Unity and Diversity World Council, in collaboration with One Global Family, the Jerusalem
Prayer Project and Videocratic Media present the first segment of their “Peace Sunday 2020": ‘Charlottesville Reflection’.
On the eve of Martin Luther King Day 2021 a unique, timely, and compelling program has been assembled featuring the uplifting music video tribute to MLK ‘We Carry the Dream’ written produced and performed by Stephen Longfellow Fiske who attended the ‘Great March’ in 1963, followed by the documentary short ‘Charlottesville Reflection’, produced and directed by filmmaker Robert Corsini. In addition, opening prayer blessings will be offered by indigenous elders Chief Daniel Ramos and Clan Mother Alda Glover.
In August of 2018 JPP co-founder and filmmaker Robert Corsini traveled to Charlottesville
seeking out interfaith, grassroots activists who played a key role in resisting the ‘Unite the
Right’ violent invasion of their city by hundreds of armed neo-Nazi, QAnon, and Klansmen
incensed by the community’s decision to remove statuary commemorating Confederate
War traitors Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and others.
What is revealed by BLM activists Tanesha Hudson, Megan Argaud, and Temple Beth Israel Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin in this 14 minute ‘short’, is the deep struggle their community endured as they prepared the community to defend itself from the onslaught of violent, racist, anti-Semitic, misanthropes, and the subsequent murderous tumult that transpired on August 12th, 2017.
What few knew then was that the Charlottesville attack of the summer of 2017, foretold the darkest chapter of American history that occurred four years later on January 6th, 2021 as a similar violent model was followed to ransack the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.
Following the screening of ‘Charlottesville Reflection,’ a discussion will follow with Charlottesville activists Tanesha Hudson, Megan Argaud, and filmmaker Robert Corsini.
In addition, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Co-Founder Melina Abdullah will add further commentary connecting the Charlottesville attack to the politically motivated and violent insurgency of 2021.
