"God needs prophets to respond to modern exploitation, to build, to plant, and to sow the seeds of a new world upon the ground of the old" - Zac White, Freedom Church Of The Poor.
Exploring history through the lens of organization of the dispossessed. Lessons from the Watts Uprising.
"We are brothers and sisters, and whatever pains you pains me." - Rev Dr Martin Luther King JR #MLK
"#MLK showed up for the community in Watts, just as he showed up for the sanitation workers in Memphis... He understood that although the struggle did not look the same in Watts as it did where he is coming from,
the Watts struggle was important." Ciara Taylor, @KairosCenterNYC
Join us for upcoming events including a new bi-weekly 30min conversation series, It's Kairos Time! RSVP to join us LIVE this Tuesday, August 23rd at 7PM for a conversation about the role of devotionals w/ @AndrewJWilkes, @GabbyCWilkes@LaborReligion! bit.ly/ItsKairosTime
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The Kairos Center is hosting a panel on militarism as part of End the War on the Poor: Confronting Militarism and the War Economy, A Convening at @PeoplesForumNYC If you cant make it, follow along our live tweeting here.
@PeoplesForumNYC “Movements begins with the telling of untold stories” and “storytelling is the beginning of how we organize ourselves” - Shailly Gupta-Barnes introducing the panel in the context of building a movement against militarism
@PeoplesForumNYC "Career day was Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard at my high school." - Jose Vasquez, Executive Director of Common Defense one of the panelists on his path into the military