[ThirdCoast] - Closing the School-to-Prison Pipeline

[Third Coast Activist]

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Thursday, June 30, 6pm
“Suspended Childhood” Teach-In on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Excellence and Advancement Foundation<http://breakthepipeline.com/> and Texas Appleseed<https://www.texasappleseed.org/> are sponsoring a teach-in on the school-to-prison pipeline and practices in AISD schools.
Texas elementary schoolchildren are suspended, sent to alternative schools, and expelled at alarming rates, often for minor Student Code of Conduct violations such as horseplay, disruption of class, or dress code violations. During the 2013-2014 school year, almost half of all suspensions in Texas were issued to PK-2nd grade students, removals that are not required under state law and are at teachers’ discretion. And school districts have the ability to create their own student codes of conduct that go well beyond the state law, allowing suspensions of young students for normal, age-appropriate behavior.
More information on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/events/1552882031681126/>, and register online<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/suspended-childhood-infancia-suspendida-tickets-25843729290> to receive snack and drinks, Spanish-English interpreting, and childcare. Contact Rocío Villalobos, rvillalobos at texasappleseed.net<mailto:rvillalobos at texasappleseed.net>,
512-473-2800 ext. 100.
Location: Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex, 1156 Hargrave Street, Austin, 78702

Friday, July 22, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Eating While Young and Black: Dispatches from a Gentrifying City
            It's time for a fresh story. In Austin and in cities across the United States, Black youth and their families face gentrification, outmigration, displacement, and rebuilding. But their food experiences are often represented without this context and without young Black voices. RSVP<http://eatingwhileyoungandblack.eventbrite.com> for an opening performance and interactive talk that explores representations of eating while young and Black, their impact, and why shifting the narrative matters now. Interwoven with clips from *Eating While Young and Black*, a 4-year multimedia project with African-American and Afro-Latinx youth from Austin, Texas. Performance by Xavier Clark, with interactive talk by Dr. Naya Armendarez Jones of Food for Black Thought<http://www.foodforblackthought.com/>.
            Free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30, event begins at 7 pm. Seating is limited. RSVP on Eventbrite<http://eatingwhileyoungandblack.eventbrite.com>.
Location: Huston-Tillotson University, Agard-Lovinggood Auditorium, 900 Chicon St, Austin, TX 78702

Friday/Saturday, July 29-30
“Coming to Voice” Workshop on Women in Religion
The Women Ministers’ Empowerment Network (WMEN), a progressive ministerial alliance in the Austin area, is planning the “Coming to Voice” Conference in collaboration with WomanPreach<http://womanpreach.org/>!, a national group that nurtures female preachers and promotes Womanist/Feminist concerns for justice. In plenary sessions, workshops, and small group discussions over two days, the group will foster dialogue on issues specific to women of color in ministry, part of an ongoing project to build ministerial relationships for women of color for training, encouragement, and support. The program will also be valuable for others concerned about social justice and equity in religious organizations.
Dr. Margaret Aymer<https://austinseminary.academia.edu/MargaretAymer> will serve as the workshop’s Wisdom Conversation Partner. Aymer, an Associate Professor at Austin Seminary, has worked at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta and is active in the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion. She is the author of James: Diaspora Rhetorics of a Friend of God and First Pure, then Peaceable: Frederick Douglass, Darkness and the Epistle of James.
Rev. Dr. Valerie Bridgeman<http://www.mtso.edu/about-mtso/faculty-directory/valerie-bridgeman/> will serve as Lead Facilitator. Bridgeman is a Visiting Professor of Homiletics and Hebrew Bible at Methodist Theological School in Ohio and president and CEO of WomanPreach!, which is committed to training women called to preach who emerge from churches and academic institutions that can be insensitive or inhospitable to their vocation and voice. She is co-editor of Those Preaching Women: A Multicultural Collection and The Africana Worship Book.
The event is open to everyone interested in these issues, clergy and the public, and there is a fee. Registration online<https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1820081>.
Location: University United Methodist Church<http://www.uumc.org/>, 2409 Guadalupe, Austin, 78705

July 29-31, 2016
Worker Cooperative National Conference
The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives<https://usworker.coop/> and the Democracy at Work Institute<http://institute.coop/> will co-sponsor the Worker Cooperative National Conference in Austin this summer. Jose Antonio Vargas<https://twitter.com/joseiswriting?mc_cid=f7daa17df6&mc_eid=621426cf13> of Define American<http://www.defineamerican.com/page/about/about-defineamerican>, an organization that uses the power of stories to transcend politics and shift the conversation around immigration and identity, will keynote the conference.
Registration is open online<http://conference.coop/registration/?mc_cid=f7daa17df6&mc_eid=621426cf13>.
Location: Thompson Conference Center<http://www.utexas.edu/ce/tcc/files/forms/TCCparkingmMap.pdf>, University of Texas, 2405 East Campus Drive, Austin

Saturday, August 13, 9 am
5K Run for Palestine
The Reach Education Fund<https://reacheducationfund.com> and Austin’s Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights<https://www.facebook.com/ICPRAustin/?fref=ts> are sponsoring a family-friendly community 5K walk/run benefiting college students in Palestine. Reach Education Fund, a Houston-based nonprofit, provided university scholarships to 100 students in Palestine last year.
The event starts at 9 am, with the run at 10 am with two loops around Creek Trail starting and ending at Virg Rabb Pavillion at Old Settlers Park. The $35 registration fee can be paid online<http://run4palestine.com/reg.php>. More information on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/events/1009300472480566/> or contact elzabri at gmail.com<mailto:elzabri at gmail.com>, (512) 585-8184.
Location: Old Settlers Park, 3300 E Palm Valley Blvd., Round Rock, 78665

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In Solidarity,
Third Coast Activist Resource Center

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