Professor al-Hibri insisted that her experiences lecturing in Islamic countries on topics like democracy and the role of women -- and meeting with legislators and mullahs -- showed that advocacy of change could get a hearing if it was "honestly related" to the Koran and the hadith, the sayings of Muhammad.
Even advocacy of peaceful change results in repression.
Sledd's advocacy of social change and an evolving understanding of biblical texts came at a high personal price, however.
"I maintain my reservations despite my decades of advocacy to change," he said.
It was wonderful to hear her profess the commonality of compassion and wisdom at the heart of all the world's major faiths even as she advocated a form of non-violent advocacy for change that arose from various corners of the world as well: from Tolstoy, Thoreau, Gandhi, King and Mandela.
The churches in Zimbabwe and their leaders are one of the few mechanisms left to support both advocacy for change and delivery of vital services.
But King's advocacy of forced structural change, economic democracy and the democratization of capital, if you will, portended a significant limitation of capitalist profits and perquisites and posed a threat of such magnitude that it had to be stopped, for America's capitalists had no idea how far the Poor People's Campaign could go and what it might accomplish.
But officials at the company are trying to quietly defuse a campaign organized by the civil rights advocacy group Color of Change, which says it has collected more than 100,000 signatures on a petition demanding that Coca-Cola and other companies decline to sponsor the convention.
According to Rashad Robinson, the executive director of the advocacy group Color of Change, the lack of accountability reveals an ugly truth about the fight for racial justice: Policy prescriptions won't be enough to create real change.
I sat down with the Toronto-born showrunner and Rashad Robinson, the executive director of the civil rights advocacy group Color of Change, to talk about the place for narratives like Seven Seconds, and why they are integral for real change.
