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SUMMARY:NABA Board of Directors Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The next NABA Board meeting will be April 22\, 2015\, starting at 11:30 AM PST. \nIf you are interested in volunteering with NABA and would like to sit in on a Board meeting (virtually)\, \nplease email info@NorthAmericanBuddhistAlliance.org or call Guo Cheen at 253-886-6251 \nfor agenda and call-in information. \nNABA invites Buddhists of various traditions across North America to join our inclusive team.
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/naba-board-of-directors-meeting/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2015
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SUMMARY:Launching of NABA
DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \nLAUNCHING OF THE FIRST NON-SECTARIAN NETWORK OF BUDDHIST GROUPS IN NORTH AMERICA \nAs a hub of support and for sharing resources\, North American Buddhist Alliance expects to encourage many collaborations among peace-loving Buddhists across the region. \nMarch 16\, 2016. (Seattle\, WA) Today\, North American Buddhist Alliance (NABA) launches its interactive website for Buddhists in the region so that the teachings of the Buddha may be even more skillfully shared and so that peace may result in the minds and social realities here. \nPresently no Buddhist network exists in North America. Given the rapid population growth of Buddhists and Buddhist groups on the North American continent\, a member-supported association that informs the public about the presence of various Buddhist groups and supports Buddhists in the sharing of resources or efforts toward collective action is an absolute necessity. \nNABA was founded with the support of a few dozen Buddhist teachers who lead groups in the United States and Canada. A small idea that began at the 2015 International Dharma Teachers’ Gathering grew to become an official nonprofit organization with an interactive website\, a quarterly e-newsletter\, and virtual and in-person opportunities for Buddhists to share ideas and event information\, to create joint initiatives and projects. \nReverend Guo Cheen\, one of the directors of the NABA Board\, points to the interdependent Indra’s Net integrated into the NABA logo\, “it represents the cohesion and cooperation possible\, both of which must happen to a certain degree to turn the wheel of the Dharma in the West. And as the wheel turns\, each piece of the whole is made more radiant.” \nNABA serves as a resource for Buddhists and Buddhist groups across North America and can be followed at NorthAmericanBuddhistAlliance.org. For more information please contact Guo Cheen at info@NorthAmericanBuddhistAlliance.org or 253-886-6251. \n#  #  #  #
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/launching-of-naba/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2016
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160925T170000
DTSTAMP:20260526T023320
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SUMMARY:First Annual NABA Buddhists Conference Online
DESCRIPTION:All Buddhists and representatives with Buddhist groups across North America \nare invited to join North American Buddhist Alliance's first annual virtual conference. \nThe September 25th 3 to 5 PM PDT program aims to bring the greater Sangha online\, \noffering opportunities for the North American Buddhist community to interact and become better acquainted. \nSpace is limited\, please register today at: \nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/2e8e5fed3378aa55c5b9141539e44ee6
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/first-annual-naba-buddhists-conference-online-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2016
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170101T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170101T000000
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SUMMARY:2017 Dharma Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:A quarterly series of webinars featuring Buddhist teachers from across diverse traditions\, \nsharing Dharma lessons applicable for Westerners in daily life now. \nPlease recommend Buddhist teachers you would like to see leading these online webinars. \nMore details to come.
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/2017-dharma-webinar-series-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2017
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170813
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SUMMARY:Urgent Prayers for Charlottesville's Racist Violence
DESCRIPTION:As extreme right-wing groups\, encouraged to arrive armed\, prepare to converge in Charlottesville\, Virginia tomorrow\, we at Buddhist Peace Fellowship want to Be in spiritual and material solidarity with all those on the ground\, compassionately confronting racist violence. We are honored to pass along this letter with permission from our friend\, BPF member\, and Block Build Be alum\, Sarah Thompson (’16) — a bold and wonderful leader with the Christian Peacemaker Teams. \nThank you\, Sarah\, for Blocking racist intimidation; Building strong skills for peace; and Being a commitment to waging peace in a world that needs it. \nWith love\,\nKatie and the BPF team \n\nFrom Sarah Thompson\n\nFirst and foremost I want to send love to you all. \nThank you for who you are and the work that you are doing in the world. \nIt is important. You are courageous. Now is the time to grow our souls. \nPlease read on. \nThis weekend\, a racist rally is taking place in Charlottesville\, Virginia called “Unite the Right.” You can read about it online (poster attached). This article by the Southern Poverty Law Center\, which monitors “hate groups and other extremists\,” warns that the rally could be “the largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States.” The convergence of alt-right folks has been emboldened by the national administration\, and they do have a sense of their world falling apart. They chose Charlottesville to rally after that city’s vote to remove the Confederate statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Their goal is to bring white people on the right wing together\, out from the shadow of the internet\, so they can cultivate real relationships and craft a palatable platform to build more political power. The images they chose for the rally draw from Nazi-era propaganda. \nIn response to this gathering\, different peace and justice activists groups have been organizing a counter rally to bring people together against what these hate groups stand for.  Drawing from many different inspirations\, they are trying to work together across many different approaches to challenging white supremacy and its impact on all of our lives. \nThe Deep Abiding Love Project requested that I come to Charlottesville to share wisdom about how to deal with multiple armed groups in one space. I arrived last Wednesday and\, in addition to doing 6 trainings that day\, found myself doing a lot of ministry of encouragement…this work is so hard and folks here have been working for a long time there without much support. Activists of color are being followed to their homes\, doxxed and stalked on the internet\, and threatened by police.  It is to encircle them with energetic encouragement that I am writing to you now. \nLocal leaders realized that most of the nonviolent direct action training that is offered currently for public demonstrations in the US assumes that the state (police\, national guard\, etc.) will be the only armed actor. Since Virginia is an open-carry state where one is permitted to have weapons\, in Charlottesville at least 4 different groups may come armed with guns/knives/tear gas\, etc. I shared from the confrontational nonviolence work that Christian Peacemaker Teams does\, walking alongside those who are creatively resisting oppression and lethal violence. Over the last 30 years we have learned from grassroots partners in various war/conflict scenarios how to calibrate to multiple armed actors. So we examined both background work and in-the-moment things needed for being able to be as present as possible when guns are all around. If this is a training your community needs\, let me know. \nI’m back in Chicago now\, finishing up with the month-long CPT peacemaker training (our response to the question\, “what if people committed to peace trained as hard for it as militaries train for war?”) and I invite you to join me in supporting. \n1. Please make some time (as early as possible in the day) to energetically support the many activists groups that are coming together on all of our behalf.  Pray that they are able to communicate well between their perspectives and build resilient relationships in the face of continual onslaught of racist violence across the South and the nation. \n2. Toss some cash toward Congregate\, which is funding many of the actions\, facilitators\, and support workers needed to keep people safe\, healthy\, and aligned. They’re also collecting money for bail for those doing arrestable nonviolent direct actions to shut down the “Unite the Right” rally. Donate here now. \n3. On the 12th\, please take one more step on your journey of dismantling white supremacy\, and creating a world that allows all beings to thrive healthfully. No matter how big or how small you think it is\, let’s change the energetic field…on that day and forevermore. I’d love to hear about what you decide to do. I’m happy to support you in your ongoing journey.  If you want to do it with a group of others\, feel free to forward this email. \nI can’t share specifics of other things via email because of security concerns\, but if you feel like you’d like to/need to know more\, I can share that offline! \n \nSarah\nP.S. a link to a poem of Cosmic Accountability\, by sistah comrade Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ website
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/urgent-prayers-for-charlottsvilles-racist-violence-3-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170820T110000
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SUMMARY:Monthly POCs for Racial Justice Calls: 3rd Tuesdays
DESCRIPTION:NABA offers monthly opportunities for POC Buddhists for racial justice to gather. This multi-lineage container provides nourishment\, solidarity-building\, probes into larger questions\, and action-oriented committees couched on the teachings of the Buddha. These calls are consistent opportunities where POC Buddhists for racial justice across North America may be relieved of the burden of having to explain racism to others and simply be accepted\, as together we explore justice issues and resolutions in our personal and global spheres. POC Buddhists across traditions have something unique to offer race relations at micro and macro levels too. \nRegular calls every 3rd Tuesday of the month starting at 11:30 AM PST / 2:30 PM EST.\nThe next call will be February 20th. \nRegister for upcoming 2018 calls here:\n February 20 -- An Exploration.\nWe will consider questions such as the following:\n-Are fight and flight the only options in the face of injustice?\n-What Dharma-based resolutions have you tried or would like to try?\n-And what happened or resulted when you did try?\n-Explore silence as a solution vs. being silenced as an injustice. \nMarch 20 -- Peace and Social Action.\nCoinciding with NABA's multi-lineage racial justice webinar by Katie Loncke of Buddhist Peace Fellowship and co-presenter from another community\, please join all interested in racial justice on this date. \nApril to December \nDr. Kamilah Majied\, Jennifer Hawkins\, and Guo Cheen are helping with the facilitation of these calls. Please join us: \n\nTo Heal: To recognize and repair internalized oppression and its impact on our relatedness as a diverse body of practitioners of color. We need time together to apply our practice towards discovering more personally who we are as a diverse body of color.\nTo Discover: To know who Practitioners of Color are as a diverse body\, recognize the integral roles we play in the broader spiritual community\, discover how we currently enhance racial equity\, leverage resources\, and form natural collaborations.\nTo Bridge: This call invites us to explore how we align our energies in ways that bridge racial separation between historically divided communities of color. Many of us also seek to reconcile and collaborate with white practitioners\, allies\, and institutions without causing or experiencing harm.\nTo Justice: We call practitioners of color to humbly recognize our interdependence across the very systems which perpetuate the vestiges of our exploitation/enslavement\, including economic\, healthcare\, educational\, environmental\, transportation and legal systems controlling housing\, property and national borders. Of relevant concern to us is how racism relies on greed and class stratification\, the weight of which is not only ravaging the poorest communities of color but also rapidly destroying the planet.\n\nSee you every 3rd Tuesday of the month!
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/monthly-pocs-for-racial-justice-calls-3rd-tuesdays-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2016,Event Archive 2017,Event Archive 2018
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SUMMARY:Monthly WAG: 1st Sunday's
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Here for 1st Sunday of the Month\nFeb. to June 2018\, 10 AM - Noon PST / 1 - 3 PM EST Calls \nNABA's White Affinities Group is committed to continue its monthly space\nto talk about the work we're doing to end white supremacy and work for racial justice\,\nwhether that's in our sanghas\, in the U.S. and beyond --\nwhat we are learning\, what the challenges are\, and how this connects with our Buddhist practice.\nOur hope is that this kind of space could support and strengthen people's local organizing rather than taking away from it.\nNABA provides a unique opportunity to connect across Buddhist lineages and across geographic regions.\nKey points: \n\n* This is a chance to touch base every month for a short period of time\, rather than making an extensive commitment.\n* WAG is inclusive of all levels of experience with anti-racist work and Buddhism. We are all learning together.\n* All kinds of anti-racism work can be brought in for discussion.\nThis could include conversations with people in your day to day life (sangha\, work\, family\, etc.)\, more formal collective organizing against structural and systemic racism\, internal learning and unlearning\, etc.\n* New folks can drop in at any time.\n* This is also a chance to practice facilitating white anti-racist discussion in a supportive space\, for anyone who wants to try that.\n\nCurrently Kara\, Ruby\, and Joshua are going to rotate facilitation and we'd love for other folks to get involved if this is something you want to try.\n\nWe will send more frequent updates and reminders through the WAG Google Group. To join the Google Group\, please register and show up on a WAG Zoom call.\nWe'd like to get to know you and know about you and racial justice.\nWe need more intersections between the overarching\, powerful Buddhists for racial justice statements and the daily grind of local diversity programs\, learning through sharing\, and continental multi-lineage conversations\, please join us in our attempt to connect the dots here at NABA!\nWe hope to see you 1st Sunday each month! \n\nRSVP Here for 1st Sunday of the Month\nFeb. to June 2018\, 10 AM - Noon PST / 1 - 3 PM EST Calls\n\n\nKara Dansky  \nKara Dansky is the founder and managing director of One Thousand Arms and a long-time practitioner within the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. \n\n\n\nRuby Grad \n\nRuby Grad is a practicing meditator and Buddhist in the Ajahn Chah lineage of the Thai Forest Theravada lineage for close to 30 years.\n\nNot pictured is Joshua\, who has been practicing for 12 years with a sangha in a Rinzai Zen lineage and is involved in grassroots groups working to end white supremacy and colonialism.
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/monthly-wag-1st-sundays-5-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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SUMMARY:Monthly WAG: 1st Sunday's
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Here for 1st Sunday of the Month\nFeb. to June 2018\, 10 AM - Noon PST / 1 - 3 PM EST Calls \nNABA's White Affinities Group is committed to continue its monthly space\nto talk about the work we're doing to end white supremacy and work for racial justice\,\nwhether that's in our sanghas\, in the U.S. and beyond --\nwhat we are learning\, what the challenges are\, and how this connects with our Buddhist practice.\nOur hope is that this kind of space could support and strengthen people's local organizing rather than taking away from it.\nNABA provides a unique opportunity to connect across Buddhist lineages and across geographic regions.\nKey points: \n\n* This is a chance to touch base every month for a short period of time\, rather than making an extensive commitment.\n* WAG is inclusive of all levels of experience with anti-racist work and Buddhism. We are all learning together.\n* All kinds of anti-racism work can be brought in for discussion.\nThis could include conversations with people in your day to day life (sangha\, work\, family\, etc.)\, more formal collective organizing against structural and systemic racism\, internal learning and unlearning\, etc.\n* New folks can drop in at any time.\n* This is also a chance to practice facilitating white anti-racist discussion in a supportive space\, for anyone who wants to try that.\n\nCurrently Kara\, Ruby\, and Joshua are going to rotate facilitation and we'd love for other folks to get involved if this is something you want to try.\n\nWe will send more frequent updates and reminders through the WAG Google Group. To join the Google Group\, please register and show up on a WAG Zoom call.\nWe'd like to get to know you and know about you and racial justice.\nWe need more intersections between the overarching\, powerful Buddhists for racial justice statements and the daily grind of local diversity programs\, learning through sharing\, and continental multi-lineage conversations\, please join us in our attempt to connect the dots here at NABA!\nWe hope to see you 1st Sunday each month! \n\nRSVP Here for 1st Sunday of the Month\nFeb. to June 2018\, 10 AM - Noon PST / 1 - 3 PM EST Calls\n\n\nKara Dansky  \nKara Dansky is the founder and managing director of One Thousand Arms and a long-time practitioner within the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. \n\n\n\nRuby Grad \n\nRuby Grad is a practicing meditator and Buddhist in the Ajahn Chah lineage of the Thai Forest Theravada lineage for close to 30 years.\n\nNot pictured is Joshua\, who has been practicing for 12 years with a sangha in a Rinzai Zen lineage and is involved in grassroots groups working to end white supremacy and colonialism.
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/monthly-wag-1st-sundays-4-2/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180623T170000
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SUMMARY:"Beyond Identity" - race\, class\, power ... and winning the world we need
DESCRIPTION:Online Workshop Series presented by White Awake\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-identity-online-workshop-series-tickets-45068768901 \nFacilitators: Eleanor Hancock and Andy Banks \n\n\n\nThree sessions: May 26\, June 9\, and June 23 (Saturdays)\n\n\nEach session: 3-5pm ET / 12-2pm PT\n\n\n$70 for whole series\n\n\nNo one is turned away for lack of funds.\n\n\nLive sessions will be held as video conferences via Zoom\n\n\nSessions will be recorded and shared with participants\n\n\nWhite Awake is a nonprofit organization. If you would like to make a donation above and beyond the cost of your ticket\, you can do so here.\n\n\nQuestions\, or to request a scholarship\, write us at: info@whiteawake.org\n\n\n\n“If their strategy is to divide\, ours has to be to unite.” - Andy Banks\, labor organizer \nHave you ever wondered just what it would take to end white supremacy? You are showing up as an ally in anti-racist struggle\, you are doing your part to dismantle your socialization as a white person … but is it enough? What are our long term goals\, and are we taking the steps we need to get there? \nForged in the cauldron of the 13 colonies and soon to be United States\, white supremacy redirected centuries of resistance by European peasants and laborers to economic exploitation by a small ruling class\, effectively paving the way for capitalism as we know it today. We are left with the ravages of racism\, genocide\, colonialism and imperialism\, consuming our lives and the natural world in order to further consolidate economic power in the hands of a very small number of people. \nIt is this base of economic power that has to be disrupted and replaced if we are ever to escape the devastation and build the world we need. And yet many people who enter social justice spaces are met not with a broad analysis of capitalism and power\, but rather a list of rules and a tight control of interpersonal interaction that can be stifling or even harmful. While understanding and correcting how we have been socialized is important\, a rigid focus on identity and “right and wrong” ways of acting will not build the collective base of power necessary to topple something as powerful as global capitalism\, complete with national armies and private mercenaries to protect the interests of a few and maintain the horrific\, white supremacist agenda that is enmeshed within it. \nThis workshop series focuses specifically on the relationship between racism and capitalism. The goal is to help participants develop a strong political and historical analysis that can direct our energy into social movement spaces that are focused not on infighting or trying to “get it right\,” or even forcing small improvements to the the current social/economic order\, but on a complete and radical change. Change that takes us beyond what may seem possible\, all the way to what we need. \nIn this workshop series\, White Awake Director Eleanor Hancock and long time labor organizer Andy Banks will help participants: \n\nStrengthen your understanding of the relationship between capitalism and white supremacy\nLearn principles of organizing around solidarity (mutual self interest as opposed to guilt or obligation) that can make it easier to talk to other white people about social change and provide a solid foundation for multiracial\, coalition work\nFortify yourself against shame\, blame\, and coercive tactics sometimes used in dogmatic social justice spaces\nApply an analysis of white racial socialization within a broad vision of radical social change\nReflect on People’s Platforms as an organizing tool to help win “the world we need” - one where the economy and other social systems are based not on extraction and exploitation\, but on care for each another and the planet\n\nNo one is an expert. We hope to learn and grow together! \n\nWhite Awake focuses its work on the education and transformation of people who are socialized and racially categorized as “white\,” and sometimes holds white caucus spaces. This series is explicitly open to anyone who is interested in the topic and comfortable with a focus on white identity in a larger political context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare with friends\n\n\n\n\n   Facebook \n   Facebook Messenger \n   LinkedIn \n   Twitter \n   email \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate and Time\n\nSat\, May 26\, 2018\, 3:00 PM – \nSat\, Jun 23\, 2018\, 5:00 PM EDT \nAdd to Calendar \n\nRefund Policy\n\nRefunds up to 1 day before event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer:   White Awake \nOrganizer of "Beyond Identity" online workshop series \n\n\n\n\n\n White Awake combats white supremacy by focusing on educational resources and spiritual practices designed to facilitate white people’s engagement in the creation of a just and sustainable society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer Profile   Contact
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/beyond-identity-race-class-power-and-winning-the-world-we-need-3/
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CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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