Stand Behind the Lakota Grandmothers

Four Directions Call to Action in Support of Traditional Lakota Grandmothers & Ending Genocide
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Genocidal warfare is still being waged against the traditional and full-blood Lakota people, and to end it, we need your attention and support right now!

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The Lakota Solidarity Project with the Lakota Cante Tenza Okolakiciye (Strong Heart Warriors) are issuing an International Call To Action for both Native and non-native Warriors, Activists, Artists, Culture-Jammers, Organizers, Community Builders, Freedom Fighters, Idle-No-More Supporters, Occupy Groups, Indignados, Organizations, Coalitions, Networks, Spiritual Communities, Elders and Youth to join us at this critical moment to help end the genocide of the traditional and grassroots Lakota Oyate (people) and support the renewal of traditional matriarchal – Grandmother led- leadership.
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Right now, Lakota Grandmothers, Elders, Warriors, and Oyate who are the remaining traditional language speakers, culture holders, and freedom fighters, are being deliberately inflicted with conditions of life intended to bring about their destruction.

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Through genocidal policies of forced assimilation only 6000-8000 Lakota still speak their language, and the average age of a Lakota speaker is 65 years old. This makes the traditional and full-blood Elders the key to any sovereign future for their people. Otherwise, governmental policies intended to turn sovereign Lakota Oyate into United States’ resident “Native Americans” will continue until the total erasure of sovereign Lakota lands, culture, and identity.
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For the Lakota people to rise out of dormancy and despair – the traditional matriarchal leaders of the people – the Grandmothers- must be heard. But they face daily abuse, neglect, enforced poverty, and direct subversion in attempts to silence their voices and keep them from reclaiming their traditional leadership roles. We cannot let this fatal system of abuse continue. We must ensure their voices and leadership are heard clearly around the world right now!
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WILL YOU STAND BEHIND THE LAKOTA GRANDMOTHERS?
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Beginning on March 15th, a broad international movement will begin to support traditional Lakota Grandmothers, Elders, Warrior-activists, and grassroots Lakota Oyate by holding the United States Government and individual State Governments accountable for their genocidal policies to the United Nations and International Community.

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Join us in creating a barrage of creative publicity, attention, and support from the Four Directions in solidarity with these courageous Elders and activists so they will be heard. All culturally appropriate forms of solidarity action are welcomed and needed. In addition to our organized actions, we encourage the use of music, dance, language, art, theatre, and other creative actions to bring attention to their cause.
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UPCOMING EVENTS

March 15th: Start of the international movement to end Lakota genocide and support the return of Lakota matriarchal leadership. Will You Stand Behind the Lakota Grandmothers?

March: Sneak peeks of feature-length Lakota Documentary “Red Cry”.

April 1st: Official premier of Lakota Documentary “Red Cry” in Rapid City, SD, Lakota Territory.

April 1st -17th: Lakota Elders Truth Tour begins a 12 city journey of education and awareness on the way to the United Nations in New York and the White House in Washington DC.

April 9th: International Day of Solidarity Action. Official Complaint of Genocide is released to the United Nations and International Community.

April 16th: International Vigil in support of Lakota visiting Washington DC to meet with the U.S. Government.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

For more information or to get involved call LSP at (828) 338-9781.

On Pine Ridge, contact Cante Tenza headman Canupa Gluha Mani at 605-517-1547.

Email: LakotaSolidarity [at] gmail.com

Webpages: LakotaGrandmothers.org & CanteTenza.wordpress.com

Facebook “Strong Heart Lakota Solidarity”.

ABOUT US

The Lakota Solidarity Project (LSP) is a history making social justice collaboration between traditional Tetuwan Lakota Elders from Pine Ridge Reservation and a growing group of native and non-native solidarity activists directed by the Lakota Strong Heart Warrior Society. In togetherness, we are growing an international movement to end the genocide of the Lakota people and support the renewal of matriarchal leadership from Lakota Grandmothers on Pine Ridge and across the Lakota Nation. Learn more about LSP online athttp://cantetenza.wordpress.com
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The LSP is an all-volunteer (no paid staff) group formed in March 2011 by the Cante Tenza Okolakiciye (Strong Heart Warriors) and Four Directions Solidarity Network. We grow revolutionary solidarity with Indigenous rights struggles using the latest in media and organizing tools but led, directed and inspired by traditional Lakota elders and activists. In addition to education and advocacy in support of Lakota Elders and their struggles of resistance, we also train non-natives in Indigenous solidarity best practices, decolonization, anti-racism, and ending cultural theft.
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STAND BEHIND THE LAKOTA GRANDMOTHERS IN NYC APRIL 8-10th
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Monday April 8th: Indigenous Solidarity and Decolonization Training.

Tuesday April 9th: March to the United Nations followed by Rally to End Genocide. Evening event featuring cultural presentations by Lakota Grandmothers and showing of the documentary “Red Cry”.

Wednesday April 10th: Gathering with storytelling, theatre, and education. Evening culture and art exchange.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT IN NY

facebook: Lakota Solidarity Project NY

twitter: @LakotaStrongNY

email: tree [at] lakotagrandmothers.org

phone: NY coordinator Christine at 765-444-9313

website: LakotaGrandmothers.org & CanteTenza.wordpress.com

Adalah NY and Soul Scientific Sessions

Co-presented by Adalah-NY and Scientific Soul Sessions

Featured speakers: Aaron Dixon, Janene Yazzie, and Riham Barghouti, with Dave Zirin moderating, and an introduction by Joel Kovel of St. Mary’s Church.

Featuring performances by saxophonist L. Mixashawn Rozie, composer Alia Ahmed, hip-hop/jazz drummer Kimberley Thompson and spoken-word artist/rapper Farrah Burns, and the Columbia Palestinian Dabke Brigade.

Here in the US, how can we connect the Palestinian resistance movements to those closer to home, namely, Black and indigenous struggles against structural oppression?

Do certain strategies for liberation cut across these different constituencies? Where does the Palestinian civil society call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) fit in as a tactic?

How can we recognize what is distinct about these struggles, while making connections and acting in solidarity?

From the dispossession of Palestinians and First Nation Peoples to the political suppression and mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States, we live in an age of continuing colonization, segregation, and government-sanctioned brutality. Please join us for an evening of discussion and live music as we learn from each other’s histories of oppression and resistance.

AARON DIXON is one of the cofounders of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party and author of My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain. He founded Central House, a nonprofit that provides transitional housing for youth, and was one of the cofounders of the Cannon House, a senior assisted-living facility. Aaron ran for US Senate on the Green Party ticket in 2006.

JANENE YAZZIE is a Diné entrepreneur who moved back to Dinetah, sacred homeland of her people located in the Southwestern United States, to work in sustainable community development. With climate change increasing drought conditions, the Diné people face the need to build resilient communities. This task requires community-led resistance to the continued economic exploitation championed by fossil fuel industries and the state, federal, and Navajo Nation governmental policies that support them. Yazzie’s business, Sixth World Solutions, seeks to implement sustainable economic, social, and environmental justice projects developed through a framework of human rights and community empowerment.

RIHAM BARGHOUTI is a Palestinian American activist who lived in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for 10 years. She currently resides in New York City, where she works as a teacher. Ms. Barghouti is a founding member of Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel and PACBI, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

DAVE ZIRIN, named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” writes about the politics of sports for The Nation magazine. Zirin is also the host of Sirius XM Radio’s popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. His most recent book is the acclaimed Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down.

This event is part of the ninth annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), a series of events held concurrently in cities around the world to raise awareness of Israel as an apartheid state and to bolster support for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns. For a full listing of IAW events in New York City and globally, please visit apartheidweek.org.

Endorsed by WESPAC Foundation, Jewish Voice for Peace–Westchester, Resistance in Brooklyn (list information.

Oren Lyons at NMAI New York City

Peter Seeger, folksinger and environmental activist,
will make a special guest appearance

with

Welcome Remarks
Kevin Gover
Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

and

Oren Lyons
Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs and
the Haudenosaunee Grand Council

Tonya Gonnella Fricher
(Snipe Clan, Onondaga Nation)
President of the American Indian Law Alliance

Andy Mager
Project Coordinator for the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign

Moderated by

Philip P. Arnold
Interim Director of Native American Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Religion,

Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign–400th Anniversary
HonorTheTwoRow.org

This event is being held to bring wider attention to an education and advocacy campaign initiated by the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation with major support from Syracuse University. It marks the 400th anniversary of the Two Row Wampum Treaty, the first treaty between Native Americans and Europeans. The campaign works to raise awareness of native treaties and protection of the earth. Protecting our water by supporting the anti-fracking movement in New York State is a particular focus.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
6-8 p.m.

National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green, New York City

R.S.V.P. to
sulubin@syr.edu or 212.710.5583

Apologies to Mother Earth

Apologies to Mother Earth
An evening with
Onondaga Chief Irving Powless, Jr.
(Chawhdayguywhawdoes)
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Monday, March 4, 6:30 pm
Artrage Gallery
505 Hawley Avenue, Syracuse

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Chief Powless will talk about the effects of the dominant culture’s destructive relationship with the earth and each other. He tells the story of how his people, the Haudenosaunee, first invited the Europeans to live peaceably and responsibly in this region, made an agreement with them known as the Two Row Wampum Treaty, and observed in dismay the way the newcomers mistreated the earth and human and other beings. With humor, Chief Powless, asks, “Who are these people, anyway?” The Haudenosaunee have been trying to bring us to our senses for nearly 400 years, since the Two Row Wampum was agreed. Chief Powless carries the responsibility of holding and retelling the history of his people and their treaty relations. The Haudenosaunee carry the responsibility, as we all should, to give greetings and thanks, love and respect to Mother Earth, and given the crisis we now face, also our apologies. This is not an entertainment nor a discussion. It is an opportunity to learn history and Indigenous values from someone who knows and has lived them deeply and for many years.

Oren Lyons at SUNY New Paltz

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 – 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center – Room 100
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Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper Oren Lyons is the featured speaker. An internationally-recognized spokesperson on indigenous issues and environmental protection, Oren sits on the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs and the Haudenosaunee Grand Council. Two Row Wampum Project Coordinator Andy Mager will speak about the campaign.
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$5 suggested donation – no one turned away
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Event co-sponsored by NYPIRG, CRREO, Students for Sustainable Agriculture
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Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign
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Building Circles of Trust

“Building Circles of Trust – The Economic Theory of the Algonquin People”
A Talk by Evan Pritchard
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Sunday, February 24th, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
New York, New York
212. 477.0351
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Evan will expand on themes of “trust” from his landmark talk “Circles of Trust” given at St. Mary’s Church in Harlem, last November. He will talk about traditional Algonquin Way of the Heron,” as well as contemporary social movements including “Idle No More” in Canada, and the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign in New York State. The service will be followed by a “talk-back” Q and A session.
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Evan Pritchard of Mi’kmaq and Celtic descent, is the author of the critically acclaimed books, No Word For Time, Native American Stories of the Sacred, Native New Yorkers, and its sequel, Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York. As founder and director of the Center for Algonquin Culture in Woodstock/Pine Hill, he has worked with countless elders to help preserve the ancient history of North America. Evan has taught Native American studies courses at Marist, Vassar, and at Pace University, and lectures widely across the Eastern US and Canada. His latest book is Bird Medicine: The Importance of Birds in Native American Spiritual Traditions— and Why They are More Endangered Than Ever Before. He is currently working on an interactive educational DVD/film/ebook on Anishinabe musical and cultural traditions for Global Voices.

Lunar New Year – Year of the Snake

LUNAR NEW YEAR time!! welcome the Year of the Snake!
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our new year party this year responds to the international call for immigrants to support indigenous struggle. many who have not been idle are joined this year by many more who will be Idle No More.
we are so inspired by the global struggle and leadership of indigenous communities and cultures.
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come out and support Idle No More, make some dumplings and learn majiang. celebrate Lunar New Year with us at The Commons!
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When: SATURDAY, 2/9/13, Eve of the year of the SNAKE, 7:00 p.m.- 1:00 a.m.
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Where: The Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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How: Bike, walk, skip, hop, train 2345BDQNR/LIRR to atlantic, or the AC to Hoyt or G to Bergen.
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What: Immigrants Support Idle No More; $15-$77, no one turned away for lack of funds
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Lunar New Year traditions are many and varied. we honor as we transform them:
wear new clothes for the new year — please bring any clothes in good condition to swap with other people. BARTER.
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be with family — we recognize many forms of family, including all those chosen and those in community, as defined by LOVE & CONSENT.
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eat, drink & be merry — we’ll have drinks, dumpling making stations, movie screenings, and tables to play/learn majiang. LEARN.
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**also, appearing will be new catering cooperative, Shamé who will treat us to Asian Night Market experience redux! if you didn’t make it back in October, come through now for Asian street food experience — highlights included Deconstructed Bahn-mi, Butternut squash 5-spice ice cream, Red Bean pupusas **
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bring a friend, bring the kids, bring the family and join us in responding to call for immigrants supporting indigenous struggle.
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lida, dan, nikki
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SHAME DINNER PARTY (RSVP)
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Dear Friends of Shamé,
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Since the Asian Night Market last October, we’ve been up to a lot of planning and plotting! Check out our FB page (http://www.facebook.com/shame.caters) to read what we’ve been up to & please LIKE us!
We’d like to invite you to bring in a propitious 2013 this Chinese Lunar New Year by being part of the LUCKY13 who get to try Shamé’s brand new dinner menu–Global Southern Bloc: The Takeover! Shamé will be hosted by the Eve of Lunar New Year Party/Idle No More Fundraiser held at The Commons in Brooklyn. Come enjoy the dinner tasting menu to your taste buds’ & heart’s content while supporting immigrant and indigenous leadership and communities. Majiang, dumpling making, music, good conversation, good peeps, happening all night long but the dinner service will be from 7:00-8:30PM.
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The LUCKY13 Shamé dinner event is an extra contribution of $25 in addition to the suggested event fee at the door. No one will be turned away from the event due to lack of funds, but the Shamé dinner is RSVP’s only. Please RSVP now as space is limited–LUCKY13 (for 13 lucky people) is rolling RSVP’s! Peep the menu & more event details below!
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With love,
Shamé
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Dinner Theme: Global Southern Bloc- The Take Over!
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Drink/
Ginger-Mint Fizz (Dark Rum-Based)
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Appetizer/
Mini Daikon Veggie Wraps
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Main Course/
Nori Grill Waffle w/Crispy Korean Chicken or Tofu
Auspicious Black Eyed Peas
Blessed Collard Greens
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Dessert/
Five Spice Butternut Squash Ice Cream w/
Chipotle Apple Pecan Cake

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Two Row Campaign at Judson Memorial Church

Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign at Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
New York, New York
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Starting Sunday January 27th,11:00am, Judson will be hosting a series of Native American Testimonies on the last Sunday of every month, as part of the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign. The first guest speakers will offer poetry and information on the campaign.
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Firewolf Bizahaloni-Wong is Dine’ (Navajo & Apache) and her clans are Bitter Water born for Red Clay. Her father, Jimmie Bidziil Bizahaloni, was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and Indians of All Nations that took over Alcatraz Island in 1969. A lifelong activist, Firewolf became a member of AIM as a teenager, has been part of the Black Mesa Coalition since it’s inception, and is a co-founder of Native Resistance Network.
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Sally Bermanzohn, an ally of Indigenous rights, is active in the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, and a member of Native Resistance Network. Now retired, she taught social movements and Native American Studies at Brooklyn College, and wrote Through Survivors’ Eyes, and coauthored Violence and Politics: Globalization’s Paradox.
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The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign:
A partnership between the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) is developing a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and their allies in New York and throughout the world. This statewide advocacy and educational campaign seeks to achieve justice by polishing the chain of friendship established in the first treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Dutch immigrants. Environmental cleanup and preservation, and opposition to hydro-fracking are the core components of the campaign.

Two Row History:
The Two Row Wampum belt is the symbolic record of the first agreement between Europeans and American Indian Nations on Turtle Island/North America. 2013 will mark the 400th anniversary of this first covenant, which forms the basis for the covenant chain of subsequent treaty relationships made by the Haudenosaunee and other Native Nations with settlers on this continent. The agreement outlines a mutual, three-part commitment to friendship, peace between peoples, and living in parallel forever (as long as the grass is green, as long as the rivers flow downhill and as long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west). Throughout the years, the Haudenosaunee have sought to honor this mutual vision and have increasingly emphasized that ecological stewardship is a fundamental prerequisite for this continuing friendship.

Symbolic Enactment:
A focal point of the year-long educational and advocacy Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign will be a symbolic “enactment” of the treaty in the summer of 2013. It will bring the treaty to life with Haudenosaunee and other Native People paddling side-by-side with allies and supporters down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City. These two equal, but separate rows will demonstrate the wise, yet simple concept of the Two Row Wampum Treaty.

International Day of Solidarity

Update February 8, 2013:
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO A MAJOR STORM AND UNCERTAINTY ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT RIVERSIDE CHURCH WILL BE OPEN.
.Riverside Church
91Claremont Avenue, New York, NY
Room 10T
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Film “Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier”
Produced and Directed by Suzie Baer
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The shocking true story of Leonard Peltier, American Indian leader locked away for life, convicted of the alleged murder of two FBI agents during a bloody shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Around the world, his trial and conviction have been denounced as a sham. Amnesty International, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Desmond Tutu, and many others have appealed for a new trial for the man who has come to symbolize the continued oppression of America’s indigenous peoples. To understand Peltier’s story, Warrior takes us back to the violent confrontations at Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee in the Seventies, and then to today’s Indian reservations, where the government’s plans for uranium mining and waste dumping are still being resisted by Native activists. The heart of the film, though, is a detailed painstaking account of Peltier’s harrowing odyssey through the American justice system.
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The Wachamchick Warrior Society Drum Group
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Light Refreshments Donation at Door
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Sponsored by
The Riverside Church Prison Ministry
NYCLPDOC
and NYC Jericho Movement
For more information: nyclpdoc@gmail.com
nycjericho@gmail.com 646 429-2059

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