April 26-28, learn from Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and other prophetic Christian leaders like Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Cole Arthur Riley, and LaTosha Brown—and a dazzling array of other leaders like Valarie Kaur, Aunjanue Ellis and Rabbi Rick Jacobs!

Join us in-person or online: FreedomRising.org

I wake up & it breaks my heart.

—Cameron Awkward-Rich, 'Meditations In An Emergency'

Can you be in Southwark Cathedral for 7pm on Friday 22 March? If so, go and hear Cole Arthur Riley Cole Arthur Riley speak on prayers, poems and meditations for staying human. Her work is vital and beautiful.
She’s also at Oasis Waterloo on Sunday 24th.
cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/black…

I'm excited (& a bit nervous) that I get to introduce & chat to Cole Arthur Riley this evening Southwark Cathedral at 7.00
I wish I could simply immerse myself in her work for a few days on retreat but as it is, her words have me inwardly cheering & shouting 'YES' as I read.

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. nyer.cm/BUjT0b5

Al-Shifa Hospital Now

If I’ve retweeted you or your work over the years please do me this favor and retweet and push this message for peace -

Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again scroll.in/article/106486…

Review: Black Liturgies | Joshunda Sanders

Prayers, Poems and Meditations for Staying Human by Cole Arthur Riley (@blackliturgist)
blackbooks.substack.com/p/review-black…

‘Cold-blooded massacre’: More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say. Official death toll since 10/7 passes 30,000. aje.io/ce6ff4

Those are wrapped dates in the baby’s mouth, to help allay hunger since mothers have nothing to feed their children thanks to Israel’s enforced starvation of Gaza

“Our resistance is not predicated on how likely it will be to alter the conscience of the oppressor. We resist to retain our own conscience. And to awaken all others who are still in possession of their own souls.”

—Cole Arthur Riley

📷: Cole Arthur Riley

To act as if those amplifying the protest and death of Aaron Bushnell are somehow advocating for others to do likewise is not only insincere, it’s a distraction. This will not be where our energy goes today.

The man who set himself on fire outside of the Israeli embassy in DC today has been confirmed to be an active-duty airman taskandpurpose.com/news/man-sets-…

Doctors Without Borders says children as young as 5 in Gaza have told them they want to die

latimes.com/opinion/story/…

LOVE by Assata Shakur

James Baldwin (If Beale Street Could Talk):

In Gaza right now more people than in San Francisco and Kansas City combined have been driven from their homes to seek refuge in a city so small it only has a clinic, not a full hospital. Israel is dropping our bombs on its tents

As America watches #SuperBowl , reports are coming in of Israel ramping up its US-backed Gaza offensive in Rafah–a tiny strip of land where ~1.5 million people have sought shelter, including many Americans + ~thousands of relatives of US citizens.

Context:
huffpost.com/entry/rafah-bi…