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Short Read of the Week for June 3, 2021

Our first recommendation in this morning’s Short Read of the Week meeting was an article which began, “It took 100 years for an American president to visit the site of the Tulsa Race Massacre to acknowledge the atrocity that America tried to forget.” After you read it, you will want also to read President Biden’s speech on the Tulsa race massacre:

To Fill the Silence
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/todays-edition-june-2-2021
[our copy here]

Our second recommendation was:

Farmworker organizing in Washington is undoing discriminatory labor policies
https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-labor-farmworker-organizing-in-washington-is-undoing-discriminatory-labor-policies
[our copy here]

We stand not only with the farmworkers but with all the working people of Tillamook County, so many of whom are faced with exactly the conditions described in this article. Will you join us next week?


Direct link to item: https://tillcodems.org/whats-on-your-mind/2021/6/3/short-read-of-the-week-for-june-3-2021.