Decatur Confederate Monument Expert Panel and Community Expert Panel and Community Discussion
Monday, October 9 , 7 p.m., Maloof Auditorium
1300 Commerce Drive, Decatur
Watch this: Hate Free Decatur Asks Dekalb County Commission for Confederate Monument Removal
Rally at Capitol Tuesday against Muslim Ban
Tuesday, October 10 , 11:00 a.m., Georgia State Capitol
(1) Monday, 9/25, 12:30 p.m., Jonny Isakson’s Office — Delivery of health care messages (see below for details).
(2) Tuesday, 9/26, 9 a.m., DeKalb County Commission — Delivery of petitions to take down the confederate obelisk in Decatur Square — many needed! Scroll down for details.
(3) Tuesday, 9/26, 12 noon, Woodruff Park — Healthcare/Voting Rights Rally. Scroll down for details!
(4) IMMEDIATE ACTION — SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT ON HEALTHCARE — By 1 p.m. Monday! Scroll all the way down.
(5) Check out wwww.AmericansofConscience.com for a weekly newsletter with actions to take each week + the Good News of each week!!!
TELL DEKALB COUNTY TO TAKE IT DOWN!
COUNTY COMMISSION MEETING
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – 9 A.M.
MALOOF AUDITORIUM
1300 COMMERCE DR. DECATUR, GA 30030
Now that the City of Decatur has gone on record supporting the removal of the white supremacist monument in Decatur Square, we need a strong showing of support to move the County to action! Please come and stand in support as Hate Free Decatur organizers and allies deliver more than 2,400 signatures on our petition and demand immediate action.
SIGN PETITION HERE: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/remove-city-of-decaturs
Sen Isakson is our last hope and needs our support as we urge him to vote NO on the new healthcare bill. We visit his office on Monday 9/25 with a box filled with constituent’s messages and the video “A Petition From the Heart” imploring him to save our healthcare. Sen Isakson held telephone town halls. He sponsored the joint resolution condemning hate groups after Charlottesville. Now he is undecided about voting yes or no for Graham-Cassidy. Send us your message urging him to vote no, and we will print and deliver it… or join us at 12:30 at his Atlanta office.
RALLY AGAINST TRUMP, RACISM and WAR
Give thousands of rush-hour motorists something to think about!
(4:45 – 5:45 p.m. each Wednesday)
Moreland Avenue & Ponce de Leon, Atlanta
Join Us – Bring your own signs or use ours:
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Impeach
Dump Trump
No KKK, No Fascist USA
Oppose White Supremacy
Refugees – Welcome to Georgia
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor
Medicare for All
NO to Endless War!
Black Lives Matter
U.S. Drones Kill Kids
Boycott Israeli Apartheid
Legalize Pot – End Mass Incarceration
We Are All Palestinians
Living Wage Is a Human Right
Climate Change Changes Everything
Expand Medicaid in Georgia
Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition
404-378-5424
#RTT speaker Sabrina McKenzie is back to lead our rally this Tuesday! Trump finally signed Sen Iskason’s resolution denouncing racism and white supremacy, but David Perdue is CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT from the list of over 50 other senators who added their names “condemning the violence and domestic terror attack that took place in Charlottesville.” We demand that Perdue and ALL Georgia leaders speak out and stand up against racism! Perdue, your constituents support immigrants and Dreamers. We want Jim-Crow era monuments to the Confederacy to be removed from public grounds in our state. Perdue, are you IN or are you OUT?
“Nothing Great About Hate” March – September 10, 6-8pm
Decatur, GA – Hate Free Decatur, the grassroots group which coalesced around the call to remove the white supremacist monument to the Confederacy in Decatur Square, proudly announces a coalition-led march and rally calling for the immediate removal of the monument from the square.
The County Commissioners know without a doubt that this monument was erected during Jim Crow for the express purpose of terrorizing black residents of DeKalb County. By allowing it to remain, the Commissioners are complicit in the “lost cause” of rewriting the history of the Civil War to hide the centrality of slavery. Keeping this monument in front of the old courthouse continues to glorify Confederate and Jim Crow racism and subjugation of an entire race of people. If the County cannot act to remove this overt symbol of white supremacy, how can its citizens trust it that it will take action against the systems of the same?
Hate Free Decatur is working not only to remove of this symbol of white supremacy but also to challenge the current manifestations of white supremacy and institutionalized racism in our community. These vestiges of white supremacy exist in our school systems, law enforcement practices, immigration laws, and housing and economic development policies. Only by confronting these issues head-on will we make a truly welcoming, diverse, and compassionate community.
The “Nothing Great About Hate” March and Rally begins at 6pm on September 10. Marchers will gather at the Beacon Municipal Plaza, 105 Electric Ave., Decatur, and hear from speakers representing:
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (Carlos Medina)
Council on Islamic American Relations (Edward Mitchell)
Atlanta North Georgia Labor Council (Katie Foster)
City of Decatur Students
Jewish Voice for Peace
Oakhurst Presbyterian Church
After a march to the monument in Decatur Square, the rally will continue with speakers including:
Beacon Hill NAACP (Mawuli Davis)
DeKalb NAACP (Teresa Hardy)
DeKalb County Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson
Flat Rock Archives (Johnny Waites)
Freedom University (Rafael Aragon)
Imam Nadim Ali
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (Lovette Thompson)
Co-Sponsors of the event are:
Create Community 4 Decatur: Black Lives Matter
Beacon Hill NAACP
DeKalb County NAACP
Atlanta NAACP
Oakhurst Presbyterian Church
Georgia Alliance for Social Justice
Endorsing organizations include:
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Council on Islamic American Relations
Atlanta Jobs with Justice
Project South
Women Watch Afrika
Disabled Queers in Action
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
GA Not 1 More Coalition
Jewish Voice for Peace – Atlanta
Green Party for DeKalb County
Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition
Freedom University
For more information/updates: https://www.facebook.com/ events/1560755320642785/
