Please join us this Wednesday night starting at 7p until 8:30p for our monthly Richmond Racial Equity meeting. Our Zoom link is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85739750286?pwd=Tk41dnlQSVZTVk1pbmZMdW8reHNoUT09 Meeting ID: 857 3975 0286 Passcode: 053379 Our agenda is: Land Acknowledgement Reminder of our hoped for RPD qualities – any new thoughts? Update on SB meeting decisions up to 8/7/23 RRE… Read More »
Our agenda will continue with a listening circle in which each shares equitably. Our agenda includes: Land Acknowledgment – Gretchen Review of our Jamboard work of the last meeting – Gretchen & Connie What is missing – what would you add about Richmond policing, policy, department or individual officer qualities? Are there ideas that you… Read More »
CASCAN is the Chittenden Asylum Seekers Assistance Network. Its mission is to assist people in Chittenden County who are in the legal process of seeking asylum. CASAN’s main funding drive for 2023 will be an April event ~ Arts for Asylum Seekers ~ that brings together the arts and social justice to assist people who… Read More »
Please join the next RRE Large Group Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 7p. We will be sharing updates from our three workgroups (Education, Reparations, and Policy & Policing) as well as planning administrative support (Zoom, website, others) and future events. Zoom details – note that there is a passcode: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82248499929?pwd=RC9FSWdUeHRTWnFEa2YrYkNIakFwZz09 Meeting… Read More »
The work of RRE continues in the small group “wings” of our organization: Education, Policy & Policing, and Reparations. We are not meeting as a large group this month and continue to stay in touch via email. If you have a topic to discuss in our large group setting, please let Patty Brushett know at… Read More »
Please join us at our RRE Large Group meeting this Wednesday, November 16, 2022 from 6:30-7:30 via Zoom, at which time we will be voting on the mission statement (Official Warning). Our agenda: Connie- Welcome and Land Acknowledgment Patty-Shall we revise our Mission Statement? Vote/ mDo we need more time? Current:” Engaging our community in… Read More »
Increasing Racial Justice in Vermont Housing Abundant Sun is working in partnership with Champlain Housing Trust, Downstreet Housing & Community Development, NeighborWorks America, RuralEdge, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, Vermont Housing Finance Agency and Windham & Windsor Housing Trust to launch a yearlong Statewide initiative to examine how racial inequities impact Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)… Read More »
Richmond Dems are sponsoring a local and statewide candidate meet and greet at the Richmond Library this Sunday 10/23 from 3:30-5PM. Come for conversation, cider, and donuts! Kids are welcome too. Sponsored by the Richmond Dems but all are welcome. Jana Brown will be there along with two of the senate candidates from our new… Read More »
Reminder: the next RRE monthly meeting is this coming Wednesday, October 19 @ 6:00. It will be followed by a Planning Commission public hearing on amending regulations on Village Residential/Commercial District. This RRE meeting will be a Zoom meeting; see link below. Planned agenda: Land Acknowledgement Revisit mission statement – Alexis Engaging our community in… Read More »
At September’s meeting, RRE Large Group agreed that it would meet monthly for the foreseeable future as it continues to work on organizational structure and process, as well as some current topics and projects. Based on a survey of frequent attendees, the best time to meet continues to be Wednesday evenings, 6:30 – 7:30, excluding… Read More »