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Current Listings Jan 20
and 27 - Community Forums - DUE TO WEATHER, THE JAN 20 FORUM WILL NOT TAKE PLACE Jan 24 - NEOYBD Membership Mixer Jan 25 - Swearing-In Ceremony: Emily Hagan,
Judge, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Jan 27 - Town Hall - Ohio House District 12 Feb 7 - Public Policy Forum: Voting Rights Feb 9 - Speaking Truth to Power: Inspiring Change through Truth Telling Feb
15 - It's Time to Talk: YWCA's 5th Annual Forum on Race Feb 16 - Justice for Our Sisters - Domestic Violence
Forum Feb 17 - Fundraiser: State Representative Janine Boyd Feb 26 - Reception in Support of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart Feb 26 - Public
Policy Forum: How Can We Reduce Gun Violence in Cleveland? Mar
1-29 - 21-Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge Mar 5 - Public
Policy Forum: The Immigration Acts of 1921 & 1924: How they changed Cleveland Requests
for listing should be sent to info@CuyahogaDWC.org Community
Forums January 20 - DUE TO
WEATHER, THIS EVENT WILL NOT TAKE PLACE TODAY. With: Brent Larkin, Plain Dealer columnist and former PD editorial director Did fear, lies and racism grow stronger throughout the state in the 2018 election. The history of Ohio's elections trends toward deep seated Republican conservatism, especially in rural areas. How can progressives work with conservatives? According to the “Backfire Theory,” when your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger. Is this true? January 27 What is the role of activists in advancing their agenda this year? What specific community issues, actions, policies, or media encourage volunteer commitment? Countywide activist groups grew immensely in 2018. Will they continue to be stable, grow, or taper off? How can we personally strategize our activist time and resources? Panelists: Steve
Holecko, director, Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucas; Audrey Morris, co-chair, League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland;
Norman Robbins, research director, Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates
First Unitarian Church of Cleveland
 Make one of your New Year's resolutions to BECOME A MEMBER
of NEOYBD! We'll see you at our first Membership Mixer! Thursday, January 24,
2019, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Don Ramon's Mexican Restaurant 5708 Mayfield Rd, Lyndhurst, Ohio 44124 Find this event on Facebook   Public
Policy Forum Voting Rights Thursday, February 07, 2019 7:00 - 8:30 pm CWRU Siegal Beachwood Facility - Landmark Centre Building 25700 Science Park Dr #100, Beachwood
44122 What have we
learned about how to increase voter registration turnout? Moderator: Rich
Exner, Cleveland.com Panelists: * Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State * Michael Li, Senior Counsel for the Brennan
Center's Democracy Program * Camille Wimbish,
Director, Ohio Voter Rights Coalition Free. Register here. Co-sponsored
by: Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, Case Western Reserve University Siegal Lifelong Learning, League of Women Voters-Greater
Cleveland, League of Women Voters of the Akron Area, Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. Corporate
sponsor: First Interstate Properties Ltd.  Speaking Truth to Power: Inspiring Change through Truth TellingSaturday, February 9, 2019 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Tinkham Veale Center 11038 Bellflower Rd, Cleveland,
Ohio 44106 Presented
by the InterReligious Task Force on Central America Tickets: www.eventbrite.com
Or mail
your check to IRTF, 3606 Bridge Ave, Cleveland OH 44113 IRTF & CWRU's 19th Annual Social Justice
Teach-In is a great opportunity for people of all ages to gain the information and practical skills to work for peace, economic
justice, and human rights! This annual event attracts 650+ participants, many from area high schools
and colleges. The Teach-In provides participants with information, practical skills, and resources to support justice and
human rights programming at their schools, congregations, or civic groups. Choose from 30+ workshops
on local and global justice issues. Get skills training to work for social change! Find this event on Facebook.  Join us on Friday, February 15th, 2019
for our 5th Annual It's Time to Talk (ITT) forum on race. This year's event will ask the question, "Can humor heal?" Free. Register here. Our Keynote Speaker is Founder and CEO of Haha Institute, Karen Williams.Karen graduated summa cum laude from Cleveland State University with a personally-designed major in "Humor and Healing." She earned a Master of Education degree from CSU's Adult Learning & Development program. Karen will be exploring the theme of humor and diversity with our guests. ABOUT
ITT: It's Time to Talk (ITT) is a unique one-day forum on combating racism and unconscious bias. ITT features a keynote, a
gallery walk, small group circle conversations, as well as a World Cafe. ITT gives participants the opportunity to share their
lived experience, learn from others, and begin the work of finding solutions that will allow us to begin to heal our community
from the harm caused by racial profiling and unconscious bias. PURPOSE: To expand racial understanding and cultural competency through dialogue among community
and business members of different races with the ultimate goal of eliminating barriers that foster racism and discrimination.
We do this by creating a safe space for dialogue where community participants can actively work through the issues of racism
and discrimination. STRATEGY:
Create opportunities for significant dialogue and conversations that move beyond the superficial. Invite people from every
ethnicity and community to participate in a dialogue to affirm how important diversity is to Greater Cleveland and Northeast
Ohio. Find this event on Facebook. YWCA Greater Cleveland. 4019 Prospect Ave. Cleveland, OH 44103. 216-881-6878.  Justice For Our Sisters Forum #2: Next StepsThe second forum for Justice For Our Sisters will target coming up with solutions and will be a working
session for attendees. Our first forum
was quite successful as we touched on the heart of those who are going through or have survived domestic violence and abusive
relationships. The goals of Sister2Sister are to not only seek justice for our fallen sisters, but to primarily serve as a
preventative area for those involved in unhealthy relationships. Our goal: get to the root of the situation and come up with
measures of healing. This
forum will cover the following areas:
Registration
is required. Register here: http://bit.ly/2CbvOep Find
this event on Facebook.  
 This challenge was originally developed by Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. and Debby Irving and has been adapted
by many organizations across the country. The challenge is designed to create dedicated time and space to build
more effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with issues of race, power, privilege, and leadership. Participants
will be prompted daily with challenges such as reading an article, listening to a podcast, reflecting on personal experience
and more. Participation in an activity like this helps us to discover how racial injustice and social injustice impact our community,
to connect with one another, to identify ways to dismantle racism and other forms of discrimination. This is an exciting
opportunity to dive deep into racial equity and social justice. We hope you'll join us and accept this challenge. Our
challenge starts on Friday, March 1st and continues (Monday-Friday) through March 29th. Before Day 1, you will receive
an introductory email explaining the purpose of the challenge and your Challenge Reflection Log - a tool to ensure you are
taking full advantage of what the challenge has to offer. Starting on March 1st, expect to receive daily emails containing
your challenge options. YWCA Greater Cleveland. 4019 Prospect
Ave. Cleveland, OH 44103. 216-881-6878. info@ywcaofcleveland.org Public
Policy Forum How Can We Reduce Gun Violence in Cleveland? Tuesday, February 26, 2019 7:00 - 8:30 pm Tinkham Veale University Center, CWRU Campus 11038
Bellflower Road, Cleveland OH 44106 How
can we reduce gun violence in Cleveland (when the laws are made in Columbus)? Moderator: Pete Krouse, Cleveland.com Co-sponsored by: Cleveland.com and
The Plain Dealer, Case Western Reserve University Siegal Lifelong Learning, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated,
greater Cleveland Alumnae Chapter, and the League of Women Voters-Greater Cleveland. Corporate Sponsor: First
Interstate Properties Ltd. Public
Policy Forum The Immigration Acts of 1921 & 1924: How they changed Cleveland Tuesday, March 5, 2019 7:00 - 8:30 pm Tinkham Veale University Center, CWRU Campus 11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland OH 44106 A talk by Dr. John J. Grabowski, CWRU
Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History with a brief update on Immigration 2019 in #CLE by Lynn Tramonte, Immigrant Alliance Ohio Free
and open to the public. Register here. Co-sponsored by: Case Western Reserve University Siegal Lifelong Learning, Case Western Reserve University Department of History, League of Women Voters-Greater Cleveland,
Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. Corporate
sponsor: First Interstate Properties Ltd. |
Cuyahoga Democratic Women's Caucus
Email: info@cuyahogadwc.org
Telephone: 216-479-6622
Telephone: 216-479-6622