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American Winter: Film and Panel Discussion

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Community Services Consortium (CSC) invites you to a showing of the riveting HBO documentary American Winter (click to view film trailer) which was filmed in Oregon and follows several local families through devastating economic situations.

American Winter  is a powerful story of resilience and the human condition.  The families in the film are not unlike the families that walk through CSC’s doors every day – they are our friends and our neighbors.  They work hard, they struggle and they fight for their survival.

American Winter:  6pm, Oct. 3rd OSU LaSells Stewart Center. 

Free Parking at Reser stadium (across the street).

Panel discussion lead by CSC Executive Director Martha Lyon, Corvallis Mayor Julie Manning, and OSU Sociology Professor Mark Edwards.

The showing is free, but donations are appreciated.

More information is available at http://communityservices.us/about/detail/category/awepk/.

October 5th Parent Conference

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Javier Cervantes from Linn-Benton Community College alerted us to this opportunity.  Please share as appropriate.

“College Begins at Home” – Regional Parent Conference on October 5th

We’re proud to be hosting the first ever regional conference for parents of Spanish-speaking English Language Learners in partnership with Chemeketa Community College, Salem OR, on Saturday, October 5, 2013. This event is FREE.

Spanish-speaking parents, especially those whose children are struggling academically, need extra support to become meaningfully involved in the educational process. To make it all happen, we all need to hold each other accountable: students, parents, teachers and community. This free conference will offer skills and support for Oregon parents who want to help their children become college-ready.

Workshops will include:
Communicating with schools
How to track your child’s progress
Understanding the challenges facing Latino children at school
Separate sessions will focus on parents of children in different school settings: Pre-K to 3rd grade, 4th through 7th grade, and 8th through high school. Meals will be provided to registered participants.

Information, registration, and sponsorships:

Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality
3850 Portland Rd NE #214
Salem, Oregon 97301
www.skcequality.org

Contacts:

Eduardo Angulo eangulo@skcequality.org

Annalivia Palazzo annalivia.palazzo@gmail.com.

Year One Overview

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Our CLD group thanks you for your contributions and support during our first year. A big thank you to those who attended our campus/community partnership event and our book/video discussions!

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Here’s a brief overview of the events we held and sponsored during the 2012-13 academic year.  Follow the links to read more.  The videos are still available for viewing.

The New Jim Crow

From the Fields

Lunchtime Video and Popcorn: Chimamanda-Adichie

Whistling Vivaldi 

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The New Jim Crow

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Our May 7 book discussion event is quickly approaching, and we hope many of you will be able to participate. Attached is our promotional flyer; newjimcrowevent.

DATE:  Tuesday, May 7, 2013
TIME:  11:30 AM – 1 PM
LOCATION: Furman 303

Please bring a friend and your lunch.

If you have not yet read the book – The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander– we have some copies available in Furman 104.  Please contact Lynda Thomas about borrowing one: lynda.thomas@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-4661.

If we run out of books and/or you run out of time before the event, we encourage you to look at one of Alexander’s recent lectures online and come participate anyway:  Michelle Alexander’s Oregon Humanities Center Lecture.

It may not seem readily apparent from the title that this book is directly related to our work as an educational community.  As you read it, you’ll discover that it is about basic civil and human rights, the formation and perpetuation of racial stereotypes, the importance of paying attention to cultural and individual silences, the unconscious bias in our expectations of youth, the pitfalls of a personal responsibility credo, the marginalization and dismantling of families/communities, etc.  It is a powerful read.

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From the Fields

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The College of Education and the College of Liberal Arts invites you to attend one of three screenings of the documentaryFrom the Fields: An American Journey by American University Professor Carolyn Brown. This 30-minute documentary follows the life of Damian Trujillo: from farmworker in the Salinas Valley to San Jose State University to the NBC Newsroom. From the Fields: An American Journey has been aired on NBC stations around the country and has won has won a Gracie for Outstanding Director, the California Film Award Orson Welles Grand Award and the CreaTV Award- Excellence in Directing

Please join us for a screening on campus:
3:00 p.m. – May 3,  OSU Film Screening (in conjunction with TCE 576 ESOL class), Furman 101

Everyone is welcome to attend one or more of the above screenings.

All screenings will be followed by an open Question and Answer session with the filmmaker.  Questions can be submitted in advance to RSVP@oregonstate.edu.

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