Join us as we work through Tori Williams Douglass's White Homework: Lesson Two. Douglass is a Portland-based anti-racist educator and writer (she will not be joining us personally). "European Americans need a job in fixing the disparities that they disproportionately benefit from. But you can’t start a job without training. That’s why I decided to create White Homework."

We will be working through her "White Homework: Lesson Two— Mass Incarceration.” From her course page: Many of us know the calls for criminal justice reform but not as many of us know the people doing the necessary work to make those reforms reality. In this lesson, we’ll explore the effects of mass incarceration on your community and meet the people working to improve outcomes across the board.

Come prepared to do research and participate in self-reflection and active conversation. Lesson will be provided.

Visit Douglas's website to learn more about White Homework and how white folks can unlearn white supremacy through greater understanding of historical context of present day.

https://www.toriglass.com/
https://www.toriglass.com/white-homework-lessons

Details are still being confirmed, but this may be CORE’s *first* in-person program meeting since 2020!
If you are a CORE member, location details will be automatically sent to you.

2021 was a doozy of a year! We’re taking our February meeting as a social opportunity to reflect on our experiences.

Two questions will be asked:
What did you learn in 2021 that disappointed you?
What did you learn in 2021 that pleasantly surprised you?

Join us to connect with CORE members (it’s been a while!) as we get ready for the year ahead.

This month our meeting is on Tuesday, December 7th from 6-7:30pm. We will be meeting in person (location TBD) to work on providing holiday gifts for local CASA youth. Every winter holiday CORE receives wishlists from local teens who are represented by CASA advocates. We do our best to fill each wishlist as best we can so every youth feels seen and celebrated for the holiday. Supply chain issues and postal delays may be challenging this year, so we’ll need to collaborate to make sure everyone gets their gifts on time.

This meeting is open to CORE membership. Let’s get together to make a difference for local youth!

Meeting location details & covid policy will be emailed to members before the event

Join CORE and Heather Carmichael, pastor at The Grove Church, as we discuss living your values and how to share that with the young people in your life. We’ll look at how to navigate difficult conversations, how to model our values through our actions, as well as making sense of values of loved ones that don’t match our own.

Heather Carmichael is passionate about justice, mercy and love. She wants the best for all people in all places. To bring about the change she believes in, she serves as Pastor of Worship and Community Outreach at The Grove Church. She volunteers on committees for the Albany Student Advocacy Project and the NAACP. Heather works closely with Greater Albany Schools, in addition to being on the Albany Police Departments Diversity Advisory Team. Heather lives in Albany with her husband and teenage daughter. Their son is a recent high school graduate and is about to launch out on his own.

Join CORE as we learn about Critical Race Theory (CRT) from someone who actually teaches it! Vanessa Stout, PhD, is associate professor in Sociology with an emphasis on Race, Gender, Urban Space, Migration, and Immigration, at Richard Bland College of William and Mary in Richmond, VA.
Stout teaches CRT Intro to her students, so who better to help unpack both CRT and the claims about CRT that are bandying around in the news and media talking head segments.
Stout's presentation will be followed by a Q&A.

Join CORE and guest presenter Jennifer Romich, PhD, as she delves into the implications of the $15 minimum wage.

Dr. Romich, Director of West Coast Poverty Center and a University of Washington Professor of Social Work, has an extensive background in economics, policy, and social work.

May’s program meeting is unique because it is just for members! We will get together to share our hopes for CORE in the coming year, discuss upcoming board elections, and learn more about what drives our members to connect each month.

If you are a member you will receive the Zoom link automatically.

If you are not a member we look forward to seeing you at our June meeting on June 3rd, where we will learn about the $15 minimum wage.

Join us as we continue to work through Tori Williams Douglass's White Homework: Lesson One. Douglass is a Portland-based anti-racist educator and writer (she will not be joining us personally). "European Americans need a job in fixing the disparities that they disproportionately benefit from. But you can’t start a job without training. That’s why I decided to create White Homework."

Oregon State University's Director of Community Diversity Relations, Dr. Allison Davis-White Eyes, will join us as we work through "White Homework: Lesson One--Native People + European Settler Colonialism" to better understand the current situation of people who have been in the Willamette Valley before white settlement. Come prepared to do research and participate in self-reflection and active conversation. Lesson will be provided.

Visit Douglas's website to learn more about White Homework and how white folks can unlearn white supremacy through greater understanding of historical context of present day.
https://www.toriglass.com/
https://www.toriglass.com/white-homework-lessons

Join us as we work through Tori Williams Douglass's White Homework: Lesson One. Douglass is a Portland-based anti-racist educator and writer (she will not be joining us personally). "European Americans need a job in fixing the disparities that they disproportionately benefit from. But you can’t start a job without training. That’s why I decided to create White Homework."

We will be working through her "White Homework: Lesson One--Native People + European Settler Colonialism" to better understand the current situation of people who have been in the Willamette Valley before white settlement. Come prepared to do research and participate in self-reflection and active conversation. Lesson will be provided.

Visit Douglas's website to learn more about White Homework and how white folks can unlearn white supremacy through greater understanding of historical context of present day.

https://www.toriglass.com/
https://www.toriglass.com/white-homework-lessons

In this month's member meeting we'll explore mutual aid and how to show up for our community in the coming year. How can individuals fill community needs that are going unmet? How does collective action increase the impact of the individual? We'll look at a successful example of local mutual aid in action, It's On Us Corvallis (https://itsonuscorvallis.org/about-us), which supports local restaurants and hungry community members. We'll hear from It's On Us's Aliza Tuttle and restaurant owner Morgan Orr who has been part of the program as a small business owner (Brass Monkey restaurant). We'll also hear from budget specialist Jackie Rockwell on how to fit ongoing financial support into your annual spending plan.

Join CORE President Sarah Matson and psychologist Matt Campbell as they unpack how to build new, adaptive traditions in the face of heightened political awareness, pandemic safety precautions, and a search for meaning and connection with as many obstacles as ever.

What happens to democracy when citizen voices are muted?

Join CORE as activists Jon Pincus and Kathy Gill explore the sand in the gears of civic engagement. We’ll learn about the electoral college, gerrymandering, the undermining of mail-in ballots, voter fraud risk, the inequity of in-person voting, and voting rights violations recently seen in Georgia. 

Attendees should expect to come away with actionable practices.
Registration closes the day before the talk so please RSVP by Tuesday, September 8th.

About the Speakers:
Jon Pincus is a strategist, and activist who focuses on justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality. He’s currently one of the organizers of IndyVAMP (the Indivisible Plus Washington Voter/Activist Mobilization Project), and previously organize the Voter Suppression Wiki and Twitter Vote Report; has spoken on voting rights and grassroots activism at conferences including Computers, Freedom, and Privacy and Open Source Bridge; and blogs about disinformation and digital voter suppression from an intersectional equity perspective. He’s one of the leaders of Indivisible Plus Washington, a 20,000+-person anti-racist non-partisan progressive statewide group, and his current software project is The Nexus Today.

For almost 8 years, Kathy Gill managed the website for King County (WA) Elections, currently the largest county in the country to vote entirely by mail. From 2004-2009 she managed the US Politics site for About.com. She was a delegate to the Washington State Democratic Party’s annual convention in 2016. Kathy is a communications professional and educator who is passionate about voting rights and public policy issues around the intersection of technology and power. A native of south Georgia, she has called Washington state home for three decades.