No Somos Tractores. We Are Not Tractors. EN Below. Transcripto de No Somos Tractores una reflexion preparada para IDP. Tengo el privilegio de no solo poder en mi juventud trabajar la tierra, crecer comida para apoyo mutuo y aprender de mis matriarcas como preparar los alimentos y medicina, Pero también…

Freedom Church of the Poor Reflection 3–6–2022 (Español abajo) Pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living. Mother Jones The most dangerous woman in America of her time was a grieving mother, scorned by the conditions that took her family’s life such as a pandemic and constant worker…

Semantics will not stop a war. Peace will. War and nationalism are being romanticized to the benefit of no one in the world. As Russia continues its assault on Ukrainian territory, the world has been watching for a week, we have seen acts of extreme bravery and acts of extreme…

Doctor King’s Imagined Non Violent Army of the Poor to end Militarism. The drums of war might be ringing louder today than yesterday but the song of War continuously plays on this continent for over 500 years. If you are on the road to decolonization and deconstructing the harmful narratives…

For The Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival’s Mass Poor People and Low wage workers Assembly and March on Washington DC, June 18th, 2022. FORWARD TOGETHER, NOT ONE STEP BACK! This slogan graced the original Poor People’s Campaign banners many years ago. In my life today I stand in the truth that every…

Dreaming of Bread and Roses. While doing absolutely nothing on Monday, it dawned on me: I have been here before, these are my contemplations. I have participated on Days without Immigrants since 2006, which is a drop in the bucket of organized mass strikes in the US for immigrant justice. Many organizers and advocates across this stolen land have done the same time and time and time and time…

On Trump’s failed coup. I moved to DC six months ago, escaping violence and a version of myself that allowed violent people in. A lifetime ago, I worked in DC, this is the city where I became a professional artist, fell in love and began meeting myself outside of who…

Beware the Karen Gone Rad: A personal story of abusive, woke white women liberalism. I am recovering from years worth of trauma and abuse and finding myself and my voice again. There is so much I am sorry for: I brought the wolf in sheep’s clothing into the fold. Today is the first day of my world apology tour. Because when you’re wrong, you are wrong, and I was so very wrong. Four years ago I found myself in a shelter for survivors of domestic violence in Richmond, Virginia. After an incredible amount of white violence by business owners, non profit agencies and a bar full of mediocre…

Personal essay. As legislators came back from recess to The District ready to work on the budget package immigrants from all over the world, coming from every state in the Nation poured into DC streets to demand that the Immigration provisions stay in the budget and most importantly, a pathway…