By Chase DiBenedetto — 2020
Young organizers want more intersectional movements, respect from older generations, and fresh voices in politics.
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With the #MeToo movement and the many, often painful episodes of racial friction, we are reaching a new public consciousness and consensus around the need to understand each other’s perspectives.
When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.
To heal the deep wounds of racism, Jan Willis turned to Buddhism and is now cited by Time magazine as one of America’s spiritual leaders. David Pesci talked with her about her journey from the crushing injustices of life in the Jim Crow South to the thin air of the shrine called Swayambhu.
Yoga teacher and activist Michelle C. Johnson talks to Nonviolence Radio about her book “Skill In Action.”
Amid the nation’s protests, Cardoza began emailing current event explainers and action items to what ended up becoming thousands of subscribers, many looking for information and guidance in a year marked by sickness and brutality.
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The Reverend William Barber is charting a new path for protesting Republican overreach in the South—and maybe beyond.
Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.
Yes, we must radically transform policing in America. But we cannot stop there. We must transform the pervasive systems of economic and carceral injustice that are choking our common life.
Barber’s newsmaking actions were founded on the idea that being a person of faith means fighting for justice.
“This moment requires us to push into the national consciousness, but not from the top down, but from the bottom up.”