Continue Learning During The Pandemic

Education is a primary SJM initiative.

We are happy to share this information about virtual workshops occurring over the next few weeks:

Webinar: What COVID-19 Means for Our Rights

Learn more about how the ACLU-NJ is working to save lives and ensure that the burden of the pandemic and government actions do not unfairly fall on our most vulnerable communities.

Friday, May 8, 12 p.m.
Zoom details to be provided upon RSVP.

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ACLU-NJ Legal Director Jeanne LoCicero and Policy Director Sarah Fajardo will join us to discuss our urgent COVID-19 advocacy work, particularly to protect immigrant communities and address the growing public health crisis in our prisons and jails.

RSVP to receive a link and password to the webinar. Space is limited!

We'll also discuss what the future holds. We may not know for certain what a post-COVID-19 world will look like, but we know the impact of the virus will continue to ravage our most vulnerable communities, in the short-term and long after stay-at-home orders are lifted. That's why it's critical that we monitor government responses, safeguard our rights, and protect our communities right now. Be sure to join us on Friday, May 8, at 12 p.m. to learn more.

Friday, May 8th webinar: #RaceAnd Pandemics: COVID-19 and Global Diseases Through a Structural Lens.

Early regional and national data indicates that Black, Latinx, and Native communities are being hit hardest by the ongoing global pandemic. The racialization of COVID-19 is representative of the ways systemic and structural racism have historically affected these communities, and as a result, continue to show up during this perilous moment.

The #RaceAnd Pandemics webinar will use a systemic racial analysis to examine the structural roots of the racialization of global diseases. We’ll take a look at: 

  • The interconnected policies, practices, institutions, culture, and ideologies that disenfranchise Black and Brown people. 

  • How the racialization of diseases advances systemic racial inequalities that causes lasting harm to generations of Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color and their communities.

Our goal is for participants to bring this understanding back to their institutions, organizations, and communities as a tool to shift the conversation on structural racism from individual to systemic, as we work to find long-term solutions in the time of COVID-19, and beyond. 

Join us on May 8th, because it’s never race alone. It’s always #RaceAnd.

NEW DATES ADDED to The Building Racial Equity series:

The Building Racial Equity series, developed by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation, are interactive trainings for those who wish to sharpen their skills and strategies to address systemic racism and advance racial equity. Unlike “diversity trainings” which primarily focus on interpersonal relations and understanding, these trainings emphasize how to challenge and change institutional racial inequities.

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