Thursday, June 25, 2009

Are you a "racist?" Your local Socialist movement on the go

A message from a local activist and frequent jailbird who says if you don't accept illegal aliens wholeheartedly, you are then a "racist." Anne Braden was married to a Socialist, Carl Braden, who was convicted of sedition and sentenced to 15 years in 1954.

Support Anti-Racist Organizer Training
July 3rd, 7-8pm: Soma Center, 609 Lucerne Ave, Lake Worth, FL
July 5th, 6-8pm: Society of Friends (Quaker) Meetinghouse,
823 North A Street, Lake Worth, FL DINNER WILL BE SERVED AT JULY 5TH EVENT
Donations Appreciated


This fall, local activist Lynne Purvis will be leaving us to participate in a 4 month anti-racist political education and leadership development program in San Francisco. The Anne Braden Program is designed to support the vision, strategy, and organizing skills of white activists in becoming accountable, principled anti-racist organizers building multiracial movements for justice. Before she leaves, Lynne wants to speak about her upcoming training, the need for anti-racist organizing here in Lake Worth, and how everyone can be involved. Lynne would like to gauge interest in setting up reading/study groups concurrent with her training. Donations toward the cost of her program will be greatly appreciated.

The Anne Braden Program is put on by the Catalyst Project, a center for political education and movement building based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We organize in majority white sectors of social justice movements with the goal of deepening anti-racist commitment in white communities and helping to build multiracial movements for collective liberation. We do this by creating spaces for activists to collectively develop deeper political analysis, vision, strategy and organizing skills. Our work is based in the belief that all people have a right to dignity, housing, food, healthcare, meaningful work and healthy communities. We organize with the understanding that anti-racism can be a catalyst for challenging all forms of oppression and creating fundamental change.

For more information, contact Lynne at lynnejpurvis@gmail.com or 561-588-9666.

Thanks and hope to see you there.
Lynne

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If being for secure borders makes me a racist, I guess that I am then. What a joke. Liberalism in America has bankrupted the country.

Anonymous said...

We're racists if we want the illegals out of here because they have pretty much completely destroyed our country? RIGHT....
that sort of lunacy reeks of Cara and Javier -