Jesus is alongside us, a partner in fighting for a better world. Jesus is relational, Jesus is radical. “Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother/And in His name, all oppression shall cease”. May we follow his example in our own work.
On Monday night there was a council meeting to introduce a ceasefire proposal for the city of Indianapolis. A member took a vote to completely remove it off the agenda for the 5th month in a row, completely ignoring the crowd that gathered for the event and even threatening the audience into silence.
In the troubling times the US is going through, I ask for your time to reflect on our next steps in search of a more egalitarian society under the Trump administration. Hopefully, our community will be able to continue fighting for change through our mobilization and unification. I ask you to engage, study, learn, and teach politics as your civic duty: not because it’s fun, not because we like it, but because we care.
This poem takes a golden shovel poetic form, inspired by W.B. Yeats’s 1919 poem, “The Second Coming”. Reading the last word of each line will reveal Yeats’s original poem
Recently, I attended a performance in Tai Kwun Contemporary, an art museum in Hong Kong’s Central. “Cyborg Park” by Taiwanese artist Jun-yu Chen explores “constructed nature”.
I talked with six different students from around the country––from Los Angeles to New Orleans to New Haven––to gather their insights and perspectives on how the Palestinian solidarity encampments have affected them, with the hope of painting a broad, yet still very incomplete, picture of the general trends, patterns, and conclusions that can be taken away from this specific and powerful moment in American history.
In many ways, this aligns the NDPD with police forces around the world who hide their violence behind a false narrative of their own purpose, claiming they work to make citizens safer or to serve the community. In reality, these objectives are, at best, a secondary purpose behind the core function of maintaining power and a status quo of inequality and oppression.
From July 1-5, I took classes on decolonizing knowledge and power in Barcelona. It was the prime environment for pursuing intellectual curiosity and discovering what exactly I want to be more curious about.
Passover at its best says that oppression anywhere is a threat to oppression everywhere, and that all peoples are chosen, and all lands are holy.
These are a few pictures from when I was in Palestine last June and July. The separation wall in Bethlehem. The land of and surrounding Tent of Nations, a farm owned by the Nassar family. You can see the Israeli…
