{"id":24426,"date":"2015-05-28T16:27:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=24426"},"modified":"2016-07-19T11:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:10:52","slug":"harrisonburg-vigil-protests-deaths-of-young-black-men-when-something-happens-in-my-hometown-i-carry-it-with-me-says-cjp-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2015\/harrisonburg-vigil-protests-deaths-of-young-black-men-when-something-happens-in-my-hometown-i-carry-it-with-me-says-cjp-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrisonburg vigil protests deaths of young black men: &#8216;When something happens in my hometown&#8230;I carry it with me,&#8217; says CJP student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 35 people gathered in Court Square\u00a0<span class=\"\"><span class=\"\">on Saturday [May 23, 2015]\u00a0<\/span><\/span> for a\u00a0vigil\u00a0protesting the deaths of young black men that has made news in Baltimore, New York and other cities across the country over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Jodie Geddes, a graduate student at Eastern Mennonite University who is attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/\">Summer Peacebuilding Institute<\/a> [SPI], helped organize the event with help from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nenava.org\/\">Northeast Neighborhood Association<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia-organizing.org\/\">Virginia Organizing<\/a>. She said Americans shouldn\u2019t\u00a0turn a blind eye to events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf something happens in my hometown in New York, I carry it with me,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen something happens in Burundi or any other country, we can feel that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24429\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/05\/Vigil-inset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24429 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/05\/Vigil-inset-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"(5\/23\/15) - (Harrisonburg) Police Violence Vigil in Court Square. (Kelly Clark\/Daily News-Record)\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kelly Clark\/Daily News-Record)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stan Maclin, leader of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia-organizing.org\/category\/chapters\/the-valley\/\">Harrisonburg chapter<\/a> of Virginia Organizing, called the number of high-profile confrontations between black men and police \u201calarming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will continue to get out of hand like it did in the \u201960s,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of people say, \u2018Don\u2019t talk about the past\u2019\u2026 we need to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maclin said the only way to bring about change is for everyone to stand together\u00a0regardless of skin color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat won\u2019t happen if we don\u2019t come together like we are today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Apesough, a Harrisonburg resident from Nigeria [who also attended SPI], said he attended the\u00a0vigil\u00a0because he wants to find \u201cways we can support the idea of working through this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apesough said civic organizations should work together with law enforcement to restore community relations and maintain peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be peaceful,\u201d he said. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be violent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Courtesy of the Daily\u00a0News-Record<\/i><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 35 people gathered in Court Square\u00a0on Saturday [May 23, 2015]\u00a0 for a\u00a0vigil\u00a0protesting the deaths of young black men that has made news in Baltimore, New York and other cities <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2015\/harrisonburg-vigil-protests-deaths-of-young-black-men-when-something-happens-in-my-hometown-i-carry-it-with-me-says-cjp-student\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Harrisonburg vigil protests deaths of young black men: &#8216;When something happens in my hometown&#8230;I carry it with me,&#8217; 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