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Dear ARC-C Community,
We hope this finds you each well this new year! Please save-the-dates and join us at these upcoming Anti-Racism Coalition of Cazenovia meetings: UPCOMING EVENTS Our ARC-C January Event, “What Is Critical Race Theory? What Does It Mean for Me?” is coming up: Thursday January 20, 2022 from 7:00-8:30 PM!! A current political dividing line involves being against — or for — Critical Race Theory (CRT), particularly in our schools. Join us for a conversation about CRT: we’ll work to distinguish CRT as a wedge issue and as a legal framework for understanding the relationships between race, racism, and power. Our goal will be to understand more about what this theory is (and is not) and what that might mean for each of us and for our schools. Please come and invite your friends! Click here to register and to receive the Zoom Link for January 20, 7PM Event Read, Watch, Listen, Engage One or more of these linked resources may help you prepare for our CRT discussion:
ARC-C will continue a year-round commitment to Black Life. We’ll launch reading groups (for adult and youth) on Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning or Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You; our February monthly meeting will feature collaboration with Caz High School students who’ve created proposals for bringing Cazenovia abolition/antiracism history to life; we’ll begin the CNY Abolition Study Group designed by the Abolition Journal (described below), and more! Stay tuned! Join in the CNY Abolition Study Group (register early -- begins Sunday, Feb 20) What does it mean to be an abolitionist in 2022? Advocates describe it as both a dismantling and world-building work to create communities that are just and safe, that are free of prisons and police. It's a bold vision that abolitionists say requires complete community transformation and, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore states, "building life-affirming institutions." This study group is titled "Together We Lift the Sky" and is designed by the Abolition Journal. It offers a seven-session study group guide for people who are new to abolition. Our group will meet every third Sunday, from 3:00-4:30 PM EST beginning on February 20th (and then on 3/13, 4/3, 4/24, 5/15, 6/5, and 6/26); reading prep (podcasts, short essays, videos etc) will require up to 5 hours of reading and reflection per session. Register now and share with others who are interested in learning about abolition and antiracist community building! ARC-C NEWS Check out our new ARC-C Website ! See what we are up to there — and coalition with us! ARC-C Steering Committee and Subcommittee Brief Updates ARC-C has been invited to present Anti-Racism Recommendations to the Cazenovia Town Board at the January meeting. ARC-C has consolidated its sub-committee structure into two central sub-Committees: 1.) Education (Public Schools & Community) and History Sub-Committee and 2.) Town Culture, Police Reform, and Policy Sub-Committee. If you’d like to join one of these, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Please Continue to Support Clary Middle School in Syracuse! ARC-C Member and Clary Teacher, Allison Enders, sends deep thanks to the ARC-C community for supporting Clary students last spring as they finished a difficult year, providing donations of art supplies, classroom items, and fare for an end-of-year celebration. The students felt a lot of love and joy, and they are still still using many of the supplies this fall. Allison will regularly invite those in ARC-C with means to participate in other teacher-led initiatives to support students. Please see Allison's letter to ARC-C, with her item lists, here or contact Allison directly at: Allison Enders <[email protected]>. If you are still reading, you are wonderful. Keep on reading: below the jump is a recent post from ARD: Anti-Racism Daily and a podcast from Be Anti-Racist with Ibram X. Kendi. Be well until our CRT gathering on the January 20th! The ARC-C Steering Committee Comments are closed.
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