Recreation & Disability Summit: June 25, Minot

May 29, 2009 by admin 

9:00am-3:00pm
Grand International
1505 N. Broadway, Minot, ND
An event planned for individuals with disabilities, family members, recreation specialists, case managers, or anyone interested in recreation for individuals with disabilities.  For more information please contact Chad DeCoteau at 800-233-1737 or chad.decoteau@minotstateu.edu

10 Year Check-In on Civil Rights: Press Conference – June 2, Moorhead

May 29, 2009 by admin 

Community Alliance Launches 10 Year Check-In on Civil Rights
Press Conference – Tuesday, June 2, Noon at Romkey Park, 900 S. 19th St., Moorhead, MN

The press onference will inform the community of the work that an alliance of community organizations is conducting on a 10 year check-in on civil rights in Moorhead. Local organizational representatives, neighborhood residents and several others will speak at the press conference and begin a year-long process on the status of the recommendations made 10 years ago.

PEPP together with Mujeres Unidas/Women United, Centro Cultural De Fargo-Moorhead and other community organizations will continue holding meetings and public forums ito address the recommendations and policy issues affecting people of color in our community.

For more information, contact Octavio Gomez at PEPP at 218-236-5434.

View an electronic copy of the report: http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/sac/mn0101/main.htm

Additional Fair Housing Workshops Scheduled in ND & SD

May 29, 2009 by admin 

Dates and locations for the Fair Housing of the Dakotas “Fundamentals of Fair Housing” workshops: 
June 18:  1:00-5:00 PM, Airport International Inn, 3601 2nd Avenue West, Williston, ND
June 23:  1:00-5:00 PM, Best Western Ramkota Hotel, 3200 West Maple Street, Sioux Falls, SD
July 9:  1:00-5:00 PM, Best Western Ramkota Hotel, 920 West Sioux Avenue, Pierre, SD
July 14:  1:00-5:00 PM, Ramada Plaza Suites, 1635 42nd Street South, Fargo, ND
July 16:  1:00-5:00 PM, Holiday Inn, 2200 Burdick Expressway East, Minot, ND
To learn more about the workshops or continuing education credits available, go to:
http://www.fhdakotas.org/events.htm
 
You can also download a registration form at:
http://www.fhdakotas.org/documents/2009WorkshopFlyer-B.pdf

Attorney General Holder Pledges Full Support For Civil Rights

May 29, 2009 by admin 

http://www.seattlemedium.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=96769&sID=3&ItemSource=L

F-M Pride in the Park Seeks Vendors

May 27, 2009 by admin 

Who would you like to see at Pride in the Park? What organizations and businesses would you or your LGBTQA friends like to learn more about?

F-M Pride is still seeking organizations, including: food and retail vendors, professional services organizations like real estate and financial services firms, nonprofit organizations, or any other businesses that want to promote themselves and sell their products or services to F-M Pride attendees.

Space is still available for vendors at F-M Pride in the Park on Saturday, June 20! Sign up as a vendor today or pass this information on to anyone you know who may want to be a vendor. Help us make this the best F-M Pride ever! Learn more about becoming a vendor at http://www.pridecollective.com/fmpride/vendors/

Please spread the word. We’re looking forward to seeing you and all your friends at F-M Pride in the Park and all the other F-M Pride events in mid-June!

Saberi returning to the U.S. today after prison confinement, stop in Vienna

May 22, 2009 by admin 

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/241457/group//

By: Associated Press

VIENNA (AP) — An official says an American journalist who spent four months in an Iranian prison is on her way to the United States.

Robert Hugins, public affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Austria, says Roxana Saberi left Vienna this morning on a flight bound for Washington, D.C.

The 32-year-old journalist, who was raised in Fargo and moved to Iran six years ago, was arrested in late January and convicted of spying in a closed-door trial that her Iranian-born father said lasted only 15 minutes.

She was freed on May 11 and spent a week in Austria recuperating.

Hugins said Roxana is traveling with her parents and a family friend.

NAACP’s Newest Chapter Opens in GF

May 21, 2009 by admin 

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/119562/
Local pastors spent two years organizing a new chapter after noticing that North Dakota and Vermont were the only two states without a NAACP chapter. They said even this region is not immune to racial tension.

National & International

May 20, 2009 by admin 

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/
Founded in London in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.

Amnesty International USA
http://www.amnestyusa.org/

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971.  Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols.  In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.  By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, they give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes.  Their rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.

 

F-M Pride 2009 is June 12-21

May 15, 2009 by admin 

F-M Pride was rated one of the top five rural prides in the US by gay.com in 2007 and 2008!  2009 is sure to be even better!

F-M Pride 2009 Schedule of Events
http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.pridecollective.com/fmpride/events

LGBT Film Festival at The Fargo Theatre – June 12-13
http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.mnstate.edu/film/festival/

For further information:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14032433548&ref=ts

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=87773300512

Michael Moore’s “Sicko”: May 20, Bismarck

May 15, 2009 by admin 

Host: Change that Works – North Dakota
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Time: 6:30pm – 10:00pm
Location: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Street: 810 E. Divide Ave.
City/Town: Bismarck, ND
Phone: 701-255-2346
Email: nessjnathan@yahoo.com

Change that Works is showing the Michael Moore film Sicko, a documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and featuring some HMO horror stories.

Complimentary dinner and drinks will be provided. Following the film, folks will be asked to participate in a discussion about the current healthcare situation in the US.

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