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Categories Archives: Veterans/Elder Activists

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Sep15

Interview With Veteran Activist Ruby Sales

  • Gloria Smith
  • Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, Social Justice, Veterans/Elder Activists

This is a marvelous interview with Ruby Sales from Krista Tippett’s radio program and podcast, On Being. Click below and hear it for yourself when you get a chance! “I grew up in the heart of southern apartheid. And I’m not saying that I didn’...

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Oct15

Grace Boggs: Reflections of a Revolutionary

  • vohadmin
  • Featured, Social Justice, Veterans/Elder Activists

One year after her passing, the legacy of Grace Lee Boggs continues to influence Detroit – and the world.  Grace was a “Veteran of Hope,” a beloved friend and comrade of Vincent and Rosemarie.  We remember her as we celebrate her life. Rea...

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Nov16

Video Interview with Vincent Harding

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  • Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, General, Movement History, Social Justice, Veterans/Elder Activists, Vincent Harding

  Eight days out from the recent presidential election, many folks are feeling the need for encouragement, even guidance from some of the elders of our country’s movements for social justice. There are a number of wonderful video interviews on ...

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Dec13

COME to the FOLDING CHAIR SIT-IN, DEC 16-17

  • vohadmin
  • Partner Organizations, Social Justice, Spirit & Struggle, Veterans/Elder Activists

COME TO THE FOLDING CHAIR SIT-IN with RUBY SALES and SISTERS IN STRUGGLE in PHILADELPHIA, DEC 16 and 17 In response to voter suppression and other illegal acts of disenfranchisement that handed Donald Trump a victory he did not earn, Sisters in Struggle ...

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Apr6

Watch the April 2017 “Beyond Vietnam” program here

  • vohadmin
  • Spirit & Struggle, Veterans/Elder Activists, Vincent Harding

On April 4, 1967 Martin Luther King delivered his sermon, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” in the Nave of the Riverside Church in New York City. The sermon became King’s major public statement against the War in Vietnam. King spoke eloquen...

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Apr28

CPRD does Romeo and Juliet in Vodun

  • vohadmin
  • Arts and Activism, Featured, Veterans/Elder Activists

Veteran of Hope, Cleo Parker Robinson, brings a marvelous adaptation of Romeo and Juliet to Denver this weekend and next.  If you’re in Colorado, don’t miss this extraordinary, danced interpretation of the classic Shakespearean play.  Juliet...

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Jan19

Candomblé and MLK

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  • #BlackLivesMatter, Compassionate Spirituality, Diaspora, Indigenous Connections, International Connections, Joy!, Religion, Spirit & Struggle, Veterans/Elder Activists

  In the photo above, from November 2015, Makota Valdina Pinto — an esteemed elder in the Angola Candomblé tradition — offers popcorn in a rite of cleansing and blessing to participants in an annual march for religious tolerance and res...

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Jan22

King and Faith: Urgency of Now

  • vohadmin
  • #BlackLivesMatter, Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, Movement History, Veterans/Elder Activists

January 14, 2018 conversation with Profs. Clay Carson, Charles Long, Rachel Harding and Rev. Jay Williams at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA  

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Mar2

A new book on Vincent Harding and the Mennonites

  • vohadmin
  • Featured, General, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, Social Justice, Veterans/Elder Activists, Vincent Harding

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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Mar9

Interview with Activist and Educator Marcella Pendergrass

  • vohadmin
  • #BlackLivesMatter, Featured, Veterans/Elder Activists

Marcella Pendergrass is a long-time racial and gender justice activist who grew up in Michigan and has been living in Seattle for many years.  She is an amazing fire-woman with a profound sense of justice and community.  She was nurtured in her activism...

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