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DESCRIPTION:National Watch Night Service for Love, Justice & Civil Rights \n\nHost: 
 Poor People's Campaign\n\nDate & Time: New Year's Eve on December 31, 2021 
 @ 2 PM PT (5 PM ET)\n\nLivestream; 
 https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream\n\nJoin the Poor People's 
 Campaign this New Year's Eve for a Watch Night service to declare we will 
 not stop organizing, mobilizing, standing for love and justice, and 
 uplifting the rights of poor and low-income people in this society.\n\nOn 
 New Year’s Eve in 1862 — at the height of the Civil War — slaves, 
 freedmen, and other abolitionists waited with anticipation for the 
 enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year’s Day. The 
 proclamation meant that the Union Army was finally committed to freedom for 
 the slaves living under the Confederacy, and eventually led to defeat for 
 the whole slave-owning class.\n\nOn Watch Night, the PPC calls out for 
 organizing against a system that allows a few \nto profit from the poverty 
 and suffering of many. We must come together to rise up \nagainst voter 
 suppression, BBB obstruction, poverty, systemic racism & xenophobia, 
 \nhealth care inequities, and ecological devastation.\n\nInstead, we must 
 mobilize for a moral agenda that includes economic justice with the passing 
 of BBB social programs, equality in education, health care access justice, 
 environmental justice, and voting rights & civil rights with equal 
 protection under the law for all persons.\n\n\nABOUT: Watch Night\n\n"On 
 the night of December 31, 1862, enslaved and free African Americans 
 gathered, many in secret, to ring in the new year and await news that the 
 Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. Just a few months earlier, on 
 September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the executive order 
 that declared enslaved people in the rebelling Confederate States legally 
 free. However, the decree would not take effect until the clock struck 
 midnight at the start of the new year. The occasion, known as Watch Night 
 or “Freedom's Eve,” marks when African Americans across the country 
 watched and waited for the news of freedom. Today, Watch Night is an annual 
 New Year’s Eve tradition that includes the memory of slavery and freedom, 
 reflections on faith, and celebration of community and strength."\n\nFrom: 
 "The Historical Legacy of Watch Night"\nNational Museum of African American 
 History and Culture, \nSmithsonian Museums Washington 
 D.C.\nhttps://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-legacy-watch-night\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/12/29/18846977.php
SUMMARY:National Watch Night Service for Love, Justice & Civil Rights w/ Poor People's Campaign
LOCATION:Online event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/12/29/18846977.php
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