{"id":3311,"date":"2022-11-02T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2022-11-02T21:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T21:47:13","slug":"champaign-transforms-guns-into-garden-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2022\/11\/02\/champaign-transforms-guns-into-garden-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Champaign transforms guns into garden tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"897\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/RAWtools-grow-peace.jpg\" alt=\"Gun parts spelling out &quot;Grow Peace&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-3312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/RAWtools-grow-peace.jpg 897w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/RAWtools-grow-peace-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/RAWtools-grow-peace-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/RAWtools-grow-peace-560x320.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/rawtools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RAWtools<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dawn Blackman, a minister at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubrethren.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Champaign (Ill.) Church of the Brethren<\/a>, was one of the first community leaders to receive a gardening tool made from guns in a &#8220;Guns to Garden Tools&#8221; event this summer, according to a report published by Illinois Newsroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Randolph St. Community Gardens, where Blackmon is coordinator, hosted the &#8220;weekend of peace&#8221; event, with leadership from the Champaign-Urbana Interfaith Alliance and the Ministerial Alliance of Champaign-Urbana &amp; Vicinity and support from Champaign Church of the Brethren, Champaign-Urbana Moms Demand Action, and the Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center (CIMIC) in Urbana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blacksmith collective <a href=\"https:\/\/rawtools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RAWTools<\/a>, a Mennonite-sponsored group based in Colorado, did the work of transforming guns into yard signs and shovels for distribution to various local gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arts District: Guns to Garden Tools\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i8IZLRkxxgc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/\">Messenger<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe to Messenger here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWtools transformed guns into yard signs and shovels at a &#8220;weekend of peace&#8221; supported by the Champaign Church of the Brethren. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[405,406,407,82,196],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illinois-and-wisconsin","tag-06-028","tag-champaign-church-of-the-brethren","tag-guns-to-garden-tools","tag-illinois","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}