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Thinking Out Loud

By pwsbuilder / January 15, 2019 / Comments Off on Thinking Out Loud

Asbury Park, New Jersey where I live, is today covered with snow, followed by rain that is turning into ice. The weather outside has given me the excuse to do what I do with some frequency; “Thinking Out Loud”. An article in today’s New York Times; “Part of Kentucky Marriage Law Overturned” has attracted my…

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#RefuseToBeComplicit with White Supremacy in Your Church

By pwsbuilder / March 16, 2018 /

An open letter to white people of faith: 

At every point in the history of the United States there have been people whose faith has provided the bedrock for lifelong efforts to end violence, oppression, and inequity—Dorothy Day, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Bishop Gene Robinson—and there have been others who have used their religion as a weapon to further these same forces; to maintain the oppressive status quo rather than challenge it.

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Terror & Togetherness: The Tensions of Thanksgiving

By pwsbuilder / November 22, 2017 / Comments Off on Terror & Togetherness: The Tensions of Thanksgiving

My mother called me a few weeks ago and asked what I was doing for the holidays. I shared that I would be flying back to New York to spend time with her and the rest of our family for Christmas and would head back to Chicago right before New Year’s Eve. “But what about…

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Building a Racially Responsible LGBTQIA Christian Movement

By pwsbuilder / August 25, 2017 / Comments Off on Building a Racially Responsible LGBTQIA Christian Movement

Last week Wade Davis offered this invitation to white Americans in response to what happened in Charlottesville: This grand display of domestic terrorism offers America yet another opportunity to confront white supremacy, not just white supremacists. And only self-identified white liberals and progressives are the individuals who should answer the call. Confronting or condemning white…

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Charlottesville Organizers Ask You To Take These 8 Actions

By pwsbuilder / August 18, 2017 / Comments Off on Charlottesville Organizers Ask You To Take These 8 Actions

Charlottesville is mobilizing to fight fascism and resist white supremacy. Local groups including anarchist people of color, Black Lives Matter, and Showing up for Racial Justice have been on the streets of Charlottesville since the Nazis showed up for their first torch rally months ago, and before then, too. We need you to work with…

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A Message To My White Friends

By pwsbuilder / August 16, 2017 /

Over the past several days, I’ve watched a lot of things happen in our country. An unannounced march in the night with Hitler shirts and tiki torches. A white supremacist rally ending in violence, injury, and death. The president going in front of cameras and defending the white supremacists. It has been infuriating, frightening, sickening,…

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