Gathering Voices: Rev Jason Carson Wilson-“Incremental change is another weapon of white supremacy”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Gathering Voices, LGBTQ+, Racial, Social Justice

Rev. Jason Carson Wilson is the founding executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Bayard Rustin Liberation Initiative, a LGBTQIA/POC-focused domestic and international policy advocacy organization. He also serves as Minister of Social Justice Education at...

Gathering Voices: Gathering Voices: Sr. Simone Campbell “We can make change if I have a sense that we are connected.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices

    Sr. Simone Campbell is the Executive Director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and the Leader of Nuns on the Bus. She is a religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. In...

Gathering Voices Amy Cantrell–“I’ve never seen things so dire.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, North America

Rev. Amy Cantrell lives and moves and has her being in the intentional community, BeLoved Asheville. BeLoved is an intersectional community of people from the streets and margins love each other and together work to create solutions to homelessness, poverty, and...

Gathering Voices: Liz Moore–“We are the ones who can define what is possible.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, North America

Liz Moore is the director of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, where she began her activism in PJALS’ youth group as a Deer Park high school student after looking up “peace” in the phone book. She worked as an organizer and educator in unions and...

FOR collaborates with WSC on emergency national briefing in Portland

Aug 21, 2020 | Black Lives Matter

The Western States Center convened a live Emergency National Briefing from Portland. Speakers included U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D, OR) and FOR’s Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson.