June 5
Seattle Sites of the Day:

National Coalition Building Institute, Seattle Chapter

   REAL Public Workshop

"Building Bridges Between Seattle's Police and Communities of Color"

"Saturday, June 10, 2000 - 9am to 4pm - Seattle Central Community College, Room 3115, 1701 Broadway"

"The REAL (Reconciliation, Education, Action and Leadership) Project will train police and leaders in our Communities of Color to work as bridge builders and advocates for on-going liaison relationships.

"... the REAL project team will recruit potential leaders from the communities and the Police Department, ... facilitate the creation of community plans to improve Police/Community relations, and aid in the implementation of these plans.

"... moving beyond guilt and blame, our key question will be: If we didn't take sides or blame anyone, what healing needs to take place in order to move our communities forward?"

"Although there is no charge for this workshop, registration is required. (206) 517-5848"

Eat the State!

"After nearly four years of operating out of the U-District's University Baptist Church... Eat the State! will be moving... to the Independent Media Center, 1415 3rd Ave. between Pike and Union downtown.

"... it's a chance to be working with a lot of other really cool independent media projects in town. Drop by and say hi... on Tuesday evening, June 7.

"... UBC is one of the most courageous, active, and politically progressive churches in town; we're proud to have been associated with them..."

"The Community Management and Development web site has over a hundred training documents for community mobilizers, and is used by facilitators, coordinators and trainers around the world.

"Training topics include NGO and CBO capacity development, gender strategy, environment, management training, poverty eradication, urban farming, income generation, learning an oral language, brainstorming, monitoring, report and proposal writing, role playing, and many others.

"We are looking for volunteer translators to put the material into French and Spanish.

"The latest news is the start-up of a small electronic discussion group ('loop') on these topics, with participants from around the globe (e.g. Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malta, Norway, Palestine, Philippines, Singapore, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania, UK, USA, Vietnam, Zambia, and elsewhere).

"To monitor or join the discussion, write bm038@scn.org and introduce yourself."

- Phil Bartle