Community Defense: For the Abolitionist, Affirming, and Newly Activated.

Community Defense: For the Abolitionist, Affirming, and Newly Activated

Are you tired of every nonprofit, protest, faith community, or radical organization’s only safety plan is to call the police?

Are you tired of the only serious conversations about faith community, LGBTQIA+ org or centers, or community organizing collectives’ only response to hate, threats, and intimidation is to reach out to Law Enforcement Officials who often don't have your communities highest interest at heart?

Are you tired of the tough-guy, macho security firms?

Join us at the First English Lutheran Church for a day of education and direct experience sharing by activist, author, and movement chaplain rev. lenny duncan ( they/ them) drawing off of 3 years on the ground experience in Portland Oregon from May 30th, 2020-2023, and their continued national anti-christofacist organizing experiences.

They will share strategies for community defense, mobilization in resistance to oppressive policies, and how to respond in courage when targeted by hate groups, as well as have an open conversation about the human cost, best practices, and moral weight of sending people's bodies into the fray. This is meant to be a day of practical, actionable learning, training, and suggested following a community, and a leader. Most importantly, members can walk away with more definitive next steps over the next few years to accompany or become more centered in "movement" work in an increasingly dangerous body politic. Reparations and Radical Pricing.

All Suggested Donations.

YOU DON’T NEED MONEY TO COME. We simply suggest a donation scale that honors black trans intellectual, emotional, and public labor.

Suggested Donation Scale-

$75.00 for leaders of faith communities, non-profits ( any 501,) or private businesses who want to attend.

$25 BLACK LED OR CENTERED leaders of faith communities, non-profits, or private businesses who want to attend. The ticket allows them +1 from the same org or business.

$50 for members of the community at large, or a member of one of these orgs or communities.

$25 BLACK LED OR CENTERED leaders and members of faith communities, nonprofits, or private businesses who want to attend. Ticket allows them +1 from the same org or business.

$25 LGBTQIA+ leaders and members of faith communities, non-profits, or private businesses who want to attend. Ticket allows them +1 from the same org or business.

$25 IMMIGRANT /IMMIGRATION LED OR CENTERED leaders and members of faith communities, nonprofits, or private businesses who want to attend. The ticket allows them +1 from the same org or business.

$0 BLACK LED OR CENTERED mutual aid collectives.

$0 LGBTQIA+ mutual aid collectives.

$0 IMIGRANT/IMIGRATION mutual aid collectives.

Members of the public who don’t fit any of these categories, but still want to attend may come the day of on a first come first serve seating basis. YOU STILL HAVE TO GET A FREE TICKET.

We will try not to deny anyone but we ask you to take a "free community member" ticket now for the security and safety of the event. People who just show up, with no information may be denied entry.

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