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Mass Slavery Apology
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About our Reparations Committee
Past Progam – 13TH, January 6, 2017
After viewing part of the film, we brainstormed actions we can take, including:
Developing skills and resources:
Join a free
10-week study group
in Brattleboro VT, hosted by Lost River Racial Justice (registration is now closed for the group)
People of all races come together in solidarity to get to know one another
Bishop Desmond Tutu’s
Forgiveness Project
Read
Stamped From The Beginning
by Ibram X. Kendri
Working for system change:
Equal Justice Initiative
and
Just Mercy
, a book by Brian Stevenson, on ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment
Real Cost of Prisons Project
Organize to make it legal for people currently and formerly incarcerated to vote
Many people are incarcerated just because they cannot afford bail:
National Bail Out
/No More Money Bail
Poor People’s Campaign
, a national call for a moral revival
Swing Left, Take Back The House
(locally, group is forming in Amherst MA), and other work on mid-term elections
You may want to consider civil disobedience. If you do, prepare yourself by taking a nonviolence training. For local trainings, see
The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership
Offering personal support:
Experienced mothers offer personal support to incarcerated mothers and mothers-to-be
Visit people who are incarcerated
Write letters to people who are incarcerated
Donate to or volunteer with a group that sends books to people who are incarcerated. Our local group is
Great Falls Books Through Bars
.