Screening of PROFILED

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 

3:00-5:00 PM

LGBTQ Community Center, 300 WALL STREET, KINGSTON, NY

After the 52 minute film, we will be leading facilitated discussions on the issues presented. This film screening is free, but we are asking folks to bring new or gently used popular fiction books for people behind bars at Green Haven Correctional Facility. 

LGBTQ Community for Racial Justice

presents a screening of

PROFILED

Profiled knits the stories of mothers of Black and Latinx youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Some of the victims—Eric Garner, Michael Brown—are now familiar the world over. Others, like Shantel Davis and Kimani Gray, are remembered mostly by family and friends in their New York neighborhoods

Race Soldier

What White People Can Do About Racism

FUNDAMENTALS, Part 1

How to act against racism from a position of 

unearned (and unwanted) racial privilege

Saturday, December 3, 2016

9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

The Kirkland Building, 2 Main St, Kingston NY 12401

United States society is historically and presently structured by race. White people have a privileged position within that structure. Many white people understand this implicitly and are uncomfortable with the inherent unfairness, but do not know what to do about it. This workshop is intended to give white people some basic knowledge about:

-racial structure
-building connections and cross-racial alliances
-finding direction on your journey as an effective change agent
-building a personal support network for the work you do

Cost: $95 per participant, including lunch.* Sliding scale available.

*Graduates of one of our prior workshops receive a $10 discount off the registration cost.

Format: a 6-hour workshop offered on a single day with a morning session, a lunch break, and an after- noon session. The workshop uses didactic presentation, small group discussion, large group discussion, and a slideshow presentation. Handouts are made available to participants.

The registration fee covers all materials, plus lunch. Participants also receive a free book. Available choices are either Accountability and White Anti-racist Organizing: Stories from Our Work (list price $17.95) or Lifting the White Veil: A Look at White American Culture (list price $19.95). The workshop has been developed under the care of the Center for the Study of White American Culture, Inc. (CSWAC) in Roselle, NJ. Each workshop is conducted by a team of CSWAC trainers who are also white anti-racist activists with a history as organizers and facilitators working in cross-racial alliances.

Requirements: The workshop is appropriate for white people who are open to learning what to do about racism, perhaps feeling they should be doing something but not sure what. The workshop is also appro- priate for people of color who want to support white people who want to take action against racism.

For more information, contact:
Robin Alpern (914) 736-5447, robin.alpern@gmail.com
Jeff Hitchcock (908) 245-4972, contact@euroamerican.org

4th Annual Walk for Gun Sense, Sat, Nov 5

ENJAN-Poughkeepsie agreed at our meeting last night to walk as a contingent in the 4th Annual Walk for Gun Sense sponsored by New Yorkers Against Gun Violence this coming Saturday. Please feel free to join us!  The march begins at 10 am on the Poughkeepsie side of the Walkway Over the Hudson. If you think you can make it, let me know so we know to look for you!  The weather should be nice: they are forecasting partly sunny skies and a high of 61 degrees!

Jeff

SUNY New Paltz Black Studies Department on Oct 26

FROM #BLACK LIVES MATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION

KINGSTON
ENJAN
IS PROUD TO HOST A NEW
BOOK READ

FROM #BLACK LIVES MATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION
by Keenanga-Yamahtta Taylor

“Keenanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s searching examination of the social, political, and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order offers important context for understanding the necessity of the emerging movement for Black liberation.” 

 Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Monday, November 7, 2016

At the new A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Library
43 Gill Street, Kingston NY

Starting Promptly at 6 PM

Books available for purchase at next ENJAN MEETING, October 24, 2016 at New Progressive Baptist Church, 8 Hone Street, Kingston, downstairs or online at Amazon

For Info: Call Odell at 914-388- 3092

DUTCHESS COUNTY JAIL EXPANSION TEACH-IN

DUTCHESS COUNTY JAIL EXPANSION TEACH-IN

Saturday, October15, 2016 9:30 am – 1 pm

Light Breakfast & Networking: 9:30am TOPICS:

Restorative Justice • Alternatives to Mass Incarceration School-to-Prison Pipeline • More 

In the Cafeteria, Downstairs at The Family Partnership Center 29 N. Hamilton Street, Poughkeepsie, 

WHAT:  Poughkeepsie’s End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN) will host a teach-in on alternatives to Dutchess County’s plans to build a larger and more expensive jail. 

The teach-in is co-sponsored by Beacon Prison Action • Dutchess County Progressive Action Alliance • Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition • Kingston ENJAN • New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) • Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson • Poughkeepsie Progressives • Poughkeepsie Unitarian Universalists • Race Unity Circle • Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library

 WHO: The event will feature several speakers and panelists, including noted civil rights attorney Michael Sussman, Dutchess County legislator Francena Amparo, Shannon Wong (NYCLU Lower Hudson Valley Chapter Director), and a representative from the Mid-Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition, among others. The End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN) will also release its 7-point plan for reducing the county’s jail population.

HOW/WHY: A solution to Dutchess County’s “jail problem” is long overdue. Though the county legislature passed a $192-million-dollar bond for a new facility, a bigger and more expensive jail is the wrong “solution” to jail overcrowding. Because the real sources of jail overcrowding are the failed policies of mass incarceration, End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN) calls on the county to implement several proposals that would significantly reduce the number of people in jail, increase public safety, and make Dutchess County a more equitable and just place to live for all its residents. This event informs concerned citizens about the complex and important issues of alternatives to mass incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and more.

www.enjan.org • enjanhv@gmail.com • 845.475.8781