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Anti-racism update 12.18.24

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AR QUIZ

  • The preservation foundation for which presidential estate recently announced they had located a cemetery for enslaved people who lived there?

EDUCATION

  • Scott Fulton continues his series of book reviews of books by and about Native Americans. Citizens of a Stolen Land by UW-Madison professor Stephen Kantrowitz tells the fascinating true story of how the Ho-Chunk were forcibly removed from their homelands in Wisconsin, and how their non-violent resistance and political events of the Reconstruction Era gained them the legal right to return as property-owning members of the community. The review may be found at https://madisonfriends.org/books-by-and-about-native-americans/
  • The holiday season may provide you with a bit more time to sample new podcasts. If you’re not familiar with Northern Spirit Radio (NSR), you might want to check it out: https://www.northernspiritradio.org/programs Some of us know the producer, Mark Helpsmeet, through Northern Yearly Meeting, which helps support NSR. The program offerings are in service of many of our Quaker testimonies. To sample an example of a program focused on criminal justice reform check out Healing of Youth Facing Adult Imprisonment – YSRP & Bianca van Heydoorn: https://www.northernspiritradio.org/spirit-action/healing-youth-facing-adult-imprisonment-ysrp-bianca-van-heydoorn Bianca is Executive Director of YSRP, the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project, working in multiple ways to limit the damage that our prison-industrial system does, and has done, to youth who are threatened with adult penalties, from ages as young as 10 in the unusually harsh system in PA.
ACTION

Families for Justice shared the following: Many folks are understandably searching for a way to engage, to find their role in bringing about a more just world. For those of us with money, Mariame Kabe reminds us that the act of redistribution is needed, it’s concrete, and it’s immediate. 
Here are a few local organizations we’re redistributing to this month:
Freedom Inc. is a Black and Southeast Asian non-profit organization that works with low- to no-income communities of color. Their mission is to achieve social justice through coupling direct services with leadership development and community organizing that will bring about social, political, cultural, and economic change.
Urban Triage is on a mission to transform culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future. Their goal is to promote positive health outcomes and reduce significant health disparities at the community level.
Voces de la Frontera is a membership-based community organization led by low-wage workers, immigrants and youth whose mission is to protect and expand civil rights and workers’ rights through leadership development, community organizing and empowerment.
MOMs (Moms On a Mission at East High) is a grassroots, community-based group of mothers who show up to East High School every single day to help foster the school community our kids deserve. MOMs creates a nonviolent environment by being present, creating relationships, providing snacks, and de-escalating conflict.
Free School Meals for Madison Coalition is running a mutual aid campaign to provide direct relief to working families in MMSD who currently owe almost $200,000 in school meal debt. Together, as a community, we can pay off meal debt while also advocating for systemic change.

AR QUIZ ANSWER

  • The Andrew Jackson Foundation which oversees the Hermitage, Jackson’s home in Nashville.  Jackson, the 7th President of the US, owned, with his son, at least 300 enslaved people; at least two dozen lived at the Hermitage.  Archeologists, using ground penetrating radar, located 28 graves.

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