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Anyone who tells you that demanding justice for historical and present harms is divisive is GASLIGHTING you. We need to stay alert to the spin that is trying to scare us back into our gated communities of self preservation and separation. Now is not a time to #walkaway and give into conspiracy theories. COVID is not a hoax. Antifa is not a terrorist organization. And Trump is not making us great again.
We were never “great”. There is no version of America we want to return to. But we can be better. We can become more just and equitable. We can build a culture and politics rooted in our interdependence that doesn’t leave anyone behind. Now is the time to be unwavering - to stand in our values and fight for the country that we all deserve.
Join us for Building a Politics of Care [[link removed]]: a virtual summit to help us get ready for this election and beyond featuring Rev angel Kyodo williams, Ruby Sales, Rev Dr Jacqui Lewis, Prentis Hemphill, Francisca Porchas Coronado, Nelini Stamp, Michelle Johnson, Stephanie Ghoston Paul, Micky Scottbey Jones and more!
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As Black people fight for our lives, white supremacists reach for their guns—and white allies go soft. The inevitable whitelash against racial justice has started. [[link removed]] [clicktotweet] [[link removed]]
Are we simply trying to “shut shit down,” or do we want to open up this nation’s wounds and clean out the infections so that we can all heal? How fighting injustice can trigger trauma [[link removed]]and what we need to learn about how to process it and take healing action. [clicktotweet] [[link removed]]
White supremacists are using the ongoing protests to accelerate civil disorder [[link removed]] in an attempt to tear apart the current political system. To overcome it, we must abandon polite politics and imagine something better. [clicktotweet] [[link removed]-]
In Chadwick Boseman disabled black kids got their superhero [[link removed]], the tragedy is we didn’t get to know him as such. [clicktotweet] [[link removed]]
The acclaimed novelist, Jesmyn Ward, lost her beloved husband—the father of her children—as COVID-19 swept across the country. She writes on witness and respair [[link removed]]. Must read. [clicktotweet] [[link removed]]
The upcoming CTZN Summit [https:/ctznwell.org/summit2020] was designed to meet this moment and help prepare us for the election and beyond. Together, we will explore healing our collective wounds, grieving the many pandemics we are navigating, creating a politics of care and building the spiritual and tactical capacity needed to transform our country from the inside out. Check out the line up:
Wednesday 9/9: Creating Brave Space
Evening (7pET): Creating Brave Space, with Micky Scottbey Jones, Michelle Johnson, Carinne Luck, and Kerri Kelly.
Thursday 9/10: Healing The Whole
Morning (11aET): Rase-based caucus, with Micky Scottbey Jones, Michelle Johnson, Carinne Luck, and Kerri Kelly.
Evening (7pET): Healing the whole, with Ruby Sales, and Rev Dr Jacqui Lewis.
Friday 9/11: Showing Up For Each Other
Morning: Honoring our collective grief, with Stephanie Ghoston Paul, and Michelle Johnson.
Evening: Showing up for each other,with Prentis Hemphill, and Francisca Porchas Coronado.
Saturday 9/12: Building a Politics of Care
Morning: Finding your place in the movement, with Carinne Luck.
Evening: Building a transformative politics: how we win, how we govern, how we create the future, with Nelini Stamp, Rev angel Kyodo williams, Anasa Troutman.
Sunday 9/13: Resilience for the Long Haul
Morning: Resilience for the long haul, with Micky Scottbey Jones, Michelle Johnson, Carinne Luck, Kerri Kelly and special guests.
Registration is pay what you can [[link removed]]. All sessions will be recorded and accessible.
This is medicine of this moment. To channel our sacred rage and radical love into collective action. It is not about binaries and either/or. It’s about both/and and cultivating the spiritual capacity to demand justice with love. Civil rights icon Ruby Sales will be with us at CTZN Summit from September 9 - 13th [[link removed]]. Join us!
WELLREAD is community powered and crowd-sourced. That’s how we keep it real. Join us on Patreon [[link removed]] for as little as $2/month so that we can keep creating content that matters for CTZNs who care.