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Statement From Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson Symone Sanders on Vice President Kamala Harris’s Voting Rights Listening Session With Black Women Leaders
Today – one day before the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s death – Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a listening session on voting rights with Black women leaders. Several of these leaders worked closely to organize this week’s Black Women Leaders & Allies Voting Rights Call to Action.
During the meeting, the leaders shared with the Vice President their insights and recommendations on how to achieve voting rights reform, ways we can work together to pass federal legislation that protects all American voters, and what is at stake for our democracy. The Vice President thanked the leaders for their work, their commitment to protecting the fundamental right to vote, and their perspectives.
Be Love Day Challenges:
- Identify 3 local or national policies that are unjust and began to research them.
- Research and consider investing your money in a Black or Brown banking institution. Tag banking institutions that you discover and share them with three friends on social media.
- This week examine personal biases and stereotypes used throughout the week. Make note of each one and then find one solution to help remove that stereotype or bias from your life.
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6 Principles of Nonviolence
PRINCIPLE ONE
Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
- It is active nonviolent resistance to evil.
- It is aggressive spiritually, mentally and emotionally.
PRINCIPLE TWO
Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
- The end result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation.
- The purpose of nonviolence is the creation of the Beloved Community
PRINCIPLE THREE
Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice not people.
- Nonviolence recognizes that evildoers are also victims and are not evil people.
- The nonviolent resister seeks to defeat evil not people.
PRINCIPLE FOUR
Nonviolence holds that suffering for a cause can educate and transform people and societies.
- Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation.
- Unearned suffering for a cause is redemptive and has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities.
PRINCIPLE FIVE
Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
- Nonviolence resists violence of the spirit as well as the body.
- Nonviolent love is spontaneous, unmotivated, unselfish and creative.
PRINCIPLE SIX
Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
- The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win.
- Nonviolence believes that God is a God of justice.
6 Steps of Nonviolence
The Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change are based on Dr. King’s nonviolent campaigns and teachings that emphasize love in action:
- Information Gathering
- Education
- Personal Commitment
- Negotiation
- Direct Action
- Reconciliation
The Beloved Community
The Beloved Community, as described by Dr. King, is a global vision, in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger and homelessness will not be tolerated because international standards of human decency will not allow it.
Racism and all forms of discrimination, bigotry and prejudice will be replaced by an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood.
In the Beloved Community, international disputes will be resolved by peaceful conflict-resolution and reconciliation of adversaries, instead of military power. Love and trust will triumph over fear and hatred. Peace with justice will prevail over war and military conflict.