
Marilyn & JoAnne Bland Birthday Wish for Selma
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Hi friends!
July 30th is a big birthday for me. I decided this was the year & this was the birthday to go BIG!
What I’d like from my community is to raise funds together with one of my teachers, Mrs. Joanne Bland whose birthday happens to be July 29th.
Together, we would like to raise funds for the community of Selma, AL.
I'd love a collection of small and, of course large ;) donations from all across my community - nothing is too small to become part of the whole. As Mrs. Bland says, "Movements for social change are like jigsaw puzzles. Everyone is a piece. If your piece is missing, the picture is not complete.
Why? Because you're the most important piece."
I met Mrs. Bland while on a civil rights pilgrimage with an AMAZING group called Project Pilgrimage. We met many freedom fighters on that once in a lifetime trip. http://projectpilgrimage.org/
JoAnne in particular impressed upon me and continues to inspire my life and my teaching about faith & justice.
Let me tell you a little more about her. "By the time she was 11 years old, she had been arrested 13 (documented) times. She was an active participant in Bloody Sunday, marching alongside 600 or more only to get brutally beaten, tear gassed and hit by policemen on horses with billy clubs on the bridge in Selma.
Her early involvement in the struggle against "Jim Crow", the American apartheid, has been the foundation and fuel for her continued civil and human rights work.
Almost all of the funds will go directly to her to use as she sees fit for her community. One of her ideas is to support a group of young folks raising awareness and registering voters in Selma for the November election.
For those of you looking for a way to honor the recent death of Rep. John Lewis, or to wish me a happy birthday, or to acknowledge Selma's role in civil rights movements then and now, or for friends of Joanne Bland, who also see this message and wish to honor her life and birthday as well - can you imagine a better way than raising funds for voters in Selma, Alabama?
* A very small portion of the funds I raise from my own friends (no more than 10%) will go towards a small more personal donation in my community. Anything donated by friends-of-JoAnne or those that stipulate it, will go 100% to her directly.
July 30th is a big birthday for me. I decided this was the year & this was the birthday to go BIG!
What I’d like from my community is to raise funds together with one of my teachers, Mrs. Joanne Bland whose birthday happens to be July 29th.
Together, we would like to raise funds for the community of Selma, AL.
I'd love a collection of small and, of course large ;) donations from all across my community - nothing is too small to become part of the whole. As Mrs. Bland says, "Movements for social change are like jigsaw puzzles. Everyone is a piece. If your piece is missing, the picture is not complete.
Why? Because you're the most important piece."
I met Mrs. Bland while on a civil rights pilgrimage with an AMAZING group called Project Pilgrimage. We met many freedom fighters on that once in a lifetime trip. http://projectpilgrimage.org/
JoAnne in particular impressed upon me and continues to inspire my life and my teaching about faith & justice.
Let me tell you a little more about her. "By the time she was 11 years old, she had been arrested 13 (documented) times. She was an active participant in Bloody Sunday, marching alongside 600 or more only to get brutally beaten, tear gassed and hit by policemen on horses with billy clubs on the bridge in Selma.
Her early involvement in the struggle against "Jim Crow", the American apartheid, has been the foundation and fuel for her continued civil and human rights work.
Almost all of the funds will go directly to her to use as she sees fit for her community. One of her ideas is to support a group of young folks raising awareness and registering voters in Selma for the November election.
For those of you looking for a way to honor the recent death of Rep. John Lewis, or to wish me a happy birthday, or to acknowledge Selma's role in civil rights movements then and now, or for friends of Joanne Bland, who also see this message and wish to honor her life and birthday as well - can you imagine a better way than raising funds for voters in Selma, Alabama?
* A very small portion of the funds I raise from my own friends (no more than 10%) will go towards a small more personal donation in my community. Anything donated by friends-of-JoAnne or those that stipulate it, will go 100% to her directly.

Organizer
Marilyn Nash
Organizer
Tacoma, WA