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Workshop on whiteness debuts
LGBT advocacy in Israel discussed
NU to begin workshop about race targeted for white students
Israeli activists talk state of affairs after Pride parade stabbing
By JULIA DORAN
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By MATTHEW CHOI
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Although trials persist and tragedies linger, it is getting better for one of the most prominent LGBT rights organization in Jerusalem, said Sarah Kala, executive director of Jerusalem Open House. Kala spoke to a crowd of about 15 at Fiedler Hillel on Thursday with her colleague Tom Canning, director of development for JOH, an LGBT organization in Jerusalem that organizes the city’s annual March for Pride and Tolerance. Their visit came five months after a fatal stabbing during the Jerusalem Pride parade organized by JOH in which a man stabbed six participants, CNN reported. One of the participants, a 16-yearold girl, died soon after the attack from her wounds. Kala, who was present during the attack, discussed her experience. “I’m still in shock,” Kala said. “It’s been six months, and it doesn’t matter what I do, where I go. … It’s still inside everyone who was there.” However, from the attack came a new sense of solidarity, Canning said. Many organizations who had previously avoided contact with JOH expressed their condolences and condemned the attack. “From this, we tried to make change, we tried to make progress,” Canning said. “And what we saw was some of the religious communities that weren’t willing to talk, that were afraid of us, suddenly realized how important it was to engage with LGBT community and reach out to us.” Canning said he and Kala work with about 200 volunteers providing services to the community, including HIV testing and counseling. They welcome a diverse range of clientele, including ultra-orthodox Jews and Arabs, who face cultural challenges to » See PRIDE, page 6
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SLOW TO SNOW A plow clears away piles of snow during a blizzard that swept through the Chicago area last February. The storm ranked as the area’s fifth worst snowstorm in history and caused Evanston to declare a snow emergency for two days.
City saves money due to lack of snow By BILLY KOBIN
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Infrequent snowfall in Evanston in December saved the city nearly $50,000. December 2015 was the hottest
winter on record in the continental United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and city officials said snowfall in the city was down compared to previous winters. The city has saved thousands of » See SNOW, page 6
Northwestern’s Campus Inclusion and Community is launching a workshop examining race, specifically geared toward white students. Titled “Deconstructing Whiteness,” the guiding principle of the workshop is that social justice work should start by examining self-identity before trying to understand the experiences of others, said Michele Enos, assistant director of Social Justice Education, an office within the Division of Student Affairs. Enos, who will be leading the workshop, said this initiative has been a goal of hers since she helped create a similar group for white Northwestern staff members last year. “There’s a lot of space on this campus for conversations to happen around issues of privilege and specifically around issues of white privilege,” she said. The workshop, which will begin Tuesday and run once a week through March at the Women’s Center, will encompass several topics, including terminology used in conversations of race, the history and meaning of whiteness, white guilt and the difference between intellectualizing and feeling racism, Enos said. She said discussions will reveal how racism operates in people’s everyday lives in ways they often fail to consider. “Especially with everything that’s happening both on this campus and other campuses and in this country, I think now is a very important time for white people to start to understand their role in doing social justice work,” Enos said. Enos said she expects about 15 participants for this workshop but hopes to continue to strengthen and develop this initiative going forward.
SESP junior Matt Herndon, a member of the Sustained Dialogue leadership team, said “Deconstructing Whiteness” will help students more clearly understand their identities by generating challenging conversations that don’t happen enough on Northwestern’s campus. “A lot of the time, people don’t really think about how their whiteness impacts their daily experiences and how institutions are set up to support that whiteness,” Herndon said. Kate Gladstone, a Communication senior who is also part of Sustained Dialogue, said because whiteness is a dominant identity, people often think of it as a neutral identity and neglect to examine it as a race with important implications. She said the workshop will offer white students a unique opportunity to take initiative in teaching and learning about race. “It’s important to have a space for white students to have these discussions because so often the burden of teaching about race and racial injustice falls on the shoulders of people of color, and that’s an unfair burden for them to bear,” Gladstone said. She said although some of the conversations will likely be difficult or uncomfortable, these discussions are essential in order to work toward social justice. “Learning happens when we’re uncomfortable but safe, and I think that’s the goal of setting up a space like this,” Gladstone said. “I think that the kind of self-work that a workshop like this demands holds a lot of promise.” Enos said all participants will be encouraged to be vulnerable and open to ensure they can truly get something meaningful from the workshop. She said she thinks the students will become more comfortable sharing the space with each other as they start to discuss their personal experiences with race. “The space will give white people a chance to forgive one another and to support one another and to learn how to challenge one another,” she said. juliadoran2018@u.northwestern.edu
Activist talks school-to-prison pipeline By FATHMA RAHMAN
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Chicago-based organizer and educator Mariame Kaba said Thursday one of the driving forces behind the disproportionate incarceration of black people in the U.S. is an unfair
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education system. Kaba was the first speaker of a quarter-long series hosted by Unshackle NU, a private prison divestment campaign launched Tuesday. Kaba is the founder of Project Nia, an organization she said implements a restorative, community-based justice model that operates through conversation and mediation, rather
than punishment, for students. She involved the audience of about 80 in a conversation focusing on the “schoolto-prison pipeline” and its relationship to private prisons. Unshackle NU was founded to pressure the University to divest from international security company G4S, Corrections Corporation of America and The GEO Group, Inc., in addition
to a longer list of companies the campaign says the University invests in that relate to the prison industrial complex. William McLean, NU’s chief investment officer, told The Daily in an email Thursday that NU has less than $1 million invested in G4S and » See PIPELINE, page 6
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