SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – MLK Jr. Family Services is partnering with the Springfield City Library and Springfield Cultural Partnership to bring the ‘Be Love’ movement to the 413.
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Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that “Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” On Friday in Atlanta at the King Center and here in Springfield at the MLK Jr Family Service Center, the community is making their pledge to Be Love.
“We’re bringing this initiative here to our city, to our region, as a way to really do, you know, boost up courageous acts of love and compassion and kindness that we all can stand to have with one another,” said Shannon Rudder, CEO of the MLK Jr. Family Service Center.
The Be love movement has a three-pronged call to action:
- Be educated on what it means to Be Love;
- Build inward character and outward community and;
- Be a part of creating a more just, humane, equitable world
The city of Springfield playing their part by launching a public engagement social justice art movement to center the power of love.
“We have puzzle pieces because we each are parts of the puzzle, right of being love and demonstrating that through arts and culture, right here in our community,” said Rudder.
This community project invites everyone to participate either individually or communally by decorating puzzle pieces with color pencils or markers just as long as your decorating with heart. Through arts and culture, they hope to demonstrate the power of community to develop their movement, one artist at a time.
“We have these puzzle pieces, they’re going to be at our community centers and are gonna be everywhere in the libraries,” said Keshawn Dodds, Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club Family Center. “To be a part of it, that starts with one little piece and it grows to be something so we want to make sure that the city is flooded with love, we just disseminate and push it out. This is one of the best ways to do it with this whole program.”
You can find these Puzzle piece packets all Springfield City Library locations, local youth serving organizations.
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