The document shown below has been accessed from the archive of the WACANupdate. The WACANupdate was an e-newsletter published by the White Anti-racist Community Action Network (www.wacan.org) from 2004 through 2009.

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In the News

• White anti-racist emergence in Los Angeles

Susan B. Goldberg and Cameron Levin have taken lessons for NCCJ-sponsored white awareness training in the 1990s and turned it to contemporary needs, calling for a "Radical White Identity." CLICK HERE

• WANTED: Art exposing white supremacy, $1000 award

The Race Museum, a traveling exhibit of interactive and participatory anti-racist art, has announced a commissioning of 5 new pieces of interactive and participatory anti-racist art. CLICK HERE

• Students move reparations to direct action campaign

Students do the arithmetic. JPMorganChase manages $9 billion in student loans. JPMorganChase also used over 13,000 enslaved Africans as loan collateral, and owned another 1,250. CLICK HERE

• Advertising monoracial whiteness

Why would a Utah developer include the phrase, "Black race population percentage significantly below state average," as a selling point for his new homes? No other race was mentioned. CLICK HERE

• White students and parents shop for own standards.

A story less than 3 weeks ago by The Wall Street Journal has captured a fair measure of Internet buzz. CLICK HERE

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