At the 2011 Racial Justice Conference, we had meaningful worship services with Duncan Teague and Rev. Chris
Buice (Tennessee Valley UU Church), and Rev. Mitra Jafarzadeh (Westside
UU Church) and Rev. Gordon Gibson. We heard Tupac Enrique Acosta, our
keynote speaker, speak about spiritual obligation and solidarity with
humankind as sources of authority when our laws seem illegal. Rev.
Alicia Forde, the UUA's Multicultural Congregations Program Coordinator,
spoke about visions of multicultural community and grounding our
multicultural work in our UU faith. Susan Williams from the Highlander
Center gave us an overview of the popular education model used at the
Highlander Center in its justice work, and a history of the
organization.
After the featured presentations, we had workshops: Rev.
Alicia Forde (Building the World We Dream About), Susan Williams
(Multicultural Partnering in Context), Rev. Gordon Gibson and Rev. Mitra
Jafarzadeh (Pilgrimage as Formation for Justice), Rev. Craig Roshaven
(UUA Witness Ministries Director, on Faith and Justice), and Theresa
Venable and Jinx Watson (Parenting in a Multicultural World).
If you're interested in watching only a portion of the conference, here are the time markers for each event:
(0:00:00) Opening Worship with Duncan Teague, Rev. Chris Buice, and The Oaks of Righteousness
(0:16:35) Keynote Address with Tupac Enrique Acosta
(0:30:14) Saturday Morning Worship with Rev. Gordon Gibson and Rev. Mitra Jafarzadeh
(0:50:11) Featured Presentation with Rev. Alicia Forde
(1:18:42) Featured Presentation with Susan Williams (Highlander Center)
(1:37:51) Rev. Gibson and Rev. Jafarzadeh Workshop on Pilgrimage
(1:41:12) Rev. Craig Roshaven Workshop on Faith and Justice
(1:43:40) Susan Williams Workshop on Multicultural Partnering
(1:45:30) Rev. Alicia Forde Workshop on Building the World We Dream About
(1:49:09) Theresa Venable and Jinx Watson Workshop on Multicultural Parenting
(1:51:40) Post-Conference Interviews
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