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Equality Project Workshop
With the anticipated onslaught of anti-LGBTQ legislation in the 2017 legislative session, The Equality Project is hosting a training to help the LGBTQ and ally community learn how we can take positive, concrete steps to get engaged. The Equality Project is a public education and civic engagement program on policy issues and their effect on Texans. The Project also trains participants to establish relationships with their state representatives and senators, and to advocate for policy changes with their elected officials.…
Find out more »CANCELLED: Appropriation and Appreciation (a 4 course dinner discussion on gentrification)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Cultural appropriation is a term not often used, but when used it carries a weight that is often misunderstood to the point of offense at times. Where do we draw the line between “appropriate” forms of cultural exchange and more damaging patterns of cultural appropriation? With San Antonio's culinary selections and availability ever expanding, how do we honor the cultures we are sampling from? Equally our communities are becoming more susceptible to another term that…
Find out more »Dream Week: #WritersResist SATX
On January 15, 2017, writers across the United States and in Europe will come together for Writers Resist, a “re-inauguration” of our shared commitment to the spirit of compassion, equality, free speech, and the fundamental ideals of democracy. “Writers Resist: SATX” is San Antonio’s participation in this international event. It will be a mass reading of South Texas poets and writers, each reading for 3 minutes, from 1 to 8pm on Sunday January 15th at the Alamo Beer Brewery at…
Find out more »MLK Wreath-Laying Ceremony
The City of San Antonio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission invites the community to the commission’s annual Wreath-laying Ceremony honoring the life, struggles and accomplishments of Dr. King. Businesses and organizations will lay wreaths at the MLK, Jr. statue in commemoration. The event also will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. John Carlos, U.S. Olympic Medalist and Humanitarian. Speakers Dr. John Carlos, U.S. Olympic Medalist and Humanitarian Carlos became a founding member of the Olympic Project for Human Rights…
Find out more »Annual Vigil & Blessing of the Official Starting Place of the Martin Luther King Jr. March
Come join the 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Vigil & Blessing sponsored by The P.E.A.C.E. Initiative that will feature music by singer/songwriter Dana Clark. The vigil will invite participants to remember how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr worked with others to dismantle fear, division and hatred. This hopeful message of nonviolence will lead participants to rededicate themselves to exercise compassion, increase understanding, and promote peace. The vigil will close with a candlelight procession to the crosswalk, blessing the…
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