Vigil to End Detention Camps July 12, 2019 5 PM Lovett Library
Judith Bernstein-Baker
This invitation below is something you can copy and send to anyone you want to invite as sponsors. Several faith organizations are already co-sponsoring and if you are associated with a faith group, please pass along this invitation. Secular organizations are certainly invited to co-sponsor as well. And of course, you are personally invited to attend to show your raise your own voice. Please feel free to bring your own sign.
Any co-sponsors should notify Betsy Teustsch, bpte...@comcast.net
We invite you to join as a sponsor of this uprising of local communal outrage!
Friday July 12th, 2019, Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps, will bring thousands of Americans to detention camps across the country, as well as to parks, churches, public spaces, and into our own front yards, to protest the inhumane conditions faced by refugees.
Local citizens will be gathering at 5:00 on Friday, July 12 in NW Philadelphia at Lovett Park, 6945 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19119 to protest the inhumane, despicable treatment of those fleeing persecution.
“The Trump administration’s immigration policies and detention camps meet the United Nations’ definition of genocide and crimes against humanity,” said Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin, lawyer, activist and organizer. “Congress is refusing to stop the president and his policies. We cannot allow these atrocities to be perpetrated in our name.”
Join us to express our disgust and redouble our resistance!
Further information about the national movement: www.lightsforliberty.org
- Sponsors will be listed on our Facebook Event. We already have over 100 people committed coming and hundreds expressing interest!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2341690896106563/
- Sponsors will be expected to publicize the event internally and push it out on your social media outlets
- There is no financial requirement since our expenses are minimal, but donations are welcome to cover expenses. We are an informal organizing group without any fiscal sponsor.
- Please respond by July 5, 2019 to be included in the final flier/poster version. To confirm your sponsorship, notify Betsy Teutsch: bpte...@comcast.net.
Early sponsors (list in formation) include:
Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Mishkan Shalom
First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG)
National Council of Jewish Women Greater Philadelphia Section
#PersistentPostcarders
Refugee Immigrant Justice Initiative of Germantown Jewish Centre
Confirmed performances by Two of a Kind and Voices Rising Philly
Thank you for your consideration!
NW Philly Lights For Liberty Organizing Team as of 6/27/19:
Judy Bernstein-Baker
Gail Bober
Yona Diamond Dansky
David Heitler-Klevens
Rebecca Henrich
Lynne Jacobs
Gerald Kaufman
Joyce Lieberman
Mindy Maslin
Ann Mintz
Betsy Teutsch
Joanne Walker
Barbara Weisman
Daniel Weisman
Shelly Yanoff
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