The Veterans of Hope Blog

In this essay, published Feb 5, 2021 in the New York Times, Michelle Alexander makes powerful connections between tipping and enslavement and calls for a livable minimum wage as a central component of racial and gender justice. Click here to go to New Y...

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  One night, earlier this month, I listened to the newest podcast in the series The Adoptee Next Door, hosted by Angela Tucker.  Angela is a thought leader, writer and adoptee rights activist who advocates powerfully in support of transracially adop...

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In the text below, Ruby provides a powerful reflection on the danger of the eugenicist (us/them) language of battle in the COVID-19 situation.  Rather, she says, we are in a humanitarian crisis that requires us to treat and value each other with respect...

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The SNCC Legacy Project, a national organization of veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, issued a statement yesterday opposing the racist assaults against Latinx people in the United States.  We at the Veterans of Hope Project are...

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Michelle Alexander is a legal scholar, activist and public theologian whose work has long been of great inspiration to the Veterans of Hope Project.  She just wrote a beautiful and powerful essay in the NY Times about the need for all people of conscien...

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Artist Daniel Minter’s work is consistently wonderful — it teaches, transforms and sacralizes. This article is about Minter’s most recent art projects, including one that involves a ritual meal and poetry in honor of a eugenicized co...

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Joanna Shenk, a writer, activist and minister, has published an extended interview with Vincent Harding focussed on his experiences with the Mennonite Church, during and after the time he and Rosemarie were representatives of the Mennonites to the south...

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BREATHIN’: THE EDDY ZHENG STORY is a documentary feature about a Chinese immigrant who became the youngest prisoner at San Quentin State Prison and later one of the nation’s most recognized leaders on prison reform and youth violence prevention. Eddy ...

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Racism is built into the DNA of the United States’ food system. It began with the genocidal theft of land from First Nations people, and continued with the kidnapping of my ancestors from the shores of West Africa. Under the brutality of the whip and th...

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About the Sermon — “Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence” The “Beyond Vietnam” sermon was drafted by historian and activist Vincent Gordon Harding.  Vincent Harding and his first wife, Rosemarie, were friends and colleagues of Ma...

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