For Immediate Release: February 14, 2020
Contact: Heather Cabral | 202-550-6880 | heather@westendstrategy.com
Erin Williams | 202-748-0699 | ewilliams@faithinaction.org
Today, the group meets with Pete Buttigieg at 10 a.m. PST by video. The conversation will be livestreamed on the Faith in Action Facebook page.
Las Vegas, Nev. – Day 2 of Faith in Action’s (FIA) 2020 National Faith Forum focused on speaking directly to candidates about issues that impact our communities most: immigration, mass incarceration, and gun violence. Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer joined FIA executive director Rev. Alvin Herring, Faith in Action East Bay staffer Yaqueline Valencia Lombera, and Bonita Fahy for a candidate conversation where audience members spoke with Steyer about immigrant justice, gun violence prevention, mass incarceration, and dismantling white supremacy.
“I would not be running for president if I did not believe in God,” Steyer said. “Restoring racial and social and environmental justice to the United States of America is … not something I take remotely lightly. When I look at what’s going on, I see the American government committing crimes against humanity. White supremacy is domestic terrorism and we are going to treat it as domestic terrorism.”
You can watch the full livestream of their conversation by clicking here to visit the Faith in Action Facebook Page.
Steyer also spoke with a select group of FIA leaders who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system, in a discussion led by Brittany White, decarceration campaign manager for the LIVE FREE campaign.
Earlier in the day, FIA deputy director and director of clergy organizing Rev. Michael-Ray Mathews led a conversation resistance, belonging and love in the multi-faith movement for justice with Rev. Billy Michael Honor Senior Pastor of Pulse Church in Atlanta and Director of Faith Organizing with FIA partner the New Georgia Project; Imam Asad Zaman, Executive Director of MAS-Minnesota and clergy leader with FIA federation ISAIAH; and Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones, Senior Minister at First Unitarian San Jose and clergy leader with FIA federation PACT San Jose.
You can watch the full livestream of their conversation by clicking here to visit the Faith in Action Facebook Page.
Today at 10 a.m. PST, democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg will join the Faith Forum via video conference for a candidate conversation.
At 8:45 a.m. PT, national clergy organizer Megan Black will lead a discussion about what is required of people of faith and moral courage in the actual work of organizing our communities in 2020. Joining the discussion will be Catalina Morales, coaching and formation manager for LA RED/Faith in Action; Nicole Barnes, director of voter engagement & operations for FIA federataion Faith in Indiana; and Koach Baruch Frazier a Black/Queer/Trans rabbinical student at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
Both events will be livestreamed from the Faith in Action Facebook page, and live tweeted from the Faith in Action National account, using the #FaithForum2020 hashtag.
For coverage information, photos or to schedule an interview, please contact Heather Cabral at 202-550-6880 and heather@westendstrategy.com, or Erin Williams at 202-748-0699 and ewilliams@faithinaction.org.
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