Social Justice

• Respond to this moment in our personal lives, our country, and the world.
• Connect with each other and share resources.

• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action from what we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

• Responding to this moment in our personal lives, our country, and the world.

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• Film Driving While Black
• Documentary Alive Inside
• Poem In Harsh Times (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
• Hulu Series We Were The Lucky Ones
• Book Mila 18
• Poem Bioluminescence (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
• Poem A Both/And Life (Danna Faulds, scroll down to April 16, 2025)

• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action from what we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

• Responding to this moment in our country and the world.
• (Paused since 2024: Tricia Hersey’s Book Rest is Resistance)

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• Film Driving While Black
• Documentary Alive Inside
• Poem In Harsh Times (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
• Hulu Series We Were The Lucky Ones
• Book Mila 18
• Poem Bioluminescence (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
• Poem A Both/And Life (Danna Faulds, scroll down to April 16, 2025)

• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action from what we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

• Responding to this moment in our country and the world.
• June 14 Mass Mobilization mobilize.us
• TBD – email ideas to group
• (Paused since 2024: Tricia Hersey’s Book Rest is Resistance)

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• Hulu Series We Were The Lucky Ones
• Book Mila 18
• Poem by Liz’s brother:Stared At (Hiram Larew)
• Poem Liz’s friend: Success (Forestine Bynam)
• Substack: The Contrarian (from Janet)
• 14-min Video David Brooks, How the Elite Rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart)

• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action from what we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

• Responding to this moment in our country and the world.
• Taking turns sharing personal experiences with race and class in our upbringing and throughout our lives. Consider:
  • When was the first time you became aware of, resisted, questioned, or were confused by race or racism? By class or classism?
• Tricia Hersey’s Book Rest is Resistance (Liz’s suggestion)

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• Poem: Safety Net (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
• 13-min Video: Ezra Klein “Don’t Believe Him“
• Quote: “To be hopeful…” (Howard Zinn)
• Video (33 min): Melanie DeMore Artist Spotlight,— The power of African American Spirituals and Civil Rights songs.
• Film: The Room Next Door
• Book Review on the origins of whiteness The Unseen Truth
• Poem: Cross That Line (Naomi Shihab Nye
• Netflix Series: The Six Triple Eight: Inspiring story of World War II’s only Women’s Army Corps unit of color. 
• Book: James (Percival Everett)
• Hulu Series: We Were the Lucky Ones (based on a true Holocaust story)

• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action fromwhat we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

• Responding to this moment in our country and the world.
• Taking turns sharing personal experiences with race and class in our upbringing and throughout our lives. (Paul will be sharing in December.) Consider:
  • When was the first time you became aware of, resisted, questioned, or were confused by race or racism? By class or classism?
• Planning ahead, we’re earmarking Tricia Hersey’s Book Rest is Resistance for discussion in December. 

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• Love, Power and Liberation with Angela Davis and Lama Rod Owens (from Signe)
• Poem: What To Do Next, Kayleen Asbo (from Liz)
• Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa (from Judy)
• 4-min excerpt of the James Talarico video we watched together in Sept (Christianity vs. Christian Nationalism). If you can’t access this (it’s through Facebook), try the full sermon
• (from Signe) Podcast: The Beinart Notebook – good conversation about Jews and Palestinians
• (from Beverly) New Yorker Radio Hour on the complexity of being biracial in America 

• Poem: At the Age of 18–Ode to Girls of Color (Amanda Gorman)
• Poem: A Portable Paradise (Roger Robinson)
• Film Screening Bad Faith: Christianity’s Unholy War on Democracy. Sponsored by the Sonoma County North Bay Organizing Project Religious Leaders Caucus. 
• Film (90 mins): The Color of Fear
• Book: The Power Worshippers; Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart (this link to author’s website has info about the film God and Country, which is based on the book).
• “God & Country” Exclusive Webinar Discussion

• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action fromwhat we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

• We’re taking turns sharing personal experiences with race and class in our upbringing and throughout our lives. (Paul will be sharing in October. Any takers for September?) Consider:
  • When was the first time you became aware of, resisted, questioned, or were confused by race or racism? By class or classism?

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• (from Signe) Podcast: The Beinart Notebook – good conversation about Jews and Palestinians
• Poem: At the Age of 18–Ode to Girls of Color (Amanda Gorman)
• Poem: A Portable Paradise (Roger Robinson)
• Film Screening Bad Faith: Christianity’s Unholy War on Democracy. Sponsored by the Sonoma County North Bay Organizing Project Religious Leaders Caucus. 
• Film (90 mins): The Color of Fear
• Book: The Power Worshippers; Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart (this link to author’s website has info about the film God and Country, which is based on the book).
• “God & Country” Exclusive Webinar Discussion

• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action fromwhat we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

• We’re taking turns sharing personal experiences with race and class in our upbringing and throughout our lives. Consider:
  • When was the first time you resisted, questioned, became aware of, or were confused by racism? By classism?
  • Review the chart “Hidden Rules among Classes“
• Read Epilogue and Ch 1 of book: American Nations (A history of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America), by Colin Woodard

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• “God & Country” Exclusive Webinar Discussion
• From Paul re: Israel/Palestine:
  https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/about/
  https://www.standing-together.org/en
  https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=f1748d6b0fd9d439f71450117eba2725.2717&s=c497874f68132256554443348d877ed9
  https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/is-anti-zionism-anti-semitism
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/02/anti-zionism-antisemitism-israel-jews-came-first/
• Revisit Merge Left, Ian Haney Lopez for further discussion.
• Movie: Bank of Dave
• Movie (Based on book Caste): Origin
• Movie: American Fiction
• YouTube: A Broader We, Ian Haney Lopez
• Movie: Rustin (Netflix)
• Book: Prequel, Rachel Maddow
• Book: Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist, by Stephen Batchelor
• “Pendulation” with Peter Levine for being with difficult emotions, trauma, and other distress.
• 35-min Documentary: The Barber of Little Rock: One Man’s Fight to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action fromwhat we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

• Reflect on personal experiences with race and class in our upbringing and throughout our lives. Consider:
  • When was the first time you resisted, questioned, became aware of, or were confused by racism? By classism?
  • Review the chart “Hidden Rules among Classes“
• Revisit Merge Left, Ian Haney Lopez for further discussion.

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• Movie (Based on book Caste): Origin
• Movie: American Fiction
• YouTube: A Broader We, Ian Haney Lopez
• Movie: Rustin (Netflix)
• Book: Prequel, Rachel Maddow
• Book: American Nations, by Colin Woodard
• Book: Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist, by Stephen Batchelor
• “Pendulation” with Peter Levine for being with difficult emotions, trauma, and other distress.
• 35-min Documentary: The Barber of Little Rock: One Man’s Fight to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action fromwhat we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

• The intersection of Race and Class: Reflect on your experience of class and classism in your life using the list from this article:
  • Classism: Readings and Resources, Diversity and Social Justice 

• “Pendulation” with Peter Levine for being with difficult emotions, trauma, and other distress.
• Video: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization by Peter T.Coleman
• Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action from what we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

• From Paul: “Below are some links to perspectives and resources I’ve found helpful to better understand what’s happening on the ground in Israel/Palestine…Take care❤”
   

  We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other

   
  There Is Jewish Hope for Palestine Liberation
   
  The Context of Gaza Attack
   
  Bridging the divide: 12 groups working for Israel-Palestine peace
   
  https://www.haaretz.com/ (daily newspaper in Israel)
• PBS 2 part documentary:  American Experience: The Busing Battleground, Monday, Sept 11 and The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi’s Schools Tuesday, Sept 12 at 9:00pm.  
• Building Alliances Among Minority Communities: an online and in person 3-part series bringing Jewish and Asian American Communities together to fight racism.   
• Antiracism Learning Circles, hosted by the First Unitarian Congregation of Portland, OR, a series of workshops on different topics. 
• Indivisible – A grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders and rebuild our democracy.
• More articles on race and class:
  • On Culture and Classism in America

• • Classism: America’s Overlooked Problem (Rutgers Review)