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Dear friend,
We live in a moment for hope. It is a dangerous moment marked by monumental social, political, and economic inequality. Billionaires get tax breaks while the unhoused are criminalized. Federal forces occupy our streets in the name of national security. Christian nationalism steers much of our national moral direction. And yet, we hope.
This radical hope comes from all over. Our hope is sparked by the millions of people across the country eager to mobilize and agitate to oppose the current administration’s authoritarianism. This hope is stoked by the students organizing for their own survival. And, it is sustained by the deep ritual and cultural traditions that bore us.
In this letter:
* RSVP: We Pray Freedom NYC Launch Event
* Reflect–No Kings 2, solidarity, and culture
* Apply–The Young Organizers Survival Corps
* In The News–This is Not a Church Podcast
In solidarity and hope,
The Kairos Team
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** We Pray Freedom: NYC Launch Event
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You’re invited to join Housing Works Bookstore and the Kairos Center for this in-person launch event for We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor. Programming will follow the six chapters of the book, featuring many of its contributors. Together, we’ll gather for an evening of healing, remembrance, and collective action—lifting up the prayers, songs, and rituals that sustain our movements for justice.
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** Reflections: No Kings II
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Last Saturday, more than 7 million Americans took to the streets to declare that this nation recognizes No Kings. Through nearly 3,000 events worldwide, people came together in uncertainty and resolve, in fear and joy, in hope and dismay to reject authoritarianism at home and abroad. Mobilizations, alone, cannot beat protect us, our neighbors, and our democracy. But, they are crucial as manifestations of solidarity and culture.
No Kings In Minneapolis - Liz Digitale Anderson with Jennifer Weir
Photo by SEIU MN
Photo by Kairos Blickensderfer
“Solidarity is a daily devotion to something larger than yourself.“
- Steff Reed
No Kings In New York - Steff Reed
“Culture has a way of taking the intangible and making it tangible. As artists, we have the power to illustrate the divine, to illustrate liberation, because God is love.”
- Steff Reed
** Apply To The Young Organizers Survival Corps
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The Young Organizers Survival Corps brings together student organizers across the country to:
* Master the skills: nonviolent direct action, base-building, strategic campaigns
* Learn from the lineage: homeless unions, farm and domestic workers, welfare rights, student movements, today's encampments
* Build local power while preparing for national mobilizations
* Organize with the Johnnie Tillmon model - led by those most impacted, independent from politicians
* Practice hands-on skills in art, culture, and ritual with leading cultural organizers
From housing justice to immigrant defense to campus organizing - if you're ready to build power where you are and move when we need to, apply.
Not a fellowship. Not a conference. An organizing school.
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** Podcast: This Is Not a Church
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We Pray Freedom: A Conversation With Liz Theoharis & Charon Hribar
This week Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Dr. Charon Hribar joined our friends over at This is Not a Church to discuss We Pray Freedom and the role of faith in resistance today.
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