As we announced weeks ago, the UUFP on Randolph Ave. is hosting a discussion with Tom Angell (Public Defender), Mary Ellen Still (Probation director), Marie Shultis reentry program and some former offenders. It's at 7 PM tonight (Jan. 8). Just a reminder but, as you can see, the program is expanded. If you have questions I am at 845-345-7107 or 631-525-1715
ENJAN will meet both next Wednesday (Jan 15) and the week after (Jan 22).
Saturday, Jan 18
19th Annual Mid-Hudson Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
March for Social and Economic Justice
Saturday, January 18, 2014.12:00pm.
Join us for the 19th Annual Real Majority Project Mid-Hudson Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. March for Social and Economic Justice!
Sat. Jan. 18th Noon
Smith Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church
124 Smith Street Poughkeepsie...
Noon: Meet inside Smith Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church for speeches & songs
1 pm: Start MLK March-- to Dutchess County Office Building at 22
Market Chiz's Heart Street
3 pm: Discussion/refreshments: Holy Light Pentecostal Church-- 33 Clover Street
Information:
Mae Parker-Harris: 485-3516
Ann Perry: 454-0947
Rev. H. Dwight Bolton: 454-1913
http://www.DutchessDemocracy.blogspot.com/ joeltyner@earthlink.net
876 2488/453-2105
[this year we're doing this two days early-- so we can help Pete
Seeger mobilize 1000+ for his MLK march on Jan. 20th (MLK Day)
starting at 10 am that morning from Springfield Baptist Church in
Beacon!]
Join us for the 19th Annual Real Majority Project Mid-Hudson Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. March for Social and Economic Justice!
Sat. Jan. 18th Noon
Smith Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church
124 Smith Street Poughkeepsie...
Noon: Meet inside Smith Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church for speeches & songs
1 pm: Start MLK March-- to Dutchess County Office Building at 22
Market Chiz's Heart Street
3 pm: Discussion/refreshments: Holy Light Pentecostal Church-- 33 Clover Street
Information:
Mae Parker-Harris: 485-3516
Ann Perry: 454-0947
Rev. H. Dwight Bolton: 454-1913
http://www.DutchessDemocracy.blogspot.com/ joeltyner@earthlink.net
876 2488/453-2105
[this year we're doing this two days early-- so we can help Pete
Seeger mobilize 1000+ for his MLK march on Jan. 20th (MLK Day)
starting at 10 am that morning from Springfield Baptist Church in
Beacon!]
Who Is Jim Crow?
Who Is Jim Crow?” Film Series Event Type: Adult Film Program
Date: 1/18/2014
Start Time: 1:00 PM
End Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Auditorium
Description: Film: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". This movie features Michelle Alexander who talks about her book "The New Jim Crow" that sparked a nationwide movement to end mass incarceration and the racial caste system it has created.
A film discussion will be led by Odell Winfield, founder of ENJAN (End the New Jim Crow Action Network) and Rev. Steve Ruelke (Ecclesia Ministries of Newburgh). The series is sponsored by: Greater Newburgh Ministerial Association, ENJAN, Ecclesia Ministries of Newburgh and Newburgh Free Library.
A film discussion will be led by Odell Winfield, founder of ENJAN (End the New Jim Crow Action Network) and Rev. Steve Ruelke (Ecclesia Ministries of Newburgh). The series is sponsored by Sponsored by: Greater Newburgh Ministerial Association, ENJAN, Ecclesia Ministries of Newburgh and Newburgh Free Library.
Martin Luther King Day
Martin Luther King Day
A community reading and discussion of his fabulous
“Letter from Birmingham Jail”
at New Progressive Baptist Church in Kingston.
The event is 6-8pm on Monday, January 20.
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“Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Getting Locked Out of the American Dream
Bill Moyers: Michelle Alexander on Getting Locked Out of the American Dream
After civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander published her book The New Jim Crow in 2010 on our dehumanizing system of incarceration, she ignited a national conversation about justice in America and sparked a movement. In her book, Alexander explores how the war on drugs, “get-tough” sentencing policies and racism has created a caste system similar to that of our segregationist past.
Since then, Alexander has traveled the country to meet advocates and everyday Americans working to end mass incarceration in America — home to 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, despite representing only five percent of the world’s population.
She tells Bill that she has seen a grassroots movement brewing in communities across the country, “There are enormous victories that are being achieved precisely because the people whom we have written off and viewed as disposable are reclaiming their voice, standing up, speaking out, organizing even as they struggle to survive.”
"We saw in him what we seek in ourselves." Jacob Zuma
The death of Mandela will send South Africa deep into mourning and self-reflection 18 years after he led the country from racial apartheid to inclusive democracy.
But his passing will also be keenly felt by people around the world who revered Mandela as one of history's last great statesmen, and a moral paragon comparable with Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion,” Mandela wrote in his memoir Long Walk to Freedom. “People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
- From the Guardian UK
The “Who Is Jim Crow?”
The “Who Is Jim Crow?” Film Series
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. MLK, Jr.
NEXT SHOWING
Monday, December 2, 2013 7-9 PM
New Progressive Baptist Church, Upstairs, 8 Hone Street, Kingston, New York
Free – Light Refreshments
Playing: Slavery By Another NAME, Part I
… “A shocking reality that often went unacknowledged then and now. A huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black men, that lasted until World War II, Based on the Pulitzer –Prize-winning book by Douglas Blackman tells the story of men charged with crimes like vagrancy and often guilty of nothing, who were bought and sold, abused and subject to sometimes deadly working conditions as unpaid convict labor. Interviews with the descendants of victims….The story is important no matter how painful the reality is.”
Discussion: Led by Odell Winfield, founder of ENJAN (End the New Jim Crow Action Network) and Rev. G Modele Clarke Pastor of New Progressive Baptist Church
UPCOMING MOVIES: Monday, Jan. 6, 7-9 PM, Slavery By Another Name, Part 2
Monday, Feb. 3, 7-9 PM, To Be Announced
Monday, March 3, 7-9 PM, To Be Announced
Sponsors: ENJAN (End The New Jim Crow Action Network-Kingston)
New Progressive Baptist Church
Move To Amend
Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston, Social Justice Committee Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Task Force to End the New Jim Crow
NY Citizen Action, Hudson Valley
Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library (Family Services, Poughkeepsie NY)
American Association of University Women Kingston NY (AAUW)
Middle East Crisis Response
For More Info: Odell Winfield, 914-388-3092
Recommended audience: High School, Adult
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