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MLK Weekend: Interfaith Community Event, Tacoma
14th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Redeeming the Prophetic Vision Interfaith Community Event The 14th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Redeeming the Prophetic Vision event will be on Sunday, January 19, 2020, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, at Urban Grace Church (902 Market Street, Tacoma, WA 98402) with a reception featuring social justice organizations to immediately follow. Free and open to the public.
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Seattle FOR Program Meeting
Seattle Fellowship of Reconciliation Program Seattle Fellowship of Reconciliation presents Alice Woldt on Fair Elections: Getting Money Out of Politics Sunday, January 19, 2020, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 N 70 St, Seattle - Near #5 bus. All are welcome! Free, an offering will be taken. Info 206-789-5565 or wwfor@wwfor.org or forseattle.wordpress.com/ Alice Woldt will speak about the corruption of money in politics. Alice is the current Education Fund chair and former Executive Director of Fix Democracy First, a statewide nonprofit that works to achieve fair elections and government policies that reflect the will of the people, not the power of money. In addition to lobbying the legislature and members of Congress on democracy reforms, Alice has served on several initiative steering committees. These included initiatives which made Washington the 17th state calling for a US Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that unleashed the influence of money and corporations on elections and government policy and also the initiatives which created the City of Seattle’s voucher program to publicly fund campaigns. As the former co-director of Faith Action Network (FAN), and executive director of the Washington Association of Churches and the Church Council of Greater Seattle, she brings a long history of leadership and organizing in the peace and justice, faith and political communities.
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