Nashawn Williams Rally Summary…
[cross posted from HIMC] I think all of us who attended today’s Nashawn Williams Rally in Plainfield would say that it was a true success. Our goals were to assure that the Williams family knew that Connecticut stood behind them in their outrage to the racial violence that was perpetrated upon Nashawn. We were honored that Nashawn’s mother and her fiance were able to attend and speak at the rally. And she saw that many people stood in solidarity with her in outrage at, and quest for, justice from the Plainfield Police, City Officials and residents of Plainfield. Though a number of Plainfield residents were hiding behind closed doors in the Town Hall whose steps we took for the day, there were a number of brave Plainfield residents who joined us and spoke out against the racism in Plainfield and in support of the Williams family. We hope that this visible presence will begin to allow Plainfield to openly discuss and deal with its institutionalized racism and white supremacy and realize that we are a human nation not a white nation! Additionally, a number of dialogues have begun in that part of the state that will hopefully make today the start and not the end of a vital discourse around a dialogue and action of how to live as a human family and city, not a racist town. We had plenty of media coverage and though they rarely get the facts or coverage right, we hope you are able to check out the amazing solidarity we had today. I am including links to an audio of today’s rally and some pictures I took.
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Any TBLG person who reads this should take a click at the top of the posting to the same post at The Hartford Undercurrent. Read the comment written by Tiffany which is comment number 10. For any person, or mainstream movement in the LGBT community who doesn’t think all of this is related please think again.
Thanks Jeri for doing a cross post of your summary. Thanks for the pictures and the audio.
Does anyone know where one can get a full story about what happened here from beginning to the present?
Steve,
We have talked to the mother and have many of the details. For what is publicly stated see the NAACP CT site at:
http://waterburynaacp.org/news.htm
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