Closing the Racial Wealth Divide

CLOSING THE RACIAL WEALTH DIVIDE:

A Popular Economics Education Training of Trainers

Faced with the tremendous challenges of our time, how do we build a strong and lasting movement to address economic and racial inequality? This highly participatory training will offer tools that educators, organizers and activists can use to facilitate dialogue within their communities about the roots of the racial wealth divide and inspire action for profound change.

WHERE / WHEN: 

Saturday, March 25^th, 2017 from 8:30am-5:00pm, UCC Conference Center, 140 Sheep Davis Road, Pembroke, NH

FACILITATORS:

Jeannette Huezo and Riahl O’Malley of United for a Fair Economy [1]

FOCUS: 

• Reviewing and practicing popular education principles and practices.
• Exploring the intersection of class, race, and gender inequities and their relationship to economic trends.

REGISTRATION:

Maggie Fogarty, American Friends Service Committee, mfogarty [at] afsc [dot] org, (603)224-2407

We are inviting different groups and organizations who are working for racial and economic justice to send two ambassadors to this training so that we can return to our networks ready and willing to create learning opportunities with our neighbors, co-workers, Board members, congregations, community organizations and elected officials.

COST: 

There is a suggested donation of $40, but financial assistance is available for all who request it.

RESOURCES:

• (website) United for a Fair Economy, http://www.faireconomy.org/ [1]
• (podcast) On the origins of America's racial wealth divide, and the endpoint of toxic inequality. https://thisishell.com/interviews/947-thomas-shapiro [2]
• (article) "Our Political Economy Is Designed to Create Poverty and Inequality"  Poverty is not an abstraction.  People wear it on their faces, carry it on their backs as a constant companion—and it is heavy.  By Dennis Kucinich, March 6, 2017.  https://www.thenation.com/article/our-political-economy-is-designed-to-create-poverty-and-inequality/ [3]