Sunday, December, 8, 2024 at 5 – 9 pm All Souls Church 399 Main St, Greenfield, MA, with Grassroots Reparations Campaign Join a community partner, Truth Telling Project’s Grassroots Reparations Campaign, for any of these three events in December for the screening of a reparations themed film followed by a… Read More »Film Series on Reparations
August 3 & 4, 2024 Unity Park, Great Falls / Turners Falls MA Nolumbeka Project and River Culture present: the Pocumtuck Homelands Festival — a celebration of Native American art, music and cultures! Racial Justice Rising is honored to be invited to table again this year. Flyer for 2024 Pocumtuck… Read More »Pocumtuck Homelands Festival Tabling
August 5 & 6, 2023 Unity Park, Turners Falls MA Announcing this partner event in our community: the Pocumtuck Homelands Festival and River culture present a celebration of Native American art, music and Cultures! Racial Justice Rising is honored to be invited to table. Stop by on Sat. August 5th… Read More »Pocumtuck Homelands Festival
November 2022 & On-going Produced by the Nolumbeka Project and Jennifer Lee (Northern Narragansett) in collaboration with Turning Tide Films; Directed by Robbie Leppzer Additional downloadable resources for teachers and lifelong learners are provided. Films are free here. Referenced in Daily Hampshire Gazette here.
Fri. Dec 16 – Sun. 18, 2022 Friday 9am – Sunday 5pm Virtual and in person at Greater Friendship Baptist Church 328 Tibet Avenue Savannah, GA 31406by Truth Telling Project Registration required. To register, scroll down to choose which events to join. Truth Telling Project’s “Culture of Reparations Weekend” is happening… Read More »Culture of Reparations Weekend
Action deadline August 17, 2022 As we discussed in our news post about the proposed Task Force prompted by the “racial animus” ruling about the Greenfield Police Department, the composition of the group is currently being discussed by the city council. RJR believes that people of color should be represented… Read More »Call Mayor & Council re: Task Force
August 6 & 7, 2022 RJR is honored to have had a table at the Pocumtuck Homelands Festival again this year! Many thanks to the Nolumbeka Project, who organized this beautiful annual event. Read more about the event in the Greenfield Recorder: Growing Pocumtuck Homelands Festival brings attendees ‘back to… Read More »Pocumtuck Homelands Festival
We support the Greenfield People’s Budget and its ongoing advocacy for anti-racist police reform following the Buchanan verdict.
We are friends, family, and neighbors who want community-led solutions to public safety in Greenfield and Franklin County, Massachusetts. We want programs that reduce harm and meet people’s real needs. Other cities have great success with community-led, holistic public safety programs, and we want the same thing here.
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We want people who have been harmed by the system to have a say in how we make our town a safe, thriving, and just community.
Action deadline August 17, 2022 As we discussed in our news post about the proposed Task Force promp…
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Building a Culture of Reparations examines the history, spiritual, conceptual (ethical and moral), and practical dimensions of reparations as a global movement.
Dr. Ragland will speak about the various ways ordinary people can build a spiritual and practical culture of reparative justice work. There will be time for questions, and the sponsors will send you off with several immediate, accessible, joyful actions you can take towards healing and reparation work.
August 15, 2020 Several hundred, many younger folks, turned out for a well organized Peaceful Protest, by Greenfield Racial Justice, a group Racial Justice Rising is supporting. When it was announced on Facebook that there was to be a pro-Trump march and rally on Aug. 15th, 2020, Greenfield Racial Justice… Read More »Peaceful Protest to Trump Rally