Events

For more local peace events see the calendar the Nashville Peace and Justice Center web site.

The Tennessean reports our peace rally [March 29]
Friday, March 28, 2003, 11:00-12:30 PEACE RALLY at Rand Terrace. Students, professors, and vets speak out for peace. [Organised by Vanderbilt Students for Peace.]

News events provided courtesy of The Nashville Peace and Justice Center. NPJC is a community-based coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to creating a peaceful and just society.

Lift Every Voice
Joining Together to Dismantle Racism and Oppression
March 27-29, 2003

Come join Lift Every Voice lecture series to discover how strengthening Race Relations can empower Nashville. Thursday, March 27th

6:00- 7:00 PM Young Adult Panel Area high school and
college students form a panel to discuss race relations

7:00-9:00 PM A Town Hall Meeting Based upon focus group information put together for this purpose, a noted moderator will facilitate Community participation with a panel representing several service areas. These include the Metro Human Relations Commission, the Metro police, justice & prison systems, the Metro Housing Authority, health centers and the media. Joining them on the panel will be citizens who use these services.

Friday, March 28th
10:00- 12:00 noon
Racism–Cost to theWorkplace
Representatives from leading Nashville area companies such as Gaylord Entertainment, and public and private agencies form a panel to discuss the goals of diversity, share achievements and best practices and talk about challenges to achieving inclusiveness, and the resulting costs to businesses.

2:00- 4:00 PM
Dr. Peggy McIntosh
White Privilege: Strategies for Moving Towards Change. Dr. McIntosh is the Associate Director of Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley, MA.

6:00 PM
Reception at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville 1808 Woodmont Blvd. (615) 383-5760,www.firstuunashville.org.

Saturday, March 29th
8:30-9:15 AM
Native American Protocol Ceremony and Multicultural Choir
9:15-9:45 AM Opening History of Race Relations in Nashville
9:45- 12:00 noon
Morning Workshops: Cultural & Economic Differences, African-American/Latin-American Relations, Racism: Impact on Health, Dr. Ysaye Barnwell on Freedom Songs

1:00-3:30 PM
Afternoon Workshops: Language of Racism, The Village and Intentional Racist Strategies in Politics, TheHuman Rights Framework (isms), Dr.Ysaye Barnwell on Freedom Songs continued

3:45-4:30 PM
Closing Dialogue: What Would Change Look Like?”
5:00-7:00 PM Break for Dinner
7:00PM Concert:The Original SNCC Freedom Singers

The conference, to be held on the campus of Fisk University, is for adults and youth. Lift Every Voice is a Collaboration of: Fisk Race Relations Institute Fighting for Social Justice for 61 years, The Palmer Lecture Series of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville Fighting for Social Justice for 50 uears, Amnesty International Fighting for Social Justice for 42 years

For more information, contact:
Ms. Hazel Joyner-Smith Race Relations Institute, Fisk University Phone: (615) 329-8812, Fax: (615) 329-8806 hsmith@fisk.edu or www.fiskrri.edu.

Matt Leber, Coordinator
1016 18th Ave. S
Nashville, TN 3
(P) 615 321 9066
(F) 615 320 8897
nashpeacejustice@aol.com
The Nashville Peace and Justice Center is a community based coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to creating a peaceful and just society.

Past Events

October 8 , 2002
[11:45 am to 1:15 pm]

Teach In: War on Iraq
with James Hudnut-Baumler, Jack Sasson, Beth Conklin, Constance Gee, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Vereen Bell, Sara Eigen, Luigi Monga, Molly Miller, Scott Zeman, Eugene Teselle, and David Wood. Rand Terrace, Vanderbilt University.

December 12 , 2002
[noon]