Town Meeting on Stereotyping and Campus Climate

Town Meeting on Stereotyping and Campus Climate
Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Time: 12:00pm - 4:30pm

Location: Cohen Auditorium

Description: This event provides an opportunity for all members of our
community to share their experiences, observations, and perceptions on
stereotyping and the campus climate. A reception will follow in
Alumnae Lounge.

Sponsored By: TCU Senate, the AS&E Diversity Office, the University
Office of Institutional Diversity, the Office of the Dean of Student
Affairs, the Bias Initiative at Tufts/Bias Education and Awareness
Team, the Group of Six Culture Centers, the Office of Residential Life
and Learning, the AS&E Faculty Equal Educational Opportunity
Committee, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and Tisch College

The Militant Labor Forum Presents:

The fight against Police Brutality

Justice for Sean Bell! Drop the charges against the Quincy 4!

Police violence is an everyday occurance in working class communities across the country. The pervasive practice of racial profiling leads to constant indignities against people of color, especially those who belong to the working class, and all too often results in cop assaults and killings.

Standing up to such police misconduct is not automatic since cops mount a counter campaign, literally adding insult to injury. Nonetheless in the Boston area four Asian Americans have said enough is enough and refused to go along with the April 30th beatings and frame-up charges they suffered at the hands of Quincy police, and in New York thousands continue to join with the family of Sean Bell, gunned down November 25 in a hail of 50 bulets, to demand justice.

Come discuss the significance of these two fights and similar ones against cop violence across the country and how working people can end police brutality once and for all.

Saturday, February 3
Program 5:00 pm * Dinner 7:00 pm

Speakers:
Zenobia Lai, Support Committee for the Quincy 4
Willie Cotton, Socialist Workers Party, participant in fight for justice for Sean Bell

Militant Labor Forum Hall
13 Bennington St, 2nd Floor, East Boston

Suggested donation: $5 dinner, $5 program.

Traducción inglés-español / español-inglés

For more information call 617-569-9169 or e-mail bostonmlf@yahoo.com.

T Blue Line to Maverick Station, bus or walk 5 blocks down Meridian to Bennington at Liberty Plaza

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Tufts Sustainability Report

Hey all,

Saw this and thought it might be of interest.

According to the 2007 College Sustainability Report Card, Tufts gets an F for "shareholder engagement" and "endowment transparency", which shouldn't come as any surprise to those of us who tried to get a copy of Tufts's portfolio in 2000 and create an investor responsibility code.

On the flip side, Tufts gets an A for "Climate Change and Energy" and “Food and Recycling", as well as a B for "Green Building."

Not sure what this means for us as progressives. I have to admit I'm pleasantly surprised by this report. But I'd like to see what's in Tufts's portfolio and work on a rigorous socially responsible investment policy. Exceeding Kyoto is not enough, and abstaining from proxy voting is simply not right.

Doug

Tufts.pdf

Urge Bacow to oust Summers as Snyder Lecturer

Faculty, students, and alumni have been up in arms about the racist tone of events that have occured at Tufts recently. Conservative Shelby Steele arguing against affirmative action at the Snyder lecture, the Primary Source publishing racism, and hate crimes have tarred Tufts' already speculative reputation reputation on race. Now President Bacow has invited anti-feminist Larry Summers to give the next Snyder lecture, an irresponsible move given the campus climate & very insensitive to many groups that have been under attack. TPAN Board member Professor Gary Goldstein has been very vocal in his opposition. Last week, I posted his email about Larry Summers and he has sent us his letter of protest to Bacow. Here it is below. If you feel the same way, write to President Bacow and tell him how you feel about his invitation to Larry Summers as Snyder Lecturer:

To: President Larry Bacow
CC: Provost Jamshed B. and Jim Glaser

Dear Larry,
Did I see correctly? Is Larry Summers the next Snyder lecturer?
If this is true, I think it is a big mistake. Whatever his lecture is intended to be about, he carries the baggage of his comments, in which he stereotyped women in science. As I am sure you know, he also was a divisive leader whose attitudes caused the break-up of the most prestigious African-American studies department. Inviting him to campus, especially after Shelby Steele, followed by the outrageous (nationally reported!), racist Primary Source article sends a terrible message to our students. It undermines your efforts to foster diversity and civility on campus.

Sincerely,
Gary

Gary writes to us:

Hello all,

This is a followup to my emails last week. I sent out a version of this message to a short list of sympathetic faculty members. I think progressive alums might want to send letters to the administration and/or the Tufts Daily.

Pres. Bacow replied that the invitation had been made a long time ago. Summers would speak about undergraduate education, having been a supporter of reforms at Harvard, for which he was respected by the students.

I can not share this sanguine view. I know I speak for several people on this email list in calling for a response from the Tufts faculty, staff and students. We can send messages to the president and the Tufts Daily objecting to this hypocrisy. It has been suggested that we boycott the lecture and let it be known to the Tufts "community" why we are taking this action. Further, we could organize a forum to explain that promoting diversity and women's equality are essential to a university's mission, contrary to Summers' pronouncements at Harvard that led to his dismissal. and now, to our boycott.I am sending this to a fairly short list. Please forward it to any sympathetic faculty, staff or students that you choose.

Exasperated,
Gary

Day of Remembrance Program – Tufts University

February 15, 2007

6:00 p.m., Pearson 104 (Talbot Avenue, Medford Campus)

"We Are All Suspects: Race, migration and the war on terror"

Speaker: Tram Nguyen

Author of We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11, executive editor of Colorlines magazine and award-winning writer and editor with a particular interest in race, immigration, and organizing

"The significance of the post-September 11 period – the round-ups, secret detentions, registration of Muslim males, and raids within immigrant communities, all of the new policies and practices of the war on terror – takes on deeper meaning when considered against the backdrop of immigration and race politics of the last two decades." From We Are All Suspects Now by Tram Nguyen

For questions, please contact the Asian American Center at asianamcenter@tufts.edu or 617-627-3056.

Environmental Justice Services Coordinator

ACE JOB ANNOUNCEMENT - January 2007


Environmental Justice Services Coordinator


Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE) seeks a full-time EJ Services Coordinator. Based in Roxbury, ACE is a non-profit environmental justice organization that builds the power of lower income communities and communities of color in New England to achieve environmental justice. We believe that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and to be decision makers in issues affecting our communities. ACE organizes residents, provides legal/technical support to community groups, develops youth leadership, and coordinates
campaigns on critical environmental justice issues.

As a member of ACE's legal and technical assistance team, the EJ Services Coordinator will be responsible for outreach to and building relationships with community groups in Greater Boston and the state, matching their needs to ACE and other resources, providing direct assistance to groups, and connecting them to the broader EJ movement.
The Coordinator will work closely with ACE's Executive Director, Staff Attorney and Senior Volunteer Attorney.


Qualifications


* 3-5 years experience in providing assistance, training, and/or other relevant experience in low income communities of color
* College or advanced degree in field related to environmental or social justice, public health, law or community development - or relevant experience in lieu of degree.
* Strong commitment to social/environmental justice and community empowerment
* Experience in popular education, capacity building and training
* Experience in environmental or social justice advocacy or community organizing
* Good listener and facilitator
* Good written and oral advocacy
* People person with good interpersonal skills
* Well-organized
* Team player, self-starter, quick learner, and ability to work in fast-paced environment
* Flexibility to work weeknights and weekends as needed.
* Driver's license and access to an automobile as needed.
* Spanish language fluency a plus
* Solid computer skills (familiar with Word, Excel, Internet, and database)

Salary: $35,000-$45,000 depending on experience, plus health, dental, and retirement benefits.

Please send resume with cover letter by February 28, 2007 to:
Gene Benson, 2181 Washington St., #301, Roxbury, MA 02119
Phone: (617) 442-3343 x226 Fax: (617) 442-2425
Email: gene@ace-ej.org

Women and people of color strongly encouraged to apply.
For more information, please see ACE's website: www.ace-ej.org


*********************************************
Penn Loh
Executive Director
Alternatives for Community & Environment
2181 Washington St, #301
Roxbury, MA 02119
617 442-3343 x224, fax 617 442-2425
web: www.ace-ej.org
email: penn@ace-ej.org

Social Justice Funds now available

Tufts Progressive Alumni Association announces the Social Justice Fund Scholarship

$100 - $900 available for campus activism, social justice projects, or internships.

Application deadline Feb. 15th. Application can be found at www.tuftsprogressives.org.

Contact socialjusticefund@gmail.com for more info

Larry Summers to give 2007 Snyder Lecture

Professor Gary Goldstein reports:

I have to bring this Tufts news to your attention.
There is a new outrage in the making from the administration. In a previous email I mentioned that the prestigious Snyder Presidential Lecture was given in the Fall by Shelby Steele, a prominent, very conservative opponent to affirmative action. In my opinion, that lecture emboldened the Primary Source people to produce their racist verse. Well, I just saw the announcement of the next Snyder lecturer - fresh from being thrown out of Harvard for the divisiveness of his policies and his sexist remarks, Larry Summers! What is our administration thinking? Having given a forum to racist rhetoric last term, is the administration now giving the podium to a sexist stereotyper?

Join TPAN on MySpace...

-If you're on MySpace.com, join us at:
http://groups.myspace.com/tuftsesquerdistas

-If you're on Facebook.com or Friendster.com, search for and join the TPAN groups there too!

Hosted By Pair Networks

Always forgetting something, I am. I forgot to mention that the new website would not be possible without help from Louis Bennett, a TPAN member, and Pair Networks. Thank you Louis! I'll put it in next month's email.

AALDEF SPRING 2007 INTERNSHIPS

AALDEF SPRING 2007 INTERNSHIPS
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) (in New York City), founded in 1974, is the first organization on the East Coast to protect and promote the legal rights of Asian Americans through
litigation, legal advocacy and community education. Current program priorities include economic justice for workers, immigrants' rights, voting rights and civic participation, language rights, affirmative
action, the elimination of anti-Asian violence and police brutality, youth rights and educational equity, and the assistance of low-income Chinatown residents and workers affected by 9-11.

For info about AALDEF and the following internships, visit: www.aaldef.org.
- Spring 2007 Undergraduate Internships
- Winter 06/Spring 07 Voting Rights Internships
- Spring 2007 Legal Internships
**Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Please send A.S.A.P.

Primary Source

Dan Barry, Roger Winn and I are working on a proposal for the TCU Senate to consider a reduction in The Source's budget next year due to their actions last semester. If anyone is interested in helping out, contact one of us and we'd be happy to have you on board.

this is the new TPAN blog, at tuftsprogressives@blogger.com

now instead of having debates and converstations go into our members inbox, they can read/post here on the blog. THis way only TPAN announcements will go into members email.

:)