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DESCRIPTION:The Civil Rights Movement & Beyond:  How can the Occupy Movement Keep Our 
 Eyes on the Prize for the long term?\n\nBetween 1955 and 1968, the Civil 
 Rights Movement challenged the nation to live up to the democratic 
 principles it professed to hold achieving successes the world once thought 
 impossible.  On the eve of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 
 Phil Hutchings (1968 Chair SNCC- Student Nonviolent Coordinating 
 Committee), Carol Ruth Silver (Freedom Rider jailed for forty days) and 
 David Hartsough (Lunch counter sit-in & bus boycott) will help us 
 understand the strategic brilliance and extreme courage of those who fought 
 for equal rights, voting rights, and integration. Withstanding constant 
 harassment, arrests, beatings, arson, hateful brutality and murder, the 
 Council of Federated Organizations (SNCC, CORE, the NAACP, and the SCLC) 
 sustained a shared vision\n\n. What was it like to be part of Freedom 
 Summer, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, sit-ins, marches, and other non-violent 
 civil resistance? What kind of preparation was involved? How were the 
 networks that sustained the movement organized? What was the role of the 
 Black Church? Of the Jewish community? How were the legislative 
 achievements (and their subsequent enforcement which led eventually to a 
 tenuous equality) accomplished? Today, we experience glaring economic 
 inequality, de facto segregation, and mass incarceration of the African 
 American community that some have even dubbed the “New Jim Crow." How can 
 the Occupy movement carry the torch forward from the pioneers of the civil 
 rights movement to achieve full and lasting civil and economic equality for 
 all? \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/13/18730040.php
SUMMARY:Occupy Forum with Pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement
LOCATION:2017 Mission St. 2nd Floor Global Exchange, conveniently located across 
 from the 16th/Mission BART 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/13/18730040.php
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