How do mixed-race folks talk about their experiences of privilege and oppression?  How do we support relationships of solidarity between light-skinned and dark-skinned people of color?

Date: Thursday  July 22, 2010  5:30-7pm
Venue: Seattle Young People’s Project 2820 E. Cherry St (Behind the YWCA)

Facilitators: DeAnn Alcantara, Jenn Bowman and Yecelica Valdivia

As a multi-racial, majority youth of color organization, questions of skin color, colorism, and multi-racial identities are always a hot topic at Seattle Young People’s Project. Join us as we explore these complex and salient issues and their personal and political underpinnings with a group community guests. Community guests include:  DeAnn Alcantara, Jenn Bowman, and Yecelica Valdivia.

Activist Conversations is an inter-generational monthly gathering where folks come together to talk on a range of themes and skills related to social change and community organizing.

Date: June 10, Thursday, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Venue: SYPP Office, 2820 E. Cherry St. Seattle, WA 98122 
Facilitator: Mark Gonzales

A look into SB 1070 and solidarity work against it!
Join Mark Gonzales in a powerful discussion to learn more about the assaults against immigrant communities in Arizona and what resistance looks like nationally and locally.

Activist Conversations is an inter-generational monthly gathering where folks come together to talk on a range of themes and skills related to social change and community organizing.

Join us this month  for a multi-media workshop and dialogue on Palestine and Israel and its connections to our lives here. Youth and adults welcome!

Date: April 15, Thursday, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Venue: SYPP Office, 2820 E. Cherry St. Seattle, WA 98122 
Facilitators: Laila Suidan and Ronnie Tartlet

About the Facilitators:
Ronni Tartlet is a Jew from Miami who’s been doing Palestine solidarity work in and out of Jewish community since 1999. Laila Suidan is a mixed-race Palestinian-American who’s spent time studying and volunteering in the West Bank and also visiting her Palestinian family in Israel. She’s been doing Palestine solidarity work (writing, speaking, performing, and some straight-up protesting) in Seattle for a decade or so. They’ve been friends and co-conspirators since writing a zine together — The Missing Peace: Truth and Justice in Israel/Palestine — in 2001. They’re really excited to share inspiring stories of youth resistance with the rad folks at SYPP.

Activist Conversations is a monthly, inter-generational dialogue on social justice. Every month community members facilitate a conversation on diverse themes  and skills related to social change and organizing.

Join us for a new initiative at SYPP: Activist Conversations – a monthly, inter-generational gathering where folks come together to talk on a range of themes and skills related to social change and community organizing.

March’s Activist Conversation: “Integrating Social Justice in our Daily Lives.”

Date: Friday, March 5th,  2010 5:30-7:00
Venue: SYPP Office, 2820 E. Cherry St. Seattle, WA 98122

Facilitator: Joanne Alcantara and Boo Torres

About the Facilitators:
Joanne Alcantara and Boo Torres recently started 2 Brown Chicks Family Farm, an active experiment in living sustainable lives in order to support the greater community. Joanne is also a community organizer with Pinay sa Seattle-GABRIELA USA. Boo is part of the Electrical Workers’ Minority Caucus within the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Both Joanne and Boo are queer women of color who grew up in this area and are interested in the survival and self-determination of their global communities.

Youth and adults welcome!

Title: Embracing Race Workshop
Location: SYPP Office (2820 E. Cherry St., 29th and Cherry behind the YWCA)
Description:

Join SYPP on November 9th and 10th as we host two fabulous, fun, and thought-provoking workshops, facilitated by traveling spoken word artists from Raucous Ink in Chicago. Workshops are free and open to all!

Called “… the bravest inspection of racism yet,” this opportunity for empowerment and pride is a true discussion. By tracking our own perception of racism along with selected work from modern poets, students are able to work around the frustrations often arranged around race and engage in an honest and revelatory experience.

Start Date: 2009-11-10
End Date: 2009-11-9