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19th Annual Ecumenical Way of the Cross:
A Walk for Justice April 3, 2015 9:30-11:30 AM More information To help with event send an email to sowersofjusticenetwork@gmail.com |
2015 Campaign
Stop Gun Violence in Our Community
Education. Activation. Mobilization.
Mark you Calendars
Invitation to Planning Meeting
February 22, 2015
3-5:00 pm
St. Matthews Episcopal Church
North Hubbards Lane
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The Sowers of Justice Network has continued to work on our campaign to address the complex consequences and tragedies of gun violence in our city. We have decided to host a conference in the Fall of 2015 whose working title is “STOP the Gun Violence in Our Community” to focus this work.
We are planning an alternative voice to the 2016 National Rifle Association convention to take place in Louisville and to the subject of gun violence in general. The Courier Journal predicts this event "is expected to draw about 70,000 visitors and the major presidential candidates to town." We believe that it is of vital importance to show that people of faith in our city can and do support changing the culture of gun violence and we want to prepare a broad-based presence to engage the public on this topic.
Despite living in an age of increased political polarization and, in fact, a greater militarization of our society, still we hold to an ethical mandate to build a movement of and toward nonviolence. And not just is there an ethical mandate. We believe that there are some common sense values — common cause — that actually can unite many disparate groups of people and behind which we can together stand to affect policy and change culture. Perhaps on this issue, as much as any, we see that politics and change are and can be local.
We anticipate creating a dynamic conference, one that would start with a powerful keynote testimony about the senselessness of failing to deal with epidemic gun violence, that would continue with voices from different sectors in our community (government, law enforcement, medical, religious, legal, to name some), and that would offer ample opportunities for break-out sessions and dialogue. Perhaps dialogue is one of our core objectives: that through this conference we collectively re-engage the dialogue around this difficult, major social issue and then mobilize people for effective action.
We hope that you and/or your organization will want to be apart of this effort. On Feb 22 we are hosting a meeting so that we can share our plans with you, get your input and suggestions and solicit your help in planning. The meeting will be held at St Matthews Episcopal Church, 330 N. Hubbards Lane, from 3:00 to 5:00pm.
Please have your representative (or yourself) send an email to sojky.events@gmail.com to confirm your intention to attend. Please include the following:
Name | Group/organization represented | Best contact information
If you or a representative cannot attend on February 22, we will keep our Network base informed about future plans and meetings.
We thank you for your time in helping form an alternative voice in addressing the causes and advocating possible solutions to the culture of guns, in an environment of justice and peace as we define and plan the events.
Stop Gun Violence in Our Community
Education. Activation. Mobilization.
Mark you Calendars
Invitation to Planning Meeting
February 22, 2015
3-5:00 pm
St. Matthews Episcopal Church
North Hubbards Lane
map
The Sowers of Justice Network has continued to work on our campaign to address the complex consequences and tragedies of gun violence in our city. We have decided to host a conference in the Fall of 2015 whose working title is “STOP the Gun Violence in Our Community” to focus this work.
We are planning an alternative voice to the 2016 National Rifle Association convention to take place in Louisville and to the subject of gun violence in general. The Courier Journal predicts this event "is expected to draw about 70,000 visitors and the major presidential candidates to town." We believe that it is of vital importance to show that people of faith in our city can and do support changing the culture of gun violence and we want to prepare a broad-based presence to engage the public on this topic.
Despite living in an age of increased political polarization and, in fact, a greater militarization of our society, still we hold to an ethical mandate to build a movement of and toward nonviolence. And not just is there an ethical mandate. We believe that there are some common sense values — common cause — that actually can unite many disparate groups of people and behind which we can together stand to affect policy and change culture. Perhaps on this issue, as much as any, we see that politics and change are and can be local.
We anticipate creating a dynamic conference, one that would start with a powerful keynote testimony about the senselessness of failing to deal with epidemic gun violence, that would continue with voices from different sectors in our community (government, law enforcement, medical, religious, legal, to name some), and that would offer ample opportunities for break-out sessions and dialogue. Perhaps dialogue is one of our core objectives: that through this conference we collectively re-engage the dialogue around this difficult, major social issue and then mobilize people for effective action.
We hope that you and/or your organization will want to be apart of this effort. On Feb 22 we are hosting a meeting so that we can share our plans with you, get your input and suggestions and solicit your help in planning. The meeting will be held at St Matthews Episcopal Church, 330 N. Hubbards Lane, from 3:00 to 5:00pm.
Please have your representative (or yourself) send an email to sojky.events@gmail.com to confirm your intention to attend. Please include the following:
Name | Group/organization represented | Best contact information
If you or a representative cannot attend on February 22, we will keep our Network base informed about future plans and meetings.
We thank you for your time in helping form an alternative voice in addressing the causes and advocating possible solutions to the culture of guns, in an environment of justice and peace as we define and plan the events.
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