Racial Justice,
Equity Series
Begins Sept. 10
The Racial Justice and Equity in Southeast Alaska speaker series will offer five training opportunities for Southeast residents in September. The free events will be live, online via Zoom beginning Sept. 10.
Author Tim Wise will lead the first workshop, ‘‘Beyond Diversity: Steps for Uprooting Racism, Privilege and Institutional Inequity,’’ 10 a.m.-noon Sept. 10.
Dr. Amer Ahmed will lead a lunch-and-learn discussion about ‘‘Intercultural Leadership’’ noon-1 p.m. Sept. 14.
The third event will be led by equity and diversity educator Hugh Vasquez, 10 a.m.-noon Sept. 17. He will talk about ‘‘Creating Conditions of Equity across Race, Class, Gender and other Cultural Lines.’’
Next will be a talk by Megan Red-Shirt Shaw, ‘‘We Are Still Here: On Native Identity and Activism,’’ 7-8 p.m. Sept. 21.
The series concludes with a keynote address, ‘‘Bringing it Home: Reflection on Racial Equity in Southeast,’’ by Sitka educator and cultural leader Dionne Brady-Howard, 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24. Participants will go into breakout rooms for discussions at about 7:30 p.m.
The theme of the series is Haa Tuwunáagu Wooch.een Yís (for Healing Our Spirit, Together).
The transformational learning experience is provided by the University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus Title III grant project, in partnership with Sitka Tribe of Alaska Social Services Department, SEARHC, the Sitka STEPS Grant, and the Sitka Health Summit and Pathways coalitions.
Sign up for one session or all of the events at https://forms.gle/HTJ1VEdybbj8BwH27, or contact Doug Osborne at 966-8674 or Barb Morse at bmorse1@alaska.edu for information.
Baha’is to host
Online Devotional
The Bahá’ís of Sitka will meet for a monthly devotional/prayer circle 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, via Zoom.
The devotion is held the second Tuesday of each month and has a new meeting time, 6-6:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to the prayer circle. All who attend may participate, if they choose to, by saying a prayer.
Bahá’ís are followers of Bahá’u’lláh, whom Bahá’ís believe to be the most recent divine prophet. He proclaimed his mission in the mid-1800s in Persia, now Iran. He taught the oneness of all the world’s great religions and that he has brought God’s message to mankind for this age, a press release from the Baha’is said.
‘‘Another of the basic tenets of the Bahá’í Faith is unity,’’ Barbara Geno of Sitka Baha’is said. ‘‘In the spirit of unity, and with a desire to share devotions with fellow Sitkans of all faiths and ethnicities, we invite all to join our devotional circle.’’
For information, contact Geno at 623-0802, or email info@sitkabahai.org. For more about the Bahá’í Faith, visit online at akbahai.org, www.Bahai.org or www.sitkabahai.org.
Deep Inlet Fishing
Closure Noted
The Deep Inlet Terminal Harvest Area will close to commercial troll, drift gillnet and purse seine common property fisheries 12:01 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 6, through the remainder of the season.
The Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association has requested the department close the area to all common property commercial salmon fisheries at the end of the troll opening on Saturday, Sept. 5, to protect returning chum salmon needed for broodstock.
