DEI Thinks These Are The Days To Recognize

This was started last year and has not improved from the original list of days. Is this all the DEI does?

at the DEI Task Force meeting Monday night, members unveiled a pared-down draft of the calendar, which omitted what are likely the two most internationally celebrated cultural events of the year — Christmas and Easter. While none of the four task force members mentioned the two Christian events during the  meeting, Doneux said the panel is “certainly open to other people’s suggestions for additions” to the calendar.

The DEI task force, which meets once a month, voted
Monday to continue discussion of the cultural calendar to
a “date uncertain.”

DEI CULTURAL CALENDAR
January:
Korean American Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
National Day of Racial Healing. Our Beloved Community: A Journey Towards Black
& Brown Solidarity on the Monterey Peninsula.
Homelessness: Monterey County Point-in-Time Street Count.
Kwanzaa ends
UN Holocaust Remembrance Day
February:
National Freedom Day
Lunar New Year
BLAAC and Mils Film Festival
Black History Month
Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) Voices at MIIS
March:
Women’s History Month
International Women’s Day
On the Road to Hope & Joy: A Workshop at PG Adult School
Farmworkers Awareness Week
World Down Syndrome Day
April:
Celebrate Diversity Month
Emancipation Day
World Autism Awareness Day
Asian Cultural Show at MPC
Festival of Languages, Cultures, and Ideas
Moonflower Festival
Oaxaca Guelaguetza Cultural Festival
College of Health Sciences and Human Services (CHSHS) Diversity Celebration
(CSUMB)
May:
May Day/lnternational Workers Day
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
Mothers’ Day
Walk of Remembrance (Chinese) in PG
Red Dress Day (Indigenous People)
De Colores (advance farmworker advocacy)
June:
LGBTQ+ Pride Month
Juneteenth
International Day for Countering Hate Speech
Fathers’ Day
Monterey Bonsai Show
Marina Multi-cultural Festival
Palenke Arts Festival• Seaside
Monterey Peninsula Pride Celebration
Santa Cruz Pride
PrideLand (Hollister/San Benito County)
July:
Disability Pride Month
Obon Festival
International Non-Binary Peoples Day
August:
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
International Day of People of African Descent
Watsonville Strawberry Festival
International Youth Day
Women’s Equality Day
September.
LatinX Heritage/National Hispanic Heritage Month (starts Sept 15th)
October:
LatinX Heritage/National Hispanic Heritage Month (finishes October 15th)
Global Diversity Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Indigenous Peoples’ Day (second day of October)
International Pronouns Day
November:
National Native American Heritage Month
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Native American Heritage Day
December:
International Human Rights Day
Kwanzaa begins
Chanukah

So, here is Lighthouse Avenue’s list of suggestions. Not as inclusive or as wack Katie and Bruce’s list, but very accommodating.

January
National Big Forehead Day
My Way Day (A favorite of DEI members)
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
National I LOVE My feet Day
February
National Bad Poetry Day
Measure Your Feet Day
National Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
Talk Like William Shakespeare Day
March
National Griper’s Day
Alien Abduction Day
Send an Electronic Greeting Card Day
National Lumpy Rug Day
April
Create a Great Funeral Day
National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
National Rubber Eraser Day
No Socks Day
May
Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane Day
Stay Away From Fresno Day
National Emo Day
Invite an Alien to Live with You Day
June
Take it in the Ear Day
Hurray for Buttons Day
Call of the Horizon Day
A’Phabet Day or No “L” Day
National Ugly Truck Contest Day
July
Do a Grouch a Favor Day
False Confession Day
Dumbstruck Day
Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales
August
Clashing Clothes Day
National Name Your Car Day
Curmudgeons Day
Hawaiian Shirt Day
September
Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Barbie-in-a-Blender Day
National Reach As High As You Can Day
Gorilla Suit Day
October
Haunted Refrigerator Night
Keep Off the Grass Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Jump Over Things Day
November
Sock Monkey Day
Kyrgyzstan National Hat Day
Blah Blah Blah Day
Quitters Day
National Paranormal Day
December
Hobbit Day
Look for Circles Day
Thumb Appreciation Day
National Handcuff Day
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day (DEI founded on this day)
Middle Name Pride Day

DEI Thinks These Are The Days To Recognize

Bruce Doneux Appointed To DEI

DEI now has two people to not show up for any meetings. How’s that for “screwed up”?

Peake appointed Bruce Doneux, a 76-year-old massage therapist who’s lived in Pacific Grove for four decades, to the task force, and Kim Bui, the DEI’s current chair.

At a PGUSD board meeting last October, Doneux told trustees that racial bias in Pacific Grove should be addressed by White people “getting together and figuring out why we’re so screwed up,” before he promoted a local group called Whites for Racial Equity,

Bruce Doneux Appointed To DEI