[Unidentified]: 一切都很好。
[Clayton]: 我的检查好
[Unidentified]: 你很好吗？
[Terry Carter]: 你感觉如何？
[Mossalam]: 你很好吗？ 是的！ 我的丈夫是一个展示这一点，今天早上感觉不好的人，所以...我不生他的气。
[Unidentified]: 我不生他的气。
[SPEAKER_17]: o是
[Terry Carter]: 检查，检查。 早上好。 一切都很好。 早上好。 我们有多么光荣的一天。 一切都很好。 好的，在开始之前，我会做一些与清洁有关的事情。 当您向墙上走出门时，这个地板上有男人和女人的房间。 好的？ 许多职位，没有等待。 好的？ 一切都很好。 手机标签。 好的？ 我知道我们生活的世界。 我也住在其中。 好的？ 我们为即时努力。 我们希望确保将照片发送给所有人和所有内容。 但是，今天，我们现在将尽可能多地生活。 因此，如果您可以使手机保持沉默。 那太好了。 好的。 早上好，朋友，家人和邻居。 我的名字叫特里·C·卡特（Terry E. 我只想确保我们都在同一个房间里。 我们非常感谢圣。 拉斐尔（Raphael）的教区和父亲保罗·科夫林（Paul Coughlin）为当今的重要程序提供了这个空间。 我们也喜欢梅德福社区媒体和凯文·哈灵顿车站的经理，使我们允许我们播放本地有线电视计划，或者这是技术性的，而不是我的专业领域。 但是今天有了凯文（Kevin），马克·戴维森（Mark Davidson）和乔纳森·马勒巴（Jonathan Malerba）巧妙地提供了帮助，所以我们会得到很好的照片。 好，谢谢，谢谢。 好吧，现在我知道这已经发生了一些，但是 在您开始和建立一个直接社区以外的社区的兴趣之前，请花一两分钟，并向一个您不认识的人介绍自己。 好的？ 一个您不认识的人，如果它从轨道上脱颖而出，那很好，就像他所做的那样，我将他带到我的脑海中而不是心中。 今天对我们来说，爱是答案。
[Carter]: 一切都很好。
[Terry Carter]: 好的。 一切都很好。 那很好。 完美的。 精彩的。 极好的。 每个人都回到他们的桌子上。 一切都很好。 好的。 你能听到我吗？ 你能听到我吗？ 好的。 一切都很好。 好的。 非常非常好。 那很有趣。 让我们开始这个聚会。 好的。 然后。 让我们介绍我的好朋友，以及科琳娜·达·雷登索教会的坦纳·特利牧师的合伙人，这将为今天的会议提供援引。 坦纳（Tanner）是一位令人难以置信的信仰领袖，每个星期天在梅德福高中（Medford High）的卡伦礼堂（Karen Auditorium）领导着一个充满活力的基督教社区。
[Turley]: 早上好。 感谢您今天早上来这里。 你提醒我今天早上听到的。 每天MLK，我通常会和孩子一起度过一会儿，看看睡眠演讲。 但是今天早上，当我在雪上吹来时，我可以得到阿门吗？ 当他说我看过这座山时，我听到MLK在梅德福的最后一次讲话。 他们提醒我，当有风暴警告时，这次演讲发生。 他说，起初，您是那种透露您无论如何都必须继续下去的人。 因此，我很高兴能在有些人代表一个决心继续前进的城市的房间里。 我们有，是的。 所以我们在这里庆祝。 我们在这里反映。 我希望，如果您像我一样，您会在这里成长。 实际上，可以说我需要成长。 你能对我说吗？ 我们可以说我们需要成长吗？ 我们需要成长。 这是真的。 我长大后，是篮球教练的儿子，这意味着他必须在充满不同颜色篮球运动员的更衣室里。 而且我总是感到在房间里，在种族界限中与朋友在一起。 他生活在错误的想法中，因为他正在竭尽所能。 但是几年前，我开始了解到这是一个种族和解者。 试图成为一个在任何地方和任何地方都带来种族正义的人是完全不同的。 今天就是这样，就是今天。 然后我想向金博士的上帝祈祷。 我想邀请你加入我。 如果您属于另一个信仰的表达，请随时表达自己的信仰。 但是让我们一起祈祷。 爸爸，我们今天感谢。 上帝，谢谢你的这个社区。 上帝，我们感谢这个机会庆祝和纪念美国之一。 在世界上最好的服务领导者中，马丁·路德·金博士（Martin Luther King Jr.） 当我们记得他的生活时，当我们庆祝他的成就时，当我们记得他为正义的牺牲，不仅每天建立他的生活，而且最终完全是由于正义原因，我们要求他帮助我们每个人。 它增长了更多，以反映其代表的生活。 我们需要您的帮助，我们需要您的恩典，并感谢您现在将要做的事情。 我们以耶稣的名义祈祷。
[Terry Carter]: 好的，现在有了好话 - 我可以介绍我的朋友Brianna的梅德福市市长吗？ Lungo-Koehn，适用于该计划的新手。
[Breanna Lungo-Koehn]: Brianna很好，谢谢。 谢谢特里。 大家好。 我很荣幸能来这里庆祝马丁·路德·金博士。 与大家的生活与遗产。 感谢所有使这项精彩活动成为可能的人，西梅德福社区中心组织和管理这项活动，由执行董事丽莎·克罗斯曼（Lisa Crossman）和特里·卡特（Terry Carter），梅德福（Medford）社区媒体（Medford Community Media）领导，因为今天与我们在一起，圣 雷菲尔德（Rayfield）的主持人和韦格曼斯（Wegmans），NAACP代理商谷和Needham Bank的支持和赞助。 今天，我们也有一个出色的主演讲者，西莉亚·约翰斯顿（Celia Johnston），马萨诸塞州五颜六色女性联盟的蓝色。 感谢您在这里并提供您的言语和想法。 今年的主题是您的梦想中的主题，是一个重要的想法，值得我们的思考和反思。 我们都梦想着一个更加光明，更宁静和团结一致的未来。 我们所有人都努力对他人的情况更加亲切，更放纵，更加同情。 但是，使这些梦想实现比看起来更难。 这就是为什么我们应该在制定未来计划之前先看看过去的原因。 金博士的言语和行动为我们提供了平等和公平的脚本。 这取决于我们模仿这些理想并将它们置于我们的生活中。 因此，作为一个继续实现所有人平等目标的社区，我们每天都在努力共同努力。 我期待着这个精彩的计划。 谢谢您邀请自己，我等不及了。
[Unidentified]: 谢谢。
[Terry Carter]: 有些人认为，重新发明车轮几乎没有意义，尤其是当汽车运行良好时。 我们已经知道Martin Luther King Jr. 社会正义和人权的领导源于他的基督教教育和他在教会中的生活。 好吧 - 与金博士的传统赞美诗之一一起演唱梅德福·克莱顿（Medford Treasure Stacy Clayton）。 她会加入 给我的朋友和我的钢琴家乔纳森·法根（Jonathan Fagan）。
[Clayton]: 回到家人真是太好了。 美丽的主，握住我的手。 引导我。 帮我站起来。 我很累。 我很虚弱，我被用了。 在暴风雨中，晚上，指导我。 握住我的手。 ♪宝贵的主，带你回家♪当我的路很伤心时，美丽的主时，我的生活结束了 所以我不摔倒。 握住我的手，美丽的先生，带你回家。 当黑暗出现并且夜晚接近时，白天过去了，离开时， 宝贵的爱
[Terry Carter]: 非常感谢，黛西。 我总是称您为Medford的配乐，因为没有任何场合或活动使我们更接近那些没有出现的人。 所以，谢谢。 因此，在金博士的领导力和哲学中，作为非viletary民事抗议的从业者而言，他与其他和平全球抗议的社会变革抗议的捍卫者一起研究。 其中两个全球奶嘴是圣雄甘地和纳尔逊·曼德拉（Nelson Mandela）。 这三个人分享了个人牺牲的遗产，以至于三人由于信仰和支持活动而在监狱里花了很多时间。 在他的囚犯期间，甘地，曼德拉和国王写道了。 随着我们继续执行的程序，我将陪同梅德福·维贾亚（Medford Vijaya）和城市多样性总监弗朗西斯·恩瓦杰（Francis Nwaje），正如圣雄甘地（Mahatma Gandhi），纳尔逊·曼德拉（Nelson Mandela）和金博士在监禁期间所撰写的那样。
[SPEAKER_18]: 哦，对不起。
[Sundaram]: 我的？ 我很荣幸能来到这里。 谢谢特里，邀请我。 在这里与大家一起阅读是可爱的。 1932年8月18日，从Yarrawada逮捕到当时的英格兰第一部长Ramsay MacDonald先生。 快到死。 亲爱的朋友，毫无疑问，塞缪尔·奥尔爵士在办公室里向他展示了我3月11日关于压抑沮丧班的问题。 这封信应该是这封信的一部分，并随身携带。 我读了英国政府关于少数群体代表的决定，并为此睡觉。 根据我给塞缪尔·罗尔爵士的信，以及我在1931年11月13日在圣圆桌会议的少数派委员会会议上的声明。 詹姆斯宫（James Palace），我必须抵制您的生活。 这样做的唯一方法是宣布永久禁食，任何形式的食物，在有或没有盐和苏打水的情况下节省水。 该禁食将停止在其进步期间，英国政府自己的动议，还是在公众舆论的压力下，将其决定及其社区选民计划修改为沮丧的阶级。 无论大小，他们的代表必须由普通选民选出。 拟议的禁食将从9月20日中旬开始在普通课程中运行，除非以上建议的方式审查了此决定。 我要求这里的当局成为这封信的文字，以通知这封信。 但是无论如何，我留下了足够的时间让这封信准时到达较慢的路线。 我还要求这封信和我给塞缪尔·霍尔爵士的信已经指的是可能的时间。 就我而言，我仔细观察了这一逮捕的规则，并将我的愿望或两个字母的内容传达给了除我的两个同伴Sardar Vallebhai Patel和Mahadev Sergeant Mahadev挑战以外的任何人。 但是我希望，如果可能的话，公众舆论会受到我的信件的影响，因此我的提前出版要求。 我为自己做出的决定感到抱歉，但是作为一个有宗教的人，折叠了， 但是作为一个有宗教倾向的人，我没有其他课程开放。 正如我在塞缪尔·霍尔（Samuel Hoare）爵士中所说的那样，即使Ma下政府决定自由储蓄，我的斋戒也必须继续。 因为现在我不能指望通过任何其他方式抵制这一决定，而且我不想从任何不荣幸的方式获取我的释放。 可能是我的判断被畸形，我完全是一个错误的沮丧阶级选民，对他们有害或印度教有害。 在这种情况下，不可能有权参考我的生活哲学的其他部分。 在这种情况下，我的禁食死亡将立即成为我的错误，并解除那些对我智慧有孩子信仰的男人和女人的重量。 尽管我毫无疑问，尽管我的判断是正确的，但由于我在四分之一世纪以上尝试的生活计划，预期的步骤无非是一项实现，显然并非没有取得很大的成功。
[Frances Nwajei]: 1983年10月6日，监狱专员，bualtory。 先生，地方当局已通知我们，根据监狱总部的指示，将来将被戴上手铐并放在腿上。 他们说这将适用于所有囚犯，也就是说 安全囚犯和食用法律囚犯。 我们想给您真诚的上诉，以重新考虑您的决定 - 对安全囚犯，并允许当前的立场继续下去。 在我们在监狱里度过的20年中，我们的治疗发生了许多变化。 以前，当他们从罗本岛电缆带走我们时，我们被戴上了手铐，但是几年来，我们被停止了。 我们接受并欣赏中断，并获得了旨在缓解监狱生活困难并使我们的住宿更加容忍的所有变化。 我们特别担心的是消除不仅过时的实践，而且不必要地屈辱。 但是，尽管它不想对监狱部的一般安全协议发表评论，但是我们希望对我们当前的上诉进行一些观察。 一。 据我们所知，在我们的监狱期间，没有一个案件出于医疗原因将安全囚犯逃脱甚至试图这样做，甚至试图这样做。 其次，在这一年半中，我们在Postma中，我们的经验是，每次我们都被带走时，它总是伴随着四名或更多后卫，有些武装。 监护人通常由安全警察的成员陪同。 第三，尽管我们的高年龄和身体状况，但仍严格应用这种准备的安排。 我们认为，这些协议仍然很合适，而且额外的限制是完全不合理的，沉重的和羞辱的。 鉴于被手铐的囚犯，人们引起了公众的极大关注和好奇心，这加剧了这一点。 五，我们确信罗本岛的当局和佩尔特斯可能会抵制我们的说法，即不能指责安全囚犯滥用医疗结果。 第六，我们已经被指出，最近更加强调，无论是囚犯或安全法的囚犯，对囚犯的待遇都没有区别。 7。 先生，我们记得这与客观位置并不是一致的。 例如，安全囚犯有特权接触访问。 总的来说，尽管可以将它们归类为A组，但他们对日常住宿受到限制。 也许最重要的是，总体而言，安全囚犯被其他囚犯享受的参考设施和假释。 我们认为，扩大此分配的少数人获得了从几周到几个月的缓解。 八，我们声称，由于实际上存在差异待遇，因此没有理由没有理由将安全囚犯免于对妻子和腿标志的指示。 九，最后，从健康的角度来看，我们认为这些新安排是一个坚定的劣势。 我们中有些人患有高血压。 重要的是，当我们被带给专家时，我们必须放松并完全不受紧张。 妻子引起的屈辱和怨恨可能会对我们的血压产生负面影响。 因此，在某种程度上，这可能会击败咨询专家的目标。 我们尊重地确认，我们无法想到必须将这种新限制应用于我们的单一有效理由。 我们再次呼吁放弃它们。 谢谢。 您忠实，纳尔逊·罗希拉拉·曼德拉（Nelson Rohilala Mandela）。
[Terry Carter]: excerpted from Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.' 's letter from the Birmingham jail, April 16, 1963. You may well ask, why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches, and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path? You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent, direct action seeks to create such a crisis and fosters such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to so dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the Nonviolent Resistor may sound rather shocking, but I must confess that I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will invariably and inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than in dialogue. One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I and my associates have taken in Birmingham is untimely. Some have asked, why didn't you give this new city administration time to act? The only answer that I can give to this query is that the new Birmingham administration must be prodded about as much as the outgoing one before it will act. We are sadly mistaken if we feel that the elevation of Albert Boutwell as mayor will bring the millennium to Birmingham. While Mr. Boutwell is a much more gentle person than Mr. Connor, they are both segregationists. dedicated to the maintenance of the status quo. I have hope that Mr. Boutwell will be reasonable enough to see the futility of massive resistance to desegregation. But he will not see this without the pressure from devotees of civil rights. My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is an historical fact that the privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture, but as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals. Justice too long delayed is justice denied. We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was well timed. In the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation, For years now, I have heard the word wait. It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This wait has almost always meant never. We must come to see with one of our distinguished jurists that justice too long delayed is justice denied. Okay, live theater has moving parts. Thank you so much Vijaya and Francis. I stand with you in believing that all three civil rights champions changed the world. Their sacrifices are both historic and well documented. Sharing these reflections gives us the opportunity to see Martin Luther King Jr. among his teachers and global contemporaries. As we move forward, I believe that Dr. King would want us to be mindful of the worsening plight of new immigrants to America. It would appear that there could be a dramatic shift in the federal government's response to the desires of many foreign-born travelers that want to become Americans, particularly those that are seeking to come here to escape horrible living conditions, violence, and considerable peril in their countries of origin. So if you will indulge the poet in me to share a bit more, I'm going to have my musical collaborator and the founder of the Medford Jazz Festival, Jonathan Fagan. Join me for a piece designed to highlight a less friendly stance on migrants. This piece is called Alienation, and it's one of the tracks on a CD that we've recorded that meets at the intersection of jazz and social justice under the title of the Ally Project. That CD is available today if you're interested, but please give this rendition a mindful listen. Here is a fence without a gate. You can't get in, you have to wait. You can't be foreign or somehow strange. This isn't your home, home on the range. You can't arrive in a rickety boat. Our castle has a treacherous moat. We won't host refugees at our door. You're not the sort we're looking for. Take good note, we stay on guard, we don't want you in our backyard. Despite the danger you seek to avoid, our best deterrents have been deployed. You say your country's full of peril, but like stray cats, we think you're feral. We think you're prone to filth and crime, we don't want either at this time. We don't care what the nations say. They won't do more than hope and pray. Our stance is clear on human rights. Lock the door, turn off the lights. You saw that statue in the bay. It stood for liberty until today. It welcomed tired and huddled masses. not criminals from your underclasses. We've got militias on the border. They own big guns to keep the order. Law enforcement lets them stay to help you keep, to help us keep your kind at bay. Why do we feel that this is good? Why can't we share the neighborhood? Is it because you're black and brown? No, we just choose to stand our ground. Stay in your place, deal with your issues, we'll send lots of coal and tissues. Don't form caravans and run, you'll find yourself in the sight of a gun. There are no streets here lined with gold. Our eyes are closed. Our hearts are cold. There is no flowing milk and honey. American skies are not that sunny. The fences we build to keep aliens out. They serve to keep our faith devout. This land we scheme to make our own. It's ours, you see, and ours alone. As long as you stay on the other side, we can maintain our national pride. Please don't show your anguished faces. We're cutting back on other races. We've had enough of global inclusion. We're ridding this country of race confusion. We know how to win these fights and limit all these civil rights. Safety nets in the welfare state will have to stop for the lost and late. A rising tide that favors the rich, that's our favorite campaign pitch. Me Too movements and Black Lives Matter? In all due time, your ranks will scatter. You think that you shall overcome? Just cross this line, we'll give you some. We'll give you a taste of burning churches and black boys hung from oaks and birches. We'll give you a taste of incarceration and prisons.com, the corporate plantation. We're taking this country back to the time when a brown life wasn't worth a dime, except for the way it worked in the field, except for a bushel of crops to yield. We're taking this country back to the day when white meant right in every way, when men of privilege could rape and beat and kill for spite, then lie and cheat. We're taking this homeland back to a season where hooded marauders needed no reason to hunt folks down with rifles and dogs through the lonely woods, the swamps, and bogs, where Confederate flags were boldly raised and crosses in the darkness blazed, and the land was full of racial hate served with grits on a breakfast plate. You thought the worm had surely turned and young black bodies no longer burned, yet here you are again today with the specter of prejudice winning the day. The maga caps we wear with pride, sure let us know who's on our side. The pointed hood and long white robe, fine clothes for the xenophobe. Perhaps this place that immigrants covet can somehow heal and rise above it. Until that day, our best advice to call this home, you'll pay a price. You'll pay a price as many misguided embrace the hate their voice provided. His Twitter rants and sound bites full of ethnocentric cock and bull. You'll pay a price as higher walls lead great climbers to greater falls, where fences are the new condition announcing the refugees' abolition. This isn't our nation's greatest hour, this flexing of white supremacist power, and yet the season is fully revealing the stain of hatred we've been concealing. So take good note and be on guard of deadly traps around the yard. Our agents are on high alert to keep you foreigners off this dirt. Tolerance is in short supply. We won't let your kind occupy this sacred land our forebears built. We don't subscribe to Anglo guilt. This fence was built without a gate to keep out all who come here late. To all you aliens, we don't like strange. No room at the end in our home on the range. Thank you. Thank you so much and Jonathan will be back to play a bit again later in the program. Okay so for the past couple of years at our MLK celebration we have continued a new WMCC tradition honoring community leadership in a number of important areas. Today we'll award our third annual Drum Major Awards, picking up on Dr. King's notion of leading out and being engaged in the business of building beloved community. These WMCC Drum Major Awards focus on the categories of civic engagement and public service, arts advocacy, leadership in the faith community, and preserving the legacy of the community. Here to help present those awards are Lisa Crossman, the executive director of the West Medford Community Center. You don't always see him, although at six feet plus, plus, plus, he's hard to miss in a crowd. But he's very, very strategic about when he makes his appearances because he wants to have maximum impact when he's seen. Our 2025 award, Drum Major Award for Civic Engagement and Community Advocacy is presented to Reginald Graham. Yeah. So You know, my recollections of Reggie Graham are all basketball court recollections. I recollect WMCC New Beginnings basketball squad down at Duggar Park, hooping, hooping, and hooping, day and night, just playing basketball. Also remember Reggie, obviously, is a stalwart at that Medford High squad that went to Tech Tourney back in the day. My recollections of Reggie Graham these days and Lisa's as well I'm sure are of an advocate and a you know kind of a little bit of a pit bull down in City Hall kind of making sure that you know some And you know tell the truth shame the devil that some justice gets done for the folks down in the lower half. So Reggie we really appreciate you, you've been a champion you know in the parks and recreation commission and other aspects of the role of being out there for the West Medford community so we are happy to present you with this award. All right, Reginald Graham, ladies and gentlemen. All right. Okay. Our next award actually was for arts and advocacy and creativity in the community. And it's to be presented to Earl and Tanya Howard. For those of you that don't know Earl and Tanya, founding principals of West Medford Open Studios. So for those of you that aren't familiar with West Medford Open Studios, hopefully you'll familiarize yourself when it comes around again this year. But it is an opportunity and it has morphed a little bit, particularly after COVID. from being in individual homes in the West Medford area to being a big celebration in a single spot at Duggar Park. And for the last couple of years, it's been really, really splendid to see the display of talent and the variety of artists that exist in Medford and the surrounding community. So if you have never been to a West Medford Open Studios when it comes around this year, you want to make sure that you get out there. Lots of things to buy and to try. They've got loads of supply and they're all alive, none of them won't die. You know, can't help it. It's the way my mind works these days. You know, I rhyme and I remember. In any event, to our Earl and Tanya Howard, the Arts Advocacy and Creativity Award will be presented in due season. Thank you. Our next award is being presented posthumously and this is a difficult one for me to speak about because The life that I have in faith was influenced by a few people in this community. My mother, the principal one, who said she always wanted to have a pastor in the family. And Reverend O.G. Phillips, and those of you who are Old West Medford know O.G. And this woman who was always, a mentor, a supporter, an advocate, and a cheerleader. She was a principal connector in the interfaith community in Medford and she is and will be sorely missed. Leadership in the faith community, Reverend Dr. Florence Nottage King posthumously. And I know Reverend King's daughters are here, Pamela and Paula. So they're going to come up and accept the award. OK. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Take your time, darling. Hallelujah. Yes. Thank you, darling. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, darling. Once again, your mother, and I'm sure there aren't too many if any in this room that don't at least know of her, she was a beacon of light in the West Medford Community Center. Never had a discouraging word to say to anybody always had an encouraging word for everybody. She was really a beautiful person, a beautiful soul. You've taken after her, and we're proud to present this drum major award, posthumous leader, your mom, Reverend Dr. Florence Nottage King. God bless you both. You gotta have flowers for both. You won't start nothing, you know what I'm saying? Okay, alright so our final drum major award is an award for preserving the legacy of the West Medford community and it goes to none other than Johnny Reed. Well over 25 years ago, Johnny got together with a few other, we call them old heads, and they came up with an idea for a neighborhood, an annual neighborhood reunion. And the West Medford reunion, for those of you who have not partaken, is a landmark event in the West Medford community. We are now sharing some of the responsibility for making sure that it continues to happen. This will be the 90th anniversary of the West Medford Community Center. And for the last, I would say, quarter of that history, the West Medford reunion has been part and parcel to keeping this community, which has become very fragmented for a number of reasons, together. And when folks get together, it's like they never, never left each other. It's partying, it's dancing, it's A little bit of drinking, another story another day but it's a wonderful occasion and hopefully the West Medford Community Center in partnership with Johnny and others will be able to keep this tradition going. So for preserving the legacy of the community Johnny Reed we just want to say thank you and present this award to you. All right. All right. OK. All right. OK. OK, so as you can already see, today is a family affair for West Medford and for the community center. There is talent and community spirit all around us, and we try to take advantage of it whenever possible. For me, that frequently means that I take advantage of the talent and community spirit that I find in my own household. So Pastor Teresa J. Cotter is an ordained pastor and minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She is a trained dancer and leads women and girls across New England in liturgical dance ministry, discipleship, and Christian evangelism. Some of you all have seen Teresa dance solo. Today, she is accompanied by some beautiful women who extend the outreach of liturgical dance all over New England. So I'm going to bring Pastor Teresa up. She's going to introduce her compatriots. And then we're going to have dancing.
[Teresa Carter]: 早上好，西梅德福。 早上好，西梅德福。 看到他们全部并再次与您在一起真是太好了。 庆祝马丁·路德·金博士的喜悦是什么 为了庆祝火炬用户随身携带火炬，然后是他，科雷塔·斯科特·金（Coretta Scott King）。 他今天带来我，我觉得我在家，今天带我带两个 在我信仰的女儿中，我会说一个信仰的孙女。 Kadesh Sims Conroy和Tanya Langelo是我在教我15年的精神女儿。 我不仅可以和他们一起服侍，而且可以与他们一起生活。 今天，我们的特别嘉宾，我的侄女Tanya的女儿Olivia Langelo也将加入我们。 由于今天的主题，由于金博士的庆祝，今天将奥利维亚带到我们这里非常重要 一块，我的梦想，您的梦想，我们的睡眠。 我们要担任的是一首有权相信的歌。 我们相信金博士的梦想 在华盛顿的游行中，他在伯明翰监狱的信中讲话，他去世前就梅德福说了。 我们相信梦想在今天仍在继续。 但是不仅因为我们谈论它。 这是因为我们对此有所作为。 我们基于这部戏的书是由金博士的孙女撰写的。 您的名字叫Yolanda Renee King。 这本书是标题，我们梦想着一个世界。 尤兰达（Yolanda）在她的书中写道，尽管她还活着，但她的祖父母如何鼓励她，但他们鼓励她携带火炬。 但是，不仅是他们携带的火炬，她也渴望实现一个梦想。 因此，我们鼓励他今天相信金博士说话，科雷塔·斯科特·金（Coretta Scott King）进步的梦想，尽管我们周围发生了什么，但统一，谦卑，怜悯，爱情，正义的梦想。 将这个梦想带给您，并将其传输给几代人的梦想。 阿们？ 阿们。
[SPEAKER_18]: 他们说这种变化将永远不会结束。
[Unidentified]: 但是他们不知道你喜欢我们。
[SPEAKER_18]: 您的名字有力量。
[Unidentified]: 我们听说总是有希望。 我们听说时间永远不会改变。 他们没有看到你能做什么。 我们相信你。 你说，我想。 你说，完成了。 当您说它消失时，我不能相信您。 不可能，我们将看到一个奇迹。 上帝，我们相信。 上帝，我们相信。 是的，先生。 上帝，我们相信。
[Terry Carter]: 好吧，这真令人惊讶还是什么？ 我知道这会很特别，因为他们在我们的客厅里进行排练。 您知道，男人洞穴中的吹动知道，让他们知道他们今天在一些特别的地方。 感谢您，衷心感谢Teresa牧师和她的团队为纪念上帝和Martin Luther King博士的精彩演讲。 我敢肯定，两者都很高兴。 好的，这是第一个小时，或多或少。 让我们休息一下苏打水，并有机会让人们将更多的东西与您餐桌上的人联系起来。 现在，我们的志愿者将指导他得到零食，然后请他回到桌子上吃饭，等待更多指示。 一切好吗？ 很好，好吧，让我们回去。 一切都很好。 下午好，大家。 好的。 一切都很好。 这些是有些人，但这不是全部。 因此，让我们再试一次。 下午好，大家。 好吧，我喜欢它，我喜欢它。 好的，我知道每个人都还在吃一点，没关系，但是我们想启动该程序以在途中获得一点。 因此，我会问一些可以带您舒适区的人，这很好，因为那是我们来到这里要做的事情。 因此，如果您在少于六个人的桌子上，我希望您移动并填写，完全填充另一个表格。 好吧，环顾四周，看看只有几个人的桌子，然后搬到桌子上，您可以填充一点。 一切都很好。 而且，如果您有座位，您想带某人警告。 一切都很好。 一切都很好。 不要，不要成为可靠的证人。 一切都很好。 改变和移动。 好的。 是的，这是正确的。 举起几根手指。 让他们知道您有空间的人。 一切都很好。 这就是全部。 这就是全部。 直接在游行中。 一切都很好。 好的。 好的。 一切都很好。 因此，我们希望每个人都会有所更新，并有点反思。 目前，我们想花一段时间，并将其带到一个练习，以在其各个表格上建立社区。 好的，请注意，因为说明来了。 一切好吗？ 我听到其他不是我的声音。 这让我不安。 好的，然后放松您的主人。 放松您的主人。 尽力放松主人。 好，非常感谢。 非常好，在每张桌子上，您会在该桌子上的每个座位上找到一个紫色针织袋。 好的，桌子上有八个座位，八个紫色的网眼袋。 在袋子里，您会发现一些硬币子弹来使您的呼吸甜味。 好的，我只是说没关系，有一点赃物WMCC，很好，会有一两个折断 - 因此，您的任务是桌子组装您的休息时间 我们所有人都有一部分，可以创建一个亲爱的社区。 好的？ 一切都很好。 桌子上的休息。 您可以立即开始。 这不是竞争。 好的？ 这只是有关联系和个人责任的证明。 我们的礼物可能不一样，但我们的牺牲可能是一样。 我在我旁边听很多声音，这困扰着我。 好的，我会重复该声明。 我们所有人都有一部分，可以创建一个亲爱的社区。 一切好吗？ 因此，将碎片从休息时间拿到这些小袋子，然后建立小休息。 一切好吗？ 一切都很好。 我喜欢那个。 好吧，我看到我想看的。 一切好吗？ 好的，我会再读的。 我们所有人都有一部分，可以创建一个亲爱的社区。 好，对不起。 我被纠正了。 您知道，丈夫一直被妻子纠正。 很好，这里无事可做。 很好，没有人受伤。 因此，说明实际上是我们所有人都有梦想的一部分。 我吃了你的食物，对吗？ 我们所有人都在建立一个亲爱的社区时睡觉。 很好，很好，好的。 来吧，来吧，得到这些休息。 来吧，做。 是的，是的，是的，是的。 我告诉你这不是竞争。 我喜欢那个。 看起来很漂亮。 我可以从这里看到它。 真的，非常非常好。 非常好。 哦，是的，是的。 很好，很好。 赫拉。 我看见你。 我看见你。 我看见你。 一切都很好。 好的。 梦想的作品。 是的。 非常好，很好，在房子里，大楼中的四人组。 很好，很好。 Buckley Boss，建筑物中的温迪牧师。 很好，很好。 NAACP在建筑物中，嗯，吉尔？ 很好，很好，好的。 我们在这里有什么？ 哦，嘿，嘿，嘿。 这是一个可以使用的解决方案。 它可以很好地工作。 那永远不会发生在我身上。 好的。 线性结构。 一切都很好。 做得很好。 好的。 做得很好。 创新的。 创新的。 一切都很好。 我们要做什么？ 嘿，伙计。 一切都很好。 极好的。 一切都很好。 我们在哪里？ 很好，伙计。 你去哪儿？ 您是否从其他地方借一块？ 就像这座城市，偷了佩德罗付给保罗。 好的。 好的。 我大声说出来吗？ 很抱歉。 极好的。 早上好。 哦，非常感谢。 一切都很好。 那很好。 那很好。 好的。 我们在哪里？ 嘿，愉快。 非常好。 完美的。 完美的。 非常好。 谢谢玛丽。 好的。 一切都很好。 一切都很好。 这里发生了什么？ 怎么了。 他们必须在戒指上打电话。 你必须打电话。 好的。 好的。 一切都很好。 一切都很好。 好的。 非常好。 非常好。 出色的。 出色的。 出色的。 完美的。 很好。 好工作。 好工作。 好工作。 一切都很好。 好的。 好的。 好的。 因此，正如我所说，这不是一场比赛。 这只是一个演示。 连接和个人责任。 我们的礼物可能不一样，但我们的牺牲可能是一样。 我们清空了袋子，建造了一些东西。 感谢所有人的开放和参与。 我们认识到，这只是我们想在整个城市看到的东西的一步。 我们的希望是，我们所有以社区为基础的机构都可以成为动态和召唤交流的更大，更有效的孵化器。 毫无疑问，这是西梅德福社区中心的意图。 是的，这是正确的。 给自己掌声。 一切都很好。 享受您的精神与合作。 就我个人而言，我们今天所做的一切都支持我作为创造精神的诗人所做的事情。 我很早说，我喜欢我的家人加入我参加这些特殊的WMCC计划。 实际上，他们真的祝福我的意愿和合作。 我问了我亲爱的堂兄Shara Owen Schwartz和她的女儿，我的美丽侄女Callie，他们读了两首诗，这些诗在这个国家中表现出了为社会正义而奋斗的美丽和危险。 第一首诗是我的之一。 你有正确的时间吗？ 第二个是传奇的兰斯顿·休斯（Langston Hughes）所说的一部分，我梦到一个世界。 女士们，先生们，莎拉和Callie Owen Schwartz。
[Sharra Owens-Schwartz]: 因此，我将要读的这件作品是梅德福的第一本劳拉多诗人特里·卡特（Terry E. Carter） 您有正确的权利，越长。 更多？ 我不是说我不祈祷。 您会听到和平，安全和清醒的要求。 你看到膝盖弯曲。 他在所有的眼泪和悲伤的抽泣中都了解痛苦，并会安慰他。 但这也看到了那些哭泣，我的自由，我的权利，我的宪法的狂热主义和有缺陷的逻辑。 他看到了NRA巨人的不愉快报告，而政客们则在Maga Maga上散发出来。 他看到了未选择的领导人的腐败性格的坚强的心和敌对的精神，那些手中有鲜血的人。 越多，让我们这样做，我和我什么都不做？ 这个词命令信仰没有工作死亡。 他在布法罗（Buffalo）的第14位，在乌瓦尔德（Uvalde）的第19位，在维加斯（Vegas）58岁，奥兰多（Orlando）49岁，在纽敦（Newtown）的布莱克斯堡（Blacksburg）32岁，在萨瑟兰斯普林斯（Sutherland Springs），23岁，在基伦（Killen），在埃尔帕索（El Paso），在查尔斯顿（Charleston）九。 死者是永恒的维护。 更多的死在我们的意志中，表现出来。 我们会痛苦多久，但我们不会采取行动？ 我们将移开手的时间越多，但不会改变？ 每天，我们每天都会杀死我们的孩子的危险危险的时间越长？ 我们将越多地离开一些人的贪婪，污垢和邪恶，这会给客厅，挚爱社区的学校和神社带来不幸，恐惧和死亡吗？ 我不是说我不祈祷。 但是，如果没有真正的正义和真正的责任，我们将永远无法实现和平。 如果我们始终允许银行，关于行动，全部涉及自由市场和最终结果，那就是永远的。 如果我们让他们继续谈论我们，弯腰和购买做正确的事，他们将始终有能力做明显不好的事情。 它总是受到痛苦虐待的影响。 他们总是得到报酬，并准备做有毒和不正当的事情。 这个国家的每个民用有120多种武器。 这些只是我们所知道的。 这个方程式有没有理智的草？ 在情感上不稳定的，精神上不平衡的，仇恨的预兆以及关于无知和干扰的建议的力量，是否没有完美的风暴？ 我不是说我不祈祷。 我现在将它扔在膝盖上，但是这次我要求上帝给我勇气做更多的事情，使它有所不同，并成为我想在这个国家看到的改变。 我要求您迫使我们团结芥末种子，并播种我们的信仰，力量和团结的胚芽，以将这一暴力和谋杀山转移到遥远而被禁止的后背。 为了超越这些痛苦阈值，超越我们的悲伤或失落感。 除了影子服务和临时祭坛，以及Twitter Diatibes和Facebook silloquies，以及播客和Zoom聊天室，以及我们的客厅，我们的学校，我们心爱的社区以及我们称之为家的地方。
[Callie Owens-Schwartz]: 我梦见了兰斯顿·休斯的世界。 梦想着一个人，没有其他人鄙视的世界，爱将祝福地球和和平的世界。 梦想一个每个人都会知道甜蜜自由的形式的世界，贪婪不再使灵魂移动，也不是贪婪的雕塑。 我梦到一个世界 一个睡在黑色或白色的地方，无论您是什么品种，都会分享地球的回报，每个人都是自由的。 痛苦将像珍珠一样悬挂头和喜悦的地方满足了全人类的需求。 从这样的梦想中，我的世界。
[Carter]: 一切都很好。 一切都很好。 谢谢。 一切都很好。 哇。 哇。
[Terry Carter]: 谢谢莎拉。 谢谢Callie。 哇。 我总是知道当我阅读自己的诗歌时会发生什么。 我永远不知道有人读书时会发生什么。 但是他很着迷。 非常感谢您将自己的激情和信念带给我的话，Callie， 兰斯顿·休斯（Langston Hughes）的话语将其热量和慷慨大为带来。 我们很高兴今天将其放到这里，并感谢您希望在心灵和内心真正需要在城市线路上共同努力的时候，与邻近的West Medford一起加入阿灵顿的业务。 好的。
[Carter]: 非常好。
[Terry Carter]: 因此，今天的计划今天有可能展示了一些出色女性的惊人才能。 这不是偶然的。 问题的事实是运动，非自愿的引号， 它充满了过多的才华，恩典，智慧和令人惊叹的女性的活力。 金博士与伟大的妇女有着巨大的关系，她们动态影响了他们在公民权利和社会正义方面的工作。 我认为，实际上，西部方法社区中心已经成为女性才华横溢和鼓舞人心的女性的孵化器。 我一直想考虑这样的重要模型和贡献者。 因此，按照下一个商业订单。 现在，对于我来说，在开幕词和演讲者中介绍重要的信息总是一个挑战。 相信我，我在双方，捐赠和接收者的尽头。 因此，今年为主要演讲者选择的选择确实引起了我的共鸣。 我唯一担心的是可用性， 这个问题很容易奏效。 亲属关系总是有助于这些主题。 Celia Johnston Blue是一位经验丰富的执行领导者，在私人，公共和非营利部门拥有超过30年的领导经验。 2015年，西莉亚（Celia）与来自马萨诸塞州的12名女性合作 他领导了马萨诸塞州的发展和公开发射，即ColaliãodeColali de Incorporated的M-A-W-C-C。 她目前担任总裁兼执行董事，领导该组织执行自己的愿景和使命，这是 它的设计旨在捍卫女性的声音，以供听和认可的颜色。 在目前在Maywalk角色之前，Celia是罗德岛人类服务部的临时董事，这是内阁一级的职位，向州长McKee提供了信息。 西莉亚（Celia）领导着一个大约1,000名员工的机构 预算约为9亿美元，提供30万或罗德岛人口的三分之一的福利和服务。 他在马萨诸塞州的运输部门度过了九年，并在许多方面获得了国家经验。 首先，被任命为马萨诸塞州航空委员会的专员 后来，他被任命为马萨诸塞州交通运输部副部长副主任，然后晋升了马萨诸塞州汽车记录首席执行官登记册。 好吧，现在就考虑一下，请考虑一秒钟。 马萨诸塞州机动车记录的记录员和首席执行官。 她是马萨诸塞州历史上第一个成为英联邦登记册的非洲裔美国人。 她毕业于科学。 就是这样。 值得赞扬。 伍斯特州立大学的科学文凭，安娜·玛丽亚学院（Anna Maria College）的工商管理硕士学位，目前已在博士学位上注册。 佛蒙特大学的领导力计划。 他因领导和对多样性，公平和包容性的承诺而获得奖项，并被任命为第50 伍斯特商业杂志的2021年级。 在2023年，他获得了伍斯特州立大学的杰出学生奖。 女士们，先生们，现在，请给西莉亚·约翰斯顿·蓝（Celia Johnston Blue）一个热情的接待。
[Johnston Blue]: Good morning. Oh, come on. I know we just ate, but good morning. All right, there we go. Can you guys hear me OK? Thank you so much for having me today. I want to recognize the executive director, Linda Grossman, board president, Melinda Regan, board members, the mayor of Medford, other dignitaries, Rafael Parish Center, and the sponsors, staff, planning committee, and all the volunteers that made today's event possible. I want to give a special shout out to Terry Carter, who asked me to speak today, and to you, the audience, for being here today. So I say we give ourselves a round of applause for that. I also want to recognize the awardees today for your work and your commitment, and stay strong and keep moving forward. I want to acknowledge the fact that West Medford Community Center has been providing services and programs and activities and connecting people from West Medford, Mystic River Valley for over 90 years. Congratulations. That is quite an accomplishment. I'm going to start by telling you just a little bit about who I am because I think that's important so that you can see the lens in which I am coming from and how it drives my work. I am very much the immigrant story. My family is from Jamaica, an island in the Caribbean, West Indies. Jamaica was owned and colonized by the Spaniards and English folks like the United States and so many other countries. My family's roots and our lineage, black, West Indian, Scottish, and Irish, and I am still learning about my lineage. I am a mom, a wife, a sister, an auntie, godmother, friend, a boss, and proud daughter of Barrington and Valerie Johnston. My family migrated to Jamaica, from Jamaica to this country, when I was 11 and a half years old, made possible by my Aunt Dorothy Vassell, my father's sister, whom we call the matriarch of our family. I didn't know about racism until I came to the United States. Although I experienced racism, I am grateful. that I also had a positive experience where some of my classmates were kind and open to this young Jamaican girl that came to their school. Fast forward to now, I have a few decades of leadership experience stemming as Terry so eloquently introduced me today in many different sectors. And I have been blessed with most of my career to be in senior and executive level roles. And trust me, I still have the scars for that. Many years ago, God placed on my heart to start an organization focused on women of color. As I know firsthand, the inequities that we faced just about on a daily basis. Our organization is fondly called Maywalk. We started with 12 brilliant women from across the commonwealth, and you can find their bios on our website. For those of you who might not be familiar with Maywalk, we are a statewide nonprofit organization, nonpartisan organization, based in Worcester. And our mission is to address racial inequities as it exists for women of color, created by systemic, institutional, internalized, and interpersonal racism. And we wanted to, as founding members, really call that out. We provide programming, training, and we advocate for policies and legislation for a more equitable commonwealth. Our programming includes a leadership track for training and boards and commission. We have an intergenerational leadership academy for women of color and high school girls of color, which includes a one-year mentorship program. We are doing our part to encourage and empower and provide tools and strategies for women for personal and professional growth and advance their career and also inspire the next generation of leaders. With respect to our advocacy work, we have had overall four legislative wins and two ballot question wins. And I'll just speak briefly about two of the wins we had last year. I do want to say that we also were involved in the expansion of voting here in the Commonwealth called the Votes Act. We're involved in it during COVID when we have to rethink about how to vote. We're involved in that movement and then permanently expanding the rights here in the Commonwealth. Last year, the maternity bill got passed, which expands access to midwifery, birth centers, and doula services and addresses postpartum depression. Our ballot questions involve fair share, which is known as the millionaire tax for increased funding to schools and roads and bridges, and the Work and Family Mobility Act, which actually I started working on when I was registrar. It allows immigrants to apply for a driver's license in Massachusetts regardless of their immigration status. And lastly, the Wage Equity Act is when we talk about a piece of the dream, it means also a piece of the economic pie, right? And so last year, we were in the steering committee for passing of the Francis Perkins Workplace Equity Act. This is important for all of us in this room. It goes into effect in June of this year. What does it do? It discloses to the employees who are being offered a promotion or transfer the range of what that position earned. Right now, you don't know that. You can do market research, you can get a sense, but you don't know what that company actually paid, and we know that our white counterparts are being paid more than we are. It also discloses the pay range for anyone who wants to know in your organization what your role earned. It also allows the attorney general to enforce the law for organizations who do not want to cooperate with that. So this is, there's also new pay data reporting obligations, which I think is important, because we don't know if we're not measuring, we don't know how we're doing unless we really have the data to show us how we're doing. So I'm proud to say that we're entering our 10th year, and yes, you can clap for that. And you're all invited to our annual meeting and celebration next Saturday at the Beachwood Hotel in Worcester. You can go online to maywalk.com and register. And I encourage you to become a member and also become an ally and supporter. In preparing for my speech, I went back and listened to many speeches and interviews that Dr. King gave. One of the speeches that he gave to high school students talked about developing a blueprint. I'm going to come back to this. To realize our piece of Dr. King's dream, we must go back to some of the early days of civil rights movement, and we must understand the real history of this country. I would encourage you to listen to this interview that he did in 1967 to NBC. Watching and listening to these many interviews really gave me hope. I was inspired, and it also affirmed our reality as black people that we cannot ignore. Of course, I listened to his famous speech, I Have a Dream speech, but what I'm gonna do is focus on this particular interview. The title of it says, in this rarely seen interview, King speaks bluntly about the new phase of the struggle for genuine equality and his continuous commitment to the civil rights movement. The question that was posed to him was this, Isn't it part of the dilemma now that people know that Negroes were being denied what was guaranteed by the Constitution, by the fact that they were citizens of this country, that when they were given those rights, did you feel like the white community said, well, we have given them all that we have now, and it's up to them? Dr. King answered that the dilemma was deeper. He was saying that the movement was in a transition period where we must be honest with America. Honesty tells me to admit that America has broad racist elements. that exists. Racism is still alive and exists in American society. There has never been a single, solid, determined commitment of large segments of white America on the whole question of racial equality. We have to see that vacillation has always exists, and ambivalence has always exists. And this, to me, is the so-called white backlash. is merely a new name for an old phenomenon. I see the white-black backlash is a continuum in the same ambivalence and facilitation of white America and the whole question of racial justice that has existed since the founding of our nation. We must see that in many of the people that supported us in Selma and Birmingham were outraged about the extremist behaviors towards Negro, but they were not at that moment, and they are not now, committed to genuine equality for Negroes. It is much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee an annual income, for instance, to get rid of poverty for Negroes and poor people. It's much easier to integrate a bus than it is to make genuine integration a reality and quality education a reality in our schools. It is much easier to integrate a public park than getting rid of public slums. We are in a new phase where we've moved from the struggle for decency, characterized the struggle of about 10 to 12 years of the struggle, for genuine equality and that is where we are getting the resistance because there was never intention to go this far. People were reacting to Bull Connor or reacting to Jim Clark rather than acting in good faith. to realization of genuine equality. And Bill Conner, if you remember, ordered the use of hoses on the students that were marching. And Jim Clark was the sheriff who did the violent arrest of civil rights protesters during Selma. He was also reflecting on his I Have a Dream speech. And during that period of the movement, he said, there was a great period of solid, a solid decade of progress. And that dream, he said, at many points since then has turned into a nightmare. And so he admitted that he was very overly optimistic, but while he still had hope and faith in this country, this now needed to be tempered with the solid realism that we still have a long way to go. So I'm gonna focus on this response because we do still have a long way to go. This felt surreal to me because we're going through this very similar circumstances today. We're still fighting for equality in the world that we want to see. As I think about where we are in our society today, the polarization, the blatant racism, sexism language, this should be appalling and unacceptable to all of us. In addition, we have ongoing wars. Democracy is under attack. Voting rights are under attack. Reproductive rights are under attack. Diversity, equity, and inclusion is under attack. Critical race theory is under attack. And as a result, we have legislators debating bills and states banning books from schools. The Supreme Court struck down the affirmative action and admission policies for colleges. Folks, structural and institutional racism and white supremacy still exist and it is heightened more than ever. When progress is made, white supremacists plot and attempt to take away the progress that we have made. It is the very same thing that Dr. King was talking about 58 years ago, the white backlash. Sadly, today, the words of Dr. King is still alive. He said, I have a dream that my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. This really puts it in a nutshell for me on what we're still fighting for. So how do we individually and collectively continue the struggle to realize the dream that Dr. King had? And I would hope that all of us in this room want to see that happen. We can start by developing our own individual blueprint. Begin by defining and developing your own values, what you need as an individual, what is the kind of life that you want to achieve, the kind of friends that you should be with, what does success look like? Dr. King talked about a commitment to the eternal principle of beauty, love, and justice. What is your commitment to advocating for social and racial justice? What are the ways in which you will fight for a just society? After we develop our blueprint, we can talk with others and see who we are aligned with, who's aligned with our values. And from my perspective, the basic principle to understand the need for common decency and where we can collectively move the needle in addressing systemic racism and barriers that prevent us from our fullest potential and to hold America accountable, to live up to its ideal. We should focus on our communities. Be active in our communities. Be civically engaged. Public meetings, attend public meetings. These days, you can see them online. You don't even have to go in person. Make sure you know who your politicians are. What do they stand for? Do they stand and understand and address racism? What policy, what legislation are they planning to advocate for? so that we can make continued progress in addressing systemic racism. For one, we should be in Congress. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act restores and expands voting rights across this country. All of our congressional delegation should be for this law. It has not been passed yet. That's something we can advocate for. Here are some ways in which I am leading and navigating in our world today. Love is one of my core values. I am also using hope, faith to help guide me. In the Bible, hope is the expectation of something that is possible but not yet certain, while faith is the trust in something that is believed to be true even if it is not yet visible. And for me, love is at the center of everything I do. And in the Bible, the definition of love is this, in 1 Corinthians. Love is patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, and love never ends. The last two are ways in which we can work together to fight for the world in which we want to see from the individual perspective and the collective perspective. In our leadership academy, we're teaching about transformative solidarity. Transformative solidarity is changing our lives to change systems. It is going through a metamorphosis within solidarity so that we, with privilege, can move differently, think differently, and engage differently. It is a deep, it's a deep core change. So as you think about this, think about a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. into a completely different being. It moves different. It has access to different spaces and places where it once crawled. It can now fly. There are six key principles around transformative solidarity. I'm going to focus on three. Centering. Transformative solidarity requires centering those most affected by systems of oppressions and shifting the power to directly impacted communities. Commonalities. We identify the values. Remember I talked about the values that we're going to develop in our blueprint. We identify the values and hopes that we have in common. We build relationships through understanding our history of oppression and resilience without flattening or equating them. Co-liberation is my favorite. We work together towards our mutual freedom and redistribution of power. This means dismantling the multi-generational legacies of white supremacy, anti-black racism, and settler colonialism, and building a future toward a future where we all have what we need to thrive. We can take the example of the Freedom Riders, groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips throughout America and the South in 1961, to protest segregated bus terminal. It was successful because it showed that nonviolent direct action could do more than simply claiming the moral high ground. In many situations, it could deliver better tactical results than either violent confrontation or gradual change to establish legal mechanism. So here is a great example that we can be inspired on, and there are so many, many more. So what else can you do? Here in your local communities or in your professional worlds, I encourage each of you to find your voice, to do your part to make this world more equitable and inclusive. You can do a small act that I believe will make a big difference, and that is to ensure that people of color and marginalized communities, people in diverse backgrounds and different social identities are always in the room and at the decision-making tables, particularly when decisions are being made about them or their communities. We know that when diverse representations are in the room, where decisions are being made and voices are heard, we have better policies, we have much better outcomes, much better outcomes in organizations and in our communities. If you are in a leadership position, ensure that a woman earns the same as a man for the same position, ensure black and brown people earn the same as their white counterparts. We can all be a part of this solution. White supremacists and conservative groups are spending their days plotting and are attacking the progress that has been made. We must be 10 steps ahead. We can no longer be asleep at the wheel or sit on the sidelines. We must work together and find allies and supporters who have a solid, demonstrated commitment to social and racial justice and the fight for a more equitable and inclusive world. We are stronger together. So I stand here before you today with much love in my heart. I have faith. I am feeling incredibly hopeful, feeling blessed, and with much gratitude for Dr. King and so many other civil rights activists that came before me who dared to put words into action for a more equitable world, and although our history is marred with oppressive systems, our ancestors have shown us what transformative solidarity looked like back then. The stakes are much higher now, so I encourage us all today to take on new transformative solidarity ways of sticking together, supporting each other for the world that we want, this peaceful world that we want to see. So let's be inspired by Dr. King and the civil rights movement and the progress that has been made, but admit that we have much more work to do, and let's recommit to doing our part for a more just society. So finally, I will leave you with a quote from Doctrine for Dr. King. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Thank you so much for listening today. Enjoy the rest of your day.
[Terry Carter]: 好的。 非常感谢，西莉亚。 您肯定会理解任务。 我们很高兴您今天同意团结起来，而我们反思了小马丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King Jr.）的作品。 梦。 您一直是大量的听众，挑战今天要加入我们的元素。 我们是新英格兰。 我们必须具有抵抗力和强大，不要让天气影响我们认为我们想要做的事情。 但是五到六英寸的雪。 因为有人不得不摆脱它。 今天有人是我。 我当时在伦道夫说，伙计，我们今天能去梅德福吗？ 但是我的妻子非常令人鼓舞。 她说，如果您离开并抓住我们，我们今天可以到达梅德福。 我们在这里，我们留下来，好的。 随着我们在该计划结束时的进步，我会再说一遍，如果我们不束缚自己的手臂并唱歌，这次会议将无法完成。 因此，在这里向我们介绍并引导我们获得了金博士的另一位最喜欢的精神，我们将看到，梅德福的生活和呼吸道配乐，史黛西·克莱顿（Stacey Clayton）， 我的好朋友钢琴家乔纳森·法根（Jonathan Fagan）再次陪同。
[Clayton]: 我还邀请我们的舞者加入我们，因为我们将克服。 非常好，轮到你了。 如果你想留下来。 如果您想继续和我们一起唱歌。 让我们克服，我不会克服，我们将克服。 这不是那么容易，对吗？ 但是，正如这本书所说的那样，我们可以通过基督加强我们的一切来做所有事情。 因此，尽管我们以多种方式互相武装，但我们将到达目的地必须到达的地方。 无论今年如何，我们都必须互相照顾。 让我们克服。 今天，我们有了他们给我们的立场，我们每个人都可以在自己的生活圈子中发挥作用。 我们的命运就是我们要做的。 所以我们一起唱歌，让我们克服。 让我们克服。 让我们克服。 我们 我认为有一天我们会克服。 因为让我们齐头并进。 让我们齐头并进。 让我们齐头并进。 而且我们不害怕。 我们不害怕。 我们不害怕。 我们今天不害怕。 他们是 害怕的。 不是今天，不是明天或任何一天。 哦，不，我们今天不怕。 让我们团结起来。 让我们团结起来。 让我们团结起来。 让我们团结起来。 他们将有一天加入。 真理将使我们自由。 真理将使我们自由。 真理将使我们自由。 真理将使我们有一天自由。 哦，我想，我内心深处。 真理将有一天释放我们，我们都将生活在我们将生活的和平中 ♪让我们和平生活。 有一天。 我们有一天将生活在和平。
[Terry Carter]: 谢谢。 谢谢。 谢谢。 谢谢。 谢谢。 谢谢。 谢谢。 谢谢。 好的。 然后西莉亚提到了一个职位。 没有一个这样的会议是没有完整的。 因此，从一个重要的传统到另一种传统，我想带另一个朋友在前面和中心。 妮可·摩苏拉姆（Nicole Mosalam）是社会正义，公平和宗教信仰联系的敬业捍卫者。 它致力于确保没有人在社区中感到不安全或不愉快。 作为穆斯林妇女 他的行动主义深深植根于对他人所爱的人的信仰和开始。 她是梅德福伊斯兰文化中心的前任董事，也是国家代表候选人。 妮可（Nicole）致力于建立包容性社区，扩大边缘化的声音并促进重大对话。 我非常佩服这个女人。 像我一样，她是癌症幸存者和战斗机。 我要求他离开这次会议，继续这次前往梅德福及其他地区的心爱的社区妮可·莫斯拉姆（Nicole Moselam）。
[Mossalam]: 下午好，大家。 感谢大家今天在这里。 感谢您今天所有帮助这样做的组织者和每个人。 我们相信您今天在这里，因为您分享了Martin Luther King博士的价值观。 在您的历史生活中如此勇敢地捍卫 您关心法律相同的保护。 您关心投票权。 您关心获得住房，就业，教育和医疗援助的机会。 而且，您担心我们可以向世界展示世界的和平，平等和最佳愿景的判断。 即使在这个黑暗的时期。 今天，我希望您学到了一些重要的东西，您进行了对话，激发了与邻居的联系，并在我们时代的挑战中找到了和平的时刻。 这些时刻很强大。 他们使我们想起了我们共同的人性和社区的抵抗。 但是最重要的是，我们记得那些带我们到这一刻的人的背后力量。 现在，他们要求我将我们共同创造的能量融为一体，并使之成为一个职位，这是对带领我们像一个亲爱的社区一样的行动的呼吁。 我对这项责任感到非常谦虚，但是我也决定利用这些时刻在我们今天在这里分享一些价值。 不要让这成为结局。 有三个指导原则，我认为金博士会敦促我们在我们一起前进时接受。 首先，金博士会提醒我们与尊重和诚实交流。 这会鼓励我们将我们的差异视为障碍，而是作为学习，成长和寻找普通土地的机会。 其次，金博士称我们为桥梁。 他相信真诚的信仰的力量，不仅是一种精神上的锚，而且是通过教派，表达和敬拜风格建立联系的一种手段。 当我们允许并让其他人进来时，信仰可以加入，帮助我们看到对方的神圣。 最后，金博士敦促我们团结社会不公，贫穷和冷漠。 他将恳求我们投票支持我们的良心，他们将抵制边缘化人民权利的强制，并以正直和目的行动。 因此，当我们离开这次会议时，我收取三个可加工的约会。 首先，与您的邻居互动。 超越表面相互作用。 它在社区空间，市政当局，公园，图书馆，咖啡店相遇。 潜力是无限的。 并进行重大对话。 他们彼此认识。 即使您感到不舒服，谈论尊重和诚实。 对于没有一点不适的增长。 连接首先从外观开始。 其次，让您的信仰成为团结的力量。 如果我在自然界中的清真寺，寺庙，教堂或安静的时刻找到她，请激发您的信仰激励您进行交流，学习和建造桥梁。 当西莉亚在今天在我们的演讲中提醒我，我们的一位共享先知说： 信仰，希望和爱。 愿您之间庆祝这一点。 但是其中最好的是爱。 就我自己的信仰传统而言，我认为它扩大了这一信息，直到您爱自己的兄弟，您对自己的爱。 现在，最后，成为公正，公平和真实的声音。 投票不仅是公民义务，而且是希望和责任的表达。 捍卫正确的东西。 鼓励其他人保持充满希望，坚定和爱的基于爱，即使世界使我们感到刺激或绝望。 并记住这样做，没有义务，并具有最佳的意图和正直。 金博士梦见了一个美国，那里的人们是根据他们性格的内容而不是皮肤的颜色来判断的。 我敢说，现在将添加到这一点，因为我们寻求用任意标签对更多的分裂。 他想象一个国家，黑暗被光驱逐出境，爱将敌人变成朋友。 这个梦想属于每个人。 我们每个人都拥有一块。 当我们输入时，这些作品会形成非凡的东西。 因此，当我们今天去这里时，我们将继续神圣的信心马丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King Jr. 金博士曾经说，并不是每个人都可以出名。 但是每个人都会变得很棒，因为伟大是由服务决定的。 因此，我今天邀请您所有人，当您离开这里时，参加此服务。 谢谢您今天在这里。 感谢您决心服务，并致力于实现金博士的梦想的承诺。 不仅是您的梦想，而且我相信所有战斗和战斗的人的梦想，以便我们都可以在我们中间相同，以便我们所有人都可以像人类一样爱自己。 谢谢。
[Terry Carter]: 很好，很好。 因此，通过参与其中，我将为我们的执行董事丽莎·克罗斯曼（Lisa Crossman）提供立场，以认可并感谢某些人。 向您展示对丽莎的热爱，并再增加几分钟。
[Crossman]: 握住麦克风。 所以，我不会呆很长时间。 我只是想说几句话。 如果我不知道，今年，西梅德福社区中心成立90周年。 哦是的。 为此掌声。 就是这样。 这是对我们社区的持久精神和不可动摇的支持的证词。 西梅德福社区中心成立于1935年，是黑人居民的一个小聚会场所。 多年来，这个社区的基石已经成为适应需求的变化并扩大服务的基石。 今年的主题是他的梦想作品，这有力地提醒了国王博士的观点所需的集体努力。 打扰一下。 金博士是赋予黑人权力的有力捍卫者，不懈地反对种族压迫。 这样的事件对于保持金博士的精神和使命至关重要。 当社区加入如此重大事件时，总是很鼓舞。 希望您在这一年中加入我们的会议。 对我来说，这是一个非常特殊的一年。 我儿子参加圣 拉斐尔在这里上学。 我来了，保罗父亲，我每周三天在早上在教堂里看到它。 你们中的许多人来参加我们的活动，我们在您的活动中。 所以这只是一个很好的提醒 所有的辛勤工作，每年的艰难日子，我们在年初就会举办此活动。 它确实为我们和我们所做的工作确立了基调。 因此，今年我们有一些非常奇妙而伟大的事情。 我们希望您在1990年代庆祝我们，这将是2025年秋天的周末。 我要特别感谢St. 拉斐尔（Raphael）教区，比尔·卡迪根（Bill Cadigan），父亲保罗（Paul）和布莱克小姐（Miss。 我们还要感谢Mystic NAACP分支区域，Banco Needham和Wegmans对这一动态活动的赞助。 没有您的关联，这将是不可能的。 是的，是的，是的。 我还要感谢一些特别的人。 因此，如果我说你的名字，请问自己。 在。 凯特利夫人 玛丽莲，夫人 Charmaine，Grant先生，夫人。 雷切尔夫人 雪莉，现在起床。 增加。 在。 阿丽塔，谢谢。 这些女人帮助我们团结了整个活动。 在。 梅琳达也在那里。 所以非常感谢。 我很高兴您看起来很顺利。 特别感谢我们理事会的成员。 同样，如果您可以简单地起床。 布莱恩·柯林斯和太太。 我认为梅琳达·恩伯恩（Melinda Amban）和迈克尔·伯格曼（Michael Bergman）在房间里。 和大卫·基尔帕特里克（David Kilpatrick）。 有，大卫·基尔帕特里克（David Kilpatrick）。 菲尔不在这里，而是要感谢大家的建议和领导。 他们今年对我们有很大的支持，我们预计会有更多的年份。 感谢凯文·哈灵顿（Kevin Harrington）和他的团队。 凯文做得很好。 他给了。 他做了动态的工作。 然后，我们很高兴拥有它。 当然，最后，但并非最不重要的一点是，人，神话，传奇，特里·E·卡特（Terry E. Carter）。 是的，是的，是的，是的。 现在，感谢您的创造力和灵感。 这是美好的一天。 时间是一个美丽的礼物。 你和我们在一起。 我们简直不感激。 所以非常感谢。
[Terry Carter]: 一切都很好。 谢谢丽莎。 再次。 每个人都可以很棒，因为任何人都可以服务。 这些是预言的话。 您不必拥有大学学位。 您不需要做主题，动词接受即可服务。 您只需要拥有一个充满自由的心和一个由爱产生的灵魂即可。 当我们离开这个地方时，我们让我们的心充满自由，我们的灵魂是由爱产生的。 上帝保佑你。 有一个美好的下午。 星期二可能是兄弟的一天。 可能是一天的假期。
[Unidentified]: 美丽的。
[Terry Carter]: 你的相机在哪里？ 为什么不呢？ 根据公然的自我宣传，如果您有兴趣，我会有一些诗歌，并在桌子旁有CD，所以如果您有兴趣，请来看我。 非常好，最后，但并非最不重要的一点是，我只想在8月23日星期日提及 我深表歉意，2月23日，在萨默维尔学院大街31号的萨默维尔社区的浸信会教堂五个小时。 史黛西·克莱顿（Stacey Clayton）举办她的年度福音音乐会。 你不能输。 因此，将其放在2月23日（星期日）的日历上，五个小时，萨默维尔社区的浸信会教堂，史黛西·克莱顿福音（Stacey Clayton Gospel）的年度音乐会，以庆祝黑人历史的月份。