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Talking Peace w/WNYPC – ECHC – Families – w/Sandra Bland’s mother
June 23, 2021 @ 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT
Livestreaming on our Facebook page. ECHC – Focusing On Families, w/Sandra Bland’s Mom. With special guests Geneva Reed Veal (Mother of Sandra Bland; Mother to the Movement; Sandra Bland Center for Racial Justice); Ne Ne Cottom, sister of inmate Devon Cottom; Cariol Horne, shero and initiator of Cariol’s Law; and Rev. Denise Walden, Lead Live Free Organizer for VOICE-Buffalo. With co-hosts Deidra EmEl, Executive Director at the WNY Peace Center, and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network. (Audio broadcast on WBNY 91.3FM on Monday, June 28, 1pm; video will also go on our YouTube Channel.)
- What are the values we want to raise up in and thru this conversation and this work?
- What has been going on in the Erie County Holding Center and Alden facilities?
- What are the inmates and families going thru as a result?
- What are your hopes for the Focus on Families Rally on Friday, 6/25, at 11:45am at ECHC?
- What are some other ways that people can help change the Criminal Injustice System?