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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
