Building the Beloved Community
Our mission is to provide educational information about the history and nature of systemic racism, connections between oppressions, internalized oppressions, racial justice, the struggles for racial justice.
This program will encourage WILPF members, branches, interested organizations and individuals to work in coalition with people concerned about racial, economic, social, and all justice issues, radical democracy and peace local, national, and international.
The Racial Wealth Divide and Comparative Wealth
The Racial Wealth Divide & Comparative Wealth
By Vickie M Fouts, WILPF Building the Beloved Community Chair
White Privilege Training Offered by Building the Beloved Community Issue Committee
Are you ready to be a part of the change?
Racism is a fierce, ever present, challenging force; one that has structured the thinking and actions of individuals and institutions since the beginning of U.S. history. To understand racism and effectively begin dismantling it requires an equally fierce, consistent and committed effort. Please join us as we embark on this most crucial journey and begin to realize our vision of a racially just society.
Six face kidnap charges in torture case
LOGAN, West Virginia (AP) -- The list of horrors allegedly endured by a woman at the hands of six people in a remote trailer grew during the suspects' court hearings -- leaving the woman's mother sobbing.
Reading Tuesday from a statement 20-year-old Megan Williams gave deputies the day she was rescued from the ramshackle home, a sheriff's deputy said she had been stabbed with what she described as a butcher knife and beaten with wooden sticks and fly swatters.
Letter to Governor Blanco - Jena 6
September 18, 2007
Honorable Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
Governor of the State of Louisiana
Office of the Governor
PO Box 94004
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9004
[cc: District Attorney, U.S. Attorney and School Superintendent]
Dear Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco,
Segregated Survivor
The cast of the upcoming 13th season of the reality game show "Survivor" will be divided along ethnic lines. The contestants will be segregated into four "tribes" of blacks, whites, Asians and Latinos when the hit CBS program returns on 14 September. The Building the Beloved Community Issue Committee feels this premise will only create further damage to race relations. We strongly urge to write a letter to CBS stating your concerns. For your convenience, we've provided the below letter...for background on the letter here are the references you may want to check out: NY Times and in the LA Times
THE EAST COAST TOUR IN PITTSBURGH
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| Workshop participants form break out groups to discuss how racial domination and oppression plays itself out in the lives of white Americas and the organizations they belong to. |
Earlier this year, the BBC obtained a Racial Justice Grant from the Pond Foundation for, for an East Coast Tour of Creating Caring Communities. This is a pilot project that combines Sha'an Moulierts's workshop, which utilizes the very physical and often non-verbal techniques of the game Star Power and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, and Donna Lamb's workshop "Being an Effective Social Justice Activist - the Personal Side," which takes a more verbal approach to dealing with the need for introspection in order to achieve one's goals as an activist.
The invitation to give our workshop on May 20th at the Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh came from Pittsburgh branch member Edith Bell, who contacted us in response to the branch mailing in which we advertised the East Coast tour. The Thomas Merton Center wanted to begin to address racism and Edith thought the East Coast Tour would be a good place to start.
Building the Beloved Community in Washington, DC
By Donna Lamb
Earlier this month, the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) met for the ninth year at American University in Washington DC.
REPORT OF THE CREATING CARING COMMUNITIES WORKSHOP
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| Sha'an Mouliert introduces workshop |
10 AM - 2 PM June 10, 2006
Sponsored by Catonsville and Baltimore Branches of WILPF
On this sunny Saturday in June, 19 people attended the workshop, including members of both the Catonsville and Baltimore branches of WILPF, Women in Black of Baltimore, and 5 other non-WILPF members who responded to the various mailings, flyers, press releases, and phone calls that promoted the event. Three men were in attendance. Two of the women were African-American. Participants ranged in age from mid-20s to 90.
