Our goal is to share with as many as possible the implications of a second Trump presidency and the threats posed to freedom and justice for all people by the implementation of Project 2025, the goal of which is to dismantle democracy. These Critical Conversations educate viewers equip them with tools to help them, pre-election, so that they can consider strategies and plans to make informed decisions to ensure freedom and democracy will be preserved.
Our goal is to share with as many as possible the implications of a second Trump presidency and the threats posed to freedom and justice for all people by the implementation of Project 2025, the goal of which is to dismantle democracy. These Critical Conversations educate viewers equip them with tools to help them, pre-election, so that they can consider strategies and plans to make informed decisions to ensure freedom and democracy will be preserved.
Our goal is to share with as many as possible the implications of a second Trump presidency and the threats posed to freedom and justice for all people by the implementation of Project 2025, the goal of which is to dismantle democracy. These Critical Conversations educate viewers equip them with tools to help them, pre-election, so that they can consider strategies and plans to make informed decisions to ensure freedom and democracy will be preserved.
Our goal is to share with as many as possible the implications of a second Trump presidency and the threats posed to freedom and justice for all people by the implementation of Project 2025, the goal of which is to dismantle democracy. These Critical Conversations educate viewers equip them with tools to help them, pre-election, so that they can consider strategies and plans to make informed decisions to ensure freedom and democracy will be preserved.
Our Critical Conversations are essential to educate viewers and equip them with tools to help them – pre-election – consider strategies and plans to make informed decisions to ensure freedom and democracy be preserved.
Peace and blessings,
Our goal is to share with as many as possible the implications of a second Trump presidency and the threats posed to freedom and justice for all people by the implementation of Project 2025, the goal of which is to dismantle democracy. These Critical Conversations educate viewers equip them with tools to help them, pre-election, so that they can consider strategies and plans to make informed decisions to ensure freedom and democracy will be preserved.
From the left: Rev. Dora Arce Valentin, general secretary of the Reformed-Presbyterian Church in Cuba, Dr Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Professor of Theological and Social Ethics at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Rev. Dr Iva Carruthers, general secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, and Rev. Dr Angelique Walker-Smith, WCC President from North America.
Dr. Iva Carruthers participates in a panel discussion, “Zacchaeus Tax: Transforming the Global Economic System and Advancing Gender Justice,” on the 19th of March that explored the intersections between tax justice and gender justice—and why this is a matter of faith.
The event was held parallel with the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which has the theme “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.”
The panel explored how proposals for global and national wealth and taxes, as well as reparations—as called for in the ecumenical Zacchaeus Tax (ZacTax) campaign—can help build a more just and sustainable planet including for women and girls.
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I am Dr. Iva Carruthers, General Secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, a 20 year old ecumenical and global justice and faith policy and organizing NGO based in Chicago Il USA. I am also professor emeritus from Northeastern Il University and founding director of the Center for Reparatory Justice, Transformation and Remediation at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago. All roads lead to commitment to the human rights of people of Africa descent and on behalf of our global constituency and network, please accept our gratitude and full support for the exemplary leadership of our outgoing and presiding chair of this working group.
As we move from a declaration of an International Decade to a Permanent Forum for People of African Descent, we also acknowledge the long road ahead which will require vision, tenacity and unity. And it’s in the spirit of the Sankofa bird that I also submit this comment honoring the ancestral legacy and blessings of Callie House, mother of the US reparations movement, Dr. Conrad Worrill, my university colleague who was so effective organizing the US delegation at Durban and our beloved recent ancestor Atty. Randall Robinson.
Focusing on the theme of economic empowerment and rights of development for this 32nd session of the Working Group of Experts on POAD, I want to implore us to consider the impact of regenerative and emergent technologies and Afro futurism and the Right to Development. Given what we know and have lived related to global, transgenerational, systemic and institutionalized racism, the convergence of new technologies and cultural worldviews demand our scientific, ethical and spiritual considerations as POAD. We must assess and be prepared to navigate and mitigate the potential harm, unintentional and intentional, related to profound changes in the global economic landscape being shaped by innovations leading to 1) a metaverse and race to space with a business model based on a tiered privatization of knowledge creation and distribution 2) artificial intelligence (AI) which privileges and prioritizes norms of white cultural dominance and ways of knowing and being and 3) genomics, epigenetics and eugenics – based innovation in health care, pharmaceuticals and security systems that are changing the way we think of what it means to be human and live in community.
Lest we forget, during the COVID pandemic, the wealth gap expanded and unprecedented profits were made by many. The George Floyd murder, as exemplar of state sponsored violence against black bodies, further exposed what’s at stake. Therefore, no doubt, we must address the questions related to whose power structures and in whose interests will these technologies be deployed? How do these new ecosystems of economic growth impact development opportunity and sovereignty of POAD?
What do our experiences of increased Afrophobia, objectification, racialized hate speech, micro and macro aggressions portend for POAD in this period of dynamic global demographic shifts, environmental challenges and humanitarian demands? From a U.S. perspective, an informed, organized unity agenda of POAD could contribute greatly to impact outcomes for our future.
My comments argue for global ethical architecture of human rights of poad recognizing the tech sector as instrument of wealth creation and job development and technology as tools of weaponization including health, climate and environment and even development of alternative digital monetary systems.
As we think about Afrofuturism, these three areas of development will certainly shape new global growth economies and quality of life for all peoples. with focus on principles of self determination, pan-Africanism and human rights economy, As POAD, it is imperative that we, intentionally and with collective purpose, engage these areas as active agents of knowledge creation, economic beneficiaries and ethical standard bearers.
The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference. Inc. engages the principles of equity, economics. and communal experiences through education. advocacy, and activism centering viable futures for people of African descent.
2023 ANNUAL CLERGY & LAV LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
The 20th Annual Clergy & Lay Leadership Conference, held in Atlanta, GA. February 19-23. convened nearly 1,200 clerical servants. grassroots organizers. and cross-sector experts. Additionally, 200+ seminarians representing over 40 institutions learned from seminary track co-deans Dr. Teresa Smallwood and Dr. Allan Boesak.
Our gratitude is expressed to our 30+ sponsors. 70+ exhibitors. and the thousands who participated in our worship experiences virtually.
COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
March 6th-17th. Proctor was present at the 67th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). As an NGO with United Nation Consultative Status SDPC joined global attendees centering digital innovation. agency, autonomy and choice envisioning an equitable way forward for women everywhere.
SDPC CO-FOUNDERS
We continue to celebrate the historic unveiling of the portraits of Rev. Dr. Iva E. Carruthers and Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. in the Crown Nave of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel of Morehouse College.
PARTNER RELATIONS
Central to the work of SDPC are our programmatic funders and the forging of new institutional relationships. We are grateful for the support of Black Churches for Digital Equity, Climate Reality Project. Grow with Google. Every Town for Gun Safety, McCormick Theological Seminary, Trinity Church Wall Street. and others. We also thank individual and organizational sponsors which make our work possible.
JUNETEENTH AT CARNEGIE
Join SDPC and Healing of the Nations. June 19th at 7:00pm, for All American Freedom Day: Renewing Passion for Freedom and Democracy. This year’s honorees include Gay McDougall and Rev. Dr. James M. Lawson. Jr.
PROCTOR HAPPENINGS
Saturday, April 22, 2023 • 10:00am – 4:00pm CT: Organizing Revival
Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church
4543 S Princeton Ave .. Chicago, IL
Saturday, May 6, 2023 • 11:00am CT : “Do Justice” Earth Month Check-In
Zoom: https://bit.ly/EarthMonthCheckln
Monday, May 8, 2023 • 6:00pm CT: Clergy Conversations #6
Facebook Live or register for webinar at. https://bit.ly/ClergyConversations6
Our podcast, “Clergy Conversations”, concentrates on issues and concerns of clergy and focuces on issues identified and researched as to their breadth, scope, and seriousness. This month’s conversation focuses on “Building Generational Wealth.”
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