Theresa (she, her)"Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation."
Wendell Berry
JustLeadershipUSAHere’s a clip from one of two new special episodes of the #JustUs Speaks Podcast that just dropped!
Listen online now to both full episodes: https://jlusa.org/2023/05/23/dismantling-jim-crow-listen-now-to-special-episodes-of-the-justus-speaks-podcast/
#MassIncarceration #EndMassIncarceration #BigGovernment #DefundThePolice #BuildCommunities
#ColonialismIsNotOver“Opponents worry the center’s completion would set a dangerous precedent for law enforcement in Atlanta and beyond, emboldening police agencies across the country to adopt more militaristic tactics and weaponry.”
Stephen Knight“I would love for us to cease using our prisons as solutions for poverty, for a growing mental health crisis, for our failed public education systems—as the catchall for handling the problems we don’t have enough imagination to handle.
“An alternative to incarceration is actually investing in not just the social safety net but the flourishing of people.”
Willie Dwayne Francois III quoted in The Christian Century
Read more: https://www.christiancentury.org/article/features/theology-carceral-context
Earthling of the Rhine"This summer, the #CLOSErikers campaign is holding #buildCOMMUNITIES Assemblies in the NYC neighborhoods most impacted by mass criminalization. These conversations will help shape the vision & our campaign demands for how money saved from closing Rikers will be invested in our communities."
Monday June 25th | 6:30-8:30pm
Brooklyn Movement Center, 375 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn
Thursday June 28th | 6-9pm
The Harvest Room, 90-40 160th Street, Jamaica, NY