Co-sponsors for the Nonviolence & Anti-racism Sowers Forum and Workshop include The Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression, ASALH Louisville Branch, EmpowerWest, Heart Communication, Fellowship of Reconciliation Louisville Chapter, Interfaith Paths to Peace and others.
Help assure everyone can attend regardless of their ability to pay by donating to support the forum and workshop. Use this Facebook fundraiser link or mail donations to Sowers of Justice Network, PO Box 5541, Louisville Ky 40255.
Help assure everyone can attend regardless of their ability to pay by donating to support the forum and workshop. Use this Facebook fundraiser link or mail donations to Sowers of Justice Network, PO Box 5541, Louisville Ky 40255.
Sowers of Justice Network provides coordinating, communications, and financial support to the ASALH Branch formed in Louisville KY. For more information contact Barbara Boyd or Greg Tichenor or click here to join the facebook group.
Immigrant Justice Sowers of Justice is a founding partner in the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Justice and provides annual fincial and advisory support to the coalition. ICIJ is a coalition of individuals, faith leaders and diverse faith communities called by our conscience and by our context to respond actively and publicly to the suffering of immigrants in our community. Through actions of solidarity and advocacy we use a combination of privilege and personal experience to insist on attitudes and policy that are founded on respect and dignity for immigrants. Through outreach we educate our community about the injustices inflicted by the enforcement of current immigration policies and we provide real opportunities to take action for change. For more information contact Karl Ruttan, Cory Lockhart, or Carolyn King. Pantry Resources for Non-English Speakers click here Take the Nonviolence Survey here with a QR code
Nonviolence Workshop with Cory Lockhart
The Forum is followed the next week by a workshop “Communicating Across Divides” in which we’ll explore strategies for finding connection across divides while standing firmly in our own values and integrity, to be held Thursday evening August 20 from 6:30-8:30, led by Cory Lockhart of Heart Communication. The cost of the workshop is $30, with other options to attend available as well. The workshop Facebook link is here. At the workshop, participants will practice nonviolent communication skills to enhance their ability to navigate conversations about racism and anti-racism. Our next conversation will spring from these two events. 
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The Sowers Forum
August 15, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am 30 people joined us for an online forum connecting faith values to racial justice. Sowers Forum: Nonviolence and Anti-racism Work How do people of good will and good faith live out active nonviolent resistance in anti-racism efforts? In a world of crushing active racial violence, how do those committed to nonviolence work with those committed to active resistance, but not to nonviolence? Beyond a protest, a donation, a social media post and a difficult conversation, there’s tangible work to be done in tackling the many day-to-day issues rooted in structural racism. Statements of solidarity from faith leaders, politicians, corporations and even police forces are nonviolent but are often mere gestures. To be anti-racist means to be directly involved in the movement to end racism, and to take action. How do people of good faith and good will draw on faith values, spiritual practice, religious community and each other to make active nonviolence a practical reality? Tackling racism requires material changes in the lives of black and brown people, with most of these changes required from white people to redress centuries of racial injustice. With armed citizen militias in the streets and police national guardsmen and Federal forces escalating already volatile situations, can active nonviolence invite the way forward? How do we build a culture of peace built on racial justice, and unite those intent on connecting spirituality and active anti-racism in day-to-day life? With active violence in evidence in our streets as protests for racial justice continue, what does active nonviolence look like and what tools does it offer for the future we imagine together? Thank you for attending the Sowers Forum ! Join us this Thursday August 20 for the workshop, invite others, and give so others may attend Nonviolence Resources Cory Lockhart / Heart Communication https://www.corylockhart.com/about 10 Civic Mantras to Uproot Racism sowersofjusticenetwork.org Erika Chenoweth Erica Chenoweth's TEDx talk. Colman McCarthy Class of Nonviolence James Cone A Black Theology of Liberation Anti-racism Resources LSURJ Faith https://www.goodgoodgood.co/anti-racism-resources https://www.tjuc.org/supporting-protests-in-louisville-beyond/ FORward Radio The Sowers of Justice forum Nonviolence and Anti-racism" will be featured on Solutions to Violence this coming week. Solutions to Violence airs on WFMP 106.5 FM. The Solutions to Violence program that features the Sowers Forum will air August 17th, 18th and 19th. StV airs on Mondays at 5 pm, Tuesdays at 8 am and Wednesdays at 6 am. You can listen to the live stream by visiting the website forwardradio.org and clicking on "Listen Live Now" if you listen at the above time slots. Find the SoJ Forum in our archives August 19th. To listen via our archives just visit our website at forwardradio.org, scroll down to "Program Archives" and then scroll down to the StV program that features Sowers of Justice Panel discussion "Nonviolence & Anti-Racism. Please evaluate our Forum https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2XGHTJL Meeting Video thanks to Rhody Streeter https://vimeo.com/448164670/fa2024912a Nonviolence Workshop with Cory Lockhart The Forum is followed the next week by a workshop “Communicating Across Divides” in which we’ll explore strategies for finding connection across divides while standing firmly in our own values and integrity, to be held Thursday evening August 20 from 6:30-8:30, led by Cory Lockhart of Heart Communication. The cost of the workshop is $30, with other options to attend available as well. The workshop Facebook link is here. At the workshop, participants will practice nonviolent communication skills to enhance their ability to navigate conversations about racism and anti-racism. Our next conversation will spring from these two events. Join us as a sponsor, partner, or participant. Join us as a participant or partner in these events by becoming a financial sponsor, telling your friends, sharing with your members, advertising these events and answering our pre-forum survey. For the zoom link, email sowersforum@gmail.com. Your feedback is crucial too as we plan our NEXT forum. |
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Sowers of Justice Network Statement on Confederate Statues
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