NAVC CHAIR KEESHA EURE AT NJPAC TOWN HALL ON RACE AND POLICING!
On Monday, November 12th, Keesha Eure, the highly regarded chairperson for the Newark AntiViolence Coalition , will participate in a major Town Hall Meeting on Race and Policing in New Jersey.
The event is entitled Moving New Jersey's Communities Forward: A Critical Conversation about Race and Policing and is hosted by the NJ Institute for Social Justice. It will take place from 7-9pm at NJPAC’s Victoria Theatre.
The event is one among many also spotlighting the 350th anniversary of the City of Newark.
Among the other presenters will be Mayor Ras Baraka, who made Newark the first major city on the east coast to implement a Civilian Review Board with full subpoena powers. Mayor Baraka also initiated what became the Newark AntiViolence Coalition back in 2009 when he was councilman for the South Ward.
The Newark AntiViolence Campaign pioneered anti violence protest as a form of community sensitizing by protesting the plague of gun violence for 155 straight weeks over a period of three years.
The NAVC has also used their bold, direct action capabilities to protest police brutality. They shut down a city block to protest the killing of Jose Quinonez who was killed by Essex County Police officers in a spectacle fashion that angered area residents several years ago. In that ugly incident eyewitnesses said that the officers hit Quinonez with their vehicle and then shot him to death after he was already clearly disabled! The NAVC also shutdown Broad and Market Streets Newark several days in a row protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the self-appointed police proxy, who killed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida setting off a national wave of protests.
When Eure became chair, she stewarded the professional transformation of the NAVC into a community resource with members formally trained and certified in bereavement counseling and violence intervention and making the organization more serviceable to schools and other community institutions.
The NAVC is also represented on the City of Newark’s new Civilian Review Board by Rev. Bryant Ali, pastor of New Psalmist Worship Center in Newark.
For more information about the NAVC, please call 908 605 NAVC…
Contact:The Newark Anti-Violence Coalition (NAVC)
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