Deepening the Dialogue: Atonement, Reconciliation, & Reparations | Part 1

900 Chicon Street,Austin TX 78702

08 July, 2021

Description

Discuss the public policy issues surrounding atonement, reconciliation, and reparation for the central Texas/greater Austin area. As part of a two-part series, Deepening the Dialogue: Atonement, Reconciliation, & Reparations is a forum to engage with community leaders from across the community. The goal of the forum is to hear from those with lived experience and key stakeholders on the public policy issues surrounding atonement, reconciliation, and reparations for the Black community in the Central Texas/Greater Austin Area. It requires hearing from all parts of the community while centering our attention on hearing from Black voices. For Part 1, the forum will provide the gift of learning from and listening to people about the following: key milestones on the legacy of racial injustice in the Austin area;better understand the distinction among atonement, reconciliation, and reparations;listen to personal testimonies about the impact on the Black community;identify solutions to create meaningful change; and potential next steps to be taken.Feedback and input from the forum will be collected and used to develop a report to be shared with the City Council at the City of Austin and other elected officials to help make decisions on how to best move forward with atonement, reconciliation, and reparations. The event will be in person and will be partially streamed on Facebook. For those interested in serving as facilitators/moderators or note takers to help lead conversations and document ideas shared, there will be a facilitator/note taker training on either June 28 from 12-1 pm or June 29 from 5:30-6:30 pm. You'll be invited to attend one of the two offerings. We are anticipating those being via Zoom. Sign up when you register for the event. Register to Part 2 here! Deepening the Dialogue is presented by the Central Texas Collective for Racial Equity in partnership with the Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Anti-Defamation League Austin, The New Philanthropists, Black Austin Coalition, Asian American Resource Center, and the City of Austin's Equity Office. *** If you would like to volunteer to serve as a small group facilitator or note taker, please sign up here. Please click the tab for either Facilitator or Note Taker at the bottom to enter your name and contact information. ***