Davis, Pam Africa, Julia Wright, and Johanna Fernández ’93, and moderated by Brown Professor Tricia Rose, the three-day symposium gathers together more than two dozen noted experts and artists working and studying incarceration and its wide-ranging effects on society. Opening with a keynote discussion featuring Angela Y. mass incarceration through scholarly analysis along with music, poetry, and reflection. Voices of Mass Incarceration: A Symposium will examine the history and impact of U.S. Read the feature story, “Library exhibition on Mumia Abu-Jamal to shed light on the experience and impact of incarceration” in News from Brown. There are still in-person seats available for Wednesday. Please feel free to register to join us virtually. NOTE: In-person attendance on Thursday and Friday is now at capacity. No registration is required to attend the exhibit opening. You can register to join the waitlist, and register to attend virtually. Please note that registration has closed for in-person attendance at the symposium. Wednesday, September 27 – Friday, September 29, 2023 “I thank them for their sacrifice, for our nation.”įor more information, visit The Washington Times COVID-19 resource page.Inset poster: “Change Our Worlds” by Shyama Kuver in collaboration with The People’s Paper Co-op created for the 2023 Black Mama’s Bail Out VOICES OF MASS INCARCERATION: A SYMPOSIUM “It grieves me to no end that they’ve been arrested and imprisoned,” Mr. Coates noted that the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn’t unveiled any plan or timeline to lift national mandates, and proof of vaccination continues to be required for air travel to the United States.įor that reason, he said he understands the willingness of the truckers currently blockading Ottawa to go to prison. ![]() While many Canadian states have lifted their regional restrictions, Mr. He added that GraceLife Church, which has continued to host Sunday services without mask requirements or size limits, has not had any COVID-19 infections beyond some “isolated cases” that obliged it to go online for two weekends last July. They picked the fight with us, almost like they wanted to make us an example to the rest, but it backfired.” “We never asked for a confrontation with the governing authorities. “The more time passes, the more I’m encouraged and satisfied we took the stand we did and I went through the experience I did,” Mr. “We didn’t tell people they had to come to church, we just said they could come if they wanted and wear a mask if they chose.”īut while the prison time was hard on his wife, Erin, and their two sons, now aged 12 and 18, he said he “would do it the same way again.” “We left it to everyone’s conscience,” he said. Coates, pastor of the GraceLife since 2010, said “about 200” people were attending Sunday services and “only a couple of them” were wearing masks when Royal Canadian Mounted Police began visiting on Sundays in December 2020. It’s up to the leadership of a local church to decide whether to comply with requests and how to reopen safely without putting people in jeopardy.” “The government doesn’t have the right to tell the church what to do. ![]() “Fundamentally, it comes down to the headship of Christ over his church and not wanting to surrender that to Caesar,” Mr. Government: Taking a Biblical Stand When Christ and Compliance Collide.” He co-wrote the book with Nathan Busenitz, a pastor at Grace Community Church in California. ![]() ![]() He tells his story with a theological twist in the new book “God vs.
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