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SUMMARY:To Live Free from Fear: Confronting Violence Against Women as People of Faith
DESCRIPTION:This event has passed\, but you can watch the recording below.\n \nViolence against women is the most ubiquitous human rights abuse in the world. One in three women around the globe suffers physical abuse in her lifetime. The threat of violence in the home intensified greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the high prevalence of domestic violence\, only in recent decades has it been named a violation of human rights.  \nIn the United States\, intimate partner homicide claims four lives each day. Black women and Indigenous women are several times more likely to be murdered. U.S. women face a one in five chance of suffering rape or attempted rape in their lifetimes. Research shows sexual and domestic violence are just as prevalent within Christian communities as the general population. The problem of runaway gun violence increases the risk of violence against women and families. \nAlthough the Violence Against Women Act was reauthorized last spring by Congress after much debate\, the challenge of enforcing it remains. Significant gaps and barriers in the legal system prevent survivors from attaining justice. The U.S. Constitution lacks an explicit provision on women’s rights and gives Congress only a limited basis to address gender based violence. Several Supreme Court decisions have let survivors down by failing to hold perpetrators or the justice system accountable–even for deadly violence. \nAs people of faith who care about the sacred humanity of women and girls\, we must stand in solidarity by calling for laws\, policies\, and systems that respect their lives and their dignity. The Church has a heightened responsibility for speaking out against gendered violence and sexual abuse\, which it too long hid or tolerated in a misguided\, harmful attempt to subordinate women. \nIn honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month\, join Justice Revival and our expert guest speakers for a special conversation to explore Violence Against Women as a human rights abuse\, and consider what is most needed to advance justice on this crucial issue.  \n  \nGuest Speakers      \nDr. Indira M. Henard\, DSW MSW  \nDr. Henard has been with the DC Rape Crisis Center for the last fourteen years serving in different capacities\, lending invaluable experience including leadership roles in fundraising\, operations\, cultivating relationships and strategic partnerships\, as well as coalition building. Under Dr. Henard’s Executive leadership  she has not only repositioned the oldest rape crisis center in the country\, but she has laid a strong foundation as the agency prepares to celebrate 50 years of survivor centered\, and community led services. Additionally\, under Ms. Henard’s leadership the DC Rape Crisis Center received the 2019\, and 2020 Best Places to Work by the Washington Business Journal\, the 2019\, 2020\, and 2021 Best of Washington Award to include the Business Hall of Fame\, as well as the 2019 Agency of the Year Award by the National Association of Social Workers. \nDr. Henard’ s direct service experience in many gender-based violence programs has helped to inform her policy analysis that has led to coordinating public policy initiatives and organizing and planning spaces for survivor led advocacy.  Spanning over 20 years of dedicated service in the violence against women’s movement\, Dr. Henard’ s experience exemplifies her expertise in non-profit management\, organizational development\, crisis management \, education\, training\, fundraising and public policy.  \n  \nProf. Francisco Rivera Juaristi\n \nFrancisco Rivera Juaristi is a board member of Every Woman Treaty\, a diverse coalition advocating for the adoption of a new global treaty to address violence against women\, where he co-authored the organization’s “Safer Sooner Report” highlighting the need for this treaty. He is also a professor of international law at Santa Clara Law school in California and the founding director of the law school’s International Human Rights Clinic\, which has successfully advocated for the adoption of laws that incorporate CEDAW locally in Santa Clara\, California. Prof. Rivera is a former senior staff attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States seated in Costa Rica. In the late 1990s\, he also served as Executive Director of Amnesty International in Puerto Rico. He has been a consultant for several non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies\, and is a published author of several works on the gaps in international human rights law to address violence against women. \n  \n  \nRev. Dr. Marie Fortune\n \nRev. Dr. Marie Fortune is the Founder of FaithTrust Institute. She is a pastor\, author\, educator and practicing ethicist and theologian. \nMarie M. Fortune grew up in North Carolina where she received her undergraduate degree from Duke University. She received her seminary training at Yale Divinity School and was ordained a minister in the United Church of Christ in 1976. After serving in a local parish\, she founded the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence\, now known as FaithTrust Institute\, in 1977 where she served as Executive Director until 1999 and served as Founder and Senior Analyst until her retirement in 2017. FaithTrust Institute is a national\, multifaith\, multicultural organization providing religious communities and advocates with training\, consultation\, and educational materials to address the faith aspects of abuse.  \nShe was Editor of The Journal of Religion and Abuse from 2000–2008 and served on the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women for the U.S. Department of Justice (1995–2000) and the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence for the U.S. Department of Defense (2000–2003). \n  \n  \nDeborah Rosenbloom \nDeborah Rosenbloom\, JD/MPA is JWI’s Chief Program Officer and leads JWI’s innovative social justice initiatives engaging Jewish\, interfaith and secular communities in collaborative work to address gender-based violence through advocacy\, trainings\, resource development and community building. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeborah served as the primary researcher of JWI’s 2021 Needs Assessment of Jewish domestic violence survivors in the US. The Needs Assessment’s findings are driving JWI’s new work\, for which Deborah has ongoing primary responsibility:  the National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence in the Jewish Community; the Collaborative of Jewish Domestic Violence Programs; the Women’s Financial Empowerment Institute; ReStart -job readiness for survivors; and the Jewish Gun Violence Prevention Roundtable. \nDeborah’s recognition that the faith-based community can play an important role in addressing domestic violence led her to establish in 2008 JWI’s advocacy portfolio on Capitol Hill\, as well as the Clergy Task Force on Domestic Abuse in the Jewish Community and the Interfaith Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. \nDeborah holds a B.A.\, cum laude in history from Cornell\, attended Hebrew University and earned a JD/MPA from Syracuse University. She lives in Washington\, DC and is a member of Congregation Kesher Israel. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllyson McKinney Timm\n \nThis event will be moderated by Allyson McKinney Timm\, Founder & Executive Director of Justice Revival\, this event is part of our educational series\, “The Heart of Human Rights: Faith-Fueled Advocacy on Issues of Our Day.” \nIn this special series of web-based events\, courageous advocates share compelling stories of their struggles and triumphs for justice in modern-day America. They are joined in conversation by other human rights experts and fellow faith leaders who reflect on spiritual and theological dimensions of their cause. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the deep inter-connections between Christian faith and human rights\, and to understand urgent justice issues facing the United States today.
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SUMMARY:Honoring the Rights of the Poor in a Post-Roe America
DESCRIPTION:This event has passed. You can watch it in full below.\n \nIn an age of growing income inequality\, rising inflation\, racial disparities in wealth\, and a pandemic-induced economic crisis\, poverty remains a major contributor to abortion in the U.S. Nearly three-fourths of abortion patients cite inadequate means of support as a reason for terminating their pregnancies. After the anticipated rollback of Roe v. Wade\, more low-income households will face additional needs and challenges caring for their families. Communities of color\, rural communities\, and those with the least access to health care will be most impacted. States with the most restrictive abortion laws are least equipped to meet these growing needs. \nTo follow Christ is to demonstrate love and solidarity with the poor. In the Western Christian tradition\, the “rights of the poor” were among the first rights ever recognized by the Church. Under international law\, the human right to life implies rights to the basics of human survival—like food\, shelter\, and healthcare. But the U.S. has generally refused to honor these human rights\, allowing poverty to endure and remain closely tied to race in America.  \nWhat are our responsibilities\, as people of faith\, to build a society where all families have access to the necessities of life? In the face of growing needs the Dobbs v. Jackson decision is expected to prompt\, what heightened duties do Christians have to advocate in solidarity with the poor—especially low-income\, women of color-headed households? Now that Roe is falling\, will moral outrage over abortion be channeled toward empowering those whose lives are threatened by poverty? \n  \nGuest Speakers\n \nThe Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis\nThe Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. She is the Director of the Kairos Center for Religions\, Rights\, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and teaches at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.  \nRev. Dr. Theoharis is the editor of We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign (Broadleaf Press\, October 12\, 2021). She is the author of Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor (Eerdmans\, 2017) and co-author of Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing (Beacon\, 2018).  \nIn 2021\, she received the Hunger Leadership Award from the Congressional Hunger Center\, along with the Rev. Dr. William Barber II. In 2020 she was named one of 15 Faith Leaders to Watch by the Center for American Progress. In 2019\, she was a Selma “Bridge” Award recipient and named one of 11 Women Shaping the Church by Sojourners. In 2018\, she gave the “Building a Moral Movement” TEDtalk at TEDWomen\, was named one of the Politico 50 “thinkers\, doers and visionaries whose ideas are driving politics”\, and was also named a Women of Faith Award recipient by the Presbyterian Church (USA).  \nRev. Dr. Theoharis received her BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania; her M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in 2004 where she was the first William Sloane Coffin Scholar; and her PhD from Union in New Testament and Christian Origins. \nLauren W. Reliford\, MSW\nLauren W. Reliford\, MSW is a passionate and mission-oriented public and population health professional focused on bridging the gap between social theory\, spirituality\, research\, and practice to the forefront of our major policy decisions. She earned her master’s degree in social work with a combined clinical-macro concentration and focused primarily on the biological impacts of trauma in Black birthing women and the need for policy solutions\, such as the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021 (S. 346/H.R. 959). \nMs. Reliford\, MSW currently serves as Political Director for Sojourners\, a faith-based advocacy organization that represents and mobilizes thousands of Christian leaders and believers across our country around issues of justice and peace and an award-winning publication dedicated to issues spanning faith\, politics\, and culture. As political director\, she is responsible for developing and implementing Sojourners’ policy strategy\, positioning\, framing\, messaging\, and advocacy for outreach and impact on Capitol Hill and the presidential administration. \nShe worked as a public health lobbyist for ten years prior to grad school\, which allowed her to address the racist systemic and institutional structures that prevented whole health (physical\, mental\, behavioral\, emotional) for Black and Brown communities. She credits her time doing frontline social work during the pandemic as a turning point in life and career that demonstrated the real need to address the ineligibility requirements in policies and programs that furthered poverty and oppression for aging and older adults in need. \nAs a macro social work practitioner\, she believes in engaging with the clinical practitioners in the hopes that their direct experience working with her focus populations will help build a bottom-up\, middle-out policy formulation process that centers the lived experience of Black and Brown communities. Her hope is to continue the good work and act on her morals and values at a policy level that either creates a space at the table—or builds a new one—for lived experience. \n  \nAllyson McKinney Timm\nThis event will be moderated by Allyson McKinney Timm\, Founder & Executive Director of Justice Revival\, this event is part of our educational series\, “The Heart of Human Rights: Faith-Fueled Advocacy on Issues of Our Day.” \nIn this special series of web-based events\, courageous advocates share compelling stories of their struggles and triumphs for justice in modern-day America. They are joined in conversation by other human rights experts and fellow faith leaders who reflect on spiritual and theological dimensions of their cause. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the deep inter-connections between Christian faith and human rights\, and to understand urgent justice issues facing the United States today.
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SUMMARY:Gender Justice as a Matter of Faith
DESCRIPTION:Register here: https://utsnyc.edu/era \nA Workshop on the Equal Rights Amendment for Christian Faith Leaders\nWhy does the Equal Rights Amendment matter today as much as ever? What potential does it carry for progress on gender-based violence\, maternal mortality\, pregnancy discrimination\, and poverty in America? What should faith leaders committed to prophetic advocacy know about this basic human rights reform? \nLearn what it will take for the ERA to become the law of the land—nearly a century after it was first introduced. Explore the promise of this landmark amendment and the hope of gender justice it would bring together with fellow faith leaders in this dynamic\, interactive virtual workshop. All genders welcome. \nDates and Times\nThursday\, October 22 at 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.\nFriday\, October 23 at 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.\nSaturday\, October 24 at 10:00 a.m. – noon \nSpeaker\nAllyson McKinney Timm\nFounder & Executive Director\nJustice Revival \nRegister
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SUMMARY:Union Theological Seminary Chapel Service
DESCRIPTION:Allyson McKinney Timm will be offering the homily at the Union Theological Seminary Chapel Service. Her homily\, entitled “Foremothers in a Faith that Does Justice\,” will be taken from Micah 6:8 and offered in honor of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. \nJoin us there on Facebook live: https://www.facebook.com/UTSchapel/
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