Join SURJ’s first launch meeting of the United Vision project to join our work to fight the far-Right and organize white people away from white supremacy. At the kick-off we’ll connect with SURJ members across the network, learn more about the work ahead, and collectively ground ourselves in the political moment and the history of the work to interrupt the Right’s organizing.
More about the project:
.The United Vision Project is bringing people together across the country to do text-based canvassing to listen and learn more about how white communities are being recruited into white nationalist organizations and beliefs. We’ll use what we learn to support organizing interventions to block the Right and counter-organize in these communities in 2022 and beyond.
Will you join the United Visions Project that is texting hundreds of thousands of white people vulnerable to right wing recruitment so we can interrupt it?
With Rev Dr James Lewis, Community Leader, founder and pastor of Miracle Missions Full Gospel Church; Dr. Rolanda Ward, social work professor and Director of Niagara University’s Rose Bente Lee Ostapenko Center for Race, Equity, and Mission; Rev. Mark Blue, President of Buffalo NAACP, pastor of Second Baptist Church of Lackawanna; Deidra EmEl, Executive Director of the WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
Discussion topics:
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- Rev Dr King’s life’s work, principles, courage, and how they relate to our current challenges
- MLK Celebration on Sunday 1/16, 6pm-8pm, Kleinhans, (free; proof of vaccination required)
- local efforts to deal with the triple evils (racism/bigotry, materialism/poverty, militarism/war) in Buffalo
- ways to help and get more involved
The show is taped for just under an hour by Think Twice Radio: Home of the Future (thanks to Richard Wicka, our wonderful producer). The Zoom recording, livestreamed on Facebook during the taping, will air on WBNY 91.3FM on the following Monday (1/17) at 1pm EST. After airing, you can also find the video archived on the WNY Peace Center YouTube channel.
One year later, we’re still asking ourselves, “How did January 6th happen? And what can we do to stop this kind of thing from happening again?” We know that the majority of actors in the insurrection were white and were motivated by a white nationalist and far-Right agenda. And these groups are continuing to recruit and build in white communities.
Looking towards the 2022 midterm elections and beyond, for those of us who are white, it’s our responsibility to be offering white people a better alternative. Join Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) to hear about how we organize to stop the rise of white supremacist violence and build political power for justice- and how you can join in the work
