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<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 18<br />
General Information<br />
<strong>April</strong> Event<br />
Balancing the Demographics<br />
Wednesday, <strong>April</strong> 19th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM<br />
Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul Argon Room, Level 6<br />
Myron Orfield, director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Race and Poverty, will join experts and community leaders in<br />
a panel discussion on the changing racial composition of schools in St. Paul and the U.S.<br />
Is desegregation a broader issue than previously understood?<br />
Are we talking only about race? Or are we talking about economic integration?<br />
How might such policy changes affect where parents choose to send their children to school?<br />
Panelists joining Dr. Orfield: Kwame McDonald, Center for School Change, Jacquie Thomas, public school parent and advocate<br />
for African American families, Isabel Chanslor, Associate Community Liaison at the Northwest Area Foundation, Eric Jolly, president<br />
of the Science Museum of Minnesota.<br />
This discussion precedes an upcoming Science Museum national exhibit entitled “Understanding Race and Human Variation,” opening<br />
on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2007.<br />
Spanish, Hmong, and Somali interpreters will be available. Click here to download or print flyers in these languages and/or<br />
English. For more information, contact Julie Schultz Brown at julke@comcast.net or 651.222.2844.<br />
Free Tickets to Museum: Contact Kathy Klumb, k_klumb@yahoo.com, if you'd like free tickets for your children to visit the<br />
Science Museum while you attend the forum. Young children (parental discretion, under age 12 suggested) must be accompanied<br />
while visiting the museum.<br />
FBI Townhall Meeting - On CNN and MSNBC<br />
Dear Friends:<br />
A historic FBI Townhall Meeting was conducted<br />
today by the Council on American-Islamic<br />
Relations (CAIR) for broadcast on Bridges TV.<br />
This is a first-of-its-kind town hall meeting<br />
between the FBI and 10 million Arab and Muslim<br />
Americans on national television.<br />
You can catch news coverage of this historic event<br />
tonight on:<br />
> CNN: The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer at<br />
5pm & 7pm ET on Thu Apr 13th.<br />
> MSNBC: The Situation with Tucker Carlson at<br />
11pm ET / PT on Thu Apr 13th.<br />
This FBI Townhall Meeting by CAIR will be televised<br />
nationally on Mon May 15th at 8pm ET /<br />
9pm PT exclusively on Bridges TV. This historic<br />
FBI Townhall Meeting will be broadcast worldwide<br />
in May 2006 by Bridges TV in cooperation with<br />
the US State Department and American Embassies<br />
worldwide.<br />
This month Bridges TV expanded from less than<br />
10k premium pay homes into over one million<br />
FREE basic cable homes in America. Please contact<br />
your TV provider for FREE Bridges TV on<br />
basic cable. Thank you.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Bridges TV<br />
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM<br />
Free and open to the public.<br />
When? Thursday, <strong>April</strong> 20, 7:00 – 9:00 pm.<br />
Where? Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church,<br />
511 Groveland Avenue, Minneapolis (at Lyndale & Hennepin).<br />
Free parking in church parking lot.<br />
<strong>April</strong> 20: INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION:<br />
MEDIA DEMOCRACY: WHAT IS IT? HOW DO WE SECURE IT? WHO IN THE<br />
WORLD HAS IT?<br />
On the premise that a democratic society cannot exist without a democratic media, we will profile<br />
what "the media" is in an era of rampant technological expansion and commercial concentration,<br />
define what "media democracy" is in such a context and what’s required to secure it, and<br />
examine the state of "media democracy" in nations and regions of the world—with a special<br />
focus on the expanding “digital divide” between the technological “haves” and “have-nots” of<br />
our world’s societies. Discussion attendees will also receive a comprehensive set of resources on<br />
these and other media issues.<br />
Presenter: RICHARD L. (LEE) DECHERT. Lee is a longtime staffer at tpt, Twin Cities Public<br />
Television, with a broad background in broadcast technology and the funding, producing, promoting<br />
and providing of program and outreach services. For many years he has been active with<br />
organizations like the Resource Center of the Americas, WAMM (Women Against Military<br />
Madness), and Friends for a Non-Violent World. He has been a researcher, writer, organizer and<br />
consultant for local and national media organizations. And he’s currently an advisory board<br />
member of the Twin Cities Media Alliance and a Board member of the Minnesota Chapter of<br />
Citizens for Global Solutions<br />
Two job openings<br />
International Institute<br />
of MN<br />
We currently have two job openings<br />
listed on our website:<br />
www.iimn.org<br />
One is for an Employment<br />
Counselor working 3 days per<br />
week.<br />
And the other is for Operations<br />
Manager/Grantwriter (full-time.)<br />
Deadline for both is May 5, 2006.<br />
No phone calls please.<br />
John Borden<br />
Executive Director<br />
International Institute of<br />
Minnesota<br />
Please send your info to:<br />
<strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
nagaadtimes@aol.com<br />
Starting the Dialogue About<br />
Racism<br />
Facing Race Initiative<br />
Racism is not a thing of the past. Discrimination is<br />
still a fact of life for many people of color and<br />
immigrants, especially in housing, employment and<br />
education. Disparities in income, education,<br />
achievement and representation in the criminal justice<br />
system have been created and are maintained<br />
by the complex set of conditions and relationships<br />
that result in institutional racism.<br />
One way of taking the first steps in creating a community<br />
where everyone feels safe, valued and<br />
respected is by starting dialogue about race and<br />
racism. The New Conversations About Race and<br />
Racism DVD/VHS tool helps to increase community<br />
dialogue about race and racism and helps individuals<br />
increase their comfort level in addressing<br />
issues of racism in their own lives. New<br />
Conversations is available free of charge to individuals<br />
and organizations who live or work in the<br />
East Metro area (Dakota, Ramsey and Washington<br />
counties).<br />
New Conversations is part of the Facing Race<br />
We're all in this together(tm) initiative launched by<br />
The Saint Paul Foundation. Facing Race is a<br />
multi-year initiative that addresses racism at the<br />
individual and institutional levels. Over the next<br />
two years, we hope to raise awareness of how<br />
racism affects our community by encouraging<br />
1,000 groups to take part in New Conversations.<br />
To order New Conversations, learn more about<br />
Facing Race and to find other resources on diversity<br />
and racism, please visit www.FacingRace.org<br />
or call<br />
651.325.4265.<br />
Rowzat M. Shipchandler<br />
Project Manager, Facing Race Initiative<br />
The Saint Paul Foundation<br />
Phone: 651.325.4270/800.875.6167<br />
Fax: 651.224.8123<br />
www.saintpaulfoundation.org
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