As we approach The 57th annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. The dates have been set for March 2023. The event that marks the protest for Voting Rights and Bloody Sunday that happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Ala. in 1965. It also represents some unknown but very important dates such as the 10 year anniversary of the Free Alabama Movement ( Alabama Prison Strikes that went across the nation), Nathaniel Woods memorial, 20 year anniversary of Let My People Vote, the 19th year of Formerly & Currently Incarcerated People Movement, 22nd and 29th year of TOPS- The Ordinary People Society and the 16th year of the Prodigal Child Project.
With all that in mind this Jubilee annual Backwards March for those Formerly and Currently Incarcerated who was left behind during the Civil Rights Movement. Will move their time from walking across the bridge backwards right before the annual Jubilee Bloody Sunday March to Saturday the day before. It will be held from 4-6pm on Saturday March 4th with a bridge crossing, a die in, rally and memorial at the Montgomery side of the bridge in front of the National Jubilee office. So that it can express its purpose and platform. Coupled with those organizers on the inside. Pastor Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow will actually walk from Selma to Montgomery to end up at the Alabama Capitol steps on Monday March 7th to join with other leaders and organizations addressing the deaths that has occurred since the DOJ lawsuit against the ADOC for inhumane and unconstitutional treatment.
This is in hopes of highlighting the deaths of all those in ADOC, the continuation of Slavery even though it has been Voted out of the Alabama Constitution on Nov. 8 election. We want to know how does the Federal Constitution contradict itself and nothing is being done about it. With the 8th and 13 amendments contradicting eachother. How come the DOJ has had a lawsuit against the ADOC for the past 2 almost 3 years and still nothing has been done while the death rate in ADOC continues to rise daily. No Parole or relief of any kind, with a band aid being put on an open laceration with the release of approximately 400 people that will be released this year anyway. But not addressing the problems that exist causing these deaths, suffering, and inhumane treatment.
We are Calling for all Americans, People and Fellow Citizens to help us start the healing process and join #OperationHealing
For the Bible says that I was hungry you didn’t feed me, thirsty, sick and in Prison and you didn’t visit me.
That visit in the Hebrew means to administer to the needs there of. The Bible also says when you have not done this unto the least of these you have not done it unto me. So if those incarcerated are close to God. They should be close to us and we like God should feel like when they’re doing it to them. We should all be like Jesus and feel like they are doing it to me.
Join us in ending Slavery not only in word but also in deed. In stopping these inexcusable deaths, this inhumane treatment, these over bearing and unconstitutional sentences, and mass incarceration.
Join #OperationHealing and meet us at the Selma Bridge March 4th 4-6pm
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