[SRCAction] Fwd: What We Can Do To Fight White Supremacy
Rev. Joan Javier-Duval
ucm.revjoan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 11:54:05 CDT 2017
Hello, all,
I know that after the events of the weekend many of you have showed up in
public witness against hate and white supremacy - in person and on social
media. I know that many of you are also engaged in deeper reflection and
faith formation by reading books and talking with others. Thank you for all
the ways you are engaged in this important work of transformation.
You may have heard that hate groups had been planning a rally in Boston on
the Commons for this Saturday. It is unclear whether those events will
still go on, but the "Fight Supremacy Resistance Rally" and accompanying
events are still happening.
Below is an e-mail with some information on events taking place in Boston
over the next few days to show up for love and against hate in case it is
of interest to any of you.
In faith and solidarity,
Joan
*Rev. Joan Javier-Duval* | *Minister*
Unitarian Church of Montpelier
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*"We are each other's harvest; **we are each other's business; we are each
other's magnitude and bond." --Gwendolyn Brooks*
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Date: Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:11 PM
Subject: What We Can Do To Fight White Supremacy
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* You May Be Asking, "What Can I Do?" *
We are all horrified by recent events that evidence an emboldened white
supremacist influence and aggression. The vandalism at Boston's Holocaust
Memorial last night and the gathering of hate groups to Boston Common
planned for this coming Saturday are wake up calls to anyone who might
believe New England is immune from openly hostile and violent institutional
expressions of hate.
Standing on the Side of Love staff has been in conversation with
Boston-based activists organizing a counter-rally and protest, with local
clergy, and with Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism. They have compiled
information that lets you know how you can be part of efforts to resist the
hate. *Read below to learn how to support this effort financially, and
where, when and how you can show up to embody love.*
We encourage everyone to follow through on what you are called to do, to
stay centered in love and prayer, and to stay awake to the realities of
hate and fear that threaten marginalized communities around the country.
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Beloveds,
I am not sure of most things these days. But I do know that white supremacy
lives everywhere - and so does love and resistance. Everywhere. Absolutely
everywhere.
You may have heard that there are white supremacists gathering on the
Boston Common on Saturday August 19th. And in so many cities and college
campuses. Maybe yours. There is no neutrality. Now is when we show up. To
confront hate - in the form of white supremacists gatherings and the white
supremacy that is in our laws, our school systems, our families, our
congregations, our land. Find your frontlines. Below is a request from one
our frontlines - *Boston,* where our UU congregations and clergy and UUA
staff will be showing up as best we know how.
*Show up:*
- Join *Violence in Boston, Black Lives Matter Boston and Black Lives
Matter Cambridge* to *Fight Supremacy! Boston Counter-Protest and
Resistance Rally
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Gather at 10am at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Center, 1350 Tremont Street,
Boston, MA. Be sure to check the event page for opportunities to make signs.
- Use Sunday, August 20th to talk and pray about how white supremacy
lives in your congregation, your community and institutions in your
city/town/state.
- Whether or not you can show up in body, showing up with resources is
key. *Give over your collection, give personally.* Organizers have asked
that you contribute to and ask others to donate directly to local Black and
queer organizers and Black, Indigenous, People of Color victims of white
supremacy in your area and in your congregations. *BLM Network/BLM
Cambridge have also set up a Fund
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support it and share it widely!* You can directly support the healing
and medical care needed for folks attacked last weekend. Support Alexis
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This is Black August
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so
we have an opportunity to practice abolition by supporting bailing out
Black families and community members today. Contribute to Southerners on
New Grounds Black August Bail Out Actions
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- *Fight Supremacy!* Organizing Committee, Karlene Griffiths Sekou,
Black Lives Matter, Boston and Rev. Dr. Pamela R. Lightsey Clergy, United
Methodist Church, are *calling all clergy* who are planning to attend
the march and would like to stand in solidarity with this effort to attend
a pre-gathering on *Friday, August 18th 6:00-8:00 at Union United
Methodist Church at 485 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02118. *If you are a
clergy person and attending, please email: m4blmboston at gmail.com.
*Or don't show up.* As Black Lives of UU
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says
"To Black UUs, organizers of any faith or no faith, and our UU of color
siblings, we struggle with you....To you, we say be where you need to be.
Feel what you need to feel, and do what you need to do. Text a friend and
meet up. Message someone you met at GA on Facebook. Go to a solidarity
vigil, or avoid one-but find community, somehow."
*If you are called to show up - here's how:*
- *Let us know you're coming by filling out this form
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*. *
- *Ground in our faith.* In our seventh principle of interdependence and
deep connection means that none of us are safe and beloved until we are all
safe and beloved. In our fourth principle of a free and *responsible *for
truth meaning means that when someone's search means that our friends,
family, siblings of color are not safe and beloved, it is no longer
responsible. And our responsibility is to confront and dismantle white
supremacy with reparations and repair.
- *White folks* are being asked to show up to:
- Provide resources to the most marginalized
- Serve as a buffer between white nationalists/police and people of
color
- Take up as little physical and rhetorical space as possible (Don't
speak over Black, Indigenous, People of Color or clamor to get to
microphone or bullhorn, etc)
- Speak up and uplift the voices of the most marginalized
- Realize that whatever they're doing, some will interpret it as
"wrong" or insincere and they have to accept that and continue to work or
move aside
- Examine what to do AFTER these rallies and how to capitalize on the
momentum and dismantle white supremacy that's less "obvious."
*Non-violent Direct Action Training (NVDA)* which includes a "Know Your
Rights" legal component, or a comprehensive training that includes NVDA,
"Know Your Rights, and MEDIC components trainings are strongly encouraged.
Schedule below:
- *Thursday, August 17th, 5-10pm, Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston
Street, Boston, MA 02116 *
- *Friday, August 18th, 10am - 8pm, Union United Methodist Church, 485
Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02118 *
- Schedule: 10:00-1:00 NVDA ▪ 2:00-4:00 MEDIC ▪ 5:00-7:00 Legal
Advisory: Know Your Rights
- *Friday, August 18th, 5-10pm Hope Central Church, 85 Seaverns Avenue,
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 *
Again, *NVDA Trainings are strongly encouraged**.* Questions? Check out the
FAQ
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We all get to practice humility, flexibility, trust, not needing to know
everything as the situations are dynamic. Things will change. We will adapt
and learn and be stronger for whatever needs our love next.
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With all love,
Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen
Ministry Associate for Youth and Young Adults of Color and
Spiritual Sustenance Advisor, Standing on the Side of Love
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