On February 12, 2015, Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu added his voice in celebration of National Random Acts of Kindness Week. This year’s celebrations include events highlighting the 20th anniversary edition of the book, Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty, with a Foreword by Desmond Tutu
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National Random Kindness Week events
When: February 9th-17th
Where: All around the world.
February 9th-15th is National Random Acts of Kindness Week, and February 17th is Random Kindness day. This year we are launching the 20th anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty, with a new foreword by Desmond Tutu. The re-release of the book is accompanied by our global
Random Kindness Community Resilience Project, building justice and resilience throughout vulnerable communities in the face of climate change. Book proceeds go to climate and nuclear refugees from Fukushima.
In an age of climate crisis, this work is a call to community action to create a world we want, a world based on principles of sustainability and justice.
For more information about Random Kindness and the Community Resilience Project, visit: https://randomkindnessproject.org/
To purchase a copy of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty (available in 10 languages), click here.
Thank you to all of our guests, friends and colleagues who attended and helped plan and coordinate Random Kindness book signing events!
-Sunday 2/8 10AM Talk @ Soul Center, Newport Coast Community Center
-Sunday 2/8 Newport Community Book Club (contact: Kathy Schlesinger kpschlesinger@yahoo.com)
-Weds 2/11 9AM City of Berkeley 100 Resilient Cities Meeting
-Fri 2/13 9AM UC Davis Book Launch Forum
-Tues 2/17 National Random Kindness Day event to honor Random Kindness Community Resilience s/heroes — event details TBD, stay tuned!
-Sunday 2/8 Newport Community Book Club (contact: Kathy Schlesinger kpschlesinger@yahoo.com)
-Weds 2/11 9AM City of Berkeley 100 Resilient Cities Meeting
-Fri 2/13 9AM UC Davis Book Launch Forum
-Tues 2/17 National Random Kindness Day event to honor Random Kindness Community Resilience s/heroes — event details TBD, stay tuned!
In solidarity,
Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel Breakthrough Communities
Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel Breakthrough Communities
Emerge California SoCal Reception
Support Women’s Leadership: You Are Invited
When: Saturday, Feb 7th, 6:30p – 8:30p
Downtown Los Angeles.
Emerge California is changing the face of California politics by identifying, training and encouraging women to run for office through an intensive, cohort-based seven-month training program. Despite being more than 50% of the population, currently, less than 30% of California state legislators are women, and California has yet to elect a female Governor. A pool of highly qualified Democratic candidates is being left untapped. Emerge California is changing that!
Dr. Pavel has been selected as a member of the Emerge California 2015 cohort. Please join us in this celebration! Register here.
Carl Anthony Legacy
Urban Habitat 25th Anniversary
Book Launch and Community Dialogue in NYC
& Just Resilience
M. Paloma Pavel, PhD
With Carl Anthony and Guests
Saturday Sept. 20 10am
Milano School of International Affairs The New School, Manhattan
55 W. 13th St. Room 205,
Dorothy Hirshon Suite
10:00 am Refreshments and Reception
10:30 am -12:00 pm Book Signing and Community Dialogue
Join us for the launch of the 20th anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty, with a Foreword by Desmond Tutu, and for a community dialogue on building Climate Justice and Just Resilience. M. Paloma Pavel and Carl Anthony (co-founders of Breakthrough Communities) are traveling from California to New York to host this event for UN Climate Week. Guests include Lynne Elizabeth of New Village Press, more to be announced.
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Superintendent Sheila Jordan
Receives 2014 Carl Anthony Legacy Award presented by Genesis
Date: August 23, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 8:00-10:30 am
Location: St. Theresa Little Flower Catholic Church, 30 Mandalay Road, Oakland
Genesis, the San Francisco Bay Area regional affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation (national community organizing network), annually presents the Carl Anthony Legacy Award for Bay Area justice, sustainability, and equity heroes. This year, Genesis has announced that Sheila Jordan, Superintendent of Alameda County Office of Education, will be the recipient of the 2014 Carl Anthony Legacy Award.
Sheila Jordan has been a courageous champion for the Free Bus Pass for Youth of Alameda County, helping to win $15 million of Transportation Expenditure Plan funds for Youth Bus Passes. Genesis will be honoring Sheila’s vision and hard work to provide at-risk students and all students the tools they need to build productive lives.
We invite you to join with Genesis in the celebration of our community visionary leader, Sheila Jordan. Breakthrough Communities is deeply inspired by the work of the Gamaliel foundation nationally, and its regional affiliate, Genesis. For more information on these remarkable organizations, visit:
https://www.genesisca.org/
https://www.gamaliel.org/
Warm Regards,
Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel, PhD
Co-Founders, Breakthrough Communities
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Time: 8:00-10:30 am
Location: St. Theresa Little Flower Catholic Church, 30 Mandalay Road, Oakland
Sheila Jordan has been a courageous champion for the Free Bus Pass for Youth of Alameda County, helping to win $15 million of Transportation Expenditure Plan funds for Youth Bus Passes. Genesis will be honoring Sheila’s vision and hard work to provide at-risk students and all students the tools they need to build productive lives.
We invite you to join with Genesis in the celebration of our community visionary leader, Sheila Jordan. Breakthrough Communities is deeply inspired by the work of the Gamaliel foundation nationally, and its regional affiliate, Genesis. For more information on these remarkable organizations, visit:
https://www.genesisca.org/
https://www.gamaliel.org/
Warm Regards,
Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel, PhD
Co-Founders, Breakthrough Communities
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Anna Deavere Smith — Berkeley — July 13, 2014
Forgiveness Challenge Invitation — May 2014
Breakthrough Communities Announces 20th Anniversary Edition
with a foreword by
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Dearest friends and colleagues,
We are thrilled and honored to collaborate with Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the 20th Anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty, dedicated to community resilience and climate justice in the face of global warming. Nobel Laureate and social justice visionary Archbishop Tutu has provided a foreword to our book that connects the message of interdependence in Random Kindness to the South African concept of ubuntu. Ubuntu is the conviction that interconnectedness is the very root of who we are.
As part of our collaboration, we are participating in Desmond and Mpho Tutu’s Global Forgiveness Challenge. We invite you all to join us in this remarkable, transformative adventure!
As part of our collaboration, we are participating in Desmond and Mpho Tutu’s Global Forgiveness Challenge. We invite you all to join us in this remarkable, transformative adventure!
Breakthrough Communities Frontline News — March 2014
Climate Justice Leaders Testify at
Supervisor John Gioia’s California Air Resources Board Confirmation Hearing
Supervisor John Gioia, Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg, Carl Anthony, and Paloma Pavel
February 19th, 2014 was an amazing day with environmental and equity allies converging in the California State Capitol, Sacramento, to rally around Climate Justice hero, Supervisor John Gioia! Mr. Carl Anthony and Dr. Paloma Pavel of Breakthrough Communities testified at the California Air Resources Board confirmation hearing in support of Gioia.
Chasing Ice Newsletter — April 2014
Breakthrough Communities Invites you
Climate change is often viewed as a challenge regarding the loss of the icecaps. The reality is that it is also about the effects of human communities and public health. Vulnerable communities will bare the brunt. Breakthrough Communities is helping to shape an agenda in California that addresses the central health and economic issues of climate change for all communities. Breakthrough Communities Paloma Pavel will be part of the panel with Supervisor John Gioia, sharing the current work going on in the Bay Area responding to climate change. Learn about the 6 Win Cap and Trade climate action plan and more… Come see the film and join the dialogue to build community resilience. April 17th 7pm-9pm, Cerrito Theater. Free.
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