<div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:docs-Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:32px;color:rgb(32,33,36)">Black Solidarity Day: Social Justice Teach-In</span><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(32,33,36)">November 7th will be the first year in which </span><a href="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/news/news-archive/black-solidarity-day-officially-added-to-suny-plattsburghs-academic-calendar.html" style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px" target="_blank">Black Solidarity Day</a><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(32,33,36)"> is part of the SUNY Plattsburgh Academic Calendar, </span><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(32,33,36)">held annually on the first Monday of November. In recognition of Black Solidarity Day, our campus will host a Social Justice Teach-In, featuring programming for the Plattsburgh community about racial justice, anti-racism, and social justice. The great news is that we have done this before--twice. This year we will follow the template created by the community members who helped to pull off our previous Teach-Ins. It</span><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(32,33,36)"> will be a series of concurrent events, led by students, staff, faculty, and community groups, held all over campus, approximately timed to the usual Monday course times. We are still working on the details, but now is a good time to reach out to the campus.</span><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(32,33,36)">This is a day to meditate on the meaning of social justice and civic engagement in what could be a multi-racial democracy. That is one of the many things we promise our students.  Black Solidarity Day is meant "<a href="https://nyu-dss.github.io/black-solidarity-day/#:~:text=On%20Black%20Solidarity%20Day,%20Black,are%20integral%20to%20American%20life." target="_blank" style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">to highlight racial injustices, societal inequities, and to illuminate how Black voices are integral to American life</a>" and our college community. <span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><u style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">We invite students, faculty, staff, and community members to contribute a teach-in session that speaks directly to the meaning of Black Solidarity Day and/or that engages with social justice, broadly defined. </u></span><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">A session could be a variety of things: a collection of readings, a few lectures, a workshop, an exercise, a performance, a discussion. Here is the </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bQn3swpRaCrhfqMBGFuMYvVj9hVt-SCv/view?usp=sharing" style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">program for 2019</a><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"> if you'd like to see what we have done in the past.  If you need more than 50 minutes, that's fine as well.  </span><br></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">Please take some time to talk with your friends, mentors, and colleagues, and then propose a session.  And if you held a session in one of our previous Teach-Ins, please consider a repeat.  After all, we do have new students. </span></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">Please complete this Google form:  <a href="https://forms.gle/MDiMgRZYGZTHHLAo9" target="_blank" style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">https://forms.gle/MDiMgRZYGZTHHLAo9</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Michelle Bonati, PhD<br>Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, MSEd<br>State University of New York at Plattsburgh <br></div>