NJ takes over Paterson police after crisis worker’s shooting AP News - Mike Catalini March 27, 2023 New Jersey’s attorney general Matt Platkin said Monday that his office has taken control of the police department in the state’s third-largest city, Paterson, less than a month after officers there fatally shot a well-known crisis intervention worker during a tense standoff. His announcement [...]
https://youtu.be/5Qd79wKS84o THIS IS POWERFUL! Poverty and lack of opportunity combined with institutionalized discrimination based on race and income within our justice system are the causes. Discriminatory policing, prosecution, and sentencing are well documented, and even the formerly incarcerated must contend with legal discrimination in relation to employment, housing, education, and voting. Since President Nixon declared a “war on drugs” in 1971 [...]
https://youtu.be/7nsTMvUK6JI Live Free panel interview with Pastor Mike McBride. Get inspired by the amazing work of Damita Davis, Antonio Cediel, and Teny Gross who recount their experiences on the Lifelines to Healing Gun Violence Tour Damita Davis (Howard Cease Fire) Antonio Cediel (Live Free USA) Teny Gross (Institute of Non Violence Chicago)
https://youtu.be/atXt9kLbKIw Black Church Rocks panel with Rev. Mark Thompson, Rev. Tony Lee, Dr. Tifani Blakes & Krystal Knight This panel features reflections by Rev. Mark Thompson, Rev. Tony Lee, Dr. Tifani Blakes and Krystal Knight. For information on the Black Church Pac visit blackchurchpac.org UNLEASHING CONGREGATIONS TO SET PEOPLE FREE As people of faith, we know that our country’s legacy of [...]
Exploring the life and work of artist Kehinde Wiley, this film takes viewers on a journey from Wiley’s upbringing in South Central Los Angeles to his ascent as one of the world’s most iconic visual artists. Featuring interviews with the artist, his twin brother Taiwo Wiley, and his close friend and fellow artist Mickalene Thomas, the film supports the exhibition An [...]
Kehinde Wiley’s New Exhibition Is a Chapel for Mourning New York Times - Dionne Searcey (SUMMARY) March 16, 2023 When Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition, “An Archaeology of Silence,” opens in the United States on March 18, the most important room some viewers might enter is one with no artwork at all. The “respite room” at the de Young Museum in San Francisco [...]
As peacemakers, the LIVE FREE community knows achieving peace in our time is possible. It will require tremendous effort, collaboration, and compromise from all involved. Peaceful solutions to conflicts must be sought, and all actors must be willing to compromise and take steps toward a mutually beneficial resolution. https://youtu.be/nWSjPZ9MeAI In this abridged version of Pastor Mike McBride's TEDx talk delivered on [...]
Anchor Your Soul REFLECTION by Pastor Donna Battle “Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from God. Truly God is my rock and my salvation; God is my fortress, I will not be shaken.” Psalm 62:5-6 Beyond the social and political chaos of our times, most of us can feel an escalating panic continuing to rise in [...]
Indianapolis: An Unlikely Case Study in Co-Governance Progressive organizers have a policy problem. Left-leaning organizations often focus on electoral politics and are unable to support progressive action by lawmakers after election day. (U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is the country’s most dramatic example of the gap between electoral mobilization and policy advocacy.) But even when progressive advocates succeed in passing [...]
A great day in Gary: Common Council unanimously votes to fund mobile mental health unit NWI Times - Molly DeVore March 9, 2023 Marcella DeLavallade-Amos lost her only child in 2012 to a police shooting. "My son was shot in his shoulder, his thigh, his hand, his heart, his lungs, and his spine was shattered," she told the Gary Common Council [...]
