BLACK LIVES MATTER SIGNS - Available from P. O'Hara
I have picked up ten Black Lives Matter signs - and am happy to share them with anyone who wants one. Drop me an email pbohara@amherst.edu, or give me a call 413-687-5722.
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WEEK 5 Race and Religion - Implicit Bias - CHANGE STARTS AT HOME
Race and Racism Workshop Wesley United Methodist Church - Hadley Week 2 June 28, 2020 PART 1: (Re)Claiming the History of Resistance at Wesley UMC Consider this to be a work in progress. We are dedicating ourselves to collecting the stories of resistance of elders and others in the past at WUMC The Weley 9, a group of youth including the now grown children of Joyce and Lee Hines, Liz and Ron Bell, and Ginny Kilmer who filed a petition at the national youth conference of the UMC to bar membership in the church to individuals who were active participants in hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Mary Wyatt - Martin Luther King breakfast for example Louise Minks and her paintings of local African Americans partnership with African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Horace Boyer and his Gospel Music, writing the dedication for our new Sanctuary in 2008, suppor ot and participation with AAGC PART 2: Breakout Groups "All Change Starts At Home" - Adwoa Ampiah-Bonney Since WUMC is ...
Week 4 - Race and Religion - Reframing the Conversation - Sunday June 21, 2020
Welcome to the Restarted Race and Religion Workshop. Our Lenten Series on Implicit Bias was designed using a curriculum from United Methodist Committee on Race and Religion. Our intent was to spend three weeks with a guided self-examination - using scriptural references that highlighted the biases of the time of the apostles and Jesus' response to what he observed. These conversations were coupled with videos from Ted Talk about identifying, examining, and working to change white privilege in ourselves. The workshops were to follow our traditional pattern: gathering Sundays after worship, with brunch. We got through our first Sunday of Lent, saw an inspiring TedTalk by neuroscientist Jerry Kang, had a good conversation, and then everything changed. As you know, the church was forced to close and halt face to face meetings in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. An unsuccessful effort to move the workshops to asynchronous on line content and online HW was, ...