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A CALL TO ACTION TO BUILD BELOVED COMMUNITY
SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND & ALTERNATE ROOTS
CHARLESTON MARKET HALL
Charleston, SC
MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2013
Today, as we commemorate freedom fighter Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and as President Barack Obama is inaugurated for his second term, we gather on contested ground to promote Dr. King’s vision of Beloved Community. We gather because the current symbolism of Charleston is rooted in its history as a pro-slavery Port City and it does not reflect our histories, our struggles, or our resistances. We gather because the face of Charleston should show the diversity and complexity of our lives and histories. We do not glorify the bloodshed, violence and horror of chattel slavery that built this city. We recognize this history as people of color, and as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people, and we know that we have a shared stake in transforming this city. We gather today because, in this time of great peril and great possibility, we believe in redemption!
We call on all Southern people to build King’s vision of Beloved Community! We must undergo a transformation of our collective values in order to end what King called “the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism”. We need a revolution of our values that spans in scale from the conversations we have with our kids over breakfast to the way whole communities relate internationally. To do this, we must weave a strong new social fabric between us. We call on our communities, locally, nationally, and globally, to step boldly over the lines of race, gender, class, religion, and sexuality that isolate us from one another. We call on you, our sisters and brothers in struggle, to meet each other as neighbors and friends, to collaborate to make King’s dream of Beloved Community come true.
We dream, too. We dream of an end to racism, an end to poverty, an end to military terror. We dream of queer liberation, of community gardens that grow where prisons and detention centers have closed. We dream of safety for all children, we dream of a place where every person is able to achieve their full humanity. We know that these dreams are not impossible or idealistic, but absolutely necessary if we are all to survive and thrive. In the word’s of Fannie Lou Hamer, “Nobody’s free ‘til everybody’s free!”
It is with increasing urgency that we gather today to make visible our renewed commitment to Southern Freedom Movement, the same movement that swept the South in the 60’s and broke the back of Jim Crow. On this day, hundreds of other organizations and communities are gathering in their home towns, sharing their dreams for their lives and the lives of their children. We stand in solidarity with people all over the South who are organizing to solve problems in their communities, who are resisting poverty, resisting racism, resisting obliteration of our lives and our cultures. We will not be erased! We are your neighbors, your family members and friends; we are your teachers, your grandmothers, we are people of faith; and we are queers, we are sex workers, we are youth in the streets, we are undocumented and unafraid! We will leave no one in our Beloved Communities behind!
We stand in solidarity with People’s First 100 Days Actions today in Jacksonville, FL; San Antonio, TX; Atlanta, GA; Durham and Greensboro, NC; Dothan, AL; Knoxville, TN; Houston, TX; Asheville, NC; Tunica, MS Little Rock, AR; and all other cities and towns where Southern Freedom Movement is rising to the call of a new day. And, because we know that Southern people are not alone in this struggle, we stand in solidarity with oppressed people everywhere. In a time of charismatic leaders, we decide instead to look to ourselves, because we are the leaders we have been waiting for. Together, we will rise and transform the South’s legacy of division, fear and hate into a New South, a Beloved Community that we can ALL be proud of. In the words of Dr. King, “We shall overcome, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
photo by Savannah Brennan
“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
*photo taken @ the Martin Luther King Nat'l Historic Site in Atlanta.
(from left) Moderator Dia Draper, Vice President for Alumni Relations Martha Beattie '76 P'07 P'09, Penny Paquette T'76, and Pamela Scott T'75, discuss their varying experiences surrounding co-education on the Dartmouth and Tuck campuses in the 70s.
(Photo by Corinne Arndt Girouard)
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A CALL TO ACTION TO BUILD BELOVED COMMUNITY
SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND & ALTERNATE ROOTS
CHARLESTON MARKET HALL
Charleston, SC
MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2013
Today, as we commemorate freedom fighter Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and as President Barack Obama is inaugurated for his second term, we gather on contested ground to promote Dr. King’s vision of Beloved Community. We gather because the current symbolism of Charleston is rooted in its history as a pro-slavery Port City and it does not reflect our histories, our struggles, or our resistances. We gather because the face of Charleston should show the diversity and complexity of our lives and histories. We do not glorify the bloodshed, violence and horror of chattel slavery that built this city. We recognize this history as people of color, and as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people, and we know that we have a shared stake in transforming this city. We gather today because, in this time of great peril and great possibility, we believe in redemption!
We call on all Southern people to build King’s vision of Beloved Community! We must undergo a transformation of our collective values in order to end what King called “the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism”. We need a revolution of our values that spans in scale from the conversations we have with our kids over breakfast to the way whole communities relate internationally. To do this, we must weave a strong new social fabric between us. We call on our communities, locally, nationally, and globally, to step boldly over the lines of race, gender, class, religion, and sexuality that isolate us from one another. We call on you, our sisters and brothers in struggle, to meet each other as neighbors and friends, to collaborate to make King’s dream of Beloved Community come true.
We dream, too. We dream of an end to racism, an end to poverty, an end to military terror. We dream of queer liberation, of community gardens that grow where prisons and detention centers have closed. We dream of safety for all children, we dream of a place where every person is able to achieve their full humanity. We know that these dreams are not impossible or idealistic, but absolutely necessary if we are all to survive and thrive. In the word’s of Fannie Lou Hamer, “Nobody’s free ‘til everybody’s free!”
It is with increasing urgency that we gather today to make visible our renewed commitment to Southern Freedom Movement, the same movement that swept the South in the 60’s and broke the back of Jim Crow. On this day, hundreds of other organizations and communities are gathering in their home towns, sharing their dreams for their lives and the lives of their children. We stand in solidarity with people all over the South who are organizing to solve problems in their communities, who are resisting poverty, resisting racism, resisting obliteration of our lives and our cultures. We will not be erased! We are your neighbors, your family members and friends; we are your teachers, your grandmothers, we are people of faith; and we are queers, we are sex workers, we are youth in the streets, we are undocumented and unafraid! We will leave no one in our Beloved Communities behind!
We stand in solidarity with People’s First 100 Days Actions today in Jacksonville, FL; San Antonio, TX; Atlanta, GA; Durham and Greensboro, NC; Dothan, AL; Knoxville, TN; Houston, TX; Asheville, NC; Tunica, MS Little Rock, AR; and all other cities and towns where Southern Freedom Movement is rising to the call of a new day. And, because we know that Southern people are not alone in this struggle, we stand in solidarity with oppressed people everywhere. In a time of charismatic leaders, we decide instead to look to ourselves, because we are the leaders we have been waiting for. Together, we will rise and transform the South’s legacy of division, fear and hate into a New South, a Beloved Community that we can ALL be proud of. In the words of Dr. King, “We shall overcome, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
photo by Savannah Brennan
The Iowa DNR AmeriCorps Disaster Team partnered with the Urbandale Public Library for a food and clothing drive for local pantries.
Theme this year “Black Lives Matter”. The MLK 2015 Celebration event will honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dr. King was among our nation's foremost leaders in combating racial inequality through nonviolence. Dr. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his role in the Civil Rights Movement.One March with three different starting locations (Oak Park Community Center, Sacramento City College, Grant High School). Our local news reports approximately 26,000 people participated in the annual MLK March for not only peace and unity in the community but also marching to close the Achievement Gap with Sacramento area high school students. Once again I was the event photographer for this event capturing the participation of the members of the Divine 9 BGLO (Black Greek Letter Organizations: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.)
The statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was donated by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations, India, in collaboration with The National Federation of Indian American Associations and The Embassy of India, USA.
The inscribed bronze plaque reads:
"Nonviolence, to be a potent force, must begin with the mind. Nonviolence of the mere body without the cooperation of the mind is nonviolence of the weak of the cowardly, and has, therefore, no potency. It is a degrading performance. If we bear malice and hatred in our bosoms and pretend not to retaliate, it must recoil upon us and lead to our destruction."--Gandhi
"Tribute to the Mahatma "Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore him at our own risk"--Martin Luther King, Jr.
WCC's 17th annual MLK Day Celebration was held Thursday, Jan. 12
Remarks were provided by Washtenaw County Commissioner Caroline Sanders, WCC Black Student Union President Shemaiah Reeves, WCC Provost Linda Blakey and WCC Dean of Student Access, Success, Equity & Inclusion Dr. Eric Reed.
There was also pre- and post-ceremony musical performances by alumna Kenyatta Rashon and the presentation of WCC Equity in Action Awards to WCC staff members Shana Barker, Cheryl Harvey and Christina Do; and community members Kallista Marie Walker and Turquoise Neal.
Lt. Governor Rutherford visit MLK Highway Corridor by Anthony DePanise at 8005 Martin Luther King Jr Highway, Lanham, Maryland 20706
"D.E.A.R. Martin" Day
Partnering with local elementary schools across several of the communities Delta serves, members of the Black Employee Network business resource group volunteered on Jan. 11 for the "D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read) Martin" Day. Volunteers read "Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." by Doreen Rappaport and led hands-on-activities with the children.
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ONE March with three different starting locations (Oak Park Community Center, Sacramento City College, Grant High School). In 2013 an estimated 28,000 people participated in the annual MLK March for not only peace and unity in the community but also marching to close the Achievement Gap with Sacramento area high school students. Each year more and more students are not graduating from high school. Several MLK fundraising efforts are being done all year long to make a significant impact on decreasing those numbers.
WCC's 17th annual MLK Day Celebration was held Thursday, Jan. 12
Remarks were provided by Washtenaw County Commissioner Caroline Sanders, WCC Black Student Union President Shemaiah Reeves, WCC Provost Linda Blakey and WCC Dean of Student Access, Success, Equity & Inclusion Dr. Eric Reed.
There was also pre- and post-ceremony musical performances by alumna Kenyatta Rashon and the presentation of WCC Equity in Action Awards to WCC staff members Shana Barker, Cheryl Harvey and Christina Do; and community members Kallista Marie Walker and Turquoise Neal.