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PRESENTED BY
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, UUCSR
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Sunday, February 5, 2012, 12:30am
Diversity
Social Location: Understanding How We Are Socialized to Think About Ourselves and Others
Speaker: Stephanie Puentes, Diversity Educator.(Jeanie Bates, facilitator)
Please join Stephanie Puentes for this interactive session designed to help us understand how our society teaches us to think about ourselves and others. Through interactive exercises, we will explore our own social location (our lens and filters) as a basis for affirming justice and equity for others. As the saying goes, a fish doesn't recognize water, so until we become aware of the unconscious assumptions we have made and continue to make, we will not be able to transcend the limitations of our social group. Many years ago Rogers and Hammerstein said it clearly: "You've got to be taught before it's too late / Before you are six or seven or eight / To hate all the people your relatives hate / You've got to be carefully taught." Sadly, most of us have, whether we know it or not. We will meet from 12:30 to 2 pm. A light lunch will be available for a donation.
(Hot Topics events are usually held in the Board Room of the Glaser Center)
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Sunday, March 4, 2012, 12:30am
The California Prison System
Speaker: Alex, former inmate(Phyllis Clement, facilitator)
Our speaker, Alex, a longtime resident of the north bay area, will give you an inside look at the California prison system. He was an inmate for many years, a model prisoner who has now been paroled.
(Hot Topics events are usually held in the Board Room of the Glaser Center)
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Hot Topics
are held in the Board Roomor the RE Wing Lobby
at the Glaser Center (and UUCSR)
547 Mendocino Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA ______________________________________________________________________________ Questions: 707-823-0925
Or the main Advocates for Social Justice page on this web site. ______________________________________________________________________________
