Please join us for the next Richmond Racial Equity Public Safety Forum on Wednesday, May 7th, 6:30 – 8:00 pm at the Richmond Congregational Church or via Zoom.

Our neighbors and foreign students face illegal deportation – often for exercising their 1st Amendment rights. Immigrant workers integral to our communities and economy need our support for humane housing and work conditions. Are you wondering how you can be an advocate?

Come learn more from:

Will Lambek -Director of Migrant Justice; Christine Daudelin -Educator Champlain Valley Unified School District; an Equity Coach from Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District; Matt Cohen-Richmond Police

When: Wednesday, May 7th from 6:30-8:00 pm

Where: Richmond Congregational Church Community Room or Zoom link below

Bring your questions, your family, friends and neighbors for this important discussion session. Find out how you can help during these challenging times. In person attendance is encouraged and a Zoom link is available at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84747218787?pwd=itNnMFxlto3SSIJMuLAsIPDbq28Tag.1

Meeting ID: 847 4721 8787
Passcode: 700031

Hope to see you there!

How are we providing resources to effect lasting and positive change for individuals in this struggle, and ultimately for our entire community? How are we each implicated in these crises? How does our individual reaction to what we are seeing on our streets and in our communities feed into the types of policy responses we eventually legislate?

Join us at the Richmond Library on March 12th at 6pm

Film is 76 minutes

Conversation to follow film with folks from Williston Community Justice Center

FreeHer is a people-powered prison abolitionist campaign spearheaded by the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls. The National Council was founded in 2010 by a group of women incarcerated in federal prison in Danbury, CT. Many of whom are mothers, the organization works to end the criminal legal system’s forced separation of women, girls, trans, and gender expansive people from their communities and loved ones through hyper-local organizing, public awareness education, movement lawyering, life affirming programming and the national #FreeHer Campaign. The National Council also organizes globally through its International Network.

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Please join us at the next Richmond Racial Equity meeting this Wednesday, Feb 19 from 6:30-8p.

We will continue our Israel/Palestine Discussion, with Alexis facilitating.

1. Land Acknowledgment (Alexis — unless someone else wants to do this)
2. Discussion, continued : Why do you think that this group should (or shouldn’t) get involved? That is, how does it fit in with our mission? Is this a racial issue?
3. Have your thoughts on this changed since Jan 22? Now that DEI is under attack and the White House is openly advocating the ethnic cleansing (and genocide) of Gaza? Do we need to revisit this discussion?
4. Is it an omission we should fix that Islamophobia and antisemitism are not in the mission statement? How will we define antisemitism to distinguish it from criticism of Israel or Zionism?

RRE Mission statement:

“Engaging our community in rejecting racism and fostering inclusion by advancing equity for Indigenous, Black, and People of Color – through education, policy change, and reparations.”

For a discussion of distinguishing antisemitism from anti-zionism or criticism of Israel, please have a look at these two pages (The International Holocaust Remembrance Association and Jewish Voices for Peace) if you have a chance:

NOTE: Wafic has proposed (in his email to this group) that we reject the IHRA definition of antisemitism and its examples.

https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism

Here is an alternative viewpoint from Jewish Voices for Peace on the meaning of antisemitism, Zionism, and anti-Zionism.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/

5. Ideas/Proposals for actions we might take.

Hope to see you there! Zoom link is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87978589435?pwd=vBwCbuzrCrF0zcO7bRB173jfvEKumC.1

Meeting ID: 879 7858 9435
Passcode: 769933

The next Richmond Racial Equity meeting is this Thursday, Feb 12 from 6:30-8p on our usual Zoom link :

Topic: Richmond Racial Equity

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Meeting ID: 879 7858 9435
Passcode: 769933

Agenda coming soon… Connie

Hope to see you at tonight’s Safety Forum! Topics for our panel: Women’s incarceration in VT; information regarding the building of a large, expensive new women’s prison; concern for deportations and implications with our established Fair and Impartial Policing Policy; proposed closure of some restorative justice centers in Chittenden Co. and the potential impact on people entering the justice system; local safety issues and our evolving police department.

Topic: Public Safety Forum January 29th at 7pm
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Meeting ID: 874 1119 1121
Passcode: 768366

Welcome

Land Acknowledgment- Gretchen 

Public Safety Forum Planning:

Please review event organizer before our meeting. Feel free to add to the organizer if you have an idea or see something we forgot. Look for places to help.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18QEctPTslW1_lczItedzi4hp3rLlBBQVz8cu7ptJDMk/edit

What do each of you need from group members?

Patty-Panelists

Bonny- Publicity

Jana-Moderator

Emily-Door Greeters

Denise- Drinks and Refreshments

Gretchen- Venue

Connie and Gretchen-Technology

Bonnie-My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

Bonny-MLK update

Molly-“We Fight Back!” Jan.20

Patty-Seven Days Article-Videos Show a Former Grand Isle Corporal’s Quick Temper | Crime | Seven Days | Vermont’s Independent Voice

Patty- FIPP Update-circle around to Chief?

Patty-Police Assistant Update-circle around to Josh?

Patty-Williston Community Justice Committee update

Patty-Howard community Outreach Update

Topic: Richmond Racial Equity

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Meeting ID: 879 7858 9435

Passcode: 769933

Richmond Racial Equity Meeting Agenda
Patricia Brushett • Hinesburg Rd, Richmond
When: Dec 11, 2024, 6:30 to 8 PM

URL: https://uvmcom.zoom.us/j/99790068336?from=addon
6:30 -Welcome

Land Acknowledgment

Next meeting dates

Fair and Impartial Policing Policy-Next steps

MLK Celebration Planning

Public Safety Forum -January 29, 2025
6:30-8:00PM
Panel-Chief Cambridge, Cristalee McSweeney(WCJC), Stare’s Attorney Sarah George, Rep. Jana Brown

Public Safety Information Needed on Town website:advocacy for police administrative assistant

Please join us if you can!

Please join us on Wednesday, Nov 20, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm for our Policing Policy meeting with this Agenda:

Welcome!
Land Acknowledgment – Mary Oliver Poem
Member Reports- Police website data recommendations based on local town websites.
New Vermont Fair and Impartial Policing Policy(FIPP).
Compare Richmond FIPP.
Vermont Criminal Justice Commission meeting update.
Vermont Migrant Justice advice.
Next steps/research/actions.
Date for next Public Safety Forum?
Williston Community Justice Center Update Next Wednesday meeting December 4 discussion of Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

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Meeting ID: 879 7858 9435
Passcode: 769933

Please join us at our next monthly meeting of Richmond Racial Equity on Zoom at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87978589435?pwd=vBwCbuzrCrF0zcO7bRB173jfvEKumC.1

Meeting ID: 879 7858 9435
Passcode: 769933

Our agenda for the meeting is:

1. Land Acknowledgement
2. Plans for next meetings and future events
3. Police data: needs and ideas
4. Public Safety Forum: feedback and ideas
5. Other actions for this group or its members

Hope to see you there!