LGBTQ+
LGBTQErie is a new group "working to advance equality, diversity, education, and social justice for LGBT people and BIPOC Communities." On July 3 they will be hosting Queer in July with Central Outreach Erie. 3-6pm 3104 State. (814) 619-4009 info@lgbtqerie.comNot Over the Rainbow Yet (gizmo59, Daily Kos 6/6/2021) Local blogger's take on a Penncrest school board members' hateful remarks about a few LGBT-positive books in a diversity display at Maplewood Junior/Senior High School. Meadville Tribune gives an update on the 6/16 board meeting, where approximately 175 people turned out.
JUSTICE
Racial justice scholar: Erie's inclusion push largely about 'common human decency' (Kevin Flowers Erie Times 6/10/2021) Feature on Camille Busette, senior fellow Brookings Institution, , and the director of its Race, Prosperity and Inclusion initiative. Mayor Shember announced she will lead a year-long initiative in the city which aims to identify and correct policies that perpetuate racial injustice and inequity in Erie.
ARTS & WORDS
Singer-songwriter Joe Scutella performing at PACA, July 2 at 9pm PACA 1505 State Erie PA w/ special guests Erin Futterer and Ros Falzone.
NY Cannabis Law Is National Blueprint For Pot Expungement (Law360 6/18/2021) "Key to its objectives, the law establishes an automatic process to expunge hundreds of thousands of cannabis-related convictions, the vast majority of them of people of color, for both past and current offenses."
ARTS & WORDS
Singer-songwriter Joe Scutella performing at PACA, July 2 at 9pm PACA 1505 State Erie PA w/ special guests Erin Futterer and Ros Falzone.
Chicks Creek July 17 from 2-8pm. "A Day of Women Who Rock" Skibinski Picnic Grove 5571 Henderson Rd Erie PA $18/BYOB/21+ Presented by Lisa19 and Elbaum Tanner RocknrollScene
“Union & Protest Songs: Their History and How to Use Them Today” Virtual, presented by Director of the Pittsburgh Labor Choir, Dr. Edwin Everhart Virtual July15 at 7:30pm
Amythyst Kiah performs at Chautauqua Aug 2
Cleveland Public Theatre returning to stage with free, outdoor summer performances (Cleveland.com 6/10/2021) starting with “Panther Women: an Army for the Liberation”
Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed Karamu House On-demand
EARTH
Vigil in Remembrance of the Victims of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec 6 PM Tuesday, July 6, 2021 Bidwell Pkwy & Elmwood Ave Buffalo NY. Reading the names of the 47 people killed in the 7/6/2013 explosion of a train carrying Bakken crude oil (aka "bomb train"). +++
ELECTIONS
Progressives Push On to November (Ben Speggen, Erie Reader 6/7/2021) Detailed primaries report on the Erie city and county races.
Vigil in Remembrance of the Victims of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec 6 PM Tuesday, July 6, 2021 Bidwell Pkwy & Elmwood Ave Buffalo NY. Reading the names of the 47 people killed in the 7/6/2013 explosion of a train carrying Bakken crude oil (aka "bomb train"). +++
ELECTIONS
Progressives Push On to November (Ben Speggen, Erie Reader 6/7/2021) Detailed primaries report on the Erie city and county races.
Crawford County final election results (Meadville Tribune 6/8/2021)
India Walton, Buffalo's Black Socialist Mayor to Be, Is About to Make History (In These Times 6/23/2021)
With new amendment strategy, Pa. GOP could target voter ID, mail-in ballots (Penn Capital-Star 6/20/2021)
Voter Registration Update: Pa. Dems bounce back from 2020 lull | Analysis (Penn Capital-Star 6/27/2021) Dennis Kucinich on His New Book, “The Division of Light and Power” Interview with former Cleveland mayor who fought, and beat, a utility monopoly in an epic battle which involved corporate espionage, sabotage, bank co-conspirators, extortion, political corruption, organized crime, assassination attempts, congressional investigations, and media cover-ups.
INDIGENOUS
Podcaster John Kane (Cattaraugus Seneca Nation) recently featured an episode called The Legacy of Residential Schools Guest Keith Burich is a WNY historian and author of The Thomas Indian School and the Irredeemable Children of New York, about the residential school near Irving NY. Buffalo NBC affiliate WGRZ did a report in 2016 called The Thomas Indian School: A Forgotten Tragedy. 2009 documentary Unseen Tears, produced by Native American Community Services lets survivors of Thomas Indian School and Mohawk Institute tell their stories. It also highlights the efforts to heal the wounds and break the cycle of intergenerational trauma stemming from those experiences.
MELANGE
Erie's Juneteenth Celebration was successful and next year's event is already booked and being planned.
To commemorate Juneteenth, Erie Arts & Culture teamed up with Erie's Black Wall Street to present a list of black-owned businesses in our community.
Erie Arts & Culture has also published an updated directory of small businesses owned by former refugees in Erie.
Hill District Flea 2600 Peach, Erie. Music, food trucks fashion, etc. Last Sundays. July 25 Aug 29 Sept 26 10am-4pm
Hill District Flea 2600 Peach, Erie. Music, food trucks fashion, etc. Last Sundays. July 25 Aug 29 Sept 26 10am-4pm
Erie Downtown Farmer's Market Every Sunday \10 am - 2 pm in Perry Square, till Oct. 17. Hosts: The Oasis Market and Erie Downtown Partnership. Little Italy Farmers Market every Monday 3-6pm at 331 W. 18th. Host: Sisters of St Joseph Neighborhood Network. (the sisters also offer free meal--take-out only--on Mondays at 4:30pm at St Paul's RC Church 16th & Walnut; closed 7/5). LEAF Open Market is held every other Saturday 10am-2pm at Frontier Park.
Will Koehler book on trauma +++
