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Dear friend,

The You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take tour ended last week, but the movement it lifted up is still in motion. Across ten states, we gathered with people of faith and conscience who are fighting poverty, resisting Christian nationalism, and building sacred spaces of survival and resistance. This week, we share what’s next: how you can join new reading groups, preorder We Pray Freedom, and support trans-affirming theology. We remain steadfast in our belief that faith should anchor the struggle and that the struggle should be centered in our faiths.

In this issue:
* Book tour updates: wrap-up and next steps
* Freedom Church of the Poor: trans affirmation letter & a cultural offering
* Upcoming events: survival organizing & movement building
* In the news: Kellogg Foundation: Justice for all

We declare Jubilee.

The Kairos Team
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And that’s a wrap.
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Photos by Matt Kleinmann

Over the past three months, the You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take book and organizing tour has made 42 stops across ten states. From witnessing the powerful pop up health and dentistry clinics in Pennsylvania to the broad, moving interfaith coalition in Kansas, each stop anchored, energized, and heartened us for the fight ahead.

Last week the tour culminated in Kansas where we were immersed in communities who shared a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of poverty, racism, Christian nationalism, and imperialism in this moment. Gratiously hosted by Allen Chapel AME Church our final event was supported by Kansas Interfaith Action, Jewish Voices for Peace Kansas, Justice for Wyandotte, Alliance for Healthy Kansas, Prospect KC, and Al Hadaf.

Video of the final event below by Matt Kleinmann
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What now?

If you want to stay engaged and get as much out of this book as possible, consider joining our fall reading circles. Here, we’ll work through You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take, and think through how it can be applied to today’s organizing.
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What’s next? We Pray Freedom.

Prayer has long sustained movements for social change. Ritual gives shape to our desire for justice, and liturgy lends power to our work. In We Pray Freedom, we learn from organizers and movement builders the songs, stories, and ritual practices that keep them going for the long haul. The Freedom Church of the Poor, called for by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has existed in many forms; today it includes laborers, poor folks, pastors, organizers, and others bound together by a conviction: It does not have to be this way.

Edited by Liz Theoharis, theologian, pastor, anti-poverty activist, and editor of We Cry Justice, and Charon Hribar, song leader, cultural organizer, and social ethicist, this book guides readers through a journey of remembering, healing, mourning, action, and celebration. It is a collection of prayers, resources, and stories from the communities in which they arose.

Join Chaplains on the Harbor on their Stations of the Cross, Iglesia del Pueblo for Día de los Muertos, Domestic Workers United in their community garden ritual, and an encampment of unhoused residents in Alabama for their communion service. With more than fifty resources from eighty contributors, We Pray Freedom is useful for individual reflection, corporate worship, and protest and action. Through liturgies of liberation, join a movement that bears witness to the justice of God and to human faith, suffering, protest, and love.
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** Support Trans-Affirming Faith in These Perilous Times
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Freedom Church of the Poor is collecting signatures for an open letter affirming the dignity and divinity of trans and nonbinary people. Please read and share with your faith communities before Aug 1st!

“The organizations, individuals, and congregations, who have signed onto this letter affirm the existence, livelihood, and leadership of transgender and nonbinary people. They reject the heretical and sacrilegious teachings and policies of any churches, religious leaders, or policy makers who seek to deny the rights of transgender and nonbinary people. We commit to care for our people, celebrating the divine image in every queer and trans body, and commit to building a movement that transcends division and takes aim at the real forces of oppression. We declare liberation not just for ourselves, but for all!”
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** Jubilee Season
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The season of Jubilee at the Freedom Church of the Poor continues in July. This month will feature in depth Biblical reflection from key leaders in our movement family as well as the sharing of sacred stories about how we were drawn into the movement. Worship service, every Sunday at 6pm ET. Bible Study, every Wednesday at 6pm ET.
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Also, check out the cultural offering from this Sunday’s service offered by Aly Halpert, called “There Is No Being on this Earth that Isn't Sacred”
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** Organizing Our Very Survival
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As living conditions grow increasingly dire for BIPOC and working-class communities, more organizations are turning to survival projects—not just as a response, but as a strategy. From the Underground Railroad to the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Programs, history offers us powerful models to be inspired by. So what does this work look like today?

Join Shailly Gupta Barnes, Kairos’s Director of Research and Policy for a powerful conversation 12:00-1:30pm ET, TODAY July 15th
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** Building the movement
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It's not too late to be a Movement Builder! Kairos Movement Builders are a community of monthly donors bound together in our commitment to build a movement to end poverty, led by the poor. (If you are a current Movement Builder and have not yet migrated your recurring donation you can use this form to do so as well.) Movement Builders are needed now more than ever and we are grateful for your partnership!
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** Justice for all: Inside America’s movement to end poverty
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In a new article, the Kellogg Foundation covers the history and vision of Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis along with the work of the Kairos Center and future of the movement to end poverty.
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