[Lekooks] BLM Learn & Take Action August 2020 #2

[Ginger G]

LEARN – In downtown Milwaukee by the courthouse, 5,000 protesters march for racial justice, demanding that an unfairly jailed Black man be freed. They overpower the police attempting to control the crowd. They use a beam from a nearby construction site to ram and destroy the door, entering the jail. They liberate the Black man and hide him from the law.
Violence. An angry crowd. Destruction. Lawlessness. How do you feel about this? Is it justified? Or do you think protesting is fine but the violence is not?

This is the true story of the founding of the Republican Party in 1854. Joshua Glover escaped slavery in Missouri by coming to Wisconsin, a free state, where he lived for two years. Fugitive Slave Act catchers beat and arrested him, intending to send him back to his enslavers. Abolitionist Sherman Booth organized the protest and stormed the jail.

Get more information from the PBS History of Democracy documentary HERE. <https://www.pbs.org/video/wpt-documentaries-laboratory-democracy/> (The story is between 7:22 – 11:35)

TAKE ACTION – Attend the March for Racial Equality Saturday, August 22nd Cutler Park in Waukesha. 12pm Sign-making and chalk the walk  2pm Speakers: Maria Hamilton, Bernie Gonzalez, Raymond Roberts  2:30pm March – starts and ends at Cutler Park

Please consider making a donation to SOPHIA (Stewards of Prophetic, Hopeful, Intentional Action), especially if you can’t make the march HERE <https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=UdOyTQCnEg7SoMfP0eLUGl7ggXCrEB-MqFOFHjOImSsgUNWyNCgwOp-uqwl-Ihv40NWMgb-zjLvcLnUV>
Ginger Goral, Member LCUUC Social Justice committee, Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church https://lcuuc.weebly.com <https://lcuuc.weebly.com/>


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