2022
February 21, 2022 – Reparations Teach-In
February 5, 2022 – Stop Asian Hate: China Is Not Our Enemy
January 11, 2022 – A Conversation About Racism: Staying Curious, Moving Forward, and Being Part of the Solution
2021
December 4, 2021 – Tracing Racism Through Genealogy
October 13, 2021 – Conversation About Racism
October 4, 2021 – Know Your Rights
August 7-8. 2021 – Pocumtuck Homelands Festival
July 26, 2021 – Is Policing With HEART Possible?
June 12, 2021 – Cultivating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
June 10 & 17, 2021 – Conversations About Racism
May 22, 2021 – Upsetting Expectations: Looking At Black Contemporary Art
April 8, 2021 – Building A Culture of Reparations
February 20, 2021 – Food Forests
January 23, 2021 – When We Can Breathe Again, An Update
2020
December 3-7, 2020 – Mossville: When Great Trees Fall
September 10-20, 2020 – Harvest/La Cosecha
August 15, 2020 – Greenfield Racial Justice’s Counter-Protest of Pro-Trump Walk
March 7, 2020 – Palestine Solidarity
February 1, 2020 – A Discussion of Reparations with Dr. Amilcar Shabazz
January 4, 2020 – Homelessness: A Discussion with Arise For Social Justice
2019
December 7, 2019 – Lighting The Way, A Climate Change Theatre Action
October 28, 2019 – RJR members interviewed on WGBY’s Connecting Point
October 5, 2019 – Racism, Ageism, and Health Care
September 7, 2019 – Voices of Dissent/Music of Activism
July 6, 2019 – LGBTQI Asylum Seekers Tell Their Stories
April 6, 2019 – Lies We Tell Our Children
March 2, 2019 – Racism in the Prison Experience: An Overview From the Outside, Voices from the Inside
February 2, 2019 – Food Justice, HipHop, and Race
January 5, 2019 – 10th anniversary celebration
2018
December 1, 2018 – Just Another Mile
November 3, 2018 – Wisdom From The Indigenous Elders
October 13, 2018 – Rape, Racism, and the Real Cost of Food
September 1, 2018 – Voices of Dissent, Music of Activism
August 25, 2018 – First Franklin District Candidates Forum
July 7, 2018 – The Road Home: A Spiritual Pilgrimage To The South
June 2, 2018 – Racial Justice – Climate Justice
May 5, 2018 – 50 People 40 Questions
April 7, 2018 – Youth Speak Out
March 17, 2918 – Potluck gathering to welcome the New England Peace Pagoda’s Walk For A New Spring
March 3, 2018 – Step Up! Bystander Training
February 3, 2018 – Immigration and Trump: Franklin County’s Response
January 6, 2018 – 13TH, film and discussion
2017
December 2, 2017 – Race and Religion, with Tim Bullock, Abrah Dresdale, Gloria Matlock, Asima Silva, and Ted Todd
November 4, 2017 – Grandmother Teachings with Grandmother Jeorgina LaRocque
October 2017 / Special RJR Event – Harvest Reading Circles: Brown v. Board of Education, Desegregation, Resegregation
October 7, 2017 – The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code, film with discussion circle facilitated by Strong Oak
September 2, 2017 – Voices of Dissent, Music of Activism with Marcia Gomes, Arjuna Griest, Adam Matlock, Gloria Matlock, Licia Sky
August 26, 2017 – Organizing For Education Justice with Marianna Islam
June 3, 2017 – The Real Story of American History: My Story, Not His Story with Naimah Muhammad and Kathleen Anderson
May 27, 2017 – Racial Justice In The Courts: Is It Possible? with Buz Eisenberg
May 6, 2017 – Have You Seen My Childhood with Karmen Smith
March 4, 2017 – Spoken Word, An Art With A History with Tem Blessed
February 4, 2017 – The Evolving Face of Housing Discrimination with Elizabeth Bridgewater
January 7, 2017 – The Road to Freedom: Anti-Slavery Activity in Greenfield with Momodou Sarr and Joan Featherman
2016
December 3, 2016 – Taste of Brazil: The Story of Capoeira Dance with Tuzinho
November 5, 2016 – Racial Disparities in U.S. Health Care with Dr. Stephen Martin
October 1, 2016 – Building Relationships With Our Community and the Police
September 10, 2016 – Local Speakout On Racism and Violence
January 9, 2016 – Our Stories of White Privilege, Then & Now
2015
December 5, 2015 – Education or Miseducation: By Accident Or Design?with Dr. Mulazimuddin Rasool
November 7, 2015 – 1676 & Beyond: Tribes, Race, & Untold Histories with David Tall Pine White and David Brule
October 3, 2015 – Mass Incarceration & Imagining Alternatives, with Mel Motel
September 12, 2015 – Youth Speak Out
August 8, 2015 – What Reparations Forces Us To Do, with Chris Tinson
June 6, 2015 – One People One Earth, with Brother NorthStar
May 2, 2015 – Latinos in the U.S.: Colonization, Diaspora, & Racialization, with Annie Rodriguez
April 11, 2015 – Black Lives/Black History with Gloria De,Layne Matlock and Adam Matlock
March 7, 2015 – Food Justice: What Is It? with Liz O’Gilvie and Catherine Sands
February 7, 2015 – Black Lives Matter: Local Activists Speak
January 10, 2015 – Race & Class: Past and Present Connections with Angela Berkfield
2014
December 6, 2014 – Revisiting the Middle Passage with Ingrid Askew, Tim Bullock, and Melinda Holm
November 1, 2014 – Reparationists are the New Abolitionists, with Woullard Lett
October 18, 2014 – Slave Songs & Drumming: Healing Racism Through Music with Gloria De,Layne Matlock
September 6, 2014 – Cracking the Codes, The System of Racial Inequality, a film by Shakti Butler with conversation facilitated by Kara McLaughlin and Rachel Stoler
August 2, 2014 – Youth Injustice: Race, Class, & the School-to-Prison Pipeline, with Mel Motel
June 7, 2014 – Immigrant Voices: Families, Schools, & the Community with Rebecca Wright and Jimena De Pareja
May 3, 2014 – A Destructive Invisible Reality: How Privilege Hurts Us All, with Dottie R. Morris
April 5, 2014 – Franklin County’s First Peoples: History, Heritage, & Current Events, with Joe Graveline of the Nolumbeka Project
March 1, 2014 – Anika Nailah’s National Liberation Poetry Tour Experience Mini-Performance/Short Film
February 1, 2014 – Walk Right In: The Story of the Yale Summer High School. Film and discussion facilitated by Darnell Williams and Meg Maccini
January 4, 2014 – Interrupting Racism, a workshop with Keely Malone
2013
Oct 27, 2013 – Conversations Toward Racial Healing: Pleasantville: Nothing is Simple as Black and White, film with discussion, facilitated by Keely Malone
June 29, 2013 – Conversations Toward Racial Healing: Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, film with discussion, facilitated by Keely Malone
March 2, 2013 – Conversations Toward Racial Healing: Dialog on Last Chance For Eden, Part 2, a film by Lee Mun Wah and Stirfry Seminars, discussion facilitated by Anika Nailah and Robin DiAngelo
Jan 5, 2013 – Conversations Toward Racial Healing: Dialog on Last Chance For Eden, Part 1,, a film by Lee Mun Wah and Stirfry Seminars, discussion facilitated by Anika Nailah and Robin DiAngelo
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