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Saturday March 6, 2022 1:30 -3 pm 
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Christian Nationalism 
Building on the theological heresy of Christian nationalism, white evangelicalism continues its long history of white supremacy, exclusion, and intolerance. Local institutions and politicians with national reach still committed to this theological and political worldview are poisoning our democracy and skewing the values of faith. Join us as panelists Rev. Aletha Fields, Rev. Jason Crosby, Rev. Derek Penwell, Rev. Maurice Blanchard and others look at this movement’s theology and offer a way forward in light of this dangerous melding of political power and faith.

Co-sponsors for Nonviolence & Anti-racism Sowers Forums and Workshops 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.

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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.
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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
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Take the Nonviolence Survey here with a QR code
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FLY the FLAG
Learn more about a challenge from the Louisville ASALH Branch to fly the red, black and green African American Heritage flag during the month of February 2021 at Louisville Metro Hall and other government buildings across the county, local faith communities, homes, businesses, and schools, and how to purchase flags and yard signs in solidarity.
     Purchases benefit the Louisville Dr. Carter G. Woodson ASALH branch and its partners.

ASALH's vision is to be the premier Black Heritage society with a diverse and inclusive membership supported by a strong network of national and international branches to continue the Woodson legacy.
OUR MISSION  The mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.

For more information about Louisville’s Dr. Carter G. Woodson ASALH Branch and these events see the links at sowersofjusticenetwork.org or on Facebook

email sowersimpact@ gmail.com
to be on the list for yard signs ($20 or flags $15)
send email if paying by check
P O Box 5541
Louisville KY  40255 
PayPal can be sent to sowersimpact@gmail.com
see donations links above
available February 1, 2021
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Helpful documents
Take our Nonviolence survey here

Survey answers:
WHAT is Violence?
● All that causes harm in any form   ● Actions or thoughts that tend to reify, make another person into an “it” or an object, such as name calling, or denigrating or physically doing that to another ● Any thought word or action that causes harm to any living being ● To include anything that is intentionally or unintentionally hurtful to living beings, especially humans. ● Harsh force ● Anything that causes harm to another person, whether mental or physical. It can also mean harm done to a place or thing ● Destruction of property, hurting of people ● behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. (The dictionary definition) ● Violence is structural physical and emotional ●    Aggression that hurts self or others●

WHAT is Nonviolence?
● Our natural state of compassion when violence has subsided from the heart ● In this context, as approaches that seek their ends by means that are equally harmless to harmless to people, places, and things, especially animate ones that are not harmful to people, places, or things, especially animate ● Honoring the safety and care of other humans and our surroundings ●   Actions or thoughts which promote unity or harmony among persons.● Using methods other than violence to come to an understanding or consensus●  marching, kneeling, showing signs, making speeches ●          the use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change. (The dictionary definition) ● Actively bringing peace and justice without violence ● The absence of aggression that hurts self or others ● Actions that seek to solve conflict that don’t impose harm onto others●

WHAT is Anti-racism?
●Any effort with the intention to deconstruct the unjust structures giving power and economic advantage to one group over another ● As fighting actively against all forms of racism. ● Respecting others and treating them as equals ● Actions that mitigate against violence done to others based on the color of their skin or their ethnic background. ●          Being against anything or anyone that believes that one race is better than another. ● Viewing all people as equal ●          the policy or practice of opposing racism and promoting racial tolerance. (The dictionary definition) ● Deliberate actions to change the positions of power and structures that permanently affect how bronze black and brown people are treated as less equal than white people and restorative, reparational justice for those involved ● Taking action to dismantle systemic and personal racism ● Actions against racism and oppression ●

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Third Thursday Luncheons with Sowers of Justice Network and Fellowship of Reconciliation

January 21   Sadiqa Reynolds

February 18  Louisville Community Grocery




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Video 2018 Sowing a Nonviolent City Conference Plenary
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Click here for all ten civic mantras 

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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 2021 luncheon season. 

​Join us Thursday March 18, 2021
Rev. Dr. Kevin Cosby
Reparations
click above to register
President Simmons College

Link to video of Feb 18, 2021
Collective Courage

with Dr. Lisa B. Markowitz
and Cassia Herron

Sowers of Justice Network is also
a direct supporter of
WFMP Forward Radio and Louisville Community Grocery

Become a Louisville Community Grocery Owner

Join LACE
loufoodcoop.com/join-lace-form/

​For more information on Third Thursday Luncheons contact
​Barbara Boyd or Karl Ruttan


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Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Library Presentation
https://vimeo.com/207892630

Presentations at the Brandeis School of Law
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
https://vimeo.com/209078997

Ariana Levinson 
https://vimeo.com/207936403

Panel Discussion
https://vimeo.com/209071870



Sadiqua Reynolds
January 21,2021 3rd Thursday Lunch

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​      Food in Neighborhoods is a community coalition that        supports community efforts to build a just, healthy,            and sustainable food system in Louisville, Kentucky.

                   ​The Food In Neighborhoods Community Coalition meets to:
  • Ensure that people are aware of current initiatives so they can plug in, support, learn from and avoid duplication
  • Develop new or select existing initiatives and policies that the coalition determines will bring Louisville closer to our mission
  • Dialogue about ways to effectively support and coordinate around those initiatives
  • Determine specific actions on which individuals and groups can collaborate
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Sowers of Justie Network is direct supporter of the                                                Food in Neighborhoods Community Coalition

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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

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Sowers of Justice works for immigrant justice through the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Justice.  


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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Louisville Community Grocery
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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.


​The Other Christmas – Advent – Sunday November 29, 2020. 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

25th Annual Ecumenical Way of the Cross: 
A Walk for Justice 
April 2, 2021
9:30-11:30 AM

Readers/writers needed! If interested email sowersimpact@gmail.com

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


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

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nterested 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. Become an owner or underwrite low income ownership, join a committee and help us improve food access in west Louisville.
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https://www.facebook.com/louisvillecommunitygrocery/
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Volunteer for the
2019 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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24rd Annual Ecumenical Way of the Cross: 
A Walk for Justice 

April 10, 2020
9:30-11:30 AM



Read our Current Newsletters here

Learn about our Working Groups and let us join efforts!

Click here for a summary document about Sowers of Justice to print:
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