Williams, Brad (June 3, 2020). "Shawano March, Peaceful and Well Attended". TCHDailyNews . Retrieved 15 April 2021. As one Inglewood Blood gang member told the writer-historian Mike Davis: “my homies be beat like dogs by the police every day. This riot is all about the homeboys murdered by the police, about the little sister killed by the Koreans, about twenty-seven years of oppression. Rodney King just the trigger.” He also was embroiled in putting together this week’s commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This protest will focus on police violence, and its ever-expanding roll call of victims: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rashard Brooks, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Jacob Blake, among others. Just after 6 p.m., a crowd of at least 300 people gathered at the intersection of Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue. As smoke from several burned-out buildings filled the air, protesters chanted and demanded justice. We sacrificed our dad to the movement,” she added. “That was heavy for me to understand. That took a while for me to accept.”

Küng did not only call for a paradigm shift in Catholic theology—together with others he embodied this change. The emphasis on human rights within the Church, feminist theology, ecumenical theology, and a theological openness to non-Christian religions in the progressive side of Catholic theology did not just so happen. This change needed pioneers, fearless individuals who had the courage to move the Church into modern thinking. I have learned and profited in multiple ways from this courage that I encountered in Tübingen, and it was a true gift to watch and listen when several of the founders of the international journal Concilium debated each other’s works, in critical respect and solidarity.

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David DeCosse is the director of Religious and Catholic Ethics and Campus Ethics Programs at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. U.N. General Assembly and International Criminal Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine Denver students offer youth perspective on racial justice with new podcast "Know Justice, Know Peace" ". The Denver Post. 13 July 2020 . Retrieved 15 April 2021. Nevertheless, the nonviolent protest envisaged by King was not viewed by the “white moderate” as “peaceful,” and the state did not see it this way either. As we have seen, following the urban rebellions that came after the Civil Rights Movement, King believed that the only path forward was to engage in a larger scale of mass civil disobedience. King remained committed to mass direct action on principle even as his advisers, like Bayard Rustin, insisted on making a shift towards policy-making, and criticized King publicly. As part of the Poor People’s Campaign and the campaign against the Vietnam War, King wanted to shut down traffic in Washington, DC. In his book, Küng turned to two virtues in particular that deserve further scrutiny today: courage and constancy. I strongly agree that these virtues are required for global peacebuilding, complemented, among others, by responsiveness to the other, resistance to coercive power, and temperance as a virtue of non-violence. Virtues must be learned, especially in a Church that teaches obedience rather than courage and resistance to injustices.

by Norman L. Eisen, Noah Bookbinder, Donald Ayer, Joshua Stanton, E. Danya Perry, Debra Perlin, Kayvan Farchadi and Jason Powell Sharpton has been an activist long enough to have inspired acolytes. National civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who has represented the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and dozens of other victims of police brutality and vigilante violence, credits Sharpton with charting a path that made it easier for up-and-coming activists and lawyers to be heard. If you want peace, work for justice”—no slogan has perhaps been less identified in the American mind with Catholicism in the last decades than these powerful, concise words uttered almost 50 years ago by Pope Paul VI. Instead of flying down to the memorial in Atlanta, Sharpton had remained in New York; he had work to do. Preaching at the funeral of a year-old boy who was shot in the stomach at a Brooklyn cookout — a boy not much younger than his first and only grandson — Sharpton demanded gun control, an issue close to Lewis’ heart. Analyzing Previously Undisclosed Use of Force Reports: Challenges of Congressional Oversight of the War on Terror

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Thompson, Jamie (September 29, 2020). "The Armed Women at the Center of the Louisville Protests". POLITICO . Retrieved 16 April 2021. Which is the point of the march on Washington: Sharpton has made passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act a central demand. He said officials use damaging or violent protests to distract from the true issue of police brutality. Still, Sharpton’s daughters, Ashley Sharpton, 32, and Dominique Sharpton Bright, 34, said their father’s public image isn’t much different than the one they’d experienced over the dinner table. But Sharpton knows he will also encounter the ghosts of another era on the steps of the Lincoln Monument, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed that he had a dream.

The only normalcy that we will settle for,” he said, is “the normalcy of true peace, the normalcy of justice.” Anatomy of a Fraud: Kenneth Chesebro’s Misrepresentation of My Scholarship in His Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Presidential Election Looting during the Los Angeles rebellion, 1992. (Photo by Gary Leonard, Los Angeles Public Library) Adofo then read out the names of a number of people in the UK who she said had “died at the hands of racist police”, after which the activists chanted “say their name”. George Floyd’s death should lead to justice and systemic change, not more death and destruction," Walz said.