Race Poverty and Environment Mixer and Goodbye
Wednesday, February 20th 2013  6:30pm
Oakland, CA

http://friendsofrpe.org

Good news: The latest issue of RP&E, "Reimagine," (see invite below), will be released on February 20th at a celebration of RP&E's 20-plus years of publication in support of the social and environmental justice movements. Bad news: Urban Habitat has suspended publication of the journal. RP&E has served as a valuable tool for presenting best practices and movement analysis from groups all over the country, grounded in consciousness of race, class and place. We will be canvassing our allies to investigate co-publishing models. Although we recognize the limits of the non-profit model, absent financial support from Urban Habitat we know that it will be a hard road to take. We will be launching a website (http://friendsofrpe.org) to keep folks apprised of how we might imagine other ways of supporting the journal or some other avenue for the same sorts of work. I'd love to include you in some of these discussions, if you are interested. Let me know if you would like to be included in our email list . As a first step we will be looking for testimonial-style support from organizations and movements that have been profiled in RP&E over the years. I hope you have seen the value of the journal in your organizing, advocacy or educational work and would love to hear how it has been helpful. You can post something directly on the http://friendsofrpe.org site using the comments feature (which is moderated) or send it to me and Christine. The actual costs of publishing are surprisingly modest, but as of this writing, Urban Habitat has determined that it can not afford to do this work. Whether the UH Board will revisit this decision or whether RP&E can find a home elsewhere are open questions. As it happens, this year the JSTOR, collection of every single article in every single issue of RP&E went online( http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=racepoveenvi) If you search the title by author name it will yield a stable reference url for your articles. No matter what form our individual or collective work takes from here, I want to thank you for your contributions to our journal and the work of social and environmental justice organizing--and for your writing!

Location:
Joyce Gordon Gallery
406 14th Street
Oakland, CA