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From your Community Justice Vicar

6/16/2020

 

​1) AG public hearing on police encounters, 2) LGBTQ Pride event from June 7th, 3) Juneteenth Prayerful Protest March in Mineola, and 4) some words from our Pro-Cathedral

Friends and colleagues,
​

I pray that you are all coping alright, and surviving these challenging and complicated days.

There are 4 things that I want to bring to your attention:

1) Tomorrow, Wed. June 17th starting at 11am, our NYS AG Tish James is hosting a virtual public hearing on the interactions between police and the general public during recent protests.  The livestream public hearing can be accessed tomorrow morning from the homepage of the AG’S website.

https://ag.ny.gov/

2) On June 7th, the Pro-Cathedral and the LGBTQ Working Group in the Diocese, along with other co-sponsors, hosted a deep and powerful conversation with Bishop Deon K. Johnson, the newly consecrated bishop in the Diocese of Missouri, and the first openly gay and Caribbean-born bishop in the Episcopal Church.  Here is the link to the recording of the webinar.

http://www.cjministry.info/2020-pride-forum.html


3) There will be a Prayerful Protest March starting at the Supreme Court in Mineola to acknowledge and observe Juneteenth, this Friday, June 19th.  For those unfamiliar with Juneteenth, it is the observance of the “official” proclamations on June 19, 1865 that slavery was “ended,” but obviously it’s far more complicated than that. There are many writings dedicated to this history, and here is just one of them from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on the PBS website: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/ 

Here is the link for the Juneteenth Prayerful Protest March on Friday
https://www.facebook.com/events/795513980852512/ and a link for more flyers, 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/83n41sldsm0lx65/AADYy5p9ToQjMzjSOXTJn0yna?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR036XpgbV0X5RXKSMZkd1WcJ7F_4UIB5InP2DCjzGpNwqnyqFQSF5wLVAQ 
 
4) And finally, below is a link to the Pro-Cathedral service last Sunday. Toward the very end of the service, at about the 28 minute mark, we list a number of trusted local (mostly NYC-based) organizations with which St. Ann & the Holy Trinity is familiar. If you’re looking to connect with — or wish to donate to — some great folks in the City doing God’s work, this is a good place to start. (And if you are interested in hearing my sermon, that comes in at about the 9 minute, 30 second mark.)

https://youtu.be/w7UNKRKVpMk


Stay safe and be well.
Peace,
Marie


Rev. Marie A. Tatro
Vicar for Community Justice Ministry,
     Episcopal Diocese of Long Island

2020 Pride -  Conversation with Bishop-elect Deon Johnson

6/3/2020

 
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Dear friends,

It has been a terrible week in America. On top of the immense grief and pain that COVID-19 has already caused in my beloved City of New York, we, like nearly every other city in the country, are now grappling with the anger and heartbreak of more state-sanctioned killings of Black people, and taking to the streets. 

The government’s reaction was to impose a curfew. The last time an official curfew was imposed was in 1943, when then New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia put a curfew in place to halt Harlem protests after police shot and injured an African American soldier.

This email was going to merely encourage you to register for our Pride event coming up this Sunday. We will surely carry on with this event, but will do so with even heavier hearts and a deeper commitment to love our neighbors who bear the brunt of these abuses.

Our conversation with Bishop-elect Deon Johnson will still cover multiple areas of identity, theology, and the politics of belonging. But our conversation will also be textured by recent events, taking place against the backdrop of the murders of our sisters and brothers of African descent, and the public reaction to these injustices.

Please join us on June 7th, and register at this link:
http://www.dioceseli.org/Pride2020


Be blessed and stay safe.

Pursuing justice and peace,

The Rev. Marie Tatro
Vicar for Community Justice Ministry
Episcopal Diocese of Long Island
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2020 Pride: Online Conversation with the Rev. Deon K. Johnson, Bishop-Elect of the Diocese of Missouri, Sunday June 7, 2020, 5:30 p.m.

5/27/2020

 

Pride Online Forum: The Polity and Politics of Belonging

Dear friends and colleagues,

The LGBTQ+  Working Group of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island is pleased to invite you to an online conversation with the Rev. Deon K. Johnson on June 7th at 5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time).

When consecrated, Bishop-Elect Deon will not only be our youngest bishop, but also will be the first openly gay and Caribbean-born bishop in the Episcopal Church. 

Born in Barbados, Bishop-Elect Deon has deep social and family ties to our Diocese, which is largely comprised of parishioners who hail from the Caribbean.

The Q&A style conversation will be moderated by our own Mthr. Cecily P. Broderick y Guerra, a long-time member of our clericus, and by Darren J. Glenn, the Programs Director of the Caribbean Equality Project, which serves LGBTQ people of Caribbean descent here in NYC and beyond.  

The event is being co-sponsored by the Transgender Resource Center of Long Island, the Caribbean Equality Project, and is being hosted and co-sponsored by our Pro-Cathedral (St. Ann & the Holy Trinity) in Brooklyn Heights.

We are honored to host our brother-in-Christ, Bishop-Elect Deon, for what we know will be a meaningful and spirit-filled conversation!

Please register at this link to get details for logging into the online forum:
http://www.dioceseli.org/Pride2020


The diocesan LGBTQ+  Working Group is looking forward to your participation and (virtual) presence on June 7th.

Peace,
​
Mthr. Marie Tatro
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