Monday Mailing - November 2, 2020

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RARE Monday Mailing Year 27 | Issue 07

Quote of the Week:

02 November 2020

“It can take as few as one person with a strong will and determination to change the minds of many, to bring friend and foe together at the same table, and steer them in a unified direction. But it takes the strength and perseverance of many to move forward in that direction, to produce meaningful change, and see that brighter future through.” - Johnathan Van Roekel

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Oregon Fast Fact The maraschino cherry as we know it was invented by Oregon State University professor Ernest H. Wiegand. More info.

Why Diverse Communities Are Striving to Redefine the Rural Story Planners as Therapists, Cities as Clients Celebrating Rural Tourism & Our Most Hospitable Cities on World Tourism Day ‘We Belong Out There’: How the Nordic Concept of Friluftsliv – Outdoor Life – Could Help the Pacific Northwest Get Through This COVID Winter (Katie Fields) What Really Makes Us Resilient? (Grace Kaplowitz) To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks Pandemic Guidelines Don’t Acknowledge Realities of Marginalized Communities Economic Research Promises Better Data for Rural Counties Solar Study Highlights Rural Potential RESOURCE: Cities and Businesses of Color: A Guide to Economic Growth (Grace Kaplowitz) RESOURCE: State of Oregon Equity Framework in COVID19 Response and Recovery (Grace Kaplowitz)

Why Diverse Communities Are Striving to Redefine the Rural Story Daily Yonder When the stories we hear about rural America focus only on white men, they erase generations of community-building work conducted by rural women of color. Setting the record straight by having diverse rural people tell their own stories can help repair the damage and build stronger communities, according to Indigenous, Black, and Latinx women leading a conversation at the Rural Assembly Everywhere virtual festival. “There’s this picture that is painted about who is rural America, and often we aren’t counted in that description,” said Mónica Ramírez, the founder and president of Justice for Migrant Women and moderator of Thursday’s panel. Read the full story.

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