Healing Justice Occasion Kicks Off Worldwide Kindness Revolution
Saturday, April 19-Philadelphia Sagewriters Celebration
SWARTHMORE, PENN.pril eight, 2008usic soothes the soul and Sagewriters Inc. is out to show it heals, also. In an night of songs, dance, movies and poetry, the 1st "Healing Justice Occasion" honors the brilliance and creativeness of some of these who as soon as had been powering jail partitions, and their households.
The community is invited to understand how to support heal the violence within and in the streets, by means of the World Kindness Revolution, which nurtures and encourages the inherent spirit of kindness in all those.
Admission is $eighteen, and attributes jazz legends Odean Pope and Byard Lancaster, alongside with musical and doing artists: Mobolaji African Drums Circle, The Philadelphia Blues Messengers, visitor singer, Rev. Joe Craddock, storyteller, Baba Abiodun, poet/singer, Princess Ameenah, R&B singer/songwriter, Cameron Holmes, and a cappella gospel team, Males on a Mission.
The function of the April nineteenth Function at Club La Rose Haitian Cultural Middle in Philadelphia (5531 Germantown Avenue, 19144), is to inform the community of the have to have for jail improve in a fractured criminal justice procedure. Absolutely free Kindness Cards, established with lifers at the Graterford Jail, are a element of the Worldwide Kindness Revolution and furnished for attendees by partnership somewhere between Sagewriters Inc. and Gaterford Jail Community Modern society Initiative (PSI).
The night is hosted because of Judith Trustone, award-profitable human legal rights activist and co-director of the World Kindness Revolution. Her "Healing Justice" weekly On-line radio prove on Gtownradio.com is the voice of the Intercontinental Kindness Revolution.
A movie hour (seven:00-eight:00 p.m.) will be furnished featuring the documentary, "Jail Life Tales," which worries trendy perceptions of life driving bars, and fairly recently debuted at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A 2nd movie presentation is "Up The Ridge," which paperwork the torture in supermax prisons.
This is the to begin with in a collection of prepared Healing Justice Celebrations and is one attribute of Trustone World Kindness Revolution, with co-director and jail resident, Patrick Middleton, Ph.D. The higher group work consists of Tyrone Werts, president of Lifers, Inc., and Gale Campanella Muhammad, CEO of Ladies Who In no way Give Up. Their function for the grass-roots motion is to emulate the "Spend It Ahead" movie state of mind and diminish violence on each sides of the partitions.
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Judith Trustone is an award-successful writer and artist, and is obtainable as an specialist supply and workshop presenter for topics of prisoner and social injustice, and processes to healing on both equally sides of the bars.
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