{"id":147,"date":"2015-04-15T14:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T22:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/oneummahmanyvoices\/?p=147"},"modified":"2015-04-15T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T23:24:02","slug":"march-2-justice-mid-week-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/oneummahmanyvoices\/2015\/04\/march-2-justice-mid-week-special\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;March 2 Justice&#8221; Mid Week Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"color: #222222;\">This week, activists, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lsarsour\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Linda Sarsour<\/a> (executive director of <span style=\"color: #141823;\">Arab American Association of NY)<\/span>, embark on a 250 mile march from New York to Washington, DC.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/520\/2015\/04\/14289603083648.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-148\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/520\/2015\/04\/14289603083648-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Critics Of Police Tactics Begin March From New York To Washington DC\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">(from <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"_ZR irc_hol decorated-link\" style=\"color: #7d7d7d;\" href=\"http:\/\/atlantadailyworld.com\/2015\/04\/14\/march2justice-justice-league-nyc-explains-why-we-march\/\" data-ved=\"0CAYQjB0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"irc_ho\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000;\">atlantadailyworld.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3820018\/march-2-justice-civil-rights\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The purpose:<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #282828;\">100 plus people are marching across a bridge chanting and holding signs that demand justice. They are activists, artists, ministers, young mothers and fathers, children, students, the formerly incarcerated and everyone in between. They are black, white and brown, Christian and Muslim, atheist and agnostic. They have been meeting in the evenings, after full days of work at their respective jobs, in conference rooms and church basements and schools for the past several months. They\u2019ve carefully planned their route, they\u2019ve trained their bodies and thought through their response to any opposition that they might face on their journey, some of which has already come from local officials decrying their march as for no other reason than to \u201cmake a scene.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #282828;\">In wake of the murder of Walter Scott last week, and after months of protest following the verdicts in the cases of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, the week-long march is led by Justice League NYC. As they march, they are registering voters and will be delivering a \u201cJustice Package\u201d to Congress of legislative proposals \u201cthat aim to end racial profiling, demilitarize the police force, and invest in community based alternatives to incarceration for young people.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\">\n<p>According to Linda Sarsour\u2019s Twitter updates, she is in Philadelphia today:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/March2Justice?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#March2Justice<\/a> joins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FightFor15?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#FightFor15<\/a> in Philadelphia. We are one struggle. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ySjohi75VP\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ySjohi75VP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lsarsour\/status\/588430015332777985\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">April 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #222222; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222; text-align: left;\">You can follow the march via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/March2Justice?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/march2justice?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=10153351002490572&amp;pnref=story\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook <\/a>by following the Hashtag #<a href=\"http:\/\/march2justice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/March2Justice-Toolkit.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">March2Justice<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222; text-align: left;\">\n<hr>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sabina Khan-Ibarra is a freelance writer and editor. She regularly contributes to her blog, Ibrahim\u2019s Tree which she created after the loss of her infant son in 2011. She created Muslimah Montage as a platform for women to share their stories. Sabina currently lives in Davis, CA and working on her memoir. Follow Sabina on Twitter: @muslimahmontage<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, activists, including Linda Sarsour (executive director of Arab American Association of NY), embark on a 250 mile march from New York to Washington, DC. (from atlantadailyworld.com) The purpose: 100 plus people are marching across a bridge chanting and holding signs that demand justice. 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