Are you interested in connecting with other Friends in Illinois Yearly Meeting on anti-racism work? Then join in at the Anti-Racism Café. Each month the ILYM Racial Equity and Education Committee will provide space both for Friends who want to share ideas for anti-racist activism, and for Friends who want to focus on the inward work of becoming anti-racist.

The Antiracism Café will be held Thursday, October 15 at 7 pm CDT. Please join us for a video of Winona LaDuke discussing how her Anishinaabe people are rebirthing a traditional agricultural economy, followed by a discussion among Friends.

Café Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85606878660?pwd=pMdCUJ0ZjfXyAlScmAGUmEl3KNpc7P.1

Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems. She served as Program Director of Honor the Earth until 2023, a non-profit committed to protecting the lifeways and sovereignty of Indigenous relatives across Mother Earth. In 1989, founded the reservation-based non-profit White Earth Land Recovery Project (1989), which works to revive Indigenous lifeways and to protect native seeds, traditional foods, and knowledge of Indigenous land-based communities. In 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, recognizing her leadership and community commitment. In 1996 and 2000, she was the vice-presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party. LaDuke has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues and currently lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, working to heal the Earth.

The Anti-Racism Cafés will be held the 15th of every month from 7:00-8:30 p.m. (Central). You are welcome to come for all or part of the session—stop in any time and stay as long as you want:

Anti-Racism Cafe Zoom link; Meeting ID: 856 0687 8660, Passcode: 592029.

You can also call in for a voice-only connection using the same Meeting ID/Passcode: 312-626-6799 (Chicago).