Summary: <p><a href="http://conference.otheringandbelonging.org/rev-dr-william-j-barber-ii" target="_blank">Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II</a> is a pastor and social justice advocate building a broad-based grassroots movement, grounded in the moral tenets of faith-based communities and the constitution, to confront systemic racism, poverty, environmental devastation, the war economy and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism in America today.</p><p>Barber delivered the closing keynote speech on April 10 at the <a href="http://conference.otheringandbelonging.org/agenda2019" target="_blank">2019 Othering & Belonging conference</a>, organized by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley. The Othering & Belonging conferences are dynamic and uniquely curated events that aim to elevate work nationally and globally in "othering and belonging," a critical lens developed by the Haas Institute under the leadership of <a href="https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/johnpowell" target="_blank">john a. powell</a> for defining structural exclusion and inclusion, and an analytical and applied framework which we can use to design and advance institutions, narratives and policies that support a more fully inclusive “we.”</p><p>The 2019 conference highlighted models of bridging that give us examples of how to build and sustain a diverse, pluralistic society underpinned by a new, inclusive social compact where group-based difference and forms of identity — whether race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, among others — are not dehumanized nor are they subsumed, but instead are celebrated and included in our imagined and real community.</p><p><a href="http://conference.otheringandbelonging.org/about-the-conference" target="_blank">Learn more about the Othering and Belonging conferences.</a></p><p>Listen and read a transcript on <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/04/14/berkeley-talks-rev-dr-william-j-barber-ii/" target="_blank"><em>Berkeley News.</em></a></p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
