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Title: An Interfaith Day of Prophetic Action - Thursday, April 13th
START DATE: 4/13/2017
START TIME: 12:00 PM
Duration: 1 Hours
Location: DTLA
Location Details:
Placita Olvera
Los Angeles, California 90065
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An Interfaith Day of Prophetic Action - Thursday, April 13th

Thursday, April 13 at 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT

Placita Olvera

Los Angeles, California 90065

Join faith, community, immigrant and civil rights, worker and labor leaders on Passover and Maundy Thursday--a special and holy time of year for many people--as we gather in sacred resistance to tell ICE to stop tearing families apart!

What: An Interfaith Day of Prophetic Action Standing with Immigrant and Refugee Families

When: Thursday, April 13, 10am

Where: Gather at La Placita Olvera, 125 Paseo de la Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012

We will march to another location for an interfaith ritual action in observance of the traditions of Passover, Maundy Thursday, and other participating faiths

Who: Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, Bend the Arc Los Angeles, the Episcopal Sanctuary Task Force of the Diocese of Los Angeles, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and others

Background:

There is heightened anxiety, fear, and suffering being felt by immigrant and refugee communities throughout Southern California and the nation. Locally, families like the Avelica-Gonzalez’s have reluctantly entered into the national spotlight after witnessing their father/husband Romulo’s detention en route to school. Due to both the rhetoric and now enacted immigration enforcement practices under the current administration, many other families have experienced this separation from their loved ones, or fear that it may come at any moment.

In the midst of this climate of uncertainty and fear, our faith traditions compel us to see, pray, and act to challenge injustice and suffering. We are entering the season of liberation which will culminate with the holidays of Passover and Easter. At the Passover seder liturgy it is traditional to recall that we were liberated from slavery in Egypt by a God who despised oppression. We learn anew every year that as we were liberated, so too others can be liberated. Moreover, our redemption is dependent on their redemption. For Jews, this Season of our Freedom demands that we seek the Freedom of those not yet Free.

For Christians, Maundy Thursday, just a few days before Easter, is a call to action in troubling times. The word Maundy derives from the Latin “mandatum,” which means, “commandment.” It refers to the commandment that Jesus gave to his friends on the eve of his unjust execution at the hands of the empire: “love one another as I have loved you.” He then proceeded to do the unthinkable and wash his disciples’ feet – creating a small but palpable metaphor for the kind of risky and solidarity-filled, self-giving love that was called for in the midst of hatred, violence and injustice.

This call to seek the liberation of all, and the commandment to love one another, also resonates with many other faith traditions, whether expressed in the universal Golden Rule, or other sacred texts and traditions. This call is no sanguine invitation. Rather, it is an Amber alert, an S.O.S., an emergency rapid response directive to love one another, to stick together, to look out and risk for each other, to build a unified resistance of love against the world’s hatred."

We will not stand idle in the face of increased, aggressive ICE enforcement wreaking havoc in our congregations, and impacting our friends, families, and neighbors. We call upon ICE to exercise their prosecutorial discretion to immediately provide relief and due process to local immigrant families affected by our current immigration system. We call on DHS and our government leaders at the highest levels of office to put a halt to the increased immigration enforcement--detentions, raids and deportations--that is creating fear and undermining public safety in our communities. We call on elected officials to work swiftly and cooperatively to enact comprehensive immigration reform, and not to divert much needed funds from communities to building a wall and creating a deportation force. At the state level, we call on the passage of critical pieces of legislation -- SB 54 (The California Values Act) and SB 6 (The Due Process for All Act) -- so that California will continue to lead the way in creating sanctuary for all -- ensuring a safe and inclusive environment for all California families regardless of immigration status.

We call on all people of goodwill to create sanctuary spaces wherever possible, and to provide radical hospitality to the immigrant and refugee community.

If you belong to an organization and would like to endorse this action, please reply to this message with the name of the organization, and a contact name and number for the organization. Thank you!

#SanctuaryforAll

#ICEOutofLA

#StopSeparatingFamilies

#NoBanNoWallNoRaids

#SacredResistance

http://www.cluejustice.org/

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