Facing Race 2012 National Conference
 
HURRICANE SANDY UPDATE

Please note that ARC's Facing Race 2012 Conference will take place as planned on Nov 15-17 in Baltimore, Maryland. ARC NY office and phones were impacted by Hurricane Sandy. So please either contact us by email or contact our Oakland office by phone at (510) 653-3415. 
 
Download a PDF of full program here.
 
 
Arts, Media, & Culture Organizing & Skill-Building
Research & Policy 

November 15, 2012
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
ARC’s 30th Anniversary Party [More Info]
 
November 16, 2012
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Now What? Debriefing the Election and Talking Governance [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Can You Hear Me Now? How Activists and Artists are Rebuilding the Media [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Race & Class: Why an Intersectional Approach is Critical in Undoing Structural Racism [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Structural Racism 101: Critical Concepts for Getting to Racial Justice [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Defending Democracy: How to Fight Off Voter ID, Purges and Other Attacks [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Race and Masculinity: Perils, Pride and Pushing the Boundaries of Perception [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
The Roots of Racism: Say What? [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Entrepreneurship and Racial Justice [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
The Colorline and Campus Admissions: the Past, Present and Uncertain Future of Affirmative Action [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Facing Race on Xenophobic Hate Crimes [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Innovations in Organizing in Communities of Color [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
No Justice, No Peas: Good Food, Good Jobs [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Shattered Families: Racial Justice and Prospects for Systemic Change [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Race Flicks - Middle of Nowhere [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
From Brooklyn to Baltimore: the Fight for Fair Development [More Info]
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Changing the Conversation on Race [More Info]
1:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Making Connections/Open Space Luncheon
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Talking About Race: Racial Justice Through Media, Collaboration and Community Conversation [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Consumer Based Strategies for Advancing Racial Justice [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Addressing Racism Using Theater of the Oppressed [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
From the Trenches: Stories on Race, Dating and Love [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
We Wear the MassQ: One Artist's Dis-covery of Face, Race and Ritual in a Digital Age [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
DREAMers and Freedom Riders: Racial Justice Across Generations [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
National Student Bill of Rights [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Organizing Racial Justice Philanthropy [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Racial Profiling: Every Which Way But Loose [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Systems Change: Inside and Outside Strategies [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Advancing Health Equity Using Health Impact Assessment, Community Organizing and Advocacy [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Raising Funds for Racial Justice [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Energy Democracy for All [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Race Flicks 2- Harvest of Empire [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Internalizing Racial Equity Institutionally [More Info]
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Event: Junot Diaz [More Info]
9:15 pm - 10:15 pm
Junot Diaz Book Signing
9:30 pm - 1:00 am
Race in Yo Face Masquerade Party [More Info]
 
November 17, 2012
8:30 am - 8:45 am
Welcoming Remarks
8:45 am - 10:45 am
Race and Gender in the 21st Century [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Like Racism, But Funnier: Social Change Through Internet Jokes [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Toward a Multiracial Anti-Death Penalty Movement [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Race Flicks 3- New Lens, Youth Produced Films [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Using Social Media to Connect Communities and Make an Impact--and Measure It! [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Better Together: Bridging LGBTQ Rights & Racial Justice [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Tell Your Story, Move Your Campaign [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cross Racial Alliance Building for Social Justice and Immigrant Rights [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Building a 21st Century Labor Movement [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
SURJ: Strategies for Engaging White People in Racial Justice [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Wolves in Sheeps' Clothing: Sexual Health as Wedge Issues in Communities of Color and Among Young People [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Where is the Color in Occupy? Race, Class and Gender in the Occupy Movement [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Launching Proactive Policy Agendas for Racial Equity [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Caring Across Generations: Organizing Across Lines of Race, Class, Generation, Ability, Language and Communities [More Info]
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
New Rules: Organizing to End the Push-out Crisis with Solutions Not Suspensions [More Info]
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Making Connections/Open Space Luncheon
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Campaign Weaving and Movement Building: Challenging the Incarceration Nation through Creative Action [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Make Them Pay: Ways to Hold Insurance Companies Accountable to Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Reproductive Rights at the Intersection of Class, Race and Immigration Status [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Words Matter: Organizing Against Bully Language [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Art & Agitation: On the Power of Cultural Strategy [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
No Budget? No Problem! 2013's New Tools For Creating Content and Telling Your Story [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Storytelling for Racial Justice [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Girl/Future: Youth Activism and Ending Gendered Violence [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
How to Talk About Race in the Classroom [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
What's Faith Got To Do With It? [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
From Colorblindness to Equity-Mindedness: Breaking Through Bias to Build Racial Justice [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
What's the Future of College for Students of Color [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
The Faces of Development: Moving from Racial and Class Inequity [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Race Flicks 4- Wildness [More Info]
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Criminalizing Youth in Baltimore: Race, Class and Gender in Public Space [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Welcoming Remarks [More Info]
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Culture Trumps Politics: Or Does It? [More Info]
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Closing Performance
PRE CONFERENCE EVENTS: 

SOLD OUT!!!  East Baltimore Bus Tour, Thursday, November 15, 2012, 12:30 to 5:45 pm. Come early and participate in a two-part bus tour of East Baltimore that will explore the impact of racism on community development, disinvestment, and the environment in a historically African American urban community. $40 per person for conference registrants (includes box lunch). Sponsored by Baltimore Racial Justice Action.

Presenters:
Marisela B. Gomez, M.D., Ph.D., author of Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America

Glenn Ross, East Baltimore community advocate for over forty years and creator of "The TOXIC TOUR of East Baltimore"