September 5 // 9a – 12p // March
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Mass March and Rally
Gather at Wragg Square (342 Meeting St)
Speakers include:
Rev. William J Barber, II – President of the NC State Conference of the NAACP
Rev. Joseph A. Darby – Presiding Elder of the Beaufort District of the AME Church
Kevin Alexander Gray – Harriet Tubman House
Donna Dewitt – South Carolina Alliance of Retired Americans
Poets Marjory Wentworth (SC Poet Laureate) and Marcus Amaker
September 5 // 2 – 6pm // Conference
Location: ILA Local 1422 Hall / 1142 Morrison Dr, Charleston, SC
2 – 6pm: Conference programming
Strategy sessions and notable participants include:
Opening Remarks – Rev. William J. Barber II
Ending discriminatory policing – Deray McKesson, Campaign Zero / #BlackLivesMatter
Quality Education – Dave Dennis, Southern Initiative of the Algebra Project; civil rights organizer (CORE, 1960-1965)
Economic Justice – Ken Riley, President of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1422
Ending Gun Violence
Medicaid Expansion and Healthcare
Expanding Voting Rights and Democracy
Remarks from Ajamu Dillahunt, Black Workers for Justice
September 5 // 6p – 9p
Open space at ILA hall for self-organized panels, workshops, discussions, and meetings
6:30 – Women’s Caucus Meeting including: Ginny Deerin, Candidate for Mayor of Charleston, SC; Kelly Bates Oglesby, Pastor, Parkview Mennonite Church, Kokomo Indiana; Catherine Fleming Bruce, principal, TNOVSA; Secretary, Labor/Progressive Caucus, South Carolina Democratic Party, author forthcoming book: The Sustainers: Being, Building and Doing Good through activism in the Sacred Spaces of Civil Rights, Human Rights and other Social movements; Adrienne Troy Frazier, Executive Director, Berkeley County First Steps; Kelly Bates Oglesby is a pastor of Parkview Mennonite Church in Kokomo, IN.
September 6 // 7:30a // Interdenominational Service
7:30a: Interdenominational Service // ILA Local 1422
September 6 // 10a – 3pm // Conference
10 – 3pm: Conference
Location: ILA Local 1422 Hall / 1142 Morrison Dr, Charleston
Continued strategy sessions from previous day and drafting next action steps
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