What Do We Want? SOMEBODY Say RESTORE!

 

June 20, 2021

 

The need for Prison reformation is at an all-time high in Alabama at this time.  Currently, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is in litigation with the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) due to many consistent and persistent infrastructure problems, concerns and issues.  Currently the Governor of Alabama is attempting to add more prisons to our state.  The prisons that are to be built will be considered Super or Mega Prisons. which will hold more inmates and allow the state to demolish the old, dilapidated prisons.

 

You ask.  why speak on this today Pastor?  This has been going on for years and we already know this.  This is not current news and I say to you; You Are Right!

 

However, I bring this up today because we are in the process of Redistricting.

"Let’s make this clearer for those in the back"

 

Once every TEN years the electoral map is redrawn.  Redrawing the electoral maps can determine which party controls congress which trickles down to which party controls the governor's seat in many states, to which party controls our state and local commissioners; "The people that speak FOR US".

 

If you don't vote your Thoughts don't matter.  Let's redraw the lines that bind to help people like you and me.  Let's help our incarcerated people.  Let's help people like us. Redistricting is Restoration and Restoration is a part of redistricting.

 

Let's RESTORE our people's human Rights

Let's RESTORE our people's Dignity

         Not by building new prisons

                                but by

          Releasing the one's that are inhumanely being treated right now!

Can SOMEBODY say RESTORE!

Faith to Freedom Tour

 The Ordinary People Society and the Prodigal Child Project are traveling through the states on a Faith to Freedom Tour. This tour consists of traveling through Birmingham AL, Nashville TN, Columbia SC, Raleigh NC, Charleston WV, Richmond VA, and Washington DC will be the final stop. This Faith to Freedom tour comes at a great time considering  the nationality of Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday.

Juneteenth National Independence Day

 YES

It's Official!  Let's Celebrate!

Juneteenth (officially Juneteenth National Independence Day and historically known as Jubilee Day, Black Independence Day, and Emancipation Day) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. It is also often observed for celebrating African-American culture. Originating in Galveston, Texas, it has been celebrated annually on June 19 in various parts of the United States since 1866. The day was recognized as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. It is the first federal holiday to be established since 1983, when then-President Ronald Reagan added Martin Luther King Jr. day to the nationally recognized calendar. Juneteenth's commemoration is on the anniversary date of the June 19, 1865, announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger, proclaiming and enforcing freedom of enslaved people in Texas, which was the last state of the Confederacy with institutional slavery.

Reference:  Juneteenth - Wikipedia

To All Legislators

 To All Legislators:
If We shut down the Governor’s private prison plan and stopped the Banks support of over $3 Billion. We can surely send you home and we can shut you down too.

We do not need more prisons!

We do not need more deaths!

We do not need more Human Rights violations!

We need alternatives, and release from all of this.

TOPS Will Continue to fight for OUR incarcerated people

 

From the Desk of Pastor Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow

 

TODAY Governor “Ivey has said her administration will continue to pursue a plan for new prisons and will work with the Legislature. Legislative leaders have said they would wait until after today to consider alternatives.”  *www.al.com/news

WE (The Ordinary People Society) will continue to fight for Justice!  We will continue to keep our brothers and sisters in prayer.  We will continue to fight for the release of those in jails and prisons to protect their health and well-being.  We will continue to fight against ANY MORE PRISONS BEING BUILT IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA and getting prisoners released.  We will continue to fight to abolish the unfair treatment and malicious prosecution for individuals without legal assistance and proper representation in criminal and family cases.  We will continue to fight to bring our brothers and sisters home!