HeyJaredJoy In Justice
What Sandhya's learning on social movements in their PhD program, as well as lessons from 30 years in organizing, writing, and DEI work! With a focus on what might be useful to all of us trying to create a better world one neighborhood at a time.
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When Communities Refuse to Abandon Strangers (opens the original)
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Hey, friend.I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can get along better, not just for the sake of neighborliness, but because we need each other if we’re going to win any of our fights for justice. Like we used to say at the Oakland Peace Center, we need us.A source of historic encouragement I came across recently has been the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee. Mexican Americans, Black Americans, labor unions, Jewish organizations, and Hollywood celebrities fought for two years on behalf of s
We are not expendable (opens the original)
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Hey, friend.There is a through-line from the Buck v. Bell decision in 1927 — which authorized forced sterilization and has never been formally overturned — to the current proposals to eliminate Home and Community Based Services funding and build “wellness farms” for disabled people. That through-line is the ideology of expendability: the belief that some lives are less worth sustaining, that some people are a burden rather than a contribution, that the government has the right to decide who gets
Fight to Win...even when we don’t know we’ll win (opens the original)
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Hey, friend. So much has been said about the 25th anniversary of 9/11 I don’t have anything to add other than, yesterday I attended an event on 25 years of solidarity among Arab, Muslim, South Asian and other activists that emerged in the wake of the surge in hate crimes and also surveillance, detentions and anti-Brown and Black policies that many people were unaware of at the time. It meant a lot to be reminded that something good emerged in the midst of a horrifying day followed by horrifying
The things they couldn’t destroy (opens the original)
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Hey! Writing from the Philadelphia airport, since the east coast storms have delayed my arrival to Chicago for this incredible conference I promise to fill you in on later.Something I’ve spent my career learning is that the thing that survives is the thing communities carry together. Sometimes it goes underground, but when people, together, keep it alive, it re-emerges. That doesn’t mean there isn’t horrific damage. But it does mean the damage doesn’t have the final say.When I was ordained, I as
“We Were Always Here” (opens the original)
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So back in 2020, the Oakland Peace Center did a series of book groups called “Beloved Book Community” as a way of staying connected during the pandemic. One of the books that resonated the most for me was Our History is the Future by Nick Estes.The title alone is a reminder that the most persistent and damaging myth about Indigenous peoples in the United States is that they are history — a past tense, a tragedy that already happened, a culture that was lost. Actually, though, the Haudenosaunee C
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