Barnstable No Place for Hate and several other organizations including Amplify POC Cape Cod, Fenway Health, Coalition for Social Justice, NAACP Cape Cod, Cape Cod Synagogue, First Lutheran Church of Cape Cod, Independence House, Upper Cape Women’s, Coalition, and Falmouth Jewish Congregation, are hosting two Community Meetings. Each Meeting is addressing pervasive and troubling levels of intolerance and hate and what we can do. The Community Meetings will be held in Hyannis and in West Yarmouth. Each will discuss, recommend, and develop an Action Plan to build bridges for communication, dialog, and increase engagement across the Cape’s divide of differences. The Action Plan will be managed by the Barnstable No Place for Hate with its partners.
The public is invited to attend and participate, joining neighbors in discussions about why hate and bigotry pervade our social interactions, how we can defuse hateful speech and actions, and what we can do to promote interaction, respect and understanding throughout our Cape communities.
Break-out sessions will support the Meetings’ conversations. These sessions will explore how the Cape community is impacted by racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and intolerance; including intersections with human conditions, including disability. The outcome will be an action plan based on the Meetings’ recommendations to address hate, bigotry, and enhance understanding, and fellowship among the Cape’s rich and diverse communities.