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  RACISM  ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS and WEBSITES AWARE-LA - Saturday Dialogue  - (zoom) - https://www.awarela.org/saturday-dialogue Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere-Los Angeles (L.A. - SURJ Chapter) (Western Time) First Saturday Dialogue - 10:30am - 12:45pm, Third Sunday Dialogue - 3:00pm - 5:00pm, Fourth Saturday Dialogue - 1:00pm - 3:00pm Saturday Dialogue  is a gathering for white anti-racists who want to discuss issues of identity, community, privilege and racism in our lives with the intention to strengthen our practice as anti-racists in alliances, relationships, and interactions with people of color. Regular, recurring dialogues throughout the year focus on the intersections of multiple identities, including Race and Class, Sexuality and Race, and Gender and Race. Other workshops focus on relationships, Radical White Identity and Community, and issues such as police and the prison i...

  Today is the 81 st birthday of Leonard Peltier. On June 26, 1975, FBI Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams were murdered by Leonard Peltier at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In 1977, Peltier was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison.  https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/resmurs-case-reservation-murders Leonard Peltier  (born September 12, 1944,  Grand Forks ,  North Dakota , U.S.) is a  Native American  (mostly  Ojibwa ) activist who, after becoming one of the best-known  indigenous  rights activists in  North America , was convicted in 1977 of having murdered two  Federal Bureau of Investigation  (FBI) agents. His case became a cause célèbre after the irregularities in his  extradition  and trial came to light, and his supporters consider him a  political prisoner . His supporters spent decades lobbying for  parole ...

  Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under The Color of Law , Richard and Leah Rothstein’s 2023 book is an important book – deeply relevant - today!    The intensifying dangers of Fascism clearly point our failures to seriously confront Racism over the past months, years and decades (and beyond).    The Rothsteins- Father and Daughter - together make real many of the ways we need to deal both structurally, as well as locally in case specific ways, at housing and schools and more. A simple example of the relevancy of this book is the last paragraph: High quality, middle-class black communities do exist and are attractive places for those who can afford them.    But as they become attractive to middle income blacks, middle income whites and other ethnic groups tend to follow . (p.259) The Rothsteins point out both how a lot of what they suggest is: “win-win” and how (generally) white, often wealthy/ upper-middle class resistance ma...

  Why Racists Anonymous Bothers Me https://www.reckonwith.org/people#advisor_ecosystem Racists Anonymous  is a support group founded in 2015, based on the  Alcoholics Anonymous  model. [1]  The group was created by  Sunnyvale, California   United Church of Christ  pastor Ron Buford over his frustration with typical attempts to deal with race issues, which merely either left him feeling angry or white participants leaving feeling guilty.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racists_Anonymous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm_U3Be8nPE -- My knowledge about Racists Anonymous is limited to what I’ve learned over the past hour, starting with curiosity that I had coming from Reckon With ’s page which listed him, finding the Wikipedia link quoted above and finally listening to the YouTube interview with Pastor Buford. I want to admit some of my biases related to the issues that come up for me including: 1.)    AA – related 12...