Events

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 1pm- 5pmBeacon Field, Greenfield, MA, with Mpress Bennu of Moving Mountains Greenfield Juneteenth Event Schedule Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a holiday celebrated annually on June 19th in the United States. It commemorates the day in 1865 when the last group… Read More »Juneteenth Tabling

Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 6:30 to 8pm EST on Zoom, by The Reparations Collective What are Reparations? Questions and Conversation. You are invited to this virtual event! Free. All welcome. Co-sponsored by WMSURJ and Racial Justice Rising Advance registration required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing… Read More »Reparations Teach-In

• Monday, November 28 – 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. • Monday, December 5 – 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. • Monday, December 19 – 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The City has engaged the services of two experienced facilitators to host a series of community conversations on race, gender, class, equity and… Read More »We eagerly invite you to these three facilitated online training sessions sponsored by the Greenfield, MA Mayor’s office.

September 13, 2022 – Please join us for an inspiring presentation by Yavilah McCoy, an anti-racism activist and third generation Jewish woman of color. Yavilah is a renowned national speaker, educator and spiritual practitioner. She will explore racism and
antiseimitism as they impact both Black and Jewish communities and the relationships between us.

August 12 – 14, 2022, 10am – 3pm virtual workshop Registration: Undoing Racism Workshop, People’s Institute Northeast (PINE) Join this two-day regional virtual Undoing Racism workshop where participants will experience a humanistic process exploring how we have been racialized, socialized and conditioned to think about race and racism, and what… Read More »Undoing Racism

August 15, 2021 RJR is honored to have had a table at the Pocumtuck Homelands Festival again this year!Many thanks to the Nolumeka Project, who organize this beautiful annual event.

June 11 & June 23, 2018 On Monday, we rallied at the state house, and then stopped traffic in the financial district for four hours, to demand a living wage and an end to the immoral situation in this country where 3 people own as much wealth as the bottom… Read More »PPC Rally in Boston & D.C.

June 4, 2018 Earlier this week, we honored veterans and people who died at the hands of police by holding America accountable to the highest standard of patriotism and insisting that this country become a more perfect union. Thank you to everyone who made it to the encampment on Boston… Read More »You Honored Our Country

May 28 & 30, 2018 IMPORTANT NEWS ON WEEK 4: The Eastern MA organizers of the Poor People’s Campaign has just decided to come to Springfield for Week Four of the Campaign to show their solidarity in our struggle and to help build the movement for environmental justice and health… Read More »Week 4 of PPC Campaign in Springfield

May 23, 2018 Thank you to all who came out for Monday’s Rally and Sit-in at the State House to address systemic racism, voting rights, immigration justice, Islamophobia and Indigenous rights. We’re so proud of everyone’s hard work and commitment to the movement! Over 200 of us rallied on the Boston Common, and 16… Read More »Mass State House Rally

March 17, 2018 Racial Justice Rising hosted a potluck dinner welcoming walkers from the New England Peace Pagoda’s 17th annual Walk For A New Spring.  Many thanks to community members who provided a wonderful meal! In a program following the meal, we heard about these projects: We will have more… Read More »Potluck with Peace Pagoda

October, 2017 THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SHOWED UP IN THE RAIN on Indigenous Peoples Day for the first Reading Circle! See below for the next circle’s readings. And thanks to Bagel the Beagle for making things sunny last time! Readings for the third circle (upcoming—see below for more). The… Read More »The Harvest: Reading Circles