Below are photos from our first Teach-In on Pillar I (July 24th). Learn more about our Community Capacity Building Curriculum here. Our second Teach-In was August 7th, and the final one will be August 21st.
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Summer 2021 CCBC Teach-Ins
Author: Ben Felker-Quinn
Recon II Publishes Article in Du Bois Review
Reconstruction II members Townsand Price-Spratlen, Joseph Guzman, and Charles Patton collaborated with William Goldsby to write “Reconstruction Has Stopped the Nonsense: Documentary Making in the Community Capacity Building of Returning Citizens.” Published online in the Feb, 2021 issue of the Du Bois Review, the article expands on Reconstruction’s collaborative video documentary with Scribe Video Center, which you can watch yourself over on Reconstruction’s History page.
Find the article’s text posted below. Big thanks to all the authors for allowing us to publish it here!
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April 2021 Jobs Postings
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Below this Fair Chance Announcement, find a number of jobs-related postings:
Something I have been learning…
As a people we want to make changes in our society for the betterment of all people. I have been learning that the spirit in which we seek these changes is very important. We have to move in a spirit of humility and instead of starting totally new systems we have to work together with our leaders to remove the bad, repair the broken and recommend changes. We see that our criminal justice and prison system is flawed, but from my own experience and the knowledge I have about history and the way other nations punished certain crimes, I would rather spend some time in prison than get my hand chopped off for stealing. So I suggest we work together and repair the system to operate with fairness for all people.
-Mark King Sanders, Chair of LEAD
Prayer of Solidarity, by William Goldsby
The thoughts below are a written reflection from my earlier travels in Central America, Southern Africa, and my incarcerations during the Jim Crow period in Alabama and Germany. They are reflections on how profoundly we acquiesce to the perception that we are disconnected from the divinity from which we are created. Embracing this oneness allows us to use our collective soul power and forces towards a new way of being.
Our growth has been profound and innocent.
Our creator continues to enter our lives and heal us
Together we are deeply blessed.
Together the meaning of our creator takes physical form.
Together life is at Its purest.
Together we are protected from the randomness and ignorance of life.
Together we are connected to all elements, dimensions and vibrations.
Together we experience the wrath of life with hope.
Together we are obligated to create a new justice paradigm.
-In Solidarity, William Goldsby, 1984