Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

[Mary Hammond]

Hi all,

Just a reminder of events today---12:15 p.m. at the MLK Park in Oberlin (corner of Vine and S. Pleasant), about a half hour, Rededication to the Dream. Reception afterward at the Zion Community Center, not far away. 

Tonight, 6 p.m., Community Potluck at Peace Community Church (44 E Lorain St. in Oberlin), followed by a 7 p.m. Video of Rev. William Barber II, whom Cornell West calls, 'the closest person we have to Dr. King in our time.' His is a call to a Moral Movement that is not right or left, but right vs. wrong. He is also launching, at this 50th anniversary year of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, a New Poor Peoples' Campaign, on Mother's Day, with the initial launch the forty days after that, in multiple states, and enlisting people to publicize, participate, and train for action at Statehouses across the nation. 

His is a voice we need to continue to hear in these divisive, troubled times. He is a Disciples of Christ pastor in N. Carolina and was instrumental in the Moral Mondays movement of protest and civil disobedience in N. Carolina. The story of N. Carolina, with suppression of voting rights, gerry-mandering, slashing of social uplift programs, etc., is quite chilling. His book, The Third Reconstruction, tells the N. Carolina (and some of his) story, and can be read in 2-3 hours (around 98 pages, I think---I read on Kindle, so can't tell you for sure). 

Hope to see you today or tonight or both! Just wanted you to know about these events, in case you missed them elsewhere. 

These are not times in which to be silent....

In peace,

Mary