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Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice - Event |
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January 2019
Rev. Wm. Barber, Repairers of the Breach & Poor People's Campaign
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Thursday, January 17 2019 @ 07:00 pm - - 09:00pm |
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Truman Chen
trumanwc@stanford.edu
650-723-2092
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Stanford Memorial Church
Palm Drive (top of oval)
Stanford, CA 94305
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Location: Stanford Memorial Church, Palm Drive (top of the oval). The Church opens at 6:30 pm. Free to the public.
In commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, we present a public lecture by the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II. This lecture will serve to inaugurate the Clarence B. Jones Fellowship at Stanford. Rev. Barber serves as the President of Repairers of the Breach. As stated in their mission statement, they are a non-profit organization that "declare[s] that the moral public concerns of our faith traditions are how our society treats the poor, women, LGBTQ people, children, workers, immigrants, communities of color, and the sick. [...]"Drawing on the unfinished work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967/68 Poor People's Campaign, which called for a 'revolution of values,' Repairers of the Breach is working in partnership with the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, the Popular Education Project, and hundreds of local and national partners, to lead the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
This multi-state movement has emerged from more than a decade of work by grassroots community and religious leaders, organizations, and movements fighting to end systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, environmental destruction, and other injustices."
RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/286586942061281/ or call 650-732-2092
Learn more at www.breachrepairers.org and poorpeoplescampaign.org
Event Co-Sponsors: Stanford African & African American Studies, Office for Religious Life
This event is sponsored by Stanford MLK Jr. Research an Education Institute
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