[ShareTompkins] Fwd: MLK Community Read Collaboration: Southside and Workers' Center, Tuesday, 11/9

[Shira Golding]

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> From: pete meyers <pete at tclivingwage.org>
> Date: November 3, 2010 12:19:08 PM EDT
> To: tc-hsc-l at cornell.edu
> Subject: MLK Community Read Collaboration: Southside and Workers'  
> Center, Tuesday, 11/9
> Reply-To: pete meyers <pete at tclivingwage.org>
>
> MLK Community Read Collaboration Between Southside Community Center  
> and Tompkins County Workers’ Center To Begin Tuesday, November  9th  
> @ 6:30 p.m. at Southside, 305 S. Plain St. Ithaca.
>
>
>
> The Southside Community Center (SSCC) and the Tompkins County  
> Workers’ Center (TCWC) are proud to announce a joint collaboration  
> in convening a monthly Reading Group focused around Martin Luther  
> King, Jr’s. last book: ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or  
> Community?’ Free books are available both from SSCC as well as TCWC.  
> The monthly Reading Group will meet on the second Tuesday of every  
> month from 6:30 to 8 at SSCC for six months to cover the six  
> chapters of the book.
>
>
>
> We are limiting the Reading Group to no more than 25 people: please  
> contact the Workers’ Center at 269-0409 if interested to participate.
>
>
>
> To see all the details of the MLK Community Build http://mlkcommunitybuild.org/
>
>
>
> The Mission of the MLK Community Build:
>
> The mission of The MLK Community Build is to engage all sectors of  
> the community in realizing, as King said, that “we are tied in a  
> single garment of destiny.”  We aim to have people from all walks of  
> life come together through shared readings, discussions, and events  
> based on the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
>
>
> The History of the MLK Community Build committee:
>
> The idea of having the Ithaca/Tompkins community read this book grew  
> out of a series of workshops entitled “Achieving Equity: Where Have  
> We Been, Where Are We Now, and Where Can We Go?” at the Tompkins  
> County History Center that were held in March and April, 2008.  At  
> the last “Achieving Equity” workshop, several diverse people came  
> together to further the effort by working to republish and  
> distribute this book.  That group, along with many others, became  
> the MLK Community Build collective.
>
> With this book, we hope honest discussions will take place, and also  
> lead to actions that will bring us closer to King’s vision of a  
> “beloved community.”  We understand people will not always agree,  
> but it is impossible to build community without talking and working  
> together.
>
> About the book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
>
> From the publisher, Beacon Press:
>
> In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the  
> demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with  
> no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript.  In this  
> important work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years,  
> we find King's acute analysis of American race relations and the  
> state of the movement after a decade of civil rights efforts.  King  
> lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America's future,  
> including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing,  
> and quality education.  Today, as African American communities stand  
> to lose more wealth than any other demographic during this economic  
> crisis, King's call for economic equality and sustainability is  
> especially pertinent.  With a universal message of hope that  
> continues to resonate, King demanded an end to global suffering,  
> asserting that humankind-for the first time-has the resources and  
> technology to eradicate poverty.
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>
>
> "A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters.  
> To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete  
> order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving  
> full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and  
> dissolves the confidence born of a partial victory by which new  
> efforts are powered."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
>

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