Social Action: Write a Love letter to Immigrants/events this weekend

[Sarah Klepner]

Send a love letter (or note of solidarity) to immigrants   https://www.toimmigrantswithlove.com/, a follow Up from last Sunday's discussion.  Please also send your note to local activists with Awaken Community (via Facebook) or email  awaken...@gmail.com.

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Transformative Justice and Liberation from the Prison Industrial Complex

Sunday, Feb. 18 

9 am - 10 am (8:45 bagels and coffee, donations welcome)

1475 West Front Street, Lincroft

Unitarian meetinghouse (uucmc.org)

Speakers: Jennifer Lewinski and Derek Minno-Bloom

Jennifer and Derek will describe how the transformative justice model can help us, as a society, think of crime and punishment in a new way, making prison and its profiteers obsolete.

Jennifer Lewinski is the Administrative Director Asbury Park Transformative Justice Project, Member of Black Lives Matter-NJ. Derek Minno-Bloom is the Director Asbury Park Transformative Justice Project and Food Justice Director Trinity Church Asbury Park.

Part of the weekly Sunday morning Dialog series.

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Know Her Truths: Life Behind Bars for Women in NJ

Panel Discussion with Returning Citizens 

Sunday, Feb. 18

1:15 pm (doors open 12:45)

1475 West Front Street, Lincroft

Unitarian meetinghouse (uucmc.org)

Addressing the gendered challenges that women face in NJ prisons, include sexual violence, reproductive assaults, and mothering from the inside.

With returning citizens Nafeesah Goldsmith and Ivelisse Gilestra, and professors Johanna Christian (criminal justice, Rutgers-Newark) and

Johanna Foster (sociology, Monmouth).

Light refreshments will be served. Donations welcome ($10 suggested).

Co-sponsored by UU Faith Action  www.uulmnj.org  

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Wednesday, February 21
2018 African American Read - In
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Red Bank Library
84 West Front Street, Red Bank

The T. Thomas Fortune Foundation hosts a 2018 African American Read In - spotlighting radical journalist T. Thomas Fortune. 
We will be reading favorite passages from a book, poem, quotes, and speeches by Fortune, with orators from the NJ Orators Group, Abby Daly from Bridge of Books Foundation, and members of the TTF Foundation.
Doors open at 6PM for meet and greet and some good old eats.  Info: 732-759-0485
The 28th The African American Read-In is a national celebration of African American Culture & Literature.
Sponsored by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and endorsed by the International Literacy Association.

Join the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/198297720733299/

or search "2018 AARI-Reading Fortune" on facebook.

The African American Read-In "Reading Fortune" will also be held on

Saturday February 24

3-5 pm

Long Branch Library

328 Broadway, Long Branch