8:30 – 9:00

REGISTRATION
COFFEE & BAGELS

 

9:00 – 9:10

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION 

 

Vanessa Harris - Member: Women Confronting Racism

Rosemary Spatafora - Member: Women Confronting Racism

 

9:15 – 10:15

MORNING KEYNOTE: 
Bishop Bonnie Perry: “ Is White Christian Nationalism Religion?”

 

10:15 - 10: 25

BREAK

 

10:25 – 11:25

BREAKOUT SESSIONS GROUP A 

 

• JeDonna Dinges: “Fighting Back: My Battle With the White Supremacist Next Door!” 

 

Introduction: Katie Reiter - Member: Women Confronting Racism

What happens  when you wake up and a white supremacist lives right next door? Join this session and hear Je Donna Dinges’ gripping story of her fight against the racist Grosse Pointe Park neighbor who put a Klu Klux Klan flag in his window facing her home and her battle to ensure it doesn’t happen to anyone else in the state of Michigan. 

 

• Dan Korobkin, Legal Director of the ACLU of Michigan, “How Recent Supreme Court Decisions Have Eroded the Separation Between Church and State.”

Introduction
In this session,  Michigan ACLU Legal Director, Dan Korobkin, will review how recent Supreme Court decisions and other legal developments have eroded the separation of church and state, and why that’s dangerous to all of us. 

 

• Rabbi Jeffrey Falick, Rabbi of the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism: - “Establishment or Free Exercise? How Christian Nationalists Have Broken Through the Wall of Separation”  

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Rabbi Falick will explore how Christian nationalist groups like “the Watchmen” have dismantled Jefferson’s “Wall of Separation” by constructing a Supreme Court more concerned with issues of 17th-century England than the challenges of religiously pluralistic 21st-century America. As both a Jew and a secular humanist, he will look at how this has worked to promote conservative Christianity at the expense of religious liberalism, religious minorities, and non-believers.

 

 

11: 25 - 11:35

BREAK

 

11:35 - 12:35

BREAKOUT SESSIONS GROUP B

 

• Stephanie Crider, activist and minister: “Experiencing White Christian Nationalism Up Close & What We Can Do to Change This”
   

• JeDonna Dinges: “Fighting Back: My Battle With the White Supremacist Next Door!” 

 

What happens  when you wake up and a white supremacist lives right next door? Join this session and hear Je Donna Dinges’ gripping story of her fight against the racist Grosse Pointe Park neighbor who put a Klu Klux Klan flag in his window facing her home and her battle to ensure it doesn’t happen to anyone else in the state of Michigan. 

 

 

• Dan Korobkin, Legal Director of the ACLU of Michigan, “How Recent Supreme Court Decisions Have Eroded the Separation Between Church and State.”

In this session,  Michigan ACLU Legal Director, Dan Korobkin, will review how recent Supreme Court decisions and other legal developments have eroded the separation of church and state, and why that’s dangerous to all of us.

 

 

12:35 – 1:35

LUNCH

 

1:45 – 2:45

AFTERNOON KEYNOTE:  
Former Congresswoman  Brenda Lawrence “ Is White Christian Nationalism Politics?”

 

2:45 – 2:50

OFFICIAL CLOSE OF CONFERENCE 

 

2:55 - 3:45

BONUS SESSION: 
Nomi Joyrich from JFASD “- Michigan’s New Voting Rules and Regulations “