Gathering Voices: Rev Jason Carson Wilson-“Incremental change is another weapon of white supremacy”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Gathering Voices, LGBTQ+, Racial, Social Justice

Rev. Jason Carson Wilson is the founding executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Bayard Rustin Liberation Initiative, a LGBTQIA/POC-focused domestic and international policy advocacy organization. He also serves as Minister of Social Justice Education at...

Gathering Voices: Gathering Voices: Sr. Simone Campbell “We can make change if I have a sense that we are connected.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices

    Sr. Simone Campbell is the Executive Director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and the Leader of Nuns on the Bus. She is a religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. In...

Gathering Voices: Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen–“To build a bridge we must make friends with people we disagree with.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, LGBTQ+

Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen is the executive director of Parity, a NYC-based national nonprofit that works at the intersection of faith and LGBTQ+ concerns and the director of Blessed by Difference, a project that seeks to promote curious and collaborative bridging...

Gathering Voices Amy Cantrell–“I’ve never seen things so dire.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, North America

Rev. Amy Cantrell lives and moves and has her being in the intentional community, BeLoved Asheville. BeLoved is an intersectional community of people from the streets and margins love each other and together work to create solutions to homelessness, poverty, and...

Gathering Voices: Liz Moore–“We are the ones who can define what is possible.”

Sep 3, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Gathering Voices, North America

Liz Moore is the director of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, where she began her activism in PJALS’ youth group as a Deer Park high school student after looking up “peace” in the phone book. She worked as an organizer and educator in unions and...

If you’re from New Orleans, and Black or poor, 2020 is a lot like Hurricane Katrina

Aug 29, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Human Rights

by Rev. David Billings It seems like yesterday: Images of New Orleanians on rooftops crying out for someone to rescue them; sleeping in the Superdome crying out for police protection; stranded on the interstate on foot with no car; standing in line at the convention...