Salem Pearce

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Salem Pearce

Salem Pearce is the Congregational Organizer at T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and is in her final year of rabbinical school at Hebrew College.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan rally in support of Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. July 8, 2017.

Opinion What I Discovered About White Supremacists While Protesting Alongside Rabbis in Charlottesville

I came to Charlottesville this weekend as a nonviolent counterprotester because I know we can't stand by when white supremacists gather to spew hate and perpetuate violence