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Educate • Organize • Mobilize
This is the official website of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, a community based organization working to educate, organize, and mobilize communities to realize social justice through nonviolent action. For over 27 years we have worked in our communities to achieve social, economic, racial and environmental justice through education, training, and community organizing.
Please explore the many resources we have to offer on this site and contact us to get involved. The time for action is now.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Join our campaign to protect our communities and hold elected officials & lenders accountable.
BLIGHT IS KILLING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
The facts:
- In the past 10 years, there were 82,947 foreclosure notices in Shelby County.
- Predatory lenders have pushed thousands of families out of their homes.
- In the past FIVE years, there have been over 933 fires in empty houses.
- These 933 fires cost Shelby County $16 million.
To view our full platform and detailed presentation go here.
Seventh Annual Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking
“Experiments with Truth”
October 22-24, 2010
Christian Brothers University * Memphis, TN
www.GandhiKingConference.org
Speakers include:
Tim Wise, anti-racist activist and author
Reverend Billy Kyles, lifetime civil rights activist
Jaribu Hill, Mississippi Workers Center
Spirit Trickey-Rowan, youth educator, artist & activist
with more to be announced soon!
The Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking is a three day event bringing together modern visionaries on nonviolence and social change with community leaders, activists, academics and organizers to train, learn, plan and organize to create a culture of liberation and justice for all. Participants will engage in:
* training and education in nonviolent theory and practice
* opportunities for networking and peer-to-peer learning with movement builders from all over the country.
* working groups that will continue the work throughout the year.
* a network of people who are new to the movement and movement leaders to share and inspire action in a cross-cultural and inter-generational environment.
* the opportunity to learn about best practices and develop new ones based upon our shared experience.
Conference participants will end this transformational weekend in a better position to decide, strategically, where to put their energies for maximum effect and with concrete tools to use in their personal and social movement work.
Questions or comments? Email info@gandhikingconference.org or call (901)725-4990.
