[ShareTompkins] Fwd: SOLIDARITY Teach-in for Trayvon Part 2 TODAY 6:00 p.m.

[Ari Evergreen]

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> From: Mario Martone <valmarfo at gmail.com>
> Subject: SOLIDARITY Teach-in for Trayvon Part 2 TODAY 6:00 p.m.

> The Shawn Greenwood Working Group invites you to join us for a series of 3 historical workshops that will take place in three separate sessions to increase our collective consciousness and establish dialogue with folks here in our community. 
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> Today FRIDAY, September 13th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
> at 301 West Court St. Ithaca, NY
> - GIAC - Greater Ithaca Activities Center
> 
> Please join the facebook event!
> 
> TEACH-IN II: WHITE PROPERTY, VIOLENCE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR FAIR HOUSING.
> 
> This teach-in will focus on the fact that Zimmerman was defending the logic of white property value in a gated community struggling from the effects of the subprime mortgage crisis. His “neighborhood watch” vigilantism needs to be understood within the longer history of the entanglements between racism, propertied wealth, and violence. Historically, neighborhood associations, the state and the law have played active or complicit roles in safeguarding white property. The history of residential segregation and white mob violence need to be understood as a cornerstone to building racial inequalities in the U.S. Finally, we will focus on fair housing movements and people of color’s struggles to exercise their rights to mobility. 
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> PRINCIPLES OF UNITY:
> 1. We understand the murder of Trayvon Martin not as an individualized act but part of a larger pattern of white vigilante violence supported by the law and the criminal justice system.
> 2. We define racism as “The state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerabilities to premature death, in distinct yet densely interconnected political geographies.” (Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag)
> 3. Our analysis of racism assumes intersections with gender, sexuality, class and other axes of oppression. When we say “racism,” we include the multifaceted and gender-specific ways it is delivered to people.
> 4. We value people of color’s experiences, knowledges, and organizing efforts as key sites for building collective well-being and social relations that are mutually interdependent and sustaining (including our relations with the earth and all living beings).
> 5. We seek to build multi-ethnic and multi-racial alliances and networks of support, inclusive of radical white people committed to people of color’s leadership in the struggle for racial justice. This entails acknowledging the history of white privilege and advantage, and aligning with radical justice movements that seek the end of white supremacy.
> 6. The goal of these teach-ins is to build freedom dreaming sites, understanding that the elimination of mental slavery is central to ending actual oppression.
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