[SustainableTompkins] Reminder: Sustainability, Race & Class Thu 5/22

[Gene Baur]

Looks great, and I'd like to go.

Can you RSVP for both of us?  Then, maybe I could see you either before
or after?  Just let me know.  

Thanks!




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Subject: [SustainableTompkins] Reminder: Sustainability,Race & Class Thu
5/22

  Note: The notice  says RSVP by May 15, 272-3622 
but they're encouraging people to come anyway. 
***If coming, though, please RSVP!***
Elan


SUSTAINABILITY:  RACE & CLASS MATTERS

Multicultural Resource Center and GIAC
to hold Annual Meeting May 22

On Thursday, May 22, the public is invited to 
attend a combined Annual Meeting for the Greater
Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) and the Multicultural Resource Center
(MRC).

The meeting begins at 5:30 PM with dinner, and 
takes place at GIAC, 318 N. Albany Street, Ithaca.
There is a suggested donation of $5.

The featured guest speaker is Scott Perez of the 
American Indian Program at Cornell University,
Department of Natural Resources. His talk will 
focus on how environmental justice and social 
justice are intertwined and cannot be separated. 
Perez explains, "We cannot have a sustainable
environment as long as there is poverty and 
bigotry.  Conversely, as we build a more
sustainable economy, we can refocus our money and 
education to protecting Mother Earth Perez will
talk about what he has learned from the elders, 
from those working for environmental justice in
the cities, from farm workers and rural folks 
fighting factory farming, and how these issues
are tied together.

Each organization will give awards to community 
members who took a stand in support of the
organizations' missions. The evening will also 
feature a special presentation by the GIAC five
and six-year old program. MRC, in conjunction 
with artist Erika Medina, will unveil the "I Have
a Dream" quilt which was created by community 
members at the MLK Day of Celebration in January 
and was funded by the Community Arts Partnership.

The Multicultural Resource Center is celebrating 
more than twenty years of service to the Tompkins
County community. MRC is a small, non-profit 
organization whose mission is to create dialog
around diversity issues, particularly racism, in 
Tompkins County. MRC provides resources such as
workshops, Talking Circles on Race and Racism, 
cultural celebrations, and a free lending
library, housed at 615 Willow Avenue in Cornell Cooperative Extension.

The Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) is a 
center for all ages, particularly youth and
teens. It serves the immediate neighborhood and 
the greater Ithaca area by providing
multicultural, educational and recreational 
programs focused on social and individual
development.

For more information about the Multicultural 
Resource Center, call 272-2292 or visit us online
at <http://www.multicultural-resource.org/>
www.multicultural-resource.org.

For more information about GIAC, please call 272-3622.


Audrey J. Cooper
Cornell Cooperative Extension TC & Multicultural Resource Center
615 Willow Avenue
http://www.multicultural-resource.org
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 272-2292, ext. 135
ajc39 at cornell.edu

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