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Overcoming Racism:
Recognizing & Challenging the Legacies That Oppress Us
Friday, October 29, 2010: 9 am - 6 pm
Saturday, October 30, 2010: 9 am - 5:30 pm
William Mitchell College of Law
St. Paul, MN

Register for the conference online: Preregistration costs $120 for both days/$75 for a single day. Scholarships are available. Preregistration will be limited to 350 participants, and we expect to sell out, so register NOW!

Each day of the conference will include an opening plenary, AM keynote address, networking time, lunch, two workshop sessions, and a PM keynote or panel. Come for both days to experience all the opportunities, but if you can only make one of the days, you will still get a lot out of it! The full program will be posted here as soon as it is available.

Friday AM Keynote: Antony Stately, PhD (Ojibwe/Oneida) Director, Mental Health and Chemical Health Programs, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Prior Lake, MN
Friday PM Panel Moderator: Dr Delores Fridge, Chief Resolution Officer, Medtronic Corporation
Saturday AM Keynote: Winona LaDuke, White Earth Land Recovery Project

Saturday PM Keynote: Eddie Moore, Founder, White Privilege Conference and Director of Diversity, The Bush School

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Be part of the planning and organizing of our second conference! The steering committee meets regularly the 3rd Friday of the month, 9-11 am at Cherokee Park United Church, 371 Baker St., 55107, on St. Paul's West Side.


Conference Mission: Advancing antiracist transformation of ourselves, our institutions and our communities

Purposes:

  • Address colonization, historical trauma and decolonization—the colonizer and colonized interactions, social arrangements, and mindsets
  • Communicate how historical trauma* developed (who? why?)
  • Understand how oppressive legacies are embedded (polices, institutions, social systems) and perpetuated today (practices, belief systems, behaviors) in the form of institutional and structural or systemic racism as well as its individual manifestations.
  • Understand what oppressive legacies looks like/how they manifest themselves, how they get all of us stuck (oppressor/oppressed), and how we get unstuck; what this understanding implies and demands in action (So what?)
  • Provide models, skills and tools for advancing antiracist transformation that participants can apply in their daily lives, their work and their institutional and community contexts.

Participants will:
  • Understand the challenges and benefits to having honest conversations about systemic racism, ongoing colonization, white privilege and white supremacy as manifested in and flowing from historical traumas resulting from the violence of colonialism
  • Gain practical skills and tools for countering racism, facilitating difficult conversations about race and racism, and for challenging institutional racism in their own life contexts.
  • Explore the unique challenges, possibilities and practical application of racial justice skills, tools and facilitation in their particular settings