“The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:31)

Ongoing:

• Joining SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) activities as they occur
• Staffing and maintaining lending library of social justice books in the Narthex at All Souls
• Promoting social justice banner displays at church
• Supporting the Standing Rock water protectors in North Dakota
• Helping establish an interfaith council in Alameda County

Recent Activities:

• Summer 2020––Participating in Sacred Ground small groups
• Created and sent a banner to the Sacred Stone Camp to support the water protectors at Standing Rock
• Sponsored Traces of the Trade – film and discussion, open to the community
• Interfaith coalition building – visited Muslim Cultural Center; attended Interfaith Peace / Justice Vigil at Grace Cathedral
• Participated in Diocesan book study of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, and America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis
• Attended Black Lives Matter interfaith rally and die-in
• Presented lecture and discussion of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Participated in “Listening for Change: Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice,” a Trinity Institute event
• Attended “The Future of Solidarity: How White People Can Support the Movement for Black Lives” at First Congregational Church, Oakland
• Attended SURJ introduction meeting, Oakland

Contact:

• Janet Chisholm: jgchisholm@aol.com
• Dani Gabriel: allthepossible@gmail.com