Registration is Open: Finding Justice for Historical Injustice webinar May 6

Dear Friends, REGISTRATION IS OPEN! North Pacific Yearly Meeting and Bellingham Friends Meeting will be hosting a free Zoom webinar, “Finding Justice for Historical Injustice,” and you are invited! It will be 7-8:30 p.m. Pacific time, 8-9:30 p.m. Mountain time, Friday, May 6. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_47A8uZllSFKoVEoyWh4fQA Please spread the word to committees, Friends concerned about racial justice, and like-minded organizations in your community.  Live ASL interpretation will be offered, so please consider publicizing to the Deaf community in your area. The event will be livestreamed on YouTube in addition to the Zoom webinar. The link for the YouTube live-stream will be posted on the NPYM website https://npym.org or Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/687894345787458 when the event begins. Attenders can also subscribe to the Bellingham Friends YouTube Channel to be notified when the livestreaming starts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxC4WUGOZ413egjKCS6sfkg?app=desktop You can cut and past the graphic and other information below into your own email or newsletter. Please make announcements at rise of worship on Sundays. Thank you, Friends!     Please join Taylor Stewart of the Oregon Remembrance Project for a free Zoom webinar with historical photo presentation,* followed by Q&A. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_47A8uZllSFKoVEoyWh4fQA Registration will remain open throughout the webinar, but it may fill up, so please register soon! You can also watch livestreaming on YouTube. Subscribe to this YouTube channel to be notified (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxC4WUGOZ413egjKCS6sfkg?app=desktop), or watch the NPYM website https://npym.org or Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/687894345787458 for the livestream link when the webinar begins. Finding Justice for Historical Injustice shows how the harmful legacy of our white supremacist history continues today. Stewart uses this powerful presentation to relate slavery, racial terror, and Jim Crow laws directly to mass incarceration, the disproportionate use of the death penalty against Black people, and other ongoing injustices. Communities everywhere can be inspired and motivated by learning how the Oregon Remembrance Project helps communities remember, repair, and redeem the brutal stories of their past. Facing our region’s racist history lays a foundation for the future we seek, for inclusive and just communities that celebrate diversity. *CONTENT WARNING: This presentation includes disturbing historical photographs of lynchings and other violence. Sponsored by North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends,  Bellingham Friends Meeting, and the Whatcom Human Rights Task Force.