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A radical act
“Mutual Aid is essential to our survival” by Dean Spade, Truthout, October 28, 2020, is a primer about the concept of Mutual Aid. I recommend reading the entire article. I’ll be quoting it more extensively than I usually like to … Continue reading
The Future of Pandemic Solidarity
Having been led to the discovery of something I hadn’t known about, Mutual Aid, and joining in the Des Moines Mutual Aid food giveaway, I’m beginning to see this is how we can find our way through these increasingly chaotic … Continue reading
Mutual Aid for Social Concerns
For some time I’ve been praying and thinking about Quaker Peace and Social Concerns Committees .Many Quaker meetings have had such committees for many years. For a long time I’ve been struggling to understand why I’ve felt these committees haven’t … Continue reading
Peace in a culture of violence?
For years Quakers have had Peace and Social Concerns Committees. I’ve been praying and thinking about what that work should entail these days. This country’s culture of violence has taken dramatically new forms that we haven’t adapted our work to … Continue reading
What is needed in this moment
The article “What is needed in this moment” explores what I’ve been writing lately, that the capitalist system must be replaced. That we are being distracted in this election by which party wins, because either one will continue to operate … Continue reading
Black Panther Party and Free Breakfast for Children Program
This morning I’m praying for guidance, to be shown what work to do in these terrible times. I’m angered and disheartened by the continuous onslaught of negative political advertising. I saw a powerful story about their effect on children who … Continue reading
Black State of Emergency in Iowa #BlackEmergencyIA
Des Moines Black Lives Matter October 13 at 11:20 AM · Black Iowans are not safe. We’re joining with a number of other community organizations to implement strategies and policies to protect one another. #BlackEmergencyIA The Press Release can be found at the end of this … Continue reading
Racial justice protesters banned from Iowa Capitol in “stunning misuse of power”
I don’t have first hand knowledge about these stories, but as someone who has participated in peaceful protests, I am shocked by the actions of the police. The reason this came to my attention is I have heard some who … Continue reading
Stranger in a strange land
We are living in dangerous times. Man made crises related to the concepts of possession and separation. Of unjust and unsustainable economic and political systems that are failing here and elsewhere. Organized religions that have been used, some for centuries, … Continue reading
Be Vulnerable
[Note: with multiple disasters occurring now, and since environmental devastation has been a focus of my life, its hard not to write about these unfolding disasters. But what is important to me, what I am led to think about now, … Continue reading
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