Category: Social Justice
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Palestine Book Club at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park
A secular book club for people who want to learn about Palestine. This is not Christian affiliated or associated with Christian Minus Christianity. For more information, contact Marti Schmidt at martha@marthalschmidt.net or Diane Paul at dianepaul475@gmail.com. Join us as we discuss books on and about Palestine rarely reviewed in the corporate media and hard to find in bookstores!…
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Something Unfair Keeps Happening
By Joy from Ghazza Something unfair keeps happening. Something—hot smoke—I don’t know where it comes from, but it burns my chest. I miss my home. Then I wake up. Then I miss my home. Then I walk on my feet for three hours straight, looking for flour. Then I miss my home. Then sometimes I…
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A Helpful List of Approaches to a Trump Presidency
Especially important are the first four points, but it is all helpful. https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/
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Reading about Marcuse
Racial capitalism isn’t a theory but a reality that is rooted in Christianity in the United States. I’m currently reading Christopher Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. He treats Marcuse as a straw man for critiquing the critical theory movements that have grown out of the New Left from the middle…
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How do we make Palestinian pain like our own here?
The other day I wrote my friends in Palestine, “even though you’re on the other side of the world, I don’t speak your native language, we are different church denominations, and global powers are making everyone more and more paranoid, your wellbeing makes me more emotional than than things that happen here, which is what…
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An article about “Project Esther”
Friends, there’s not much I can say except that we must read about Project Esther, which is going to launch another era of McCarthyism into the US stratosphere. Please stay informed. We are going into deep waters right now.
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James Cone Illuminates White Christian Complacency about the Palestinian Genocide
“They put him to death by hanging him on a tree.”–Acts 10:39 “The white South’s perspective on the Reconstruction was told in Thomas Dixon’s enormously popular novel The Leopard’s Spots (1902), which sold over one million copies. It was followed by The Clansman (1905). Both novels portrayed the Klan as redeemers of the South. D.W.…
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Settler Colonialism: US, Ireland, Palestine
This great article gives an overview on how settler-colonialism has empowered the hyper-wealthy to force the impoverished to do their dirty work in distant lands. The subtitle of the article: “How the rich and powerful have used settler colonialism to divide and rule over the global 99%” https://towardsolidarity.substack.com/p/the-set-up-of-settler-colonialism
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White Christian Nationalism Differs from (and Undermines) Religious Commitment
White Christian nationalism moves people away from a commitment to social justice and activism according to the book The Flag and the Cross. According to Gorski and Perry, this is because it is about ethno-traditionalism and “protecting the freedoms of a very narrowly defined ‘us.’” They point out that actual religious commitment expands what Peter…
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