Albuquerque Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
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URJE is a self-created group of AMM members/attenders with a dedication to understanding and erasing racism in ourselves, our Meeting, community, country and world.
Interdenominational Study Group Proposal
ABQ Friends Meeting House
1600 5th St., NW
Albuquerque, NM
First time documentarian, Katrina Browne, makes a troubling discovery - her New England ancestors were the largest slave trading family in U.S. history. She and 9 fellow descendants set off to retrace the Triangle Trade: From Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana to sugar plantation ruins in Cuba. They uncover the vast complicity of the North in slavery while also stumbling and stretching their way towards greater awareness on issues of race/racism.
Following the October 26th Film & Discussion facilitated by Upholding Racial Justice & Equity (URJE) of the ABQ Friends Meeting, members indicated an interest in sharing the film more broadly across faith communities and forming a short-term study group to consider the spiritual, practical, and personal implications of this film's message.
Let us know if you might like to participate, schedule a viewing in your home or faith community. Watch this space for updates.
Further info - Email: info@abqfriends.org
Sunday, October 27 from 1:30-3:30 PM
ABQ Friends Meeting House
1600 5th St., NW
Albuquerque, NM
Join us for a workshop on Understanding Homelessness: Challenging Misconceptions and Building Empathy facilitated by Jazmin Moreno, Priscilla Williams & Zoe Robb of the NM Coalition to End Homelessness, Built for Zero Project.
Learn about the causes of homelessness & the struggles of unsheltered people. Develop understanding, compassion and resolve to address homelessness in our community.
Please RSVP to: info@abqfriends.org
Registration deadline: October 20, 2024
We share personal challenges and insights on the impacts of systemic racism on our lives, thoughts, feelings, and actions. Participants may request feedback or suggestions from others, or not, without pressure or judgment.
URJE collaborates with the work of the Sanctuary Working Group in its outreach to unhoused neighbors.
We rotate clerking of the monthly gatherings and may provide a salient reading/film for advance review to enrich the group's learning and growth.
We invite AMM members, attenders and friends to join us. Contact us at: info@abqfriends.org (Zoom links are provided in the weekly listserv).
At the January 2020 Meeting for Worship for Business, Albuquerque Monthly Meeting (AMM) responded to a recommendation by the 2018 Friends General Conference Institutional Assessment on Structural Racism that Quakers adopt a query prior to any gathering of the community: "How does the work of this gathering further the Meeting's Goal of becoming an actively anti-racism faith community?" We have since learned that the FGC query is intended to be answered following each AMM gathering.
URJE exists to participate in AMM's collective understanding of what this query means in our community, and to help bring it to fruition.
See "Our History" below for more information on AMM's history and minutes addressing racism/whiteness.
JOIN US ON ZOOM FROM 6:30-8:00 PM
We welcome new members. Scroll down for a summary of our format. To obtain a link and to RSVP contact: info@abqfriends.org
DOWNLOAD BELOW a copy of the Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Faith Community that helps guide faith communities such as ours as well as a summary of AMM's history on addressing this topic.
Scroll down further for additional resources, including the FGC's weekly gatherings online, and a larger library of articles/videos on these subjects.
We welcome your favorite articles, too. Send them to: info@abqfriends.org attention WSG.
If you missed reviewing the FGC Institutional Assessment, links are provided below:
FGC Institutional Assessment Full Report
FGC Institutional Assessment Executive Summary
Download below the format we adopted at our April 2019 URJE meeting.
Whiteness Study Group Format adopted April 2019 (pdf)
DownloadFriends General Conference (FGC) offers weekly worship opportunities online for both Friends of Color and for White Friends Confronting Racism. Learn more, including how to register, on the News/Events page.
Here's what an AMM member who regularly attends this gathering shared:
"The weekly Worship for White Friends Confronting Racism group is a space where I feel utterly safe in considering issues of internalized racism, experiences as a white person in bringing anti-racism consciousness and work to my meeting, and growing in my understanding of the spiritual aspects of this work. Breakout groups add to the opportunities for fellowship and mutual support. I find it discouraging that the number of attendees is small -- with this offering extending to Quakers across the country. It begs the question as to where is everyone else? As one participant said, "We have to find ways to talk with other white people about race!" Join us.
A new resource is available to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) physicians to repay student loans. Check it out at the following website: Physicians on Fire!
The National Museum of African American History and Culture, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has produced extensive learning modules for any level or type of interest in anti-racist training. This website is another very rich resource for self-guided learning.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race?referringSource=articleShare
The Whiteness Study Group will soon begin a monthly online discussion based on the stages of becoming an Anti-Racist as identified in the following link. Open it - explore - go at your own pace. Watch for updated information on this new AMM series!
BooksWhitenessRacism2020.docx (pdf)
DownloadDenormalizing Whiteness for Racial Justice from FGC
Posts on Whiteness and Racial Justice from AFC Acting in Faith plus
10 More things to Watch/Read/Listen to About Whiteness
Workshops and Activities about Whiteness
Examining Whiteness: An Anti-Racist Curriculum
Whiteness & Racial Justice
Queries for Worship Sharing
Where to go from here
Click on this link to obtain a fully copy of the New York Times 1619 Project:
Click on this link to access 2018 article on Whiteness.
Follow this link for information on White Fragility (Robin Di-Angelo's book, which is in the AMM library)
This link to the University of Calgary site on Anti-Racism Education provides a definition of Anti-Racism.
This link to the University of Calgary site on Anti-Racism Education provides information on Whiteness.
This is an interesting article from the Huffington Post.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-fragility-is-racial_b_8151054
The following link takes you both to a discussion guide to Robin Di-Angelo's video (included below on this page), as well as a link to the video itself.
http://www.gcorr.org/deconstruction-white-privilege-a-discussion-guide/
Subscribe to the Free weekly NYT news magazine on race:
Open this link to learn more about White Women & White Supremacy through the work of Layla Saad, author of Me and White Supremacy, Source Books, 2020.
http://laylafsaad.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-1
Open this link to Part 2 of Layla Saad's open letter about White Women & White Supremacy.
http://laylafsaad.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-2
This informative and thought provoking article from the September 2019 issue of Friends Journal reviews the history of slave holding and selling among early Friends. Katherine Gerbner is author of Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World,University of Pa. Press 2018.
Gerbner writes, "Looking carefully at this Quaker past can teach us a lesson about social justice. It shows us that it’s not enough to be radical; we also have to be vigilantly aware of history and the complexities of inequality. It’s not enough to have good intentions. We must be critically engaged with the past to understand the influence it continues to exert in the present. "
The following link takes you to a number of relevant articles on the topic of whiteness and racism within Friends written by Vanessa Juyle, Coordinator of FGC's Ministry on Racism and co-author, with Donna McDaniel, of the groundbreaking work, Fit For Freedom, Not Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, Quaker Press, 2009.
Follow this link from Sounds True to participate in a 3-Part Training Series titled HEALING RACISM with Dr. Tiffany Jana, moderated by Sounds True founder, Tami Simon. Each series is an hour-long. Quite informative and approachable. FREE.
Join Rahbin Shyne in her groundbreaking 365 Brothers Podcast in which she interviews Black men, gathering & sharing their stories. In her own words:
I woke up one morning and realized that I only learned the names, the stories of Black men after tragedy or due to celebrity. Black men’s lives are larger than sound bites, tropes, or reinforced stereotypes.
Join me as I engage 365 Brothers in an intimate, meaningful conversation about their lives. I’ll ask each guest, each Brother, the same eleven questions. We’ll discover their names, their stories and the ways they contribute to their families, their communities, this nation and this world.
Note: This letter is also available through the AMM library, currently on the Whteness/Racism shelf.
Letter_Birmingham_Jail (pdf)
DownloadConfronting White Privilege Among Friends
Check out this great video on Implicit Bias
Check out this video on microaggressions
Join Robin DiAngelo for a very helpful video about white privilege.
Structural Racism, by John A. Power (Structural Racism Discussion Guide)
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