Combating Racism in Word and Deed: Spoken Word Poetry

Wednesday , February 6, 7pm, Rm 3

You’re invited to join P&J and the local members of UUs for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC) at a presentation of spoken word poetry by Christopher Sims, poetry slam veteran and adjunct professor at Rock Valley College.  Christopher, who also serves as staff administrator for UUJEC, will recite some of his poems at a program titled “Combatting Racism in Word and Deed: Spoken Word Poetry and More”.

Christopher has presented his poems at venues throughout Northern Illinois and had them published in both UU and issue-oriented publications.  As he writes in his poem Multicultural Soup,

Nchi yangu ni nchi yenu.

My land is your land.

We stir together. We live amongst

one another. We share our cultures.

We value our uniqueness in this

multicultural soup.

Christopher will also describe for us some of the activities currently underway by UUJJEC.  The group has developed traditional and video curricula on Income Inequality and Money in Politics for use by UU congregations, and it hosts monthly webinars on such topics as universal health care and revisions to the  federal income tax.

The evening will conclude with a discussion of what new actions we might want to take as a group to end racism and limit the effects of the growing wealth gap in US society.  Please join us!