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.

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Seventh Annual Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking
“Experiments with Truth”
October 22-24, 2010
Christian Brothers University * Memphis, TN
www.GandhiKingConference.org

Call for Proposals now being accepted. Deadline is August 1. Online forms are available on our website and available for download at 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.

Call for Proposals now being accepted. Deadline is August 1. Online forms are available on our website and available for download at www.GandhiKingConference.org

Questions or comments? Email info@gandhikingconference.org or call (901)725-4990.

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