Please join three American civil rights heroes as we launch the new Institute for Common Power. The attack on accurate, honest, inclusive education is all around us, and it is time for a national educational initiative focused on race and voting justice. It's time for the Institute for Common Power.
The Institute will be headed by Director Dr. Terry Scott, who is leaving her tenured faculty position at Hood College to lead the Institute, which will be a place for lectures, workshops, conversations, learning tours, and much more. The Institute, like all of Common Power, will be committed to fostering, supporting, and amplifying a democracy that is just and inclusive. The Institute will provide education and engagement via a framework of Movement Learning: In which we are inspired by, learn from, and build upon the struggles for racial and voting justice in America. We delve deeply into the strategies enacted by movements for Emancipation, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Civil Rights to inform how we take action to foster a just and inclusive democracy today. We learn both from historical events and first-hand experiences right now with the people and institutions that did and are doing transformative work. We are moved, we are part of a movement, and we must move. This is Movement Learning.
This event is an Institute celebration launch + fundraiser with hors d’ouerves and wine and sodas. Ticket costs will all go toward the host venue and for food, beverage, and event servers. A reception will open the event, and the program will begin at 545 pm. At the celebration, attendees will be invited to donate to support the Institute via check, credit card, or online.
Special guests will be
- Charles Mauldin, a 17-year-old student leader of the Selma Voting Rights campaign and fifth-in-line of marchers on Bloody Sunday
- Joanne Bland, a Bloody Sunday marcher at age 11, founder today of Journeys for the Soul and leader of the campaign to create “Footsoldiers Park” in Selma
- Bob Zellner, first Southern white field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and close associate of recent Alabama US Senator Doug Jones