Non-violence, social justice, diversity, & tolerance

Our key values: Non-violence, social justice, diversity, & tolerance.

I noted below the assertion in several articles that CER and the Rally for Social Justice are involved in violent direct action is incorrect. The report said,

The application by the Center for Education Rights requested permission to stage a non-confrontational rally in a location apart from the Socialist Reform Movement's gathering. Center organizers staged the same sort of counter-rally at Valley Forge last year to protest a Socialist Reform Movement gathering there. The events ended with four arrests and some injuries, Litterst said.

Mr. Litterst is a spokesperson for the National Park in Yorktown; he missed the events in Valley Forge last September. Here's how one reporter noted the violence:

The lone incident of violence — a fist-fight between a member of the National Socialist Movement and members of the Anti-Racist Action Network — resulted in an arrest.

While I respect non-violent direction action, I believe that violent direction action is overstepping the bounds. And further, I suggest that doing something positive, rather than meeting hatred with hatred, is the true, and best, way of creating change.

If you are for non-violence, social justice, diversity, and tolerance, then, please, join us at the Yorktown Rally for Social Justice. And, if you want to be a part in the creation of the Rally, please contact us. We are looking for people who want to help out, for people who want to create something positive.