Apr

29 2020

Faithful Democracy Town Hall: Protecting Democracy in the Face of COVID-19

Join the Faithful Democracy Coalition to hear how the faith community is mobilizing to ensure that the 2020 primary and general elections are safe and fair in the context of COVID 19. Crucial issues of voting rights, public health, and election security are emerging as key to any Get Out the Vote efforts, and planning and preparations are needed now at the federal, state, and local levels to protect our democracy during this pandemic.

RSVP here https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H1zcwZL6RgaJp0uFmT7p4g

Speakers:

Rev. Traci de Von Blackmon

Associate General Minister of Justice & Local Church Ministries @United Church of Christ

Rev. Traci Blackmon is the Associate General Minister of Justice & Local Church Ministries for The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. As a featured voice on many regional, national, and international platforms, Rev. Blackmon's life’s work focuses on faith-filled communal resistance to systemic injustice.

Rabbi Bonnie Margulis

Executive Director @Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice

Rabbi Bonnie Margulis is the founder and Executive Director of Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice and Chair of the Wisconsin Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, as well as a member of the board of the NAACP of Dane County, and a founder and steering committee member for the Dane Sanctuary Coalition. She was a founding board member of We Are Many – United Against Hate. Rabbi Margulis has served as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Justice and Peace Committee and is a Past Chair of the Women’s Rabbinic Network Social Justice Committee. In addition, Rabbi Margulis has served as a member of the J Street National Advisory Board for Field and Grassroots Organizing. Rabbi Margulis is proud to have been a member of the Reform Movement’s Commission on Social Action, where she sat on the Women and Minorities Task Force.

Rev. Jimmie Ray Hawkins

Director @Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Public Witness in Washington DC

Rev. Jimmie Ray Hawkins serves as the Director of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Public Witness in Washington DC. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies from North Carolina Central University (Durham, NC); a Master of Arts in Christian Education from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education (Richmond, VA); and a Master of Divinity from the Interdenominational Theological Center/Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary (Atlanta, GA). For twenty years he served as the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Durham, NC, 1996 - 2016. He served on the boards of Church World Service, the National Council of Churches and currently Union Presbyterian Seminary. He has chaired several interfaith /ecumenical and non-profit boards: NC NAACP Executive Committee, Durham Congregations in Action, the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, the Religious Coalition for a Non-Violent Durham, Housing for New Hope (homeless advocacy), End Poverty Now, and others.