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Immigrant Justice 
​Sowers of Justice is a founding partner in the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Justice.

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.
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SAVE THE DATE! Our 2019 Fall Conference  
​is coming up soon!
Join us on Saturday October 5, 2019  
Hotel Louisville 120 W Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202-2136

Registration includes Lunch
Food Justice click on food justice for facebook link(eventbrite link coming soon) 
​Click for call for presenters here


Sowers of Justice Network invites you to join this gathering of community advocates, activists and people of faith as we explore food justice and insire real action through food justice projects that come from the event.Lunch is included in this event.

Participants can learn and particpate in conference streams including:
1. Abundance and Access to Food
 
2. Racism & Food
 
3. Sustainability & Food
 
4. Public Health Outcomes & Food

5. Building Innovation, New Capability, and Leadership for
Food Justice​

Registration is $20/Early Bird by Sept 5 2019

$25 per person before Oct 5 2019
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$30 at the Door

Scholarships available for those in need


How you can help:
Join our Planning meetings  on March 2 and April 13
Become a Conference Team Workgroup Leader

Save the Date Oct 5 2019

Register to attend the conference and invite another faith community to join you
Pass the conference flyer on to friends and encourage their attendance (available Sept 15,2018)
Recruit Volunteers on the day of the event to:
Help with greeting & registration
Help with registration and getting people to their tables

Video 2018 Sowing a Nonviolent City Conference Plenary
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​NOTE:  If you aren't able to attend a Sowers gathering, please take this short survey to help us with our planning and to help us know more about you. Thank you!  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5FG8YDL
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​Looking for ways to plant seeds of Nonviolence, Compassion, and Peace? Click here
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Sowers of Justice Network Statement on Confederate Statues

Sowers of Justice Network Statement on Police Shootings

​Sowers report on Sowing a Nonviolent City - Work on gun violence, October 2016.


Listen to recordings of Community Voices produced by Sarah Zarantonello with Sowers of Justice click here
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Third Thursday Luncheons
   Sowers of Justice Network is Partnering with FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation, Louisville Chapter) for the 2018-19 luncheon season. 

Sowers of Justice Network is a direct supporter of Forward Radio

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​Just Imagine
What kinds of world can you imagine? What kind of world do you want to help shape for our children’s children? It starts today. It begins with what we can imagine together.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday February 19
2019 World Justice Day (Topic Food Justice)
Join us -link to event brite here- Tuesday Feb 19 from 6-8 pm  for the 2019 World Justice Day Cresecent Hill Baptist Church. This network event is where we meet those doing the work of food justice in Louisville Kentucky.​ Light refreshments, great conversation, and networking.

Thursday February 21
Thursday Sowers/FOR 3rd Thursday Lunch Hotel Louisville Thursday February 21, 2019 12 noon Hotel Louisville $7 reservations required.


Speaker Barbara Spencer Dunn meet and greet February 20 (time and place TBD but hosted by Simmons College). Come learn more about starting a Louisville Chapter of ASALH, the founders of Black History Month, Barbara Spencer Dunn is the visionary behind the first-ever study guide for Dr. Carter G. Woodson's seminal work, The Mis-Education of the Negro" (1933).

Sunday March 3 Network Gathering Mary Oliver Event 4 - 6 pm FACEBOOK EVENT LINK HERE
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Come let us celebrate the life and words of Mary Oliver. “ My Work is Loving the World” is a Sowers of Justice Network event, hosted by Church of the Advent Episcopal church, 901 Baxter Avenue. Listen as a dozen or so readers share a favorite Mary Oliver poem, entertwined with all of us reading a few together.

Let us share wonderful words to nurture the soul & light refreshments for the body. And share a feast for the eyes too as we see each other, name our work of love in the world, and discover some art pieces that remind of who and where and what we love in the world.


​The Immigration Crisis

NOW: Support Occupy ICE and LaCasita


Sowers of Justice works for immigrant justice through the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Justice.  
Join us For immigrant refugee day at the capitol in Frankfort. 
https://www.facebook.com/events/811020002580696/

The immigration crisis is not limited to the border.
For more and more families in Louisville and surrounding areas the daily threat from ICE is an ongoing reality. At La Casita Center, staff members are faced with heartbreaking situations every day.

We can help by
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 by monetary and other support for the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Justice 
2) by donating funds for family emergencies directly to LaCasita Center to help with needs caused by the detention or deportation of a family member and by showing up for a couple of hours a weekly.
3) Attend the next coalition meeting  

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​Register for the
2019 Sowing A Nonviolent City Conference
Food Justice

Beginning August 15, 2019


Sowers of Justice Network invites you to join this gathering of community advocates, activists, and people of good will and people of faith as we explore tools to build food justice. The event will be be held again this year at Hotel Louisville.

Lunch is included in our Sowing a Nonviolent City Conference event. Participants will acquire tools for moving toward  food justice and work towards specific food justice projects

Food Co-Op Monthly Membership
Meetings 2019


Every second Tuesday of the month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. will be the Local Community Grocery's /Louisville Food Co-op's community organizing meetings where we will work together to make decisions about the co-op business and learn together what it takes to run a cooperatively-owned grocery. Then, from 6:30-7:30 p.m., the four (4) committees will meet. Any community member should feel free to sit in on any of the committee meetings and engage. And if you feel compelled, sign up to participate in the committee. 
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Spiritual Practice
​10 Civic Mantras to Uproot Racism can be either a solo or group exercise.  The Mantras are offered as a either a civic or spiritual practice. To inquire about the Civic Mantras to Uproot Racism, and schedule the program at your faith community contact us at sowersimpact@gmail.com or see the link in our newsletter.

23nd Annual Ecumenical Way of the Cross: 
A Walk for Justice 
April 19, 2019
9:30-11:30 AM


The Other Christmas – Advent – Saturday November 30, 2019. Can you join us for a planning meeting? For an invitation to planning or to serve as a reader or writer, contact us at sowersimpact@gmail.com or visit us at Sowers of Justice Network.org


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Sowers of Justice provides direct support to the Food in Neighborhoods Coalition. To learn more about FIN, click here.


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​​SOWERS oF JUSTICE NETWORK PROVIDES DIRECT SUPPORT TO THE LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY GROCERY.

​Interested in affordable, local, healthy food?Formerly called the  Louisville Food Co-Op the Louisville community Grocery is a project that aims to bring affordable produce and groceries to low access neighborhoods through a community organized effort. Come on down to our community meeting to learn more about how you can get involved and to contribute your perspective as a member of the community. 
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www.facebook.com/loufoodcoop/

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Volunteer for the
2018 Sowing A Nonviolent City Conference here



 

9:00am to 4:30 pm on Saturday, October 5, 2019


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SIGN UP FOR THE SOWERS OF JUSTICE NETWORK MAILING LIST  here

​Enliven a covenant to nonviolence compassion or peace here


Read our Strategic Objectives for 2019 - ​here
  • "There is much to do. And we can’t do it alone. What if every community replicated such an event to actively promote peace and sow seeds of justice?" Sharon Pearson, author and 2015 Sowing a Nonviolent City gun violence conference plenary speaker 

Looking for information about our 2015 Conference on gun violence?  
More about Conference Speakers and Content here!
See videos, conference reports and summaries here!
Learn. Pray. Act.  What you can do?

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23rd Annual Ecumenical Way of the Cross: 
A Walk for Justice 

March 30, 2019
9:30-11:30 AM



Read our Current Newsletters here

Learn about our Working Groups and let us join efforts!

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