<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:2rem;word-spacing:1px">Black Solidarity Day: Social Justice Teach-In</span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:15px;border-color:rgb(85,85,85);color:rgb(85,85,85)"><div dir="ltr" style="border-color:rgb(85,85,85)"><div dir="ltr" style="border-color:rgb(85,85,85)"><div style="border-color:rgb(85,85,85)"><div dir="ltr" style="border-color:rgb(85,85,85)"><div style="border-color:rgb(85,85,85)"><img src="cid:ii_l8heo8je0" alt="callForSessionProposalsPoster (1).png" width="320" height="452" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><br></div><div style="border-color:rgb(85,85,85)"><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">November 7th will be the first year </span><a href="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/news/news-archive/black-solidarity-day-officially-added-to-suny-plattsburghs-academic-calendar.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(66,133,244)">Black Solidarity Day</a><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)"> is part of the SUNY Plattsburgh Academic Calendar, </span><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36);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.  It</span><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)"> will be a series of concurrent events, led by students, staff, faculty, and community groups, held all over campus<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)">.</span></span><br></div><div style="border-color:rgb(85,85,85)"><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36);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. 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="text-decoration-line:none;font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(66,133,244)">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;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)"><u style="font-size:0.916667rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)">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="border-color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0px;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)"><br></span></div><div style="border-color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;letter-spacing:0px;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)">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" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-size:0.916667rem;letter-spacing:0px;border-color:rgb(66,133,244)">program for 2019</a><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;letter-spacing:0px;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)"> 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="border-color:rgb(32,33,36)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;letter-spacing:0px;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)">Please talk with your friends, mentors, and colleagues, and then propose a session. </span>Student-led sessions are welcome!<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)"> <b style="font-size:0.916669rem;border-color:rgb(32,33,36)">The deadline for proposals has been extended to October 7th.</b></span></div><div style="border-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