Dear Community Members,
We invite you to join us for the next film in the Coming Together film series: Latinos Beyond Reel – “A hard-hitting documentary about how Latinos are marginalized and vilified in the U.S. media – with grave consequences.”
Latinos/Latinas are the largest and fastest-growing group of people of the global majority in Amherst, and in the U.S. This showing is free and open to the public – at The Jones Library, 7PM on Thursday, December 4th. The discussion following the video will be facilitated by Mari Castañeda (who is in the video) and Wilma Ortiz.
Hoping to see you there,
Russ Vernon-Jones
Sovann-Malis Loeung
Mari Castañeda
Co-facilitators of the Coming Together project
Notes:
Too often discussions of race and racism are limited to issues between African Americans and white people. We feel strongly that our discussions about race in the Amherst area must include many groups, including Latinos and Latinas. Most of us have quite a bit to learn here. This is an excellent opportunity to take a next step as a community – both in learning and in coming together. A trailer for the film is available at http://www.coming-together.org/upcoming-activities/community-events-sponsored-by-the-coming-together-project/more-information-about-films-and-speakers/
Please visit our website at www.coming-together.org and explore the information, videos, and perspectives there.
Barbara Love’s talk in Amherst on October 20th is now available online at http://amherstmedia.org/content/barbara-love-love-care-racism-coming-together-amherst
Upcoming Dates:
We invite you to join us for the next film in the Coming Together film series: Latinos Beyond Reel – “A hard-hitting documentary about how Latinos are marginalized and vilified in the U.S. media – with grave consequences.” Latinos/Latinas are the largest and fastest-growing group of people of the global majority in Amherst, and in the U.S. This showing is free and open to the public – at The Jones Library, 7PM on Thursday, December 4th. The discussion following the video will be facilitated by Mari Castañeda (who is in the video) and Wilma Ortiz.
Hoping to see you there,
Russ Vernon-Jones
Sovann-Malis Loeung
Mari Castañeda
Co-facilitators of the Coming Together project
Notes:
Too often discussions of race and racism are limited to issues between African Americans and white people. We feel strongly that our discussions about race in the Amherst area must include many groups, including Latinos and Latinas. Most of us have quite a bit to learn here. This is an excellent opportunity to take a next step as a community – both in learning and in coming together. A trailer for the film is available at http://www.coming-together.org/upcoming-activities/community-events-sponsored-by-the-coming-together-project/more-information-about-films-and-speakers/
Please visit our website at www.coming-together.org and explore the information, videos, and perspectives there.
Barbara Love’s talk in Amherst on October 20th is now available online at http://amherstmedia.org/content/barbara-love-love-care-racism-coming-together-amherst
Upcoming Dates:
- Thursday, Jan. 8 – video of a powerful speech by Michelle Alexander, the author of “The New Jim Crow“
- Thursday, Feb 5 – video; “Vincent Who?” a powerful film about Vincent Chin and the Asian American civil rights movement
- Tuesday, March 3 – feature film: “Smoke Signals” a film debunking stereotypes about native people, followed by discussion with some local native people.
- We are also planning an evening with a multi-racial panel of local people sharing their experiences and perspectives and leading a general conversation with the community.
- a community-wide, multiracial project for the Amherst, MA area
