Community Responders Network

05/23/2022

https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2022/05/buffalo-has-a-critical-lesson-for-pennsylvania-opinion.html

White supremacy has become America’s most lethal terrorist threat.

11/26/2021

Please attend a candle lighting ceremony in solidarity with Dickinson's Jewish Community Sunday night at 8pm in the Hub. Masks are required.

Earlier today, stickers invoking the likeness of Adolph Hi**er were found defacing the sign outside The Asbell Center for Jewish Life and on a poster for an anti-racist program featured on the Weiss Center for the Arts display board.

Antisemitism and other forms of white supremacy have no home at Dickinson. The Asbell Center for Jewish Life is here for students and community members who need support, and stands with other marginalized communities who are also impacted by white supremacy.

Pictured here and transcribed below is the college's statement on the incidents and ongoing investigation. If you have any information on this matter or those responsible, please contact DPS at 717-245-1349.

To the Dickinson community:

Earlier today, stickers bearing a resemblance to Adolf Hi**er were placed on the Asbell Center for Jewish Life sign as well as the Weiss Center for the Arts display on High Street. This antisemitic act, which we are investigating as a hate crime, was done just days before Jewish members of our community begin to celebrate Hanukkah on Sunday.

We do not know who posted the stickers or if they were members of our community. What we do know is that we do not tolerate hate and we do not tolerate discriminatory acts. Every member of the Dickinson community must work to create a culture that is respectful and inclusive.

If you have any information on this incident, please report it to the Department of Public Safety at 717-245-1349. We regret that this incident occurred, and we are working diligently to find the individuals responsible.

Sincerely,

John E. Jones III ’77, P’11
Interim President

George Stroud
Vice President & Dean of Student Life

Rabbi Marley Weiner
Director of the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life

03/31/2021

If you do not see tonight's vigil livestreaming on this page after 6pm, go directly to https://www.facebook.com/BCMPeace and it should appear there.

The event is rain or shine and will move into the spacious sanctuary of the Hadee Mosque if it is raining.

bcmPEACE - Brethren Community Ministries - Sharing Things That Make for Peace

03/30/2021

Join us for an interfaith vigil in Harrisburg or virtually, for the victims of the shooting in Atlanta. Come to witness that love is stronger than hate.

Organized by:
- Community Responders Network;
- Governor Wolf's Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs
- Honorable Rep. Patty Kim - Pa House Of Representatives.

- When: Wednesday, March 31. Gather at 6 pm;
- Where: In front of the Ahmadiyya Mosque, 245 Division St, Harrisburg, PA 17110;

- You may park in the lot adjacent to the mosque;
- Please bring a lawn chair, wear a mask and keep socially distant..

04/07/2020

At this time of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Community Responders Network reaches out to you with our continued commitment to work with our diverse and beloved
communities. It is in a community imbued with love, compassion and interdependence that we can together respond to the needs of our families, neighborhoods and
communities.

The Community Responders Network (CRN) is a grassroots coalition committed to confronting and preventing incidents of bias in Central PA. The work of the CRN is built
on the understanding that Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was right in a practical sense, as well as in the moral sense, when he observed that, “Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.”

While CRN remains committed to counteracting incidents of bias and hate against all individuals, we are particularly concerned at this time of Covid 19 about the xenophobic
and racist acts directed at Americans of Chinese or other Asian origin. We stand in solidarity with Asian communities in Central PA and around the world. We call on reason and antiracism to dispel myths and stereotypes about COVID19. It is impacting all of us, no matter where we are or what country we come from. CRN stands with all of our neighbors, and communities. Together we will get through this.

At these times, it is helpful to reflect on these words of wisdom from Howard Zinn:

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to
act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
So, the difficult but imperative task of our times is supplanting fear with strength, hate with love, and despair with hope. This work puts us on the path toward healing and resiliency for a nation that promotes human rights and values all of us. And please, take care of yourself. We need you, and your community needs you.

May we come together- in strength and love- and remember that no matter how hard, how dark and how lost we may feel; we have each other and will get through this together.

The Community Responders actively responds to incidents of bias. Such incidents can be reported to the Response Team at 717-585-0488.