<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">pete meyers <<a href="mailto:pete@tclivingwage.org">pete@tclivingwage.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">November 3, 2010 12:19:08 PM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu">tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>MLK Community Read Collaboration: Southside and Workers' Center, Tuesday, 11/9</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">pete meyers <<a href="mailto:pete@tclivingwage.org">pete@tclivingwage.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">MLK Community Read Collaboration Between Southside Community Center and Tompkins County Workers’ Center To Begin Tuesday, November <span style=""> </span>9th @ 6:30 p.m. at Southside, 305 S. Plain St. Ithaca.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We are limiting the Reading Group to no more than 25 people: please contact the Workers’ Center at 269-0409 if interested to participate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To see all the details of the MLK Community Build <a href="http://mlkcommunitybuild.org/">http://mlkcommunitybuild.org/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br> </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Mission of the MLK Community Build:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br> </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The History of the MLK Community Build committee:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><a name="TOC-Our-History"></a><a name="TOC-About-the-book-Where-Do-We-Go-From-"></a><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">About the book, <u>Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?</u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">From the publisher, Beacon Press: <br> <br> 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.</span></p><br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: rgb(191, 223, 255);">"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.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>