Justice & peace organizer/writer. @FORpeace. World traveler. Big daddy. El jefe portero de futbol. CM Fam/ hip-hop Chilly E. Harlem/Oaktown/AVL
Asheville, NC
Joined June 2011
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I’m deeply honored to lead the historic org @FORpeace that civil rights icon James Lawson was a significant part of.
Read from @ethanvf about Lawson’s relationship with/Fellowship of Reconciliation, MLK, & more. countercurrents.org/2024/06/…
Remembering #JamesLawson and his fierce dedication to the power of nonviolent action wagingnonviolence.org/forusa… @FORpeace @wagingnv @UnitedForPeace @ICUJP_SoCal @ClueJustice @4humanintegrity @frjohndear @kingandbreaking @SNCCLegacy
Great shout out to @iMayaBerry & @AAIUSA for their leadership on #MENA addition to US Census by @karenzraick on @BrianLehrer @WNYC
Catch up! @karenzraick on the Census's new 'Middle East/North Africa' designations,
wnyc.org/story/changes-censu…
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"At this point, I quote Letter from a Birmingham Jail almost as much as I quote the Torah... Tension and conflict is the only thing that is going to bring Reconciliation" ~ @RabbiBrant at @RPCoalition Emergency Summit for Gaza #tzedek @JVPChicago @FORpeace youtube.com/watch?v=qCbCV3Xd…
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GAZA UPDATE: More than 1,030 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, or about one child every 15 minutes, and more than one-third of the total death toll.
"#Dharma & Justice: #Embodiment and #Sensuality in Buddhist Traditions" on Oct. 11, 7PM ET feat. Leslie Booker, Karla Jackson-Brewer, Rima Vesely-Flad via @UnionSeminary #ThichNhatHanh Program for Engaged Buddhism utsnyc.edu/event/dharma-and-… @BuddhistPeace @LionsRoar @tricyclemag
Ethan Vesely-Flad retweeted
Birzeit University #denounces the Israeli occupation’s #raid on the university campus and arrest of students this morning. A large number of #Israeli forces raided the university campus, #arrested students and attacked the university property. 1/2
"The so-called cultural wars are not really that at all... Yes, it is about culture, and it is a war. The culture is #whitesupremacy—often presented w/ religious overtones—and the war is not new. It reaches back in a continuous bloodstream from the battlefields of the Civil War."
The coded language against "wokeness" is doing what it has always done: trying to protect the fragile body of hate. wagingnonviolence.org/forusa…
Despite well-documented #humanrights violations, US-based refineries continue to buy gold from mining company Aura Minerals, which destroyed a 200-year-old cemetery belonging to the Maya Chortí community of Azacualpa in Honduras. actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
Honored to participate in this important fundraiser for an emerging leader in our beloved community of justice voices. You are invited to join us. gofundme.com/f/support-for-h… #healingjustice
"In 2019 & 2022, federal judge Claudia Wilken found that CDCR continued to use fabricated, exaggerated or inaccurately disclosed confidential info to justify placement in #solitary." truthout.org/articles/10-yea… @NRCATtweets @NCCADP #endsolitary
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New study asks “Are nonviolent actions more likely to be perceived as terrorism when explicitly labeled as such?” Finds “Explicit labeling of Palestinian nonviolence as terrorism increases agreement with denotation.” Effect concentrated among centrists. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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New: Why the US is selling India so many weapons vox.com/world-politics/2023/…
