UUFP on Randolph Ave on Jan 8
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).
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
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