Washington Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Part I
Militant Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training with Rev. Sekou
Recorded 6/26/2020
Trainer: Rev. Sekou trained and co-lead hundreds in militant nonviolent actions in Ferguson, and was deeply involved in the counter-protests in Charlottesville. Read more: www.revsekou.com/bio-1.
Washington Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Part II
The training includes very technical skills on nonviolent confrontational actions and offers a moral framing for this set of tactics (as one set among many).
The goals are: equip more people who can be quickly deployed when called upon to support the movement for Black Lives, and provide opportunity for deepening relationships in the service of base building.
Topics covered will include: know your rights, safety tactics at a protest, and a mix of strategic and tactical info.
We do this work out of deep abiding love and rooted in our moral principles.
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou and Lisa Fithian
The noted activist, theologian, author, documentary filmmaker, and musician, Rev Osagyefo Sekou is the leader of an awesome R&B Gospel band called Rev. Sekou & the Holy Ghost. He has 3 albums, “The Revolution Has Come”- 2016, “In Times Like These” – 2017, and a new live album, “When We Fight We Win”. Rev. Sekou has written two collections of essays. “Urbansouls: Meditations on Youth, Hip Hop, and Religion” and “Gods, Gays, and Guns: Essays on Religion and the Future of Democracy”. He is the author of the forthcoming “Riot Music: Race, Hip Hop and the Meaning of the London Riots 2011”.
Rev. Sekou was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Education and Research Institute at the time of Michael Brown Jr.’s killing, and traveled to Ferguson in mid-August 2014 on behalf of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (the country’s oldest interfaith peace organization) to organize alongside local and national groups.
Lisa Fithian is an anti-racist organizer who has worked for justice since the 1970s. Using creative, strategic nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience, she has won many battles and trained tens of thousands of activists while participating in a range of movements and mobilizations, including Occupy Wall Street, anti-WTO and corporate globalization protests all over the world, the climate justice movement, and more. Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant,” Fithian has been involved in nearly every major protest event for the past four decades.
Recorded 7/29/20
