Rose, Susana, Nahren, and Victoria we hope that you have an amazing birthday month and get lots of love and warmth sent your way! I made sure that you're all off the hotline and medical.
much love,
The Volunteer Team
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Jobs
Instituto Familiar de la Raza
Chicano-Latino Family Resource System Manager
Mission Housing
Development Accountant
Resident Services Coordinator - Senior Buildings
Columbia Park Boys and Girls Clubs
Positions Open
Youth Comission
Youth Advocacy Coordinator
Chicano-Latino Family Resource System Manager
Mission Housing
Development Accountant
Resident Services Coordinator - Senior Buildings
Columbia Park Boys and Girls Clubs
Positions Open
Youth Comission
Youth Advocacy Coordinator
Embody Your Allyship
Embody Your Allyship
Open House
for White Racial Justice Allies
Sunday, December 13
12 noon-3:00 PM in Temescal (North Oakland)
Suggested Donation: $25
Once we know what we are responsible for as white anti-racist allies, why is it often so hard to follow through?
Why, despite our best intentions, do we freeze up when it's time to speak up and educate other white folks, or hold back when it's time to challenge systemic racism? Why do we get defensive when it's time to listen to people of color?
At this Open House, we will learn about how an embodied approach to allyship can support creative & connected racial justice responses when we find ourselves off balance. We will discuss individual and collective blocks to effective white racial justice action. Participants will also learn some simple, effective tools that support practical white allyship.
Facilitator bio:
Vanissar Tarakali, Ph.D. is a healer and teacher who designs embodied healing oppression and allyship trainings and interventions for individuals and groups. She is passionate about supporting folks with privilege to unlearn oppression and use their privilege for social justice. The former Healing Oppression Project co-lead at Community United Against Violence (CUAV), Vanissar studies Generative Somatics with Staci Haines and Denise Benson, and intuitive reading with Phyllis Pay.
Please contact Vanissar at (510) 594-6812 or vanissar@cs.com for more information
Open House
for White Racial Justice Allies
Sunday, December 13
12 noon-3:00 PM in Temescal (North Oakland)
Suggested Donation: $25
Once we know what we are responsible for as white anti-racist allies, why is it often so hard to follow through?
Why, despite our best intentions, do we freeze up when it's time to speak up and educate other white folks, or hold back when it's time to challenge systemic racism? Why do we get defensive when it's time to listen to people of color?
At this Open House, we will learn about how an embodied approach to allyship can support creative & connected racial justice responses when we find ourselves off balance. We will discuss individual and collective blocks to effective white racial justice action. Participants will also learn some simple, effective tools that support practical white allyship.
Facilitator bio:
Vanissar Tarakali, Ph.D. is a healer and teacher who designs embodied healing oppression and allyship trainings and interventions for individuals and groups. She is passionate about supporting folks with privilege to unlearn oppression and use their privilege for social justice. The former Healing Oppression Project co-lead at Community United Against Violence (CUAV), Vanissar studies Generative Somatics with Staci Haines and Denise Benson, and intuitive reading with Phyllis Pay.
Please contact Vanissar at (510) 594-6812 or vanissar@cs.com for more information
CUAV's Safety Lab
Bay Area: Join CUAV for our first Safety Lab!
WHEN: 12/8 7:00pm-9:00pm (food at 6:30pm)
WHERE: CUAV - 170 A Capp Street, San Francisco (take BART to 16th Street Mission)
WHAT: Let's practice what we want to see in the world! Using scenarios of violence in our communities, we will work together to create and act out new ways of responding to anti-LGBTSTGNC hate violence that can create true safety, accountability, and healing. CUAV will host regular Safety Labs to offer a space to practice community responses to different forms of violence. This first Safety Lab is co-sponsored by the El/La Program Para TransLatinas in San Francisco.
HOW: RSVP to stacy@cuav.org or call (415) 777-5500 x316. Interpretation available.
We are mourning the tragic deaths of 15-year-old African American Jaysen Mattison in Baltimore and 19-year-old Puerto Rican Jorge Steven López Mercado in Puerto Rico, and the countless others we have lost to hate violence. Our sorrow and outrage go out to their families and communities: we know Jaysen and Jorge were taken from you too soon. We recognize that there is a war against low-income, immigrant, and LGBTSTGNC (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two- Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming) People of Color, and that our people are meeting early deaths at the hands of hatred, abuse, neglect, and oppression.
Unfortunately, the recent passing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the nation’s first ever federal LGBTSTGNC-inclusive hate crimes bill, will not stop the violence we face. The bill:
• Provides no funding or resources to actually prevent violence, but instead gives $5 million to expand the powers of local police and the FBI to investigate and prosecute incidences of hate violence.
• Strengthens a criminal “justice” system that funnels more and more poor people and people of color into prisons and away from our families.
• Supports the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the larger Defense Authorization Act, which allocated $130 billion to military efforts instead of to education, jobs, housing, and healthcare.
• Reaffirms the idea that safety comes through more police and more people in prison, instead of by addressing the real needs of survivors of violence, people who have been violent, and the communities affected.
We believe that we can create our own safety. We desire and demand solutions that challenge the real causes of violence: homophobia, transphobia, and economic injustice. As we demand the basic necessities that we need to survive—jobs, housing, healthcare, and education—we know that we must create real ways for communities to respond to and prevent violence without relying on violent institutions. We refuse to have our pain used to support violence of any kind.
WHEN: 12/8 7:00pm-9:00pm (food at 6:30pm)
WHERE: CUAV - 170 A Capp Street, San Francisco (take BART to 16th Street Mission)
WHAT: Let's practice what we want to see in the world! Using scenarios of violence in our communities, we will work together to create and act out new ways of responding to anti-LGBTSTGNC hate violence that can create true safety, accountability, and healing. CUAV will host regular Safety Labs to offer a space to practice community responses to different forms of violence. This first Safety Lab is co-sponsored by the El/La Program Para TransLatinas in San Francisco.
HOW: RSVP to stacy@cuav.org or call (415) 777-5500 x316. Interpretation available.
We are mourning the tragic deaths of 15-year-old African American Jaysen Mattison in Baltimore and 19-year-old Puerto Rican Jorge Steven López Mercado in Puerto Rico, and the countless others we have lost to hate violence. Our sorrow and outrage go out to their families and communities: we know Jaysen and Jorge were taken from you too soon. We recognize that there is a war against low-income, immigrant, and LGBTSTGNC (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two- Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming) People of Color, and that our people are meeting early deaths at the hands of hatred, abuse, neglect, and oppression.
Unfortunately, the recent passing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the nation’s first ever federal LGBTSTGNC-inclusive hate crimes bill, will not stop the violence we face. The bill:
• Provides no funding or resources to actually prevent violence, but instead gives $5 million to expand the powers of local police and the FBI to investigate and prosecute incidences of hate violence.
• Strengthens a criminal “justice” system that funnels more and more poor people and people of color into prisons and away from our families.
• Supports the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the larger Defense Authorization Act, which allocated $130 billion to military efforts instead of to education, jobs, housing, and healthcare.
• Reaffirms the idea that safety comes through more police and more people in prison, instead of by addressing the real needs of survivors of violence, people who have been violent, and the communities affected.
We believe that we can create our own safety. We desire and demand solutions that challenge the real causes of violence: homophobia, transphobia, and economic injustice. As we demand the basic necessities that we need to survive—jobs, housing, healthcare, and education—we know that we must create real ways for communities to respond to and prevent violence without relying on violent institutions. We refuse to have our pain used to support violence of any kind.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Job Announcements: SAGE & LYRIC
SAGE:
Trafficking Case Manager
Peer Counselor Intake Specialist for Boys
LYRIC
Program Director for Social Change
Development Director
Trafficking Case Manager
Peer Counselor Intake Specialist for Boys
LYRIC
Program Director for Social Change
Development Director