RACE TALKS: "Race and the Fluoride Debate"
Event Details
Time: April 9, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm
Location: McMenamins Kennedy School Gym
Street: 5736 NE 33rd Ave.
City/Town: Portland
Website or Map: http://www.mcmenamins.com/427…
Phone: 503-249-3983
Event Type: networking, social, and, informational, gathering
Organized By: Donna Maxey, McMenamins' Tim Hills, Uniting to Understand Racism
Latest Activity: Apr 8
Event Description
Dear Friends of Race Talks
Please join us for the upcoming Race Talks program at
McMenamins Kennedy School
Tuesday, April 9
Free/All Ages
7pm; Doors open at 6pm
**Come early to meet, network and eat dinner with friends.
"The Effects of Fluoride on Children of Color: The Great Debate"
Presentations by
Damien Fair, M.D., Professor, Oregon Health Sciences University
Frances Quaempts-Miller, Clean Water Portland Campaign
Phil Wu, M.D., YES on 26-151 Fluoridation Campaign Spokesperson
Following the presentation, the audience will break into small discussion groups to talk over the evening¹s subject matter and more general topics of race and ethnicity. These discussion groups are facilitated by trained volunteers from Uniting to Understand Racism
http://www.understandracism.org/; the City of Portland Intergroup Dialogue Program http://www.portlandonline.com/humanrelations/?c=54183; and Resolutions Northwest http://www.resolutionsnorthwest.org/
Please forward this email and poster pasted below to any group, business, school, class, and individual you feel might be interested. If you have questions or suggestions about the upcoming program (or the series in general), please contact us at the email addresses given below. And remember, Race Talks T-shirts are available for purchase at the program for $20; and there will be prizes raffled to raise funds for Race Talks.
Finally, please mark Tuesday, May 14 on your calendar for next month's Race Talks: "The Law & Racial/Ethnic Profiling"
Respectfully,
Donna Maxey,
Race Talks Director/UUR volunteer
racetalksdonna@gmail.com
Tim Hills,
McMenamins historian
timh@hq.mcmenamin.com
Comment Wall
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Comment by Theresa Sayles on April 8, 2013 at 9:29pm -
Thank you for your insightful critique. There will be discussion from at least two sides of the fluoride debate at Race Talks tomorrow night.
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Comment by Roger David Hardesty on March 10, 2013 at 6:52pm -
Will this be an advocacy for or against fluoridation? I know Urban League is rolling out an 'educational' campaign to ascertain community sentiment, but are partially funded by a foundation that has taken a stance favoring fluoridation. It might be challenging to consider, but would be certainly thought provoking, to have as a topic the role of money in persuading communities of color to support health care policies. It would be a poor use of community trust if Race Talks were being simply used as a forum to promote the agenda of a foundation that seeks policy changes. When our group gave the podium to the Community Police Relations Committee for their outreach efforts, instead of hosting a challenging dialogue where communities of color could voice other perspectives on what the DoJ called a 'self-defeating accountability system,' Race Talks risked public perception as a tool for interests to persuade communities of color, as opposed to a means by which the community can decide among an array of ideas and determine their where self-interest resides.
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