Durham C.A.N. with guests Tinu Diver & Tim Conder

Episode 12: Durham C.A.N. with Guests Tinu Diver & Tim Conder We are excited to have two guests on the show today from Durham Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods (locally known as Durham CAN). Tinu Diver and Reverend Tim Conder join our hosts to discuss the work they do with CAN to help our local community with housing, criminal justice, and broad-based organizing. They talk about the importance of relational meetings to build connections, trust and relational power; as well as ideas for how to best get our communities to organize around getting the policing culture they want in their community. Durham CAN’s website: www.durhamcan.org We also added an extra section to the end of this episode so our hosts BJ and Drew can share their thoughts on the Breonna Taylor verdict that was announced last week. They discuss their hopes for police reform and accountability that will hopefully come as a way to honor Breonna’s life. Article from The Marshall Project about the legal reasoning behind the Breonna Taylor Verdict: www.themarshallproject.org/2020/08/08/why-it-s-not-so-simple-to-arrest-the-cops-who-shot-breonna-taylor More info about Atinuke "Tinu" Akintola Diver: Grounded in the spirit of Charles Hamilton Houston’s adage that a lawyer is either a social engineer or a social parasite, Atinuke “Tinu” Akintola Diver grounds her creative, legal, and community practices in ways that seek to build and regenerate, rather than to purely extract and exploit. A first-generation American and the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Tinu was born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland and currently resides with her family in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earned her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law, a Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of North Carolina School of Social Work, and a Certificate in Documentary Arts from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Tinu serves as Lead Organizer and Executive Director of Durham CAN and a documentarian working on a number of film and audio projects. More info about Tim Conder: Tim Conder is the founding pastor of Emmaus Way, an activist and progressive faith community in Durham, NC. He has been organizing with Durham CAN for over 15 years and currently serves as the co-Chair of the Strategy Team. Tim has a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina. His research includes an ethnography of the Moral Movement in NC and he writes on the key differences between social movement/protest based organizing and the broad based organizing, social justice pedagogies, and critical whiteness. Tim was a co-founder of EmergentVillage and is currently a co-founder of the Black Mountain School Theology & Community. He is the author of three trade books including Organizing Church and the co-editor/author of an academic book, Mentoring Students of Color: Naming the Politics of Race, Social Class, Gender, and Power.