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Sandra Bernabei

Anti-Racist Alliance

14 Harwood Court, Suite 428

Scarsdale, NY 10583

(914) 522-5997

For Immediate Release

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP FOR UNDOING RACISM IN WESTCHESTER

Undoing Racism Workshop Provides Tools for Change

November 4, 2011, Mohegan Lake, NY—December 1-3, 2011 marks the first time the Undoing Racism Workshop will be held in Upper Westchester. Through dialogue, reflection, role-playing, strategic planning and presentations, the Undoing Racism Workshop will give Westchester participants the tools to identify how the deep roots of racism have affected their lives and their communities, and a way to improve local conditions.  This premier program will be offered by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), New Orleans, LA, the leading non-profit collective of multi-cultural, anti-racist community organizers and educators, with national and international reach. Workshop sponsors include the Cortlandt/Peekskill Anti-Racism Collaboration, Westchester Jewish Community Services, the WESPAC Foundation and the Anti-Racist Alliance.

The training will be held at the Fourth Unitarian Society of Westchester, 1698 Strawberry Road, Mohegan Lake, NY.  The training costs range from $350 to $175.  Interested individuals can register at www.antiracistalliance.com.

Ron Chisom, co-founder of PISAB, says, “For the last thirty years we have transformed the lives of people from all walks of life…workshop participants will leave with a truly objective and historical understanding of racism in their lives, at work and in their communities.  Each of them will have a clearer lens to effect local change.”

The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, New Orleans, LA, (http://www.pisab.org/who-we-are), is recognized as one of the foremost anti-racism and organizing institutions in the nation.  It works to undo structural racism from a common understanding as presented by its Undoing Racism Workshops.  It moves beyond a focus on the symptoms of racism to an understanding or what racism is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone.  In the New York Region, The People’s Institute organizes not only with social work educators and human service providers but also with schoolteachers, parents and youth, health care providers, criminal justice advocates, and the faith community.

The Anti-Racist Alliance (http://www.antiracistalliance.com), is a movement for racial equity.  They are an organizing collective of human service practitioners and educators whose vision is to bring a clear and deliberate anti-racist structural power analysis to social service education and practice.