What We’re Doing

Note: This is an edited “blog version” of an essay published on Medium. For the full version, including evidence for each of the eight points list below, click here. For my response to some criticisms of the essay, click here. On all of the important political issues of the day, a majority of Americans agree…

More Details… “Losers Win: Structural Subversion of Democracy” by Todd Berliner

By Kayan Cross of Vista Grande Community Church (Colorado Springs, CO) When I attended the August 28, 2020 “Get Your Knee Off My Neck” March on Washington I experienced and witnessed so much en masse. Community, strength, perseverance, unity, talent, networking, peace, commitment to safety (covid-19) and so much more. I also noticed a vast…

More Details… Racism is Black Trauma

Beloved Community, This past weekend our nation lost a genuine warrior for truth and justice in the transition of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Perhaps for you, like it was for me, the timing of her death produced a crushing blow to your heart as we know all that she was fighting to protect…

More Details… A blow to the heart

Donald J. Trump is doing everything in his power (and beyond what his power technically allows) to stoke the flames of a race war in the U.S. when his administration should be working to squelch them. At a time when protests demanding racial justice have lasted more than 100 days in cities across America with…

More Details… America Needs Truth and Conciliation, not Trump’s Attacks on Anti-Racism Education

Yesterday was the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which narratively gave women the right to vote. However, as truth is told, Black, Indigenous and other women of color remained disenfranchised long after its ratification. Today, we continue to witness the structural ways that Black, Brown and Indigenous…

More Details… 100 years and still…