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40X40WalkForReparations | Press Release

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting received this press release on May 13 from a Friend in the body regarding the 40X40WalkForReparations, which will take place on May 14.

ON THE 41ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOVE BOMBING, PASTOR AND REPARATIONS ACTIVIST REV. DR. ROBERT TURNER LAUNCHES 40-MILE WALK ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA AND CALLS FOR STATEWIDE REPARATIONS

March from Columbia to Harrisburg Connects the Birthplace of the Underground Railroad to the Capitol Steps — and Demands Pennsylvania Finally Repair Its Wounds.

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Cost of Inheritance Film Screening + Conversation with/Rep Rabb + Sistah Patt Gunn

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Green Street Friends Meeting Reparations Committee will host a screening of The Cost of Inheritance, a film about understanding the legacy of slavery and its afterlives and how reparations is a tool for making things right, on February 22nd. Lunch will be at 11:45, the movie screening at 12:30 followed by a conversation with State Rep Chris Rabb and Sistah Patt Gunn (featured in the film). Join us!

Faith-based reparative justice: A tool for racial healing

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Join faith leaders and congregants in an in-depth conference and intensive course to learn about the multiple dimensions of reparations and reparative justice. Discover how you can invite your congregation/temple/mosque deeply into this work in a multi-faith movement for reparations, with a vision for deep truth-telling, repair, and wealth redistribution with the faith community moving toward this work as a spiritual calling and moral imperative.

For white-majority congregations, how do we move towards healing and offering repair? For Black-majority congregations, how do we move towards healing and articulating reparations requests?

We will combine a democratically structured study and action oriented developmental path toward reparations with guest speakers from among the most powerful voices for faith-based reparations in the country. The goal of this conference is to equip participants with solid tools for moving their faith-based reparations organizing forward. Additionally, the conference will connect faith-based folks walking this same path so that they can continue to support one another in deepening and moving toward the deepest repair possible: relationally, spiritually, and through the transfer of resources.

Participants are encouraged to attend in teams of 2 to 5 from each faith community in order to become an organizing team within your congregation.

First Contact Reconciliation Seventh Mo. 2022

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Through engagement, we find meaning in crafting genuine land acknowledgements as possible “first steps” in recognizing Indigenous Peoples who are the original stewards of the lands on which we now live and work. In creating, we are called into collaborating, being accountable, continuously taking up “next steps,” and tending respectful relationships with Indigenous Nations and communities by listening. We encourage the mindful practice of naming the Indigenous People(s) whose land you are on – at home, at work, and/ or while traveling. [Read more…] about First Contact Reconciliation Seventh Mo. 2022

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