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Memorial Space at Andy’s Park is Restored!

On Friday, July 17th, someone (yet to be identified), removed almost everything from the park’s altar. There were no more flowers, photos, and the roof of the tarp was removed. We don’t know how it happened.The community once again joined together to help show that this is a sacred space, and that we must remember what happened here if we are going to have a truly good park for the neighborhood.As of July 31st, the altar and some new memorial items are back!
Thank you to all who continue to fight for Justice for Andy Lopez and for Andy’s Park!To learn more about the progress of the park, and to get directly involved…visit theSonoma County Regional Parks page!And if  you are interested in participating, please call or email the Regional Parks Project Manager, Scott Wilkinson at (707) 565-2734 or scott.wilkinson@sonoma-county.org  or Shared Spaces Participatory Designer, Steve Rasmussen Cancian at (213) 400-5426 or canciansteve@gmail.com .

Sourced through Scoop.it from: justicecoalitionforandylopez.com

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Since the Charlestown Massacre, a Black Church has been Burned Every Two Days in the Old Confederacy

Josh Sager – July 2015
In the two weeks since the Charleston Church Massacre, 7 predominantly black churches—all located in the south—have been set on fire. This averages one serious fire every two days and, while I can’t find any statistical data on baseline church-fire rates, this cluster of fire certainly seems suspicious.

 

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Sourced through Scoop.it from: theprogressivecynic.com

#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches

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Hard Words: Preaching about Racial Violence and Police Brutality

 

The Christian Century initiates a conversation for pastors of predominately “white” congregations to talk about racial violence in general and Ferguson specifically in an article titled “How pastors talk about Ferguson.”  C. Browning Helsel offers “A Word to the Whites: Preaching about Racism in White Congregations,” challenging those who identify as socially colored white to consider their racial identity development and to create a “nonracist White racial white identity.”  The website http://www.preaching.com offers a sermon illustration that encourages persons to become “gracists,” outlining the points of David Anderson’s book Gracism: The Art of Inclusion.

 

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Source: racelessgospel.com

 

Wait… what’s hard about the words? Does she mean painful?

 

Are we talking about White pain? Or pain from talking to White people and calling them out on their racism? Is one pain that White is synonymous with being ignorant about racism even though it’s mostly Whites who are causing the oppression?

 

Or is the pain that White people are ashamed that they are not able to control their own White community from stopping their racist behaviors?

 

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Cornel West, Faith Leaders and Activists Arrested as Ferguson October Continues [VIDEO]

Twenty people, including Cornel West, are arrested carrying out civil disobedience at the Ferguson police station after being denied a meeting with local officials

 

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Source: therealnews.com

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White Privilege – explained another way

Two pictures of racial tensions in the US, taken 50 years apart.

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The challenge with white privilege is that most white people cannot see it. We assume that the experiences and opportunities afforded to us are the same afforded to others. Sadly, this simply isn’t true. Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens…

 

 

Source: manofdepravity.com

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Pope Francis: Migrant Children Must Be ‘Welcomed And Protected’

“This humanitarian emergency requires, as a first urgent measure, these children be welcomed and protected,” Pope Francis said.

Source: thinkprogress.org

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Mormon feminist excommunicated

 

By Jessica Ravitz, CNN


(CNN) – Kate Kelly, a lifelong Mormon who’s spearheaded a fight for equal opportunities for women in her church, was convicted of apostasy Monday and excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The verdict, decided by a panel of male judges who convened Sunday, came to her by way of an e-mail sent by her former LDS Church bishop in Virginia, Mark Harrison. Kelly described the verdict as “exceptionally painful.”

 

Source: religion.blogs.cnn.com

 

Remember when Mormons would not allow Black people to become priests?

 

This church has serious issues.