please support immigrant-led organizing.
We also need volunteers, artists, poets to make this event successful. For more information please contact maria or 206-3563500.
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El Comité Pro-Reforma Migratoria y Justicia Social Presenta:
2011 Casa de Espantos
2021 S. Weller St, Seattle WA 98144
Oct. 29-30, 2011
4-9pm
Adultos: $7
Jovenes/Niños: $5
Traigan a toda su familia! Vamos a tener juegos para niños, música, arte, poesía, y comida. Este evento es para recaudar fondos para nuestro trabajo comunitario. Por favor apoyenos!
También necesitamos voluntarios, artistas, y poetas. Para mas información contacte a maria o 206-356-3500.
antiracism and occupy seattle
Many of us are thinking about the Occupy Wall Street movement, and much has been written and said about the lack of anti-racism within this movement. This has even prevented many people from getting involved.
Here is an excellent article from Colorlines that specifically addresses the issue of why antiracism is essential within Occupy Atlanta.
Here is an open letter to Occupy Wall Street, calling for a decolonization of the movement.
On Sunday at 3pm in Westlake Park there will be a workshop/discussion about why antiracism needs to be central in social movements, including Occupy Seattle.
-Leah Montange
