Building on the success and excitement generated by racial justice activists from across the country, Facing Race 2010 guarantees lively discussions on today's hot-button race issues while offering models for real change. Taking place September 23-25, 2010 at the McCormick Hyatt Regency in Chicago, IL, Facing Race serves as a focal point for organizations and individuals committed to crafting innovative strategies and successful models for changing policy and shaping culture to advance racial justice.
The conference includes a series of plenary sessions, an array of workshop topics, a film series, and an arts and culture component. Three thematic tracks will guide issue and skill building workshops including racial justice policy change, strategic communication and media, and community organizing.
Be one of the 1000 participants looking to define justice and make change. Come to Facing Race 2010!
For more information on Facing Race, contact Gina Acebo at facingrace@arc.org or by phone at 510-653-3415, x4919.
Participant evaluations of the conference were
overwhelmingly positive.Here are
some testimonials from Facing Race 2008:
"I'm glad we had a space for
thoughtful and provocative discussion that actually moves people into action;
we need more of this nationally."
"ARC has the best frame in the
country for facing race in the U.S. and is probably the best at teaching
activists and advocates how to use that frame to create racial justice."
"This is the only conference
I've ever attended that kept me engaged and inspired from beginning to end."
"It was impossible not to feel
empowered by all the knowledge shared, commitment to racial justice seen, and
new friendships built."
"Facing Race 2008 gave me
exactly what I need to beat back the rising 'post-race' tide among even the
progressives I work with as a community organizer."
Post-Election Reflections: Examining Race in the Presidential Race—This
plenary will feature commentary and analysis on how the presidential
candidates addressed or avoided issues of race and how they attempted
to appeal to different racial groups.
The Race Debate: Challenging Colorblindness with Race Conscious Solutions—As
dubious notions of "colorblindness" and a "post-race" society gain in
popularity, this plenary, through the use of live debates, will explore
new ways justice advocates can navigating the complex, contested and
changing terrain of the public race debate.
Compact for Racial Justice: A Proactive Agenda for Advancing Racial Equity—The
time is ripe for a bold initiative to demand that our political,
economic, social, and legal systems guarantee full equity, inclusion
and dignity for all people. This plenary will explore ways to take
immediate steps forward on racial equity in several key issues areas.
Race and the Global Economy—This plenary will explore
current trends and new challenges that lie at the intersection of
globalization and racism, with an emphasis on promising models and
opportunities for advancing racial and global justice.
Workshops
We're bringing the best speakers from across the nation to deliver innovative, interactive presentations on the issues you care about. At Facing Race you'll find inspiration, unique resources and experienced experts at a variety of policy, media and organizing workshops.
This list is not complete and is subject to change. Please check back for updates.
Blogging About Race Issues
Candidates of Color
Criminal Justice
Culture Conscious – Addressing Race in the Arts
Deportation & Child Welfare
Educational Equity & Opportunities to Learn in Communities of Color
Equitable Development – Fighting Gentrification and Displacement
Framing Issues with a Race Lens
Funding Racial Justice: Philanthropic Strategies and Stuggles
Fundraising for Communities of Color – The Politics of Funding
Global & Domestic Development
Green Economies
Gulf Coast Reconstruction
Health Equity: Organizing to Address Racial Disparities
Immigrant Rights: Detention
Immigrant Rights & Fair Globalization
Job Crisis in the Black Community
Leading With Race: Addressing Racism in Issue Campaigns
Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity
Media Justice
Multiracial Organizing Campaigns
Multiracial Organizing - Black & Immigrant Alliances
Net Activism
Organizational Change: Becoming a Racial Justice Organization & Building Power
People of Color In the Peace Movement
The Race Beat: Reporting on Race Issues
Racial Justice 101
The Racial Wealth Divide
¡REBELATE! Using Radical Graphics & Designing for Racial Justice
Remittance Movement and Corporate Responsibility
Reproductive Justice
Utilizing New Technologies for Advancing Racial Justice
Workers’ Rights – Racial Justice and the New Economy
A prolific novelist, poet and screenplay writer, Alexie has been hailed as one of the best young writers of his generation. The New Yorker named him one of the top 20 writers for the 21st Century. His talent and voice shine brightly, far beyond the pages of his work. Men’s Journal called him “the world’s first fast-talking, wisecracking, mediagenic American Indian superstar.”
A gifted orator, Alexie won the World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout four years in a row, from 1998 to 2001. In his lectures, he tells tales of contemporary American Indian life laced with razor-sharp humor, unsettling candor and biting wit. He reshapes our myths and stereotypes by speaking his mind on a wide range of issues — from race relations, religion and politics to homophobia, war and morality.
A Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington. As a college student, he landed in a poetry-writing class and his professor quickly recognized his “intensity of language, passion and energy.” Upon the publication of The Business of Fancydancing, his first collection of poetry, The New York Times Book Review described him as “one of the major lyric voices of our time.”
Since then, Alexie has authored eleven books of poetry, several collections of short stories, two novels and numerous works for magazines. He wrote the screenplay for and produced the feature film Smoke Signals, based on his book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. The film premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy.
"He was alternately hilarious, outrageous and thought-provoking before an overflowing crowd. "
Iowa State University
Alexie's first novel, Reservation Blues, won Booklist’s Editors Choice Award for Fiction. Indian Killer was a New York Times Notable Book and The Toughest Indian in the World won the 2001 PEN/Malamud award,
honoring excellence in the art of storytelling. In Ten Little Indians, a 2003 national bestseller and Publishers Weekly Book of the Year, Alexie’s stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience.
In 2002 Alexie released his directorial film debut, The Business of Fancydancing, which he also wrote. The film won many awards, including the Outstanding Screenwriting Award at Outfest. He is currently working on a screenplay adaptation of The Toughest Indian in the World, which he will direct and co-produce.
His book, Flight, is a sci-fi novel and a parable of war featuring an edgy teen outcast named Zits on the verge of committing a colossal act of violence. The New York Times called it “the most unpretentious novel [they’ve] read in a long time,” adding, “there isn’t a false word in it.”
Alexie recently won the National Book Award for his latest book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a coming-of-age, interracial comedy for young adults based on his first year at an all-white high school.
With his humorous, revealing and exuberant works of art, Alexie compels audiences to see the world for all of its pitfalls and possibilities.
Presenters, Panelists and Moderators
(This list is not complete and is subject to change)
Andrea Batista Schlesinger – Drum Major Institute
Andrew Gillum – People For the American Way
Angela Omulepu, Northwest Federation of Community Organizers
Anita Sinha – Advancement Project
Beth Newkirk – Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Bunky Echo Hawk – Visual Artist
Chris Rabb – Afro-Netizen Clarissa Goodlett - Color of Change
Daisy Hernández – Colorlines, Applied Research Center
Dominique Apollon – Applied Research Center
Favianna Rodriguez - Taller Tupac Amaru
Fekkak Mamdooh – Restaurant Opportunity Center - United
Francis Calpotura, Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA) Gabriel Rey-Goodlatte - Color of Change
Gary Delgado – Applied Research Center
Gerald Lenoir – Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Ian Kim – Ella Baker Center
Jeff Chang – Vibe Magazine, Author – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and Total Chaos
Jermaine Toney - Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Jill Reese - Northwest Federation of Community Organizers
John Jackson – Schott Foundation for Public Education
Josina Morita - United Congress of Community & Religious Organizations
Judith Browne-Dianis - Advancement Project
Judith LeBLanc – United for Peace and Justice
Julia Grantham Freeman - Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Kenyon Farrow – Queers for Economic Justice
LeeAnn Hall - Northwest Federation of Community Organizers
Liza Sabater – Culture Kitchen
Lori Villarosa - Philanthropic Institute for Racial Equity
Malkia Cyril – The Center for Media Justice
Mark Winston Griffith- Drum Major Institute
Mattie Weiss - Campus Camp Wellstone
Melanie Cervantes - Taller Tupac Amaru
Nunu Kidane – Priority Africa Network
Patricia Watkins – United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations
Rinku Sen – Applied Research Center
Rocio Cordoba – California Latinas for Reproductive Justice
Sally Lehrman – Society for Professional Journalists
Salvador Miranda - Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Saru Jayaraman – Restaurant Opportunity Center - United
Seth Wessler - Applied Research Center
Soyinka Rahim – Our Thing Performance Art Company
Steve Pitts - UC Labor Center
Tammy Johnson – Applied Research Center
Terry Keleher – Applied Research Center
Van Jones – Green For All
Viviana Renella - Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA)
Will Pittz – Washington Community Action Network
Nine time Grammy-Award winner Eddie Palmieri and Bryan Lynch Latin Jazz Quartet.
RACEFLIX Film Festival
The following films are the official 2008 RaceFlix Film Festival selections.
Racing California - Produced by Backstory Narratives and Applied
Research Center
Examines how the change in the state's population to a
majority people of color has triggered a conservative backlash of
policies and electoral propositions targeting residents of color. The
film briefly explores policy changes that would better serve the
state's new majority.
The Sixth Section – by Alex Rivera – Immigrants Organizing Across Borders
Vincent Who? – Producer and co-director Curtis Chin and Tony Lam. Presented by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress in association with Tony Lam Films and Q & A Pictures.
In 1982, Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by two white autoworkers at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments. For the first time, Asian Americans around the country galvanized to form a real community and movement. This documentary, inspired by a series of town halls organized by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress on the 25th anniversary of the case, features interviews with the key players at the time, as well as a whole new generation of activists. "Vincent Who?" asks how far Asian Americans have come since then and how far we have yet to go. Featured interviews include: Helen Zia (lead activist during the Chin trial), Renee Tajima Pena (director, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"), Stewart Kwoh (Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center), Lisa Ling (journalist), Dale Minami (civic rights attorney), Sumi Pendakur (Univ. of Southern California), Doua Thor (Executive Director, Southeast Asian Resource Action Center) and a group of five diverse young APA activists whose lives were impacted by Vincent Chin.
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? -- by California Newsreel -- "When the Bough Breaks," (Episode 2)
Why do infant mortality rates among African Americans remain more than twice that of white Americans? Although birth outcomes are generally better for those with higher education and income, African American women with college degrees are still more likely to give birth prematurely than white women who drop out of high school. Researchers are circling in on a provocative explanation: the chronic stress of racism throughout the life course can become embedded in the body, taking a heavy toll on African American families and their children even before they leave the womb.
UNNATURAL CAUSES explores
how the social conditions in which Americans are born, live and work
profoundly affect health and longevity, even more than medical care,
behaviors and genes. This seven-part, four-hour documentary series challenges fundamental beliefs about what makes Americans healthy – or sick – and offers new remedies for an ailing society. Produced by California Newsreel with Vital Pictures.www.unnaturalcauses.org.
The following films will be shown during the Media That Matters film
hour – hosted by ArtsEngine. They are all Official Selections of the
Media That Matters Film Fesitval
Perversion of Justice - Directed & Produced by Melissa Mummert
What can be said of a justice system that sentences a young mother of
three to life in prison for a first-time and non-violent drug-related
offense?
Something's Moving - Directed by Randy Vasquez, Produced by Jonathan Skurnik
Survivors of a U.S. boarding school for the Lakota are breaking the
chain of trauma in order to heal their spirits, their community and the
country.
A Loud Color - Directed & Produced by Brent Joseph
Louis Harding takes a tour of his neighborhood in post-Katrina New
Orleans, recounting the contributions of notable African Americans to
New Orleans' culture and the long road ahead.
African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal - Directed by Magee McIlvaine, Ben Herson, Chris Moore, Produced by Nomadic Wax and Sol Productions
Step into the African Underground and listen to a new voice inspired by
religions, politics, old school Hip Hop and Senegalese culture.
America For Dummies – Directed by Niaz Mosharraf, Produced by Reel Works Teen Filmmaking
Niaz Mosharraf challenges his peers on their knowledge of
current-affairs and asks questions like: "Why do we know more about
K-Fed than Kofi Annan?"
Sovereign Nation - Directed & Produced by Kendall Moore
The Narragansett tribe defends its sovereignty only to encounter
violent resistance and entrenched misunderstanding from their home
state of Rhode Island.
Rights on the Line - Produced by American Friends Service Committee, American Civil Liberties Union and WITNESS
What happens when people cross the line? Vigilantes take the law into their own hands on the U.S.-Mexican border.
Still Standing – Directed & Produced by Educational Video Center yo-TV & Youth
Ms. Gertruded returns to what remains of her New Orleans home and
fights to rebuild what she can in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Food Justice, A Growing Movement – Directed & Produced by Martina Brimmer and Zora Tucker
Farmers become activists in the fight for food justice in West Oakland, California.
Slip of the Tongue – Directed by Karen Lum, Produced by Youth Sounds Factory
"What's your ethnic make up?" A young man makes a pass at a beautiful
stranger and gets an eye-opening schooling on race and gender.
Book 'Em: Undereducated, Overincarcerated – Produced by Youth Rights Media
In New Haven, Connecticut the pipeline from school to prison is shorter than you might think.
PATRONS Akonadi Foundation
The California Endowment
SEIU Community Strength Division
ADVOCATES
Center for Community Change
Center for Social Inclusion
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues
Green for All
Generational Alliance
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
FRIENDS
ACLU of Northern California
Arts Engine
California Tomorrow
DEMOS
Everyday Democracy
Justice Matters
Lambda Legal Center
Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Taller Tupac Amaru
The Schott Foundation for Public Education
SUPPORTERS
The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change
Center for New Racial Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Q. Can I download the registration form and fax it to you with my credit card number?
A.
Yes, you can download the registration form and mail of fax it to
Applied Research Center, Attn: Gina Acebo, Network and Events
Coordinator, 900 Alice Street, Suite 400, Oakland, CA, 94607. Fax:
(510) 986-1062. Payments for offline registrations must be received within 30 days or the registration will be cancelled. Registration Form
Q. Can I register and pay on site?
A. Yes, we will accept on-site registration by check or credit card. Please note that space is limited, and therefore cannot be guaranteed. We encourage pre-registration.
Q. Is there a daily rate to attend the conference?
A. The discounted daily rate is $200/day.
Q. Can I get a refund?
A. We do not offer refunds after October 31, 2008.Partial fee's will be added as the date approaches.Our
conference rate was kept as low as possible to encourage community
participation. Below is a list of refund deadlines.
Refund If Cancelled By
$ 230.00 8/10/2008
$ 200.00 9/30/2008
$ 150.00 10/17/2008
$ 0.00 10/31/2008
Q. Is it possible to register for other persons? Can I purchase more than one item?
A.
Yes, you will need to include the following: first & last name,
email address, organization/company, and name to appear on the nametag. A group discount for full registraion will automatically be applied at check-out for groups of three or more. For discounts for groups of five or more, please contact Gina Acebo at gacebo@arc.org or by calling 510.653.3415 ext. 4919.
Please
note: All members registering under one group will be listed under the
primary organizations name. If you are purchasing a daily rate, you
will need to register yourself as an additional guest to purchase a
ticket for the events not included in your daily rate.
Q. Are there scholarships available to help me attend Facing Race 2008?
A. SCHOLARSHIPS ARE NOW CLOSED. For
volunteer information, please email dhernandez@arc.org. All applicants
will be asked to submit a resume and asked to sign a volunteer
agreement.
Accommodations
Q. Is there a discounted group rate offered at the Oakland Marriott?
A. Yes, please make reservations directly with Marriott Reservations at 1-800-991-7249 between 6:00AM-11:00PM Pacific Standard Time. Please request the Applied Research Center in order to receive the Group Rate. The deadline for making reservations under the discounted rate is February October 26, 2008.
To expedite check-in, your reservations must include the following information:
Arrival and departure dates;
Estimated time of arrival;
Room preference (single or double/double);
Credit card information, including expiration date, for reservation guarantee
Check-in time: 3:00PM Check-out time: 12 noon
For more questions? Please email facingrace@arc.org or call ARC at 510-653-3415
Music: respectively, Cat Power "I Don't Blame You" from the Album "You Are Free" and Eddie Palmieri "Seeds of Life" from the Album "Harlem River Drive."
OAKLAND MARRIOT CITY CENTER – 1001 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Travel Information
From Airports to Oakland Marriot
Oakland - OAK
» Hotel direction: 8.0 mi N
» Driving Directions: Exit airport. Take Hegenberger Rd to I-880 N. Exit Broadway and turn right. Go 3 blocks, turn left on 10th St. Make right turns around the block to hotel entrance.
This hotel does not provide shuttle service.
» Alternate Transportation: City Express Shuttle
» Estimated taxi fare: 40.00 USD (one way)
San Francisco - SFO
» Hotel direction: 26.0 mi NE
» Driving Directions: Take 101 North. Merge to I-80. Take 580 East off the bridge to 980 S. Take 11th/12th St. exit. Go 1 block, turn left. Hotel is at 11th & Broadway.
This hotel does not provide shuttle service.
» Alternate Transportation : Bayporter
» Estimated taxi fare: 80.0 USD (one way)
San Jose, California - SJC
» Hotel direction: 43.0 mi N
» Driving Directions: Take I-880 North. Exit Broadway and turn right. Go 3 blocks, turn left on 10th St. Make right turns around the block to hotel entrance.
Questions? Please email or call ARC at (510) 653-3415, x4919
Lodging
For those attending the conference please make reservations directly with Marriott Reservations at 1-800-991-7249 between 6:00AM-11:00PM Pacific Standard Time. Please request the code “Applied Research Center” in order to receive the Group Rate. The deadline for making reservations under the discounted rate is October 26, 2008.
To expedite check-in, your reservations must include the following information:
Arrival and departure dates;
Estimated time of arrival;
Room preference (single or double/double);
Credit card information, including expiration date, for reservation guarantee
Check-in time: 3:00PM Check-out time: 12 noon
Oakland Marriott® City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, California 94607
Phone: 1-510-451-4000
Fax: 1-510-835-3466
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