Many voices against hate at the Twelve Corners

Many voices against hate at the Twelve Corners
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3/12/17 [Photo: David Kramer]

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From the Jewish section in Mt. Hope Cemetery

For the second time in six months, the Twelve Corners in Brighton was a place of hope and solidarity. In October, we gathered in the town square for an anti-racism vigil.   See An anti-racism vigil and Black Lives Matter signs in Brighton

Yesterday, in the wake of the desecration of Jewish graves on Stone Road and two bomb threats at the Jewish Community Center, several hundred people stood in solidarity against hate crimes at a Rally Against Anti-Semitism.

While the event organizers, Hannah Brown and Milo Lomi, are Jewish, the rally was designed to bring together a diversity of groups and social justice activists. As members of the Anti-Fascist League, Hannah and Milo are especially concerned about the upsurge of white supremacist activity in our area.

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Brighton Town Supervisor William Moehle

Brighton has both thriving Jewish and Muslim communities, and it was inspirational to see so many members of the Muslim community at the Twelve Corners in solidarity. Brighton Town Supervisor William Moehle had that morning been at the JCC lending support.  Bill said that when the JCC was threatened, members of the Islamic Center in Brighton immediately called him, asking how they could help.

On Sunday we saw what can happen when people of good will gather to condemn hate.

Filmmaker Mara Ahmed spoke at the event and explains the message of the rally:

We are in this together, so if there is any kind of hate crime, if there is any kind of attack against the Jewish community, the Muslim community, the LGBTQ community, we are in it together and this is a very public way of making this statement.

Mara also offered a photo album

.See also On The Muslims I Know from George Payne

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Judy Gohringer. [Photo: David Kramer]

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Provided by Mara Ahmed. Mara second to the left

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Photo: Mara Ahmed

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Nazareth College students. Mara third from the left. [Photo; David Kramer]

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Ray Ray Mitrano (left) biked in for the event. [Photo: Mara Ahmed]

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Jack Bradigan Spula also biked in for the event. [Photo: David Kramer]

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Photo: Mara Ahmed

SEE ALSO

An anti-racism vigil and Black Lives Matter signs in Brighton

On “The Muslims I Know” from George Payne

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Welcome to Talker of the Town! My name is David Kramer. I have a Ph.D in English and teach at Keuka College. I am a former and still active Fellow at the Nazareth College Center for Public History and a Storyteller in Residence at the SmallMatters Institute. Over the years, I have taught at Monroe Community College, the Rochester Institute of Technology and St. John Fisher College. I have published numerous Guest Essays, Letters, Book Reviews and Opinion pieces in The New York Times, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Buffalo News, the Rochester Patriot, the Providence Journal, the Providence Business News, the Brown Alumni Magazine, the New London Day, the Boston Herald, the Messenger Post Newspapers, the Wedge, the Empty Closet, the CITY, Lake Affect Magazine and Brighton Connections. My poetry appears in The Criterion: An International Journal in English and Rundenalia and my academic writing in War, Literature and the Arts and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Starting in February 2013, I wrote for three Democratic and Chronicle  blogs, "Make City Schools Better," "Unite Rochester," and the "Editorial Board." When my tenure at the D & C  ended, I wanted to continue conversations first begun there. And start new ones.  So we created this new space, Talker of the Town, where all are invited to join. I don’t like to say these posts are “mine.” Very few of them are the sole product of my sometimes overheated imagination. Instead, I call them partnerships and collaborations. Or as they say in education, “peer group work.” Talker of the Town might better be Talkers of the Town. The blog won’t thrive without your leads, text, pictures, ideas, facebook shares, tweets, comments and criticisms.

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