A growing group of community members in the Rockford, Illinois area dedicated to eliminating racism and becoming a community where everyone feels valued.
It’s Time for You to Help Change Our Community
If you are reading this you should consider becoming involved in Eliminate Racism 815 or some other organization working to create a better community for everyone who lives here. This community can only thrive when everyone is functioning at their best. People can only function at their best when they have a minimum of stress in their lives and when the feel like they belong, like they are appreciated, like they are heard, and like they are a part of a community where they are making a difference and meaningfully contributing toward the betterment of the community.
Take a moment (yes, right now) and think about what you have done lately to help create a better community.
Don’t forget, that every little thing you do to help a child, youth, or adult’s life a bit better helps our community just that much. If everyone does a little every day, imagine how much better our community would be. And if some people get involved in bigger ways by helping groups, organizations, businesses, or government bodies function a bit better, imagine how much that will create a better community.
Friends, we can’t sit back and expect others to change things for us. We need to join in the effort to create the changes that will improve our community. It takes a little bit of effort by everyone of us. If you decide to not join in the effort to improve our community, they you are holding our community back just that much.
Those of us who are involved in the work of community betterment need your help. Look at me. I’m about to turn 79 years old. I don’t have the energy I used to have. I need you (yes, you!) to help me out here. Get involved. Speak up, speak out, stand up for what is right. If you are already involved, do a little bit more. You can make a difference in our community. Our community needs you to help make it a better place to live.
Thanks for reading this and doing something different for a change.
Dick Rundall
President
Eliminate Racism 815
Green Town Conference
Everyone is urged to go to Greentownconference.com and consider registering for the Green Town Conference to be held on November 12, 2021 at the downtown Embassy Suites.
Eliminate Racism 815 is a sponsor of this event. We believe it will have a significant effect on our community. Review the website and consider being a part of helping change Rockford to a sustainable, green town.
Book Discussion
Thursday October 28, 2021 6:00 p.m.
Join us by zoom for a discussion of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, the NY Times Fiction Best Seller of 2019. The life of a young girl named Kya grows up in North Carolina from 1952-1969. A 2nd intertwined timeline follows a murder investigation of a local celebrity.
Please read the book on your own and we will discuss it.
Book discussions are presented in partnership with Rockford Public Library.
Film Discussion
Friday November 12, 2021
6 p.m.
Constructing the Terrorist Threat-Islamophobia: The Media & War on Terror: Argues US media have turned Arabs/Muslims into the face of terror, while terror attacks by homegrown violent extremist groups have far outnumbered Muslim/Arab attacks.
The film discussions are presented in partnership with Tony Turner of Conscious Coaching, The Baha’i Community of the Rockford Area, and Rockford Public Library.
