NAACP SLO County

NAACP General Membership Meeting, October—San Luis Obispo
2018-10-09 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2201 Lawton Avenue, San Luis Obispo, 93401, United States
Join us for our monthly general membership meeting.

NAACP General Membership Meeting, September—San Luis Obispo
2018-09-11 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2201 Lawton Avenue, San Luis Obispo, 93401, United States

NAACP Annual BBQ: Santa Rosa Park, San Luis Obispo
2018-09-01 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Rosa Park, Santa Rosa St., San Luis Obispo, CA, 92401, United States
Join us for the NAACP annual BBQ, September 1 in Santa Rosa Park, San Luis Obispo

Stone Soup Festival
2018-08-25 - 2018-08-26
August 25: 10 am to 9 pm
August 26: 11 am to 5 pm
Ramona Garden Park and surrounding streets in Grover Beach
The 28th Annual Stone Soup Music Festival, Food, & Street Fair will take place August 25 and 26 at and around Ramona Garden Park in Grover Beach. The Festival is designed to celebrate diversity though music, food, arts and crafts. World class musicians from throughout California are scheduled to perform. Two stages ensure music flows uninterrupted from 10 am to 9:30 pm on Saturday and from 11 am to 5 pm on Sunday. Vendors are open from 10am-6pm on Saturday and from 11am to 5pm on Sunday.
More information about the Stone Soup Music Festival, Food, & Street Fair is available at Southcountychambers.com, on the Stone Soup Music Festival Facebook page or by calling (805) 489-1488.

NAACP General Membership Meeting, August—San Luis Obispo
2018-08-14 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2201 Lawton Avenue, San Luis Obispo, 93401, United States

NAACP General Membership Meeting, July—San Luis Obispo
2018-07-10 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2201 Lawton Avenue, San Luis Obispo, 93401, United States

Juneteenth Celebration
2018-06-23 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | LUDWICK COMMNITY CENTER 864SANTAROSAST. SLO, 864 SANTA ROSA ST., San Luis Obispo, CA, 93401, United States
Join us for the inaugural Juneteenth community festival hosted by the NAACP SLO County
COMING TOGETHER…MOVING FORWARD

The Juneteenth celebration will be a multicultural event consisting of live entertainment, food, games, and educational exhibits. This event will provide our community with a forum that encourages, empowers, and educates. This is a family event: bring your family and friends!

Live Music by SOULSVILLE featuring Gloria Mantooth
Traditional Southern Creole Cuisine prepared by Bon Temps Creole Cafe of San Luis Obispo
Menu: Chicken Jambalaya with Collards, Corn Bread, and Honey Butter, $7.50; cake by the slice, $2.50

Juneteenth is an American holiday observed annually on June 19th. Juneteenth celebrates the date (June 19, 1865) that the Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all remaining slaves.

SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Ludwick Community Center
864 Santa Rosa Street
San Luis Obispo

NAACP General Membership Meeting, June—San Luis Obispo
2018-06-12 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2201 Lawton Avenue, San Luis Obispo, 93401, United States

NAACP Lobby Day—Sacramento
2018-05-21 | citizen hotel, sacramento, 926 J Street, Sacramento, CA, 95814, United States
Join us for the annual NAACP Lobby Day in Sacramento, California, on Monday May 21. Plan on joining us for an educational and fun day. All members are welcome to attend.
NAACP Lobby Day is when concerned NAACP members meet politicians or public servants at various levels in Sacramento to advocate and explain support for legislation relevant to the California Hawaii NAACP.

Celebrate Harriet Tubman
2018-05-18 - 2018-05-20
A Series of Presentations with Dr. Kate Larson
Consulting Historian, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center, and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway and All American Road. Eastern Shore, Maryland.
Session 1: Myths, Mysteries, and True Histories of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Friday, May 18, 3:30 pm
Room 218 (Choral Rehearsal Room)
H.P. Davidson Music Center
Cal Poly State University
Session 2: Legacies and Memorials of Harriet Tubman’s Extraordinary Life
Saturday, May 19, 3:30 pm
Wilson Hall
First Presbyterian Church of San Luis Obispo
981 Marsh Street
Session 3: Honoring the Legacy of Harriet Tubman –
A conversation with Ron Kean, composer,
and Kate Larson, historian
Sunday, May 20, 1:30 pm
Harman Hall
San Luis Obispo Performing Arts Cente

About Dr. Kate Larson
Kate Clifford Larson is an historian and leading Harriet Tubman scholar and the author of the 2004 biography, Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. After earning two degrees from Simmons College in Boston, and an MBA from Northeastern University, Larson pursued a doctorate in American History at the University of New Hampshire, specializing in 19th and 20th century U.S. Women’s and African American history. She is the consulting historian for the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State and National Parks and 125 mile Harriet Tubman Byway, an All-American Road, in Maryland, and has consulted for the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, NY. Her second book, The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln, was released in 2008. Her most recent work, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter, about the disabled sister of President John F. Kennedy, spent ten weeks on the New York Timesbestseller.
Passionate about researching and writing about American women’s lives, Larson enjoys the challenges of teasing out life stories from voices that have long been silenced. “I feel strongly that we must reconnect with the women who helped build and shape this country,” Larson recently wrote, “and by putting women at the center of the story, the world looks very different – more complex, interesting, and colorful.” Dr. Larson lives in Winchester, MA.

Dr. Larson’s appearance is sponsored by the San Luis Obispo Master Chorale. This weekend of talks will conclude with a performance of The Journey of Harriet Tubman, composed by California resident, Ron Kean. In addition, the SLO Master Chorale and Master Chorale Orchestra will perform Johannes Brahms’ masterwork, Ein deutsches Requiem (a German Requiem). Both works will be conducted by Thomas Davies, musical director and conductor of the SLO Master Chorale and Professor Emeritus at Cal Poly.
Harriet Tubman and Johannes Brahms lived during the same period of time, yet worlds apart. Brahms’ masterwork has been with us for 150 years, uniting audiences and performers from throughout the world with a work of comfort and hope. Ron Kean’s work is less than 2 years old, yet it already has had a tremendously inspirational effect on all who have performed and heard this music and learned from the life of this extraordinary woman.
The presentations by Kate Larson and Ron Kean are free and open to the public.
More info at slomasterchorale.org

NAACP General Membership Meeting, May—San Luis Obispo
2018-05-08 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2201 Lawton Avenue, San Luis Obispo, 93401, United States

NAACP SLO County Supports Earth Day 2018
2018-04-21 11:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Laguna Lake Park, 504 Madonna Rd, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93405, United States
Join us for the 28th Annual Earth Day Fair & Music Festival On Saturday April 21st from 11 AM to 5 PM at Laguna Lake Park in San Luis Obispo. The theme is “Time is Running Out.” There will be live music, food, soft drinks, beer, and wine.
The San Luis Obispo County Branch of the NAACP will have a booth with displays, literature, and discussion on reducing and rethinking the use of plastics and various methods of carbon sequestration. Volunteers are welcome to help with the booth beginning at 9 AM. I am looking forward to being there with you and making a better future for our county and world!
Mark Skinner, Health Co-Chair

NAACP General Membership Meeting, April—San Luis Obispo
2018-04-10 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2201 Lawton Avenue, San Luis Obispo, 93401, United States
Join us for our monthly general membership meeting.
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Charles Varni, Co-Chair, Coalition to Protect SLO County and Coordinator of SLO Surfinder Foundation STOP Climate Change Campaign. He will speaking about the importance of qualifying their ballot initiative to ban new oil wells in SLO County.
New Member Orientation
We will again hold a Membership Orientation one hour before the meeting (at 5:30pm). Attend Membership Orientation to learn about the history and function of the NAACP as well as how our branch operates, is organized, and how you can fit in. If you are not a member yet, membership forms will be available at the Orientation.

MONTHLY AREA MEETING: SLO City
2018-03-28 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unity of San Luis Obispo, 1130 Orcutt Road, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States
4th Wednesday of each month
6:00 PM Unity of San Luis Obispo
1130 Orcutt, San Luis Obispo
Dinner is provided
Mark Buchman, VP and facilitator
Cheryl Vines presents Mark Buchman with National’s recognition of his Lifetime membership status

March for Our Lives, San Luis Obispo
2018-03-24 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mitchell Park, 1400 Osos St, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93401, United States
If you are a student interested in this action, please email the organizers of this event at womensmarchslo@gmail.com.
#MarchforOurLives in San Luis Obispo is a rally and march in solidarity with the march on Washington DC on 3/24/18. We support the victims and survivors of the Parkland massacre, as well as all victims of school and mass shootings. The purpose of this event is to create a positive and just future by ending gun violence in our schools, and mass shootings in our nation. We march to send a clear message to Congress that they must act now. There is no other way forward. What has happened over the past 19 years since Columbine cannot continue.
DETAILS
Student-led rally starts at 2PM in Mitchell Park, San Luis Obispo, followed by a march. Check our FB event page for the latest updates. Click here to visit the WomensarchSLO.com website for more information.
*****Frequently Asked Questions*****
WHY ARE WE RALLYING AND MARCHING?
To force Congress to act. Congress has the power to end mass shootings in America. We call on all participants to join on 3/24/18, and to commit to working on real solutions to mass shootings.
PRO-PEACE PRO-INCLUSION
This Rally and March follows the Kingian Principles of Non-violence. We attack ideas and change policy. We work towards a better future. We do not attack specific people. All who want to end gun violence in schools are welcome.
SIGNS
Please brings signs that promote an end to school and mass shootings in America.
MEETING TIME & PLACE
March 24 @2PM, Mitchell Park, San Luis Obispo
ROUTE
Route length will be shared ASAP. Route will be shared closer to the date.
DONATE
We must fund permitting, insurance, sound, safety and more. Please help us to cover the costs by donating here.
VOLUNTEER
We need a large number of volunteers – please sign up here.
SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS
Alexa Ford
Lauren Hatcher
Kloe Seher
Elena Cota
PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION
We encourage you to carpool, ride your bike or use Uber or Lyft.
– Bike Valet – free at Mitchell Park, on Pismo Street.
– San Luis Obispo Downtown Parking – click here.
– San Luis Obispo Regional Transit (Bus) – click here.
– Amtrak – click here.
MISSION
Courtesy of March for our Lives:
Not one more. We cannot allow one more child to be shot at school. We cannot allow one more teacher to make a choice to jump in front of a firing assault rifle to save the lives of students. We cannot allow one more family to wait for a call or text that never comes. Our schools are unsafe. Our children and teachers are dying. We must make it our top priority to save these lives.
March For Our Lives is created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar. In the tragic wake of the seventeen lives brutally cut short in Florida, politicians are telling us that now is not the time to talk about guns. March For Our Lives believes the time is now.
On March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets of Washington, DC to demand that their lives and safety become a priority. The collective voices of the March For Our Lives movement will be heard.
School safety is not a political issue. There cannot be two sides to doing everything in our power to ensure the lives and futures of children who are at risk of dying when they should be learning, playing, and growing. The mission and focus of March For Our Lives is to demand that a comprehensive and effective bill be immediately brought before Congress to address these gun issues. No special interest group, no political agenda is more critical than timely passage of legislation to effectively address the gun violence issues that are rampant in our country.
Every kid in this country now goes to school wondering if this day might be their last. We live in fear.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Change is coming. And it starts now, inspired by and led by the kids who are our hope for the future. Their young voices will be heard.
Stand with us on March 24. Refuse to allow one more needless death.
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES!

Counter Histories: Rock Hill at SLO Film Fest, San Luis Obispo
2018-03-17 13:30 - 14:30, 2018-03-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2018-03-15 16:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Downtown Cinemas, 888 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo, CA, United States
The NAACP is one of the proud sponsors of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival to be held March 13-18, 2018. The film is Counter Histories: Rock Hill and provides a more complete historical backdrop to civil rights and the movement. There will be three screenings and individual tickets will be sold at the door. The film festival “Movie Star Pass” holders will be admitted first. Please join us at any of the three screenings with the Saturday (3/17) screening being our NAACP and Unity of SLO’s time to see the movie as a collective. Please join us then. Movie Star Passes and ticket information can be found at the SLO Film Fest website.

Synopsis:
It’s 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is stalled with protest after protest, arrest after arrest, in the segregated South. Students at a small local Baptist college in Rock Hill, South Carolina, decide to sit in at their local lunch counter. They get arrested, go to jail and remain there. Their action brings the national attention the movement seeks and becomes an important incident in the social justice movement. With excellent reenactments and creative visuals, Counter Histories: Rock Hill breaks with documentary conventions to connect with a new audience and tie the historical movement to present day struggles. 56 min.
Presented by Preston Allen of NAACP SLO County branch/SLO Unity
Click Here to Learn More
All showings of this movie:
Thursday, March 15 – 4:30 – Downtown Cinemas
Friday, March 16 – 10am – Downtown Cinemas
Saturday, March 17 – 1:30pm – Downtown Cinemas

Monthly Meeting & Membership Orientation, San Luis Obispo
2018-03-13 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | UU Fellowship of San Luis Obispo County, 2201 Lawton Ave, San Luis Obispo, California 93401, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93401, United States
Join us for our monthly membership meeting.
Starting this month, we’ll be implementing our Membership Orientation one hour before the meeting (at 5:30pm).
Attend Membership Orientation to learn about the history and function of the NAACP as well as how our branch operates, is organized, and how you can fit in.

Seven Essential Pathways to Inner Peace—The Power of Forgiveness II, San Luis Obispo
2018-03-11 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unity of San Luis Obispo, 1130 Orcutt Road, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States
Part of the NAACP’s mission is to “provide educational and social action activities associated with the improvement of race relations.” One of the most powerful ways we can improve our relations with others is to generate positive changes within ourselves. As Mahatma Gandhi stated, “We must become the change we wish to see in our world.” This is the second in a series of workshops based on Leona and Matthew’s book, The Evolving Peacemaker: A Commitment to Nonviolence, which was recently honored with the 2017 Evergreen Gold Medal for World Peace presented by the Living Now Book Awards.
Matthew and Leona
“Forgiveness is releasing the anger we have inadvertently allowed to poison our souls. It is giving up our need to even the score with those who have wounded us. Forgiveness also involves healing past wounds so that we don’t project our fears and mistrust onto our current relationships and perceive insults when none were intended.”

Leona Evans is a motivational speaker, educator, life coach, and peace activist. She holds a Master of Arts in Religious Studies and has been the minister at Unity of San Luis Obispo for 24 years. Leona is also certified in Conflict Management and Peace building by the United States Institute of Peace.
Matthew J. Evans is an accomplished actor, musician, and filmmaker. He received the Art of Making Peace Award from the Peace in the Streets Global Film Festival, presented to him at the United Nations third High Level Forum on a Culture of Peace by Former Under- Secretary- General Anwarul Chowdhury.

Sunday, March 11
Unity of San Luis Obispo
1130 Orcutt Road
San Luis Obispo
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Stand Up for America: Take a Knee for Liberty and Justice for All
2018-02-03 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Take a Knee is about social justice. The NAACP mission is to ensure political, educational, social and economic equality regardless of race, sex, gender or religious beliefs.
SUPER BOWL SATURDAY—Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo
FEBRUARY 3, 2018, 11:00-2:00 PM

Hear Our Vote: Voices of Resistance Rally
2018-01-20 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mission plaza, 989 Chorro Street, San Luis Obispo, 93401, United States
On January 20, 2018, the Women’s March SLO unites to reaffirm our commitment to building a positive and just future for all, to celebrate the spirit of resistance efforts over the past year, and to build momenturm for the 2018 election season. The San Luis Obispo Hear Our Vote rally is one of over 160 events worldwide honoring the movement that brought out 5 million marchers on January 21, 2017, in what is considered the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history.
SPEAKERS (not in order):

Elmy Bermejo – Keynote Speaker – Women’s rights, workforce development, immigration, disaster relief, small business & voting rights advocate; served in President Obama’s administration for 7 years
Maria Larios Horton – Director of Migrant Education and immigrant rights advocate
Lisa Graystone – Disability rights advocate
Patricia Gordon, Ed.D – Civil rights and justice system reform advocate
Jay Bettergarcia, Ph.D. – LGBTQIA rights advocate
Natalie Risner – Environmental justice advocate
Pamela Parker, M.D. – Physician and reproductive rights advocate
Allene Villa – Former Union President and workers’ rights advocate
Kathleen Marshall – Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians

PERFORMERS (not in order):

Central Coast West African Drummers and Dancers – PreRally
Samba Loca – PreRally
Dian Sousa – Poet
Cecilia Gervin – Spoken Word
Ranchers For Peace – Music
Los Osos Middle School Choir – Song
Erin Inglish & Band – Concert at 3 pm

We must create a society in which women – including Black women, Native women, poor women, immigrant women, disabled women, Muslim women, lesbian queer and trans women – are free and able to care for and nurture their families, however they are formed, in safe and healthy environments free from structural impediments.
Women’s March San Luis Obispo Unity Principles

Communities Together Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King
2018-01-15 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Congregation Beth David, 10180 Los Osos Valley Road, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93405, United States
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) San Luis Obispo County branch, along with Bend the Arc, Beth David Congregation, RACE Matters and JCC Federation of San Luis Obispo is pleased to present our inaugural Communities Together Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King event. The celebration includes music, films, food, a collection of African American history and art from Santa Maria’s Hudson Institute of African American Heritage and Global Arts museum, and keynote speaker Dr. Donald Cheek of Fresno State University.
Join us on Monday, January 15, 2018, 4:00-8:00 PM at the Congregation Beth David, 10180 Los Osos Valley Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405.

Monthly NAACP Membership Meeting
2018-01-09 18:30 - 20:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2201 Lawton Avenue, San Luis Obispo, 93401, United States
Join us!
MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETINGTuesday, January 9Unitarian Universalist Fellowship2201 Lawton Ave.SLO 93401

Multicultural Holiday Celebration and Fundraiser
2017-12-10 13:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a holiday celebration and fundraiser honoring Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Indigenous, Mexican, and African American traditions. Stay tuned for more details.

Communications & Outreach Comm Meeting
2017-08-10 18:00 - 19:30 UTC
