The Race and Climate Justice group invites you to our next bimonthly community event, a participatory evening exploring the impact of racism on each of us, our society, and our environmental movements.  No charge; everyone welcome!

Workshop summary:

Racism has had a deeply damaging and divisive effect on everyone. Understanding and healing from the effects of racism as individuals is necessary to successfully create a united movement to end environmental degradation and restore the environment. 

Although groups of people experience racism differently (some the direct target, some the agents of oppression), all people are damaged by racism and all people benefit from healing the hurts of racism. Healing the harm from racism is not the same as ending racist policies. But healing the damage to individuals is necessary to end racist attitudes and behaviors and to prevent racist policies from reappearing in other guises. 

In this presentation we will: 

• Examine the impact of racism (individual and institutional) on the environmental movement and on the global response to the greater impact of climate change on people, communities, and nations of color, 

• Share our stories of racism and listen to each other about the impact of racism on ourselves, our family, our group, and our environment, 

• Look at how racism and internalized racism have created and perpetuated divisions and interfered with our attempts to organize and build movements, and 

• Learn about the theory and practice the tools of Re-evaluation Counseling (also called Co-Counseling) as it can be applied to address all of the above and advance our work to build a strong climate justice movement. 

The workshop is participatory. We will listen fully to one another in pairs and groups, while encouraging expression of the personal hurts experienced from racism. The workshop will be led by three leaders of United to End Racism: an African heritage woman, a mixed heritage Filipina, and a white woman (Barbara Love, Teresa Enrico, and Diane Shisk). 

United to End Racism (a project of the Re-evaluation Counseling Community) works to limit climate change and end environmental racism within the context of ending all divisions among people, especially racism. We work together to provide ongoing mutual support to free ourselves from the harm done by racism. We also address other experiences that separate us, turn us against one another, and put us in competition for resources. For more information, see: <www.rc.org/uer> or email dshisk@earthlink.net

Race and Climate Justice offers bi-monthly events.  The Healing from Racism event is our November Race and Climate Justice gathering.