Below please find information that I would like to share with you as we bring our peace circle to a close today. It may take some time for your to sift through these materials if you feel so inclined. I hope you find the materials edifying. I look forward to reading materials you gather as well.
0:00:38 From tn mullone to Cris Houston (Privately) : you are frozen
20:02:24 From tn mullone : Hello everyone! How is everyone doing?
20:29:04 From tn mullone : We must recognize that police brutality is part of a system and understand or rather deconstruct that system. We have to ask those hard questions. Long range-the questions have to be ongoing.
20:33:19 From tn mullone : We have to vote, call legislators, support financially, read publications to educate oneself.
20:34:25 From tn mullone to Cris Houston (Privately) : Ask people to type in their suggestions after they speak. We can save the chat and print it out later.
20:35:31 From tn mullone to Cris Houston (Privately) : If they type in their ideas, you can focus more on listening to them and adding your own notes.
20:37:18 From Meredith Graves : 1. Call your legislators to demand that they enact reforms. For example, the standard should be re-evaluated from whether the police’s use of force is reasonable to whether it is necessary; 2. give time and/or money toward criminal justice reform advocacy efforts 3. further education on systemic racism. Books include Ibram Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me.
20:37:39 From DeAnna Curcio : Long term: structural – system approach vs. intrapersonal; policy change. Short-mid: dialogue with youth, restorative community circles, personal responsibility for growth/educate; Books (recommended by Restorative Justice trainers): “Returning to the Teachings” by Rupert Ross, “White Fragility”, “Me and White Supremacy”, “We Want to Do More than Survive”
20:41:05 From DeAnna Curcio : Trauma-informed care and training for police
20:44:06 From Meredith Graves : How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi
20:44:37 From Meredith Graves : a documentary I recommend is 13 by Ava DuVernay
20:46:02 From tn mullone : Slave culture by Sterling Stuckey
20:46:35 From Meredith Graves : https://www.mic.com/p/the-best-books-on-racism-you-can-read-for-free-right-now-22956044
20:46:46 From tn mullone : I am not your Negro (the PBS film) and the book by James Baldwin
20:48:09 From Moses Mason : "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr, Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman, The Black Christ by Kelly Brown Douglas, God of the Oppressed by James Cone, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith
20:48:29 From faith and nancy :) : white fragility, what it means to be white, by Robin Diangelo
20:52:07 From Jason Morgan : The Politics of Jesus by Obery Hendricks, Jr; The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
21:00:48 From DeAnna Curcio : To support Faith's suggestion: w/in justice system - policy that supports "pretrial diversion" programs: mental health training, substance abuse, trauma informed care for judges and police officers, etc...community dialogue
Why All Americans Should Honor Juneteenth - a Vox YouTube video (June 19, 2020)
https://youtu.be/6FX-Iisvrj8
When They See Us - Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church YouTube Video (June 21, 2020)
https://youtu.be/dbtV22aSxhM
NAACP Urgent Action Alert - Please Read and Sign ASAP - George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 will be Taken Up in Congress this Wednesday, June 24, 2020
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 will be taken up in Congress this Wednesday.
The NAACP supports the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020.
Due to the protests all over the country and the world, our national government has been forced into taking immediate action to address police brutality. Because the NAACP is always fighting against police brutality, we were prepared with police reform legislation. The policies contained in the House of Representatives' bill contains policies that the NAACP supports. The NAACP does not support the policies put forth by the US Senate and the president in his executive order. Among other things, the US House's legislation holds all law enforcement officials accountable for their actions, ends "qualified immunity" for police officers, ends racial and religious profiling, empowers our communities, establishes uniform policies for the use of force, mandates data collection on police encounters, bans chokeholds and "no knock" warrants, limits military equipment on American streets, requires body-worn cameras and classifies lynching as a hate crime, therefore making it open to Federal resources for investigations and prosecutions.
The NAACP supports the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020.
This police reform legislation is scheduled to be considered in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate next week. Please review the attached Urgent Action Alert and take Fast Action NOW!
The Urgent Action Alert explains the issue, provides guidelines on how to take action now, provides a sample letter, provides an action alert sign-up, and provides a comparison of the legislation we support with that of the Senate and the White House which we do not support. The Fast Action NOW link allows you to take immediate action.
Share this with all your circles and TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION. NAACPers all over the country are taking the same action. Together, we can have an impact on our legislators.
#WeAreDoneDying!
Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley's June 7, 2020 Sermon entitled "I am Mad as ..." - Discusses Systemic Racism and Other Topics (Including How Many People of Color Feel Currently)
https://youtu.be/GxMqnzsLzq4
New York Criminalizes Use of Choke Holds by Police, NPR, June 12, 2020
NAACP #Wearedonedying Campaign
NFL Players Black Lives Matter Video
MLB Players Be the Change Video
Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter
Please add your own posts to keep up informed.
Blessings,
Cris Houston
