You inspire me, Portland! We gathered at Rose City Presbyterian Church for an evening of Revolutionary Love— a tapestry of stories, ancestral wisdom from #SAGEWARRIOR and sacred music by the unparalleled Qais Essar.
I visited the ICE Detention Facility and saw how Portland has taken nonviolent resistance to the next level, infusing it with whimsy, facing down ICE agents with inflatable chickens and frogs, as if to say: You have no real power over us.
It was an amazing visit. Thank you, Portland.
This is my work right now. Every week, I travel to a new city with Revolutionary Love Project to fortify communities, most recently Denver, Tacoma, Portland, Atlanta, the Bay Area, NYC, and rural Indiana.
Imagine six hundred people packed in a church or campus auditorium— students, educators, activists, artists, parents, and elders — to learn the tools of tools of Revolutionary Love.
Our message: No matter who you are, you have a role in this moment in history. Each of us can respond to authoritarian violence with moral clarity and courage.
At the heart of every event, we share what we learned on the ground in LA this summer about how to resist ICE raids and militarization with nonviolent resistance. We show people how to come to the front-line with flowers.
The front-line is not only in the street; it’s anywhere we have a choice to meet fear with love and action.
I believe we must build communities so anchored in love that the cruelty that drives authoritarianism cannot take root.
