[Fuusmchat] Fwd: Welcome to week one of 30 Days of Love!

Tue Jan 16 10:47:33 CST 2024

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From: Side With Love <love at uua.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Subject: Welcome to week one of 30 Days of Love!
To: Dawn Hewitt <fuusm.office at gmail.com>

This year’s theme is “ Imagining an Interdependent Future.” With each new
year, we move into an intentional holy time of spiritual nourishment,
contemplation, and embodiment.

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Dear Dawn,

*Welcome to the first week
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30 Days of Love!* This year’s theme is “Imagining an Interdependent
Future.” With each new year, we move into an intentional holy time of
spiritual nourishment, contemplation, and embodiment. A new year can carry
with it the weight and grief of the former while inviting us into
possibility and prophecy of the new. We enter 2024 witnessing
unconscionable suffering and injustice at a scale that calls us all to
deeply reimagine a future where we all thrive. The only way through this
moment is together, bound by a commitment to our shared humanity and
interdependence. 30 Days of Love offers a place to steady and stretch as we
faithfully journey toward wholeness and collective liberation. Together,
let us imagine our interdependent future and order our work along this
path.

*In the first week, we explore the theme of “safety” and how it shows up in
our world and our decriminalization work.
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In “Letters from a Birmingham Jail,” Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote,
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr.’s words and context offer us an important lesson. First, that we
need each other to survive. Second, we learn that when you challenge a
usurped power held by the state, criminalization is a routine tactic to
repress a people rising up to be free.

Today, we are experiencing a contest for power: accountable collective
governance for all or power organized and held by the few. This contest is
not new.

To me, it is clear that a new world is emerging. As the Civil Rights
movement helped usher in a new day, we are witnessing the mass mobilization
and subsequent violent repression that are hallmarks of political and
social transformation.

But as we are reminded in this letter, *before criminalization becomes a
political tactic of disconnection and domination, it is first a spiritual
acquiescence to dehumanization and disposability. We deny a moral mandate
of mutuality in search of the protection of power over others.*

As our nation struggles to realize the promise of liberty and justice for
all, it also reckons with the ways it has used oppression to construct an
idea of safety that relies on the comforts of those in power. We have
witnessed this in battles around integration, access to medical care for
trans people, book bans, and more. This country has erased people from
history, from legal recognition, and from the public square in order to
secure power in a world demanding change.

The struggle for collective liberation must not be mistaken for a threat to
safety.

Today, we know the consequences are too great.

History teaches us what happens when we build a world around an
exclusionary idea of safety. Our government carves borders, erects armies,
surveils, polices, and imprisons the threat. And with each action towards
this end, we make enemies of each other. We devote our resources, our
labors, our art, and our children to mutual destruction. No one in this
kind of world is safe.

*Decriminalization is a political and spiritual project.* Our work to Stop
Cop City dismantles the false ideal of safety. This false ideal is
destroying forests, intensifying violence against communities of color, and
silencing the electorate.  As people of faith, we cannot affirm the worth
and dignity of all while privileging the well-being of a chosen few. We are
not fully human when we separate ourselves from the humanity of others.

*Decriminalization is a process of healing and (re)connection. A just and
abundant concept of safety requires all of us.* It proclaims a future where
care and safety are abundant because our relationships are cultivated
through mutuality, not domination. We act, showing up with and for
communities to win campaigns and to grow a network of love, compassion and
care. *This is the work of community building. This is how we keep us safe.*

In faith and solidarity,

Nicole Pressley, Field & Programs Director, Side With Love

*This week’s offerings:*
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Time For All Ages by Rev. Mylo Way; a Body Practice from Jess Hunt; a
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a Grounding Practice for Safety by Lora Powell-Haney.
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