GREATER WASHINGTON ALLIES IN RECONCILIATION
AN INTERFAITH ANTIRACISM ALLIANCE
AN INTERFAITH ANTIRACISM ALLIANCE
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About Allies
Vision: ALLIES will help create a more equitable metropolitan Washington community.
Membership: Any person or organization committed to working from a spiritual or faith perspective to address the root causes of racial disparities, supporting the self-determination of people of color, and creating reconciled relationships of mutual respect and care across our region's racial-ethnic and religious divisions.
Structure: Our evolving Steering Committee is multiracial and interfaith. It includes members of Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian religious communities. We welcome more racial, cultural and religious diversity in our antiracist leadership.
The Steering Committee meets as needed, and occasionally in people of color and white caucuses to work on our internalized racial oppression and internalized racial superiority.
Unless we can imagine a world without oppression,
we can’t create one.
That’s our challenge.
To imagine the unimaginable.
To believe that a community without oppression is possible.
To envision what it would look like, and feel like.
To imagine how it can work.
from Judith Katz, White Awareness:
Handbook for Antiracism Training
we can’t create one.
That’s our challenge.
To imagine the unimaginable.
To believe that a community without oppression is possible.
To envision what it would look like, and feel like.
To imagine how it can work.
from Judith Katz, White Awareness:
Handbook for Antiracism Training
Our Programs
Monthly Email Updates announcing local events, actions for justice (e.g., upcoming demonstrations, petition drives) and resources for developing understanding and skills.
Community Events to bring antiracist people of faith and other partners together and support them in being allies for justice and reconciliation (e.g., cosponsored trainings, plays and cultural events).
Accountability Groups in racial and/or religious caucuses to support skill-development and create accountability (e.g., White, Jewish, Black, Latino and joint People of Color caucuses).
