details of this event are still unfolding.
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CANDLELIGHT PROTEST REMEMBERING GEORGE FLOYD and racial injustice
SUNDAY, MAY 31st @ 7PM
PASADENA CITY HALL (Meet near the Mack and Jackie Robinson statue)
Parking with validation is available at the Holly Street Parking Garage located directly behind FBCP. For families with young children, please see information at the end of this post.
As followers of Christ, we believe that we are all created in the image of God and worthy of love and dignity. We also believe we are all connected as the body of Christ. When one part of the body is in pain or is being abused, therefore, the entire body feels the injustice.
Across our nation many people are in pain for the unconscionable killing of George Floyd and so many others. We are in pain, too. Our leadership, in partnership with other local churches, has decided to take action to stand up against the injustice and racial violence that continues to be deeply entrenched in our country.
We invite you to join us Sunday evening for a night of nonviolent action at Pasadena City Hall. We will be wearing masks and observing physical distancing because this action is about the protection of life as sacred. We invite you to bring a candle (real or electric) to light.
Part of this action will be eight minutes of sustained noise to represent the eight minutes officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on George Floyd's neck, lynching him while his cries were ignored. Please bring something (bells, noisemakers, pots to bang, your voice to wail) to fill the air with sound during that time.
Will you join us and be counted as one who stood in nonviolent action against the brutality that continues to take the lives of our brothers and sisters of color and bind us to systems that are inherently racist and unjust? We believe this is our calling as people of God and followers of Christ. We hope you will join with us and say no more.
-Barbara Walker, FBCP Board Moderator
This event is now closed to youth and children because we would not be able to guarantee their safety in such a large crowd.
This event is sponsored by First Baptist Church of Pasadena, All Saints Church, Community Bible Church of Pasadena, Fellowship Church, First AME Church, First Congregational Church, First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, Lake Avenue Church, Knox, Missio Church, Missiongathering, Neighborhood Church, Pasadena Church, First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena, Pasadena Covenant Church, Pasadena Foursquare Church, Pasadena Mennonite Church, Rose City Church, Throop Unitarian Universalist Church, Unite Church, the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Greater Pasadena, the Clergy Community Coalition, and LA Voice.