Oaklanders for Peace > Oaklanders for Peace, Justice, Healing Planning Meeting 1
September 2, 2010

Barack Obama Promotes a Culture of Empathy cultivate a sense of empathy - to put yourself in other people's shoes - to see the world from their eyes. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen......more

Peace Keepers Reconvening Meeting -  Oakland Neighbors Gathering - Community Dialogue- “Let’s Talk It Over”  Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall - Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 2:00 – 4:00 pm. This is a planning meeting and your input is needed to gather a critical mass of people to stand for a peaceful response to the November sentencing. There will be a series of Community Leadership Dialogues, to show the world that Oakland is  a Model City that cares and stands together for Peace, Justice and Healing.

Oakland Peacekeepers Planning Meeting 1 (2010-09-02) from Edwin Rutsch on Vimeo.
(Meeting minutes in Word Format)

Attendees The following is a list of meeting attendees.
			Edwin Rutsch Photos, video, webpage Center for Building a Culture of Empathy Empathy Team I hope to interview all the participants on their stories, experiences and views on the value of empathy. How can we build a culture of empathy?
			Mutima Imani Convener - Facilitator 510 205 4069 MutimaImani.com                                                                    Empathy Interview
			Empathy Introduction	Empathy and Justice	Building a Culture of Empathy	Empathy and Oakland Peace Keepers
			Part of the peacekeepers mission is to build relationship and have empathy for the police as part of the community. I believe that there's been a divide between the police and the community and that it's sort of set up martial law, where the police are not empathetic to the social conditions that people live in, and that the people in our community are not empathetic to the police's responsibility and what they are there for. So that we can come together and begin community dialogs that would be empathetic on both parts,  and that it would be a healing in the community

Matthew Graves Bay Area Community Ministries/ Scotlan Youth and Family Center Claudia Miller Mediation, Restorative Justice   Sikander Iqbal Youth Uprising Nicole Lee Urban Peace Movement   David Wofford Community Development Mahasin Abdul-Salaam Genesis CA   M. Ababio COMTO Susan Mernit OaklandLocal Multimedia tools   Alan Jones Restorative Justice Seeds Cephus Johnson 'Uncle Bobby' Empathy Interview, So empathy is an important aspect of this movement moving forward. Not just black people feeling the pain, but people of other colors also feeling the same pain and standing to help bring about the change.   Karissa Cole Justice Groups J E Watkins Bishop Jack London Chapel overcomerswithhope       Kwan Booth OaklandLocal   Wilson Riles Oakland Community Action Network Amahra Hicks Faces - East Bay Church of Religious Science   Nigel Henry Mastery Unleashed Joanne Mitchell BayNVC   Lea Stotland Empathy Team BayNVC Annie Symens-Bucher Bay Non-Violence Committee   Isaac Taggart City of Oakland Empathy Interview, You have to have empathy and common sense. Buccet Belafonte   Kitty Kelly Epstein Office of the Mayor Jabari Shaw President, Black Students Union, Laney College   Tracey Bell-Borden One Ankh Entertainment Michael Walker spoken word artist Empathy Interview, For empathy, you shouldn't wait until a mother loses her son to a senseless murder. You should be talking empathy before. Have dialogue with police to understand our children. You can't have empathy if you have strangers governing a community.  If I respect you, then I can be empathetic to your situation. Without respect you can't even have empathy   Angela Spell Consulting Strategist (do interview)