WAYS to LEARN ABOUT and WORK AGAINST RACISM

Multi-session workshop on Real Talk: Communication Strategies for a White Anti-Racist

Welcome Wagon led by Anti-Oppression Resource Training Alliance (http://aorta.coop) First
session is Oct 27 at 5:30pm. Sliding scale/registration
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4775437

Resources from SURJ for holiday conversations in the form of placemats!

https://www.surjbayarea.org/blog/surj-holiday-resources-for-difficult-conversations

Attend a Blount County United meeting Sat. Oct. 24 at 1pm. For more information, contact
ramaloha@hotmail.com or we41602@aol.com. Join monthly meeting of Alcoa/Blount branch
of NAACP Sat. Oct. 24 at 11:45am. Link for both: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7704285423

Check out this toolkit from SURJ to help us have conversations with people who are echoing
concerns about 'violence' and property damage as reasons not to join racial justice
efforts. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BQVqLVl-
3zVb0VcsOZB7JKVaVsHIlyjwM6cvdcqWHaI/edit?fbclid=IwAR1ZaD5G9eszfYFtVNwk1eKF89
gxBMuonNetMIwF0WFPVKIU779CTCxzADs

Watch this powerful 5-minute film

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCl6TS5zBIw&feature=emb_title
to learn about the fight for the return of the Black Hills. This film also uplifts the
disproportionate rates of imprisonment of Indigenous people and connections between
#LandBack and the Movement for Black Lives.

Listen to this 4-minute radio piece about African American religious thought and the
impact of religion on the Black Lives Matter Movement. https://www.wuot.org/post/spirit-
guide-larry-perry-religion-and-black-lives-matter-movement

Black Stories Matter Season 2 begins Oct 28 featuring underrepresented stories of the Black
experience in America – the full spectrum – the triumphs, humor, beauty, and resilience.
Register tmiproject.salsalabs.org/everywordspoken (Season 1
https://www.tmiproject.org/podcast/)

Columbus in America is a comprehensive film on the history of Columbus and the uses
and abuses of the so-called discovery of America. Free access here:
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/columbus-in-america-2/

Register for a webinar hosted by El Refugio in partnership with Green Meadow United
Methodist Church about how the U.S. immigration system works. Session 1 takes place
on Monday, October 19 at 6:30 pm EST. Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83744896863?pwd=SjdxckduaVlyaWpqbStEM2h0dnpGdz09

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A publication of Blount County Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) October 2020