“People can attack your character, but they cannot change who you are.

It’s easy to criticize, but what if we use our time to do something creative? To build something new?” - Simran Jeet Singh #FreedomRising2024

“The sound a mother makes when losing her child is universal.

I’m often asked on what side I am on, and my answer is: I am on the side of no mother being forced to make that sound.” - Nelba Márquez-Greene, LMFT 💜 #FreedomRising2024

“I am living somewhere between overwhelmed and overcoming.

We love stories that are tied up in a bow—a hero’s journey makes trauma more palatable—but I still have trouble sleeping.” - Nelba Márquez-Greene, LMFT 💜 #FreedomRising2024

I'll be speaking at the Freedom Rising Conference, April 26-28th. I’m speaking on the please on Sat.

tickets at freedomrising.org.

Use my code SPEAKER24 for a 10% discount!
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On last day Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is speaking!

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“Disembodiment can be useful, it can be a way to survive and withstand trauma.

But habitual disembodiment is not a mercy, it’s a prison.” - Cole Arthur Riley #FreedomRising2024

“There are systems with everything to gain by our disembodiment, because empty bodies are easier to use.” - Cole Arthur Riley #FreedomRising2024

“We are told it’s honorable to forget our bodies, usually so we can produce more.

So today I tell you: If you are not within your body, someone else is.” - Cole Arthur Riley #FreedomRising2024

“What is at stake in a disembodied life? The physical is the spiritual, they cannot be divorced from one another.

Any separation is society’s doing, a strategic attempt to tear us apart.” - Cole Arthur Riley #FreedomRising2024

Mommy died 7 years ago today. She was 80 years old.

Look at this face that comforted me when I cried. These soft lips that kissed me goodnight. I learned to tilt my head back and laugh hard from Mommy, to pray everyday from this beautiful sweet woman that I miss everyday.

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Nothing matters more than stopping Trump this November. Every progressive cause, every progressive conviction, every progressive goal you have will fare many, many times worse under Trump. Our definitive purpose right now should be reelecting President Biden.

MASS EXODUS FROM ZIONISM: As the Senate votes to send an additional $14.1 billion in weapons to Israel, thousands of US Jews are shutting down the streets of New York City in an emergency Passover seder insisting the Senate Majority Leader stop arming the Israeli government.

Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.

It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

How are news outlets dedicating wall-to-wall coverage to campus protests, but not the discovery of mass graves in Gaza of people with their hands tied & clothing stripped?

Why do we not know more?

Where are the journalists and resources being dedicated to that story?

The emotional and psychic toll of being Black, Brown, disabled, queer, trans, and/or working class while the world is on fire is just...

Justice is necessary for community building, but it must be paired to a fierce love that affirms all people’s innate worth and dignity.

You make sure the table has chairs for everyone *and* that everyone knows how welcome they are to sit.

'Love cannot be just a word. If you love people, you make sure they have healthcare. If you love people, their children are safe. If you love people, their human rights are protected.

Love is a public ethic.' - Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast
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If you’re interested in the many horrific things Greg Abbott is doing to Black people, Latinos, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, and everyone in between, watch my deep dive on him youtu.be/fIqdMDe2pjs?si…

Yale proudly hosts the papers of the
Black Panther Party, yet won’t tolerate 24 hours of occupied civil disobedience by its current students archives.yale.edu/agents/corpora…

America is the wealthiest nation in the world. If we wanted to solve the problem of poverty and homelessness, we could. The question then becomes whether enough people are committed to that end