regarding christian wolff
503.381.2032
christian@christianwolff.com
[Christian Wolff is] the conscience of the [Rotary Club of Fort Wayne Peace & Justice] committee.
– Chuck Wolfe, Committee Co-Chair, along with Christian Wolff, Committee Co-Chair of the Rotary Club of Fort Wayne Peace & Justice Committee | July 14, 2020 | Email (Cc: Jeff Peat, Rotary Club of Fort Wayne President as of July, 1, 2020)*
Christian,
First, let me “weigh-in” to your emails of why the word justice is critical for any discussion of peace. I see the advocacy and achieving of justice as one of the steps to attain peace in one’s life, one’s community, and world. Justice, as opposed to injustice, means equity, respect, due process, and love. Injustice is the opposite. The realpolitik of our world is that we live in a just and unjust world constantly in flux. The disparity in socio-economic, abilities, ethnicity, and class all factor into what makes our world always in a state of unjustness. One could argue as Karl Marx did that everyone is in the chains of inequality and injustice, even the richest person is in chains, of some sort. Leaders like Martin Luther King and many others expose that injustice in our society when it directly affects human beings and ourselves and shows us how it robs all human beings including ourselves of our innate dignity and worth. Focused action is needed to confront injustice. I agree with you and Martin Luther King one cannot have a dynamic peace without living and seeking dynamic justice.
I am not averse in creating an tension through our P&J committee to promote both peace and justice as long that it respects the boundaries of Rotary International, our Rotary Club, and our committee. I believe our name has to be in congruence with our mission and how are we are connected to Rotary at all levels.
The questions I ask in regards to our Peace & Justice Committee are we tasked to primarily educate ourselves and the greater community or be a major advocate or both? Are we to educate primarily to stimulate ourselves or others to action or do we primarily advocate where we see injustice in our ourselves and our greater community? If we were acting purely as private citizens we would determine our own direction and actions. But yet our P&J committee is the Fort Wayne Rotary Club Peace and Justice Committee part of Rotary International so we represent worldwide members and our local members. It is a dilemma that we need to address to discuss further this Thursday. I appreciate your strong beliefs on the naming issue. You are the conscience of our committee.
PowerPoint: Both of us have been busy so I put together this first blush of the PowerPoint that will we once we update it and then hare with the whole committee this Thursday. Please add, edit, delete as you see fit. It is very rough. I am on the road today from 10:30 to 12:00 noon so that would be a very good time to call so we can discuss this Otherwise I am available by phone from 1:00 to 3:00 pm today as well. Thanks.
be amazed,
Charles (Chuck) E. Wolfe, MS, CNP, OCVN
President
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Assisting Emerging Nonprofits to Grow to the Next Level
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* Email entitled: Rotary—Peace & Justice Committee Name Issue & PowerPoint
[W]e were not, like, expecting anything and now I think we got one that’s gonna
be in Rome and one in Australia and it’s been in Africa, so wow – yeah, wow – like none of this,
none of this was planned out or anything.
[I]f [Christian Wolff] hadn’t suggested that we submit this to [the Hobnobben Film Festival] it would have just been a video we made.
– Marcel Jones, aka FloStorm, aka Breon Jones, multi-media artist | video interview*
[Y]eah just the idea of it – just the idea of submitting to a film festival – if [Christian Wolff] who was a film reviewer didn’t say anything about it – I didn’t, I didn’t even know about that – yeah – I’m just being honest because I’m just – I’m music side, I don’t – I didn’t know about film festivals.
Actually this was the first film that we submitted to, um, Christian Wolff is one of the film
reviewers, um, and he suggested that we submit, and so after we submitted here it’s like, “Hey, why don’t we see where this can do anywhere because we wasn’t thinking about anything – we just, we just threw it up, and was like, this is a documentary and, uh, Christian Wolff was like, “Man, that’s – that looks really good and was just like, all right because like, we put it together really fast. We just thought it would be cool to do like this is and so after he said that, we just started submitting to a bunch of festivals, and i think we’re up to nine now, and, uh, this is the second win and a runner-up, so yeah …
*Hobnobben 2020 Filmmaker Interview: FloStorm, Fort Wayne Cinema Center | FloStorm speaks with Hobnobben about his work on the film The Voice of the Voiceless, a 2020 Hobnobben Film Festival Award-Winner!
Christian Wolff showed up with more than 100 people from local groups to protest the county building a new jail in Southeast Fort Wayne.
“Our goal was to pack the courthouse and we packed it and, not only that, we double-packed it,” Wolff said.
Story:
Judge grants Allen County Commissioners jail proposal extension, community packs courtroom Updated
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WFFT) — Inside the Fort Wayne federal building stood an attorney for Allen County presenting the commissioners’ plan to fix jail overcrowding to Judge Damon R. Leichty.
Outside were over 60 people waiting to hear the judge’s decision, shouting “no new jail!”
Christian Wolff showed up with more than 100 people from local groups to protest the county building a new jail in Southeast Fort Wayne.
Security only let 50 people inside, though.
“Our goal was to pack the courthouse and we packed it and, not only that, we double-packed it,” Wolff said.
Hoping the judge would give the Allen County Board of Commissioners more time to find a new spot.
After a three-hour hearing, the judge granted A 90-day extension.
“The judge wants to come back and have a more definite plan. You know, things are a bit in-flux. The property for the new jail is not at all clear. It doesn’t appear that it’s going to be where the commissioners originally indicated it would,” Plaintiff attorney Ken Falk said.
While some people left the federal building cheering with giant smiles on their faces, Daylana Saunders with ChangeMakers Fort Wayne did not.
She says she’s furious that the southeast area is still on the table.
“The soil test is saying that it should not be Southeast, the water line there is saying it should not be Southeast, the neighbors are saying it, the kids are saying it, the teachers are saying it, why are they still saying that there should be a jail Southeast,” Saunders said.
Commissioners say they are exploring two sites in Northwest and East Central Allen County but Southeast Fort Wayne is still an option.
Falk representing the American Civil Liberties Union says they want to see a final decision because the lawsuit against the county for human rights violations in the jail started January 2020.
“What the judge is hoping in the next 90 days and he’s anticipating that we get a definite site selection, we get the funding for the site or we get the purchase agreement. All that has to start with finding a site,” Falk said.
Allen County Commissioners sent FOX 55 a statement saying they are “grateful to have the additional 90 days the court has provided to continue analyzing potential locations. As directed, we will move forward with reasonable deliberate haste while also balancing the feedback we have received from the community.”
Judge Leichty told them they have until December 16th to do so.
Christian Wolff showed up with more than 100 people from local groups to protest the county building a new jail in Southeast Fort Wayne.
“They’re gonna shoot live fire guys. They’re gonna shoot live fire. They are gonna use lethal force because we won’t get out of the car.
The only person that’s – the only person that’s stopping them is this man in front of us (Christian Wolff) …”
– Jo Black Dees & Erin Fogg describe Christian Wolff (who is filming) as they live stream their arrest by Fort Wayne Police and other law enforcement entities on minor charges June 16, 2020. 20 minutes into this incident, Christian Wolff would be rushed at gunpoint by S.W.A.T and K-9, and hauled away to the Allen County Jail where he would meet Jo Black Dees and Erin Fogg for the first time.
“They’re gonna arrest the guy in front of us They’re gonna arrest the one guy out there! They are gonna arrest the one person outside from us.
There’s a green Honda … Honda Element, license plate 693MJE.
They’re gonna shoot live fire guys. They’re gonna shoot live fire. They are gonna use lethal force because we won’t get out of the car.
The only person that’s – the only person that’s stopping them is this man in front of us …
Please, God, they are threatening live fire – they’re threatening live fire.”
– Excerpted from the live stream video taken from Jo Dees Black’s lap during the stand-off.
Campbell MacDonald: I guess all it took to push us across the finish line was you (Christian Wolff) pulling over in front of the courthouse. [power fist emoji]
Christian Wolff: Right on! Make sure everyone knows that it was my mojo that made the difference! [laugh, heart, and power fist emojis]
Campbell MacDonald: Hell yeah. The wolf showed up and blew the house down.
– Tongue-in-cheek exchange between Campbell MacDonald & Christian Wolff. On March 6, Christian Wolff noticed the strike demonstration organized by the Musicians of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic against Philharmonic management. Christian Pulled over to find out how he could be made more aware of strike demonstration events. Christian did not recognize Campbell by face either. Campbell MacDonald is the Chair of the striking musicians. Two days after Christian’s stop, on March 8, 2023, the Musicians and Philharmonic management came to an agreement. Again, this exchange between Campbell MacDonald & Christian Wolff was on FB Messenger and is tongue-in-cheek. Christian Wolff had no actual impact on the the settlement of the strike. The Philharmonic will resume on March 24 with the production of Swan Lake with partners at the Fort Wayne Ballet.
March 6, 2023
Campbell MacDonald: Thanks for stopping by to say hello. I’m sorry I couldn’t put your name to your face.
Christian Wolff: Thank you, Campbell. I just signed up for the newsletter, and I am going to the Musician’s FB page now. I will do my best to rally support for the Musicians. It was good seeing you as well. [respect emoji]
Campbell MacDonald: Awesome. Thanks.
Christian Wolff: {thumbs up emoji]
March 9, 2023
Campbell MacDonald: I guess all it took to push us across the finish line was you (Christian Wolff) pulling over in front of the courthouse. [power fist emoji]
Christian Wolff: How are you feeling about the agreement?
Campbell MacDonald: We don’t talk about wins in the union business. But it’s a win.
March 10, 2023
Christian Wolff: Right on! Make sure everyone knows that it was my mojo that made the difference! [laugh, heart, and power fist emojis]
Campbell MacDonald: Hell yeah. The wolf showed up and blew the house down.
Christian Wolff: [laugh and thumbs up emojis]
Campbell MacDonald, Chairmen of the striking Musicians, picketing on Clinton Street in front of the Allen County Courthouse.
Give a shout out to Christian Wolff! Christian is a relentless listener, a fearless pursuer of community, and a fierce learner/applier of new skill.
When [Christian Wolff] decided to give to Team Audrey, [he] gave to establishing a campaign that will form new leadership and political infrastructure in Fort Wayne. We want to […] celebrat[e] one of the people keeping us accountable to that vision, and building the strategy to get it done!
[Christian’s] career in psychotherapy, familiarity with the law, and standing up for the fair treatment of all are bringing new insights to our goals everyday.
– Audrey Davis, 2023 Candidate for Fort Wayne City Council at Large, Facebook post by Audrey Davis on Campaign FB page, February 22, 2023
