Summer Organizing Institute to help end mass incarceration

 Apply now for CCA's Summer Organizing Institute to help end mass incarceration in New York State! Flyer attached. Applications due by July 14th. 

In the Summer Organizing Institute, you'll learn the ins-and-outs of grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy and campaign strategy. You'll also meet leaders, advocates and organizers across the state as we collectively build a movement to end mass incarceration & fight for the change our communities need.

If you've wanted to deepen your organizing and advocacy skills, learn more about how to get laws passed or how to organize a protest, this is your moment! The Institute is specifically geared towards formerly incarcerated people, families and others who have been directly impacted by systems of incarceration and criminalization.

The Institute will begin Saturday, July 24th and then run weekly on Tuesday evenings from July 27th through September 7th. All sessions will take place on Zoom. 

Apply here by July 14th! Spread the word with the attached graphic/flyer.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Marvin Mayfield at mmayfield@communityalternatives.org. 

Wednesday Walk 6/30

 

REE PALESTINE is the theme for this Wednesday Walk for Black Lives

 

FREE PALESTINE is the theme for this Wednesday Walk for Black Lives on June 9 at 5:00 p.m. at Academy Green Park in Uptown Kingston. Jewish Voice for Peace/Middle East Crisis Response will present a handful of speakers including Palestinians, Muslims and Jews. They will give brief overviews of the region’s history, current political situation and Palestinians’ resistance to Apartheid Israel.

The weekly Wednesday Walk for Black Lives is a coalition of grassroots organizations including ENJAN, Rise Up Kingston, Citizen Action and Real Kingston Tenants Union.

Race Amity Day and Juneteenth!

This month, instead of its regularly scheduled Wednesday meeting, the Race Unity Circle (RUC) will join with other forward-leaning community groups in celebration of Race Amity Day and Juneteenth! The RUC will host a two-day online symposium entitled "We, together . . . Exploring Race Unity from the Perspective of Head, Heart, and Spirit"

on Saturday, June 12, 8:30 AM -- 4:45 PM and Sunday, June 13, 9:00 AM -- 1:00 PM. Participants at this virtual event can select between two concurrent sessions during Saturday's 9:00--10:30 timeslot: 

• Track A: Race & Biology -- The Science versus the Myth
• Track B: Current Genetic Science and the Race Debate

Pre-registration is required here; contributions are requested, but are optional. The attached flier and the pre-registration page have further details.