Events
FREE ON-LINE MONTHLY PROGRAMS
Our monthly program series is supported in part by grants from Amherst, Ashfield, Bernardston, Buckland, Charlemont-Hawley, Conway, Deerfield, Gill, Greenfield, Heath, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Rowe, Shelburne, Warwick, Wendell, and Whately Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
SAVE THE DATE! Monday, October 4, 2021 at 7 p.m.
Know Your Rights, with Rebecca Kozak of the National Lawyers Guild
Join us via Zoom! To register in advance for this meeting, click on the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-GtqT8uG9eUWmUKWNOJJtsM6AlCr_7o
Learn about your rights and effective tactics if you have an encounter with the police!
The National Lawyers Guild’s Know Your Rights: Stop and Search clinic is part lecture, part Q&A, covering First Amendment rights specifically relating to interactions with the police, Fourth Amendment rights, FBI questioning, police encounters with immigrants, and more. It is meant for community members, immigrants, non-citizens, students, and those targeted by law enforcement or living in over-policed communities—anyone who wants to know their rights when interacting with law enforcement. The workshop is participant oriented and meant to provide the most essential tools when interacting with law enforcement.
Run by an attorney who has experience representing protesters, it offers an opportunity to ask about your own approaches to activism.
Rebecca Kozak has been a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel
Services for the past nine years, practicing out of the Chelsea District Court, Dorchester, Boston Municipal Court, and Suffolk County Superior Court. Rebecca graduated from Northeastern University School of Law.
WEEKLY VIGIL
Every Saturday from 10-11 a.m. on the Greenfield Common
According to a member of RJR’s coordinating committee, “Back in the last week of May 2020 when George Floyd was killed, Racial Justice Rising vigiled 5 times. It was clear that this was not going to be pushed under the rug and that the movement we’ve all been longing for was finally happening. RJR sent out the message that we were going to be out there every Saturday from 10am to 11am on the Greenfield Common to keep the presence alive.”
REPARATIONS WORKING GROUP- New Members Welcome
Meets twice a month for 1½ hours, via Zoom. The meetings are from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. EST on the first and third Wednesday each month. See Reparations Committee for more information.
OTHER GROUPS’ EVENTS
Reparations June with the Movement for Black Lives – a series of virtual events