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WWFOR Spring Assembly, Zoom
April 30, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:20 pm
WWFOR SPRING ASSEMBLY
Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation Spring Assembly
Defending and Extending Democracy Using Nonviolence
Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation presents its 24th Annual Spring Assembly. This event is also a fundraiser for the people of Ukraine.
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 9 am-12:20 pm
Video-Conferencing event, Zoom.
Our featured speaker this year is Michael Honey, History Professor at University of Washington Tacoma. We will watch “Love & Solidarity,” a film produced and directed by Professor Honey which documents nonviolence steps delineated by civil rights icon Reverend James Lawson. Professor Honey will keynote this event and discuss Rev. Lawson’s steps of nonviolence, as well as introduce us to the new book Revolutionary Nonviolence which he co-authored.
Mike Yarrow Peace Fellow Interns will make presentations about their social justice projects.
Representatives from Washington State Poor People’s Campaign will speak.
We hope you can join us for this special event.
Proceeds from the event will go to the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UN Crisis Relief, see https://crisisrelief.un.org/t/ukraine ).
Registration information coming soon at https://wwfor.org/spring-assembly-2022/
Information 206-789-5565 or wwfor@wwfor.org
WWFOR 2022 Spring Assembly Schedule
9:00 am Welcome
9:15-9:45 MYPF Interns
9:50-10:05 WA. Poor People’s Campaign
10:10-10:50 Film: Love & Solidarity
10:50-11:00-Break
11:00-11:30- Keynote: Professor Mike Honey
11:30-11:50 Small Group Discussion
11:50-12:10 Large Group Discussion
12:10-12:20 Evaluation & Closing
12:20-1:00 pm Post Assembly Informal Sharing (Optional)
Information on Presenters
Professor Mike Honey: American historian, Guggenheim Fellow and Haley Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma in the United States, where he teaches African-American, civil rights and labor history. He has taught or been a fellow at Stanford University, University of Maryland, the National Humanities Center, the Rockefeller Research Center in Bellagio, Italy, Wesleyan University, the University of Puget Sound, and the University of Washington, where he has held the Harry Bridges Chair of Labor Studies, the Haley Professorship, and a fellowship at the Simpson Humanities Center. He travels and speaks widely and is a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and has received numerous awards from non- academic organizations for his civic engagement going back to his origins as a civil liberties organizer in the South. He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University (Ph.D.), Howard University (M.A.), and Oakland University (B.A.), and a native of Michigan and Memphis, Tennessee. He has written five books that won numerous academic awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Washington State Poor People’s Campaign
BUILDING POWER: ORGANIZING FROM THE BOTTOM UP
The WA. State Campaign is aligned with the National Poor People’s Campaign uniting tens of thousands of people across the country to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, and the nation’s distorted morality. Together, we are shifting the narrative, building power, and impacting elections and policies. “Forward Together, NOT ONE STEP BACK!”
Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship
The WWFOR runs the Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship (MYPF), a year-long program for high school and college age youth, ages 14-23. The program includes a Grant for interns to work on a nonviolent social change project of their choice. Fellows receive training and support throughout the year. In 2020 and 2021 we moved the training online due to COVID-19. The 2022 program format has not yet been decided. We will hear from interns in the 2021 program.
Registration information coming soon at https://wwfor.org/spring-assembly-2022/