Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

11 January 2025 /11 Tevet 5785

To be truly radical

is to make hope possible

rather than despair convincing

ALL

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ALL

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

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Let us bless how from the earth these bodies of wisdom were created, alive as they are, all open openings and holy holes.

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Unconcealed, revealed, we face the fate of our dignity:

if wrongly opened one would be, or wrongly closed another,

we know not how we could withstand.

Broken though this flesh can be,

broken though this world can be,

still we love this life while we last.

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Blessed and blessing, we bow to both the healing of sleep

and the daily miraculous of awakening.

Elliott batTzedek & Miriam Geronimus

ALL

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Give Yourself Some Flowers

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Marcus Amaker

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

And in the beginning,

God gave your body

a checklist:

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Keep your heart

on beat

and your lungs

dancing with oxygen,

not passive to air.

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Make sure

the path of your blood

slows down

for checkpoints

and avoids

bumps

in the road.

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Train your nerves

to keep a balanced pace

and stay within

the lines

of steady flow.

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Push forward

without putting

too much

pressure

on movement.

Give Yourself Some Flowers

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Marcus Amaker

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

Remember

to return to water

when your spirit

and its frame

are in drought.

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Treat your body

like a well-rounded planet

built for all seasons,

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or pretend you are

an adaptable star:

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Float in the black

and stay there

if you need to,

save some light

for yourself.

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In other words,

rest like the sun does:

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Schedule some time

to stay out of sight

when too many people

praise warm energy.

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Keep in mind

all of these things

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when depression

tells you

nothing is working.

Give Yourself Some Flowers

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Marcus Amaker

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

Keep in mind

all of these things

​

when it tells you

there is no

invisible force

connecting us,

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when your veins

are stopped by blood clots,

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when your bones are dry,

and the water

is too quick to boil.

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Keep in mind

all of these things

when it tells you

that the soul is like the body:

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Made to be broken,

open to deterioration

and doubt. Yes,

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keep in mind

all of these things

and remember:

Give Yourself Some Flowers

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Marcus Amaker

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

Even when it

seems like

the clock isn’t ticking,

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you were made perfectly

for this moment

in time.

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ALL

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New Year Resolve

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May Sarton

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

The time has come

To stop allowing the clutter

To clutter my mind

Like dirty snow,

Shove it off and find

Clear time, clear water.

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Time for a change,

Let silence in like a cat

Who has sat at my door

Neither wild nor strange

Hoping for food from my store

And shivering on the mat.

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Let silence in.

She will rarely speak or mew,

She will sleep on my bed

And all I have ever been

Either false or true

Will live again in my head.

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For it is now or not

As old age silts the stream,

To shove away the clutter,

To untie every know,

To take the time to dream,

To come back to still water.

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Hope & Despair

​

Kathleen Dean

Moore

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People tend to think that we have only two options: hope or despair. But neither one is acceptable. Blind hope leads to moral complacency: things will get better, so why should I put myself out? Despair leads to moral abdication: things will get worse no matter what I do, so why should I put myself out? But between hope and despair is the broad territory of moral integrity—a match between what you believe and what you do. You act lovingly toward your children because you love them. You live simply because you believe in taking only your fair share. You do what’s right because it’s right, not because you will gain from it.

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There is freedom in that. There is joy in that. And, ultimately, there is social change in that. That’s the way we respond to a lack of hope.

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Interlude

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Linda Pastan

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

We are waiting for snow

the way we might wait for a train

to arrive with its cold cargo-

it is late already, but surely

it will come.

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We are waiting for snow

the way we might wait

for permission

to breathe again.

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For only the snow

will release us, only the snow

will be a letting go, a blind falling

towards the body of earth

and towards each other.

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And while we wait at this window

whose sheer transparency

is clouded already

with our mutual breath,

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it is as if our whole lives depended

on the freezing color

of the sky, on the white

soon to be fractured

gaze of winter.

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If We

Jump Up

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Minnie

Bruce

Pratt

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

Let new words leap out of our mouths.�Let our hands be astonished at what we have made, and glad.�Let us follow ourselves into a present not ruled by the past.�If we jump up now, our far will be near.

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ALL

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And G!d says: the thing you feared- that loss, that loneliness, that unbelievable thing - is inescapable. It is here. But your fear of it - that, you can leave behind. You want peace in this? Stop staring at the place where you buried your hope. Water it. Warm it. It will surprise you when it breaks through.

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from The Book of Solace

Dane Kuttler

Snow

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Anne

Sexton

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Snow,

blessed snow,

comes out of the sky

like bleached flies.

The ground is no longer naked.

The ground has on its clothes.

The trees poke out of sheets

and each branch wears the sock of God.

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There is hope.

There is hope everywhere.

Today God gives milk

and I have the pail.

There is hope.

There is hope everywhere.

I bite it

Someone once said:

Don't bite till you know

if it's bread or stone.

What I bite is all bread,

rising, yeasty as a cloud.

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Oath of Disloyalty

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Irwin Keller

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

I am a disloyal Jew.

I am not loyal to a political party.

Nor will I be loyal to dictators and mad kings.

I am not loyal to walls or cages.

I am not loyal to taunts or tweets.

I am not loyal to hatred, to Jew-baiting, to the gloating connivings

of white supremacy.

I am a disloyal Jew.

I am not loyal to any foreign power.

Nor to abuse of power at home.

I am not loyal to a legacy of conquest, erasure and exploitation.

I am not loyal to stories that tell me who I should hate.

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Oath of Disloyalty

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Irwin Keller

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

I am a loyal Jew.

I am loyal to the inconveniences of kindness.

I am loyal to the dream of justice.

I am loyal to this suffering Earth, and to all life.

I am not loyal to any founding fathers.

But I am loyal to the children who will come

And to the quality of world we leave them.

I am not loyal to what America has become.

But I am loyal to what America could be.

I am loyal to Emma Lazarus. To huddled masses.

To freedom and welcome,

Holiness, hope and love.

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

14 December 2024 /13 Kislev 5785

You will be walking some night

in the comfortable dark of your yard

and suddenly a great light will shine

round about you,

and behind you

will be a wall you never saw before.

It will be clear to you suddenly

that you were about to escape,

and that you are guilty: you misread

the complex instructions, you are not

a member, you lost your card

or never had one.

Do Not Be Ashamed

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Wendell Berry

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Do Not Be Ashamed

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Wendell Berry

And you will know

that they have been there all along,

their eyes on your letters and books,

their hands in your pockets,

their ears wired to your bed.

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Though you have done nothing shameful,

they will want you to be ashamed.

They will want you to kneel and weep

and say you should have been like them.

And once you say you are ashamed,

reading the page they hold out to you,

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then such light as you have made

in your history will leave you.

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Do Not Be Ashamed

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Wendell Berry

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

They will no longer need to pursue you.

You will pursue them, begging forgiveness.

They will not forgive you.

There is no power against them.

It is only candor that is aloof from them,

only an inward clarity, unashamed,

that they cannot reach.

Be ready.

When their light has picked you out

and their questions are asked, say to them:

"I am not ashamed."

A sure horizon

will come around you. The heron will begin

his evening flight from the hilltop.

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In Times of Great

[Struggle]

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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

I want to do for you

what the sun does for me—

coax you to come

outside, to breathe in

the golden air.

I want to enter you

and warm you,

fill you with brilliance,

make your muscles melt,

make your mind shush.

I want to prepare for you

luminous paths

that span across deep space,

thaw any part of you

that feels frozen,

find any cracks

and slip shine into them.

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Your shadow, I want to intensify it

so you might better know

your own shape.

I want to encourage you

to open, wider, wider,

want to teach you

to write your name

in light.

we are each other’s

harvest:

we are each other’s

business:

we are each other’s magnitude and bond.

ALL

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Gwendolyn Brooks, “Paul Robeson”

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call & Response

If Not

Rabbi Hillel, Adrienne Rich, Dane Kuttler

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If I am not for myself

who is for me?

If I am only for myself

what am I?

If not now

then when?

If not with others

then how?

If not here

then where?

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call & Response

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

11 January 2025 /11 Tevet 5785

נְבָרֵךְ אֶת עֵין הַחַיִּים,

מְקוֹר הַחֹשֶׁךְ וְהָאוֹר,

מְקוֹר הַשְּׁלֵמוּת וְהַתֹּהוּ,

מְקוֹר הַטּוֹב וְהָרָע,

מְקוֹר כָּל יְצִירָה.

N’vareykh et eyn hachayim

Let us bless the source of life

m’kor hachoshekh v’ha’or

source of darkenss and light

m’kor hash’leymut v’hatohu

source of wholeness and chaos

m’kor hatov v’hara

source of goodness and evil

m’kor kol y’tzirah

source of all creation

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בִּרְכַּת יְצִירָה

Blessing of Creation

Birkat Y’tzirah

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Marcia Falk

Aleynu

​

Marcia

Falk

It is ours to praise

the beauty of the world

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even as we discern

the torn world.

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For nothing is whole

that is not first rent

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and out of the torn

we make whole again.

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May we live with promise

in creation’s lap,

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redemption budding

in our hands.

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ALL

Consequences

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דִּבְרֵי תּוֹרָה/ Blessing for Revelation of Wisdom

today I am

sitting with empire

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Tema Jon Okun

this feels familiar

the simple, singular

claim on my white skin,

on my terrorized sex,

on my hammered heart

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the unmistakable problem

of begging the

crazy bastard America

of resisting the jackboot

assault of penetration

into my pleading soul,

the weary rejection of preachers

and teachers of hell

I am telling you this,

the woods, the villages,

the cities, the very continent

is crazy from the

cost of this daily desire of the

monster armies of America,

fighting for false

freedom, forced status,

incarceration of hair and head and gender

and hearts, of skin,

of our children,

and our children’s children,

of the evening sky

and our rattling teeth

Consequences

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דִּבְרֵי תּוֹרָה/ Blessing for Revelation of Wisdom

today I am

sitting with empire

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Tema Jon Okun

we need a kind of surgery,

we need words and walking

and silence and stars and smashing,

idiosyncratic proof, glorious

proof that we are not the problem,

we are the very kinsmen of

our self-determination,

we are the books and

the claims and the

indisputable fuck you

of the problem

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we are the streets and

the rain and the workers,

we are the sanctity

of god and

we know the difference

between wrong and reasonable,

we can name our own geographic,

we are the familiar everybody

and we love the stars and

we love our feet in our shoes

and we turn towards the soul

and disclose the very why

of the world

and we are no

longer afraid

​

no matter

what

comes

Consequences

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call & Response

Gatherings / Elliott batTzedek

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Gather our strengths

and gather our failures

Gather our kin

and gather our strangers

Gather what we love

and what we fear

Gather what we have lost

and what we are afraid to lose

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Find the courage to proclaim

“All we gather is sacred”

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And you must love The One, your God, with your whole heart, with every breath, with all you have. Take these words that I command you now to heart. Teach them intently to your children. Speak them when you sit inside your house or walk upon the road, when you lie down and when you rise. And bind them as a sign upon your hand, and keep them visible before your eyes. Inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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Consequences

May we not just grieve, but give:

May we not just ache, but act;

May we choose our children over chaos.

May another innocent never be lost.

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Maybe everything hurts,

Our hearts shadowed & strange.

But only when everything hurts

May everything change.

ALL

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Amanda Gorman “Hymn for the Hurting”

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At Any Moment, There Could Be a Swerve in a Different Direction

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Ellery Akers

There was a moment

when shooting egrets for feathers became wrong.

There was a moment

when the Wilderness Act

changed the lives of billions of blades of grass.

I remember the moment when a river that used to catch fire

turned from flammable to swimmable.

A swerve smells astringent, like the wind off the sea;

it tastes red, the way Red Hot cinnamon mints

burn in your mouth;

it’s heavy, the way the weight of letters is heavy,

arriving in sacks at the Senate;

it sounds like the click of needles

as hundreds of thousands of women knit pink hats;

it looks like a coyote, crossing the freeway to go home.

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Blessing of Redemption מָקוֹר תּקּוּן עוֹלֶּם

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

14 December 2024 /13 Kislev 5785

Amidah / Seven Breath Meditation

Rabbi Jill Hammer/ Kohenet

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We live in chaotic, disastrous times, but amid that madness, we can still find each other and fight for each other.

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

Beyond the Performance of Disapproval

To face what is coming – what has already arrived for so many people all over world, often funded and driven by the US – we are going to need one another. And that means we need to look – hard – at how politics have been done on the Left/in social justice movements, and reject what has been destructive or what no longer works.

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First, it’s time to move beyond the ways we perform disapproval, which has exploded across our movements with the growth of social media:

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• all social media platforms foster dynamics of performance, proselytization and condemnation
• politics are worn and expressed, rather than enacted in the world
• leftists have become highly skilled at takedowns, when it comes to potential allies, but remain wholly nonthreatening to billionaires, corporations and genocidaires

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

Beyond the Performance of Disapproval

The growth of social media has left us open to intentional disorganization:

• Disorganizing forces and individuals seek to unravel solidarity, organizing efforts and organizations through disruption and an obsessive focus on critique and punishment
• Our good intentions and political rigor can be weaponized by forces that are seeking to destabilize our movements
• Our efforts are also undone by individuals whose desire for centrality, attention or moral superiority are no less destructive than a system-sponsored effort to dismantle an organization

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These have always been true in Leftist organizations, but social media has made the speed and scale more than we can handle, destroying movements and trust.

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

Beyond the Performance of Disapproval

Another problem is what poet Kai Cheng Thom has called “the church of social justice.” This is the world of rabidly fundamentalist views, demands for purity, and enforced cohesion.

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Too much of the Left are activists who will recruit you to be something, versus those who will recruit you to do something. 

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The performance of disapproval is about sanctimony and condemnation. When people fall short of the standards performers have conjured, they are condemned. This performance of disapproval is sometimes a collective act, in which onlookers are encouraged to participate. This not only fosters a conflict fetish, and an ever-present thirst for takedowns, but also reinforces the idea that the performance of disapproval is politically meaningful, rather than a toxic, time-wasting hobby.

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Interval from Elliott

Identity + Politics ≠ Identity Politics

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

Beyond the Performance of Disapproval

Rejecting a know-it-all culture of condemnation means being honest about the fact that no one has all of the answers, and that no one knows quite what to do next because this moment is unprecedented.

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It’s difficult to acknowledge that:

• while our knowledge, experience and indignation have value, we do not know what it will actually take to win
• that many of our best efforts have failed
• we may not know what to do next

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

What the Moment Demands

from Dean Spade:

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“Many of us get caught up in expressing opinions online, or want to be seen doing good work by others, but are less prepared to do underground work, work that is illegal or rule-breaking, and work that needs to happen covertly.”

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“We need to increase our courage to take those risks together and build our collective capacity for underground work protecting immigrants and criminalized people from the government, making and distributing our own medicines, taking over public space, preventing evictions, dismantling the infrastructure of extraction and war, and moving resources to people who need them.”

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

What the Moment Demands

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It is crucial that we ground ourselves in relationships outside of the social posturing and ideological warfare of social media. Whether that means joining an existing organization or gathering with neighbors or friends to discuss the good you can do together.

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The moment calls us to organize beyond protests and electoral politics and look to a building a culture of connection, support, and resistance.

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Mariame Kaba’s general list of concrete actions people can take, many of which are creating the community supports this administration intends to destroy, and of building structures to aid the most vulnerable.

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

What the Moment Demands

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Social media platforms can be sources of information (alongside so much disinformation), but they cannot be our political homes. We need real connection, either in person or virtual.

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We need to maintain relationships and opportunities for collaboration and co-learning outside the crosshairs of thousands of strangers who may or may not share our values, or who may have no tolerance for the realities of the political learning process–work that requires many stumbles and mistakes.

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Creating spaces where people can be vulnerable together, explore ideas and create new experiments is crucial in these times.

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

What the Moment Demands

We need personal and communal actions that have material impacts on people’s lives. Collective actions that have material impacts can also remind people that we can affect the heartbreaking conditions that discourage us. Feelings of powerlessness and overwhelm are responsible for many of the harmful dynamics that hinder our work as activists and organizers. 

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Dean Spade: “This is a time to be rigorous and generous. We need to be aware that our co-strugglers and potential allies are immensely stressed and will be increasingly operating under pressure. And we need to be aware of how our stressed states might be causing us to act toward others. Knowing this, we need to be forgiving. It is not a time to gossip or stigmatize others, but instead to try to sort out what is happening and stick together if possible.” 

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It is time to learn to listen, and to learn to organize with, not on-top-of. We need to learn to help provide what communities need, not what we decide they need.

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

So What Do We Do?

Find media sources we trust – individual reporters, bloggers, commentators. Read for education, don’t fight in the comments.

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Starting with COVID and the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, many people got involved in mutual aid projects for the first time, so there is broad experience and understanding that didn’t exist before. “This is a time to draw upon what we've learned in those efforts–about engaging with new people, and taking spontaneous autonomous action in our communities rather than waiting for someone else to organize us or provide what we need.”

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As surveillance and repression are ramped up in our communities, learn from the campus protests about how to organize offline, and how to build mutual aid on the ground, in real time, face-to-face.

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Wading Into 2025: How to Begin

Kelly Haye

So What Do We Do?

It’s time to begin, together, to study and learn, from trusted political thinkers and from activists who have already been fighting these systems for a long time. Those of us who have been doing activism for a long time need to talk together about all we’ve learned and how to apply those lessons. We have skills to teach, and also many skills we need to learn from younger organizers.

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It’s time to let go of what “has always been done” and be open to new strategies.

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It’s important to stop waiting for Nazi-era fascism “to begin here” and recognize the kinds of control and violence that already exist and have laid the groundwork for this moment – the carceral system, desensitization to violence against targeted violence, our military that has done to people around the world what is now happening here. Rather then obsessing on “what is going to happen to us,” we need to band together to resist what is already happening. Resistance to violence and control is also resistance to despair and hopelessness.

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Elliott Interval

You must do the thing you cannot NOT do, and trust that other smart, determined people are working on everything else that must be done.

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Elliott Interval

Power-Over and Resistance to Power-Over are Both Webs, not Lists, not Steps, not Pyramids.

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To whit: It’s important to recognize the kinds of control and violence that already exist and have laid the groundwork for this moment – the carceral system, desensitization to violence against targeted violence, our military that has done to people around the world what is now happening here.

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To whit: 30% of the firefighters risking their lives to fire the fires in LA

ARE PRISON INMATES

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They are paid less than $10/day.

They have no union.

They have no health insurance.

They will risk their lives and return to prison.

When they are released they won’t be able to get jobs as firefighters because they have a criminal record. (update: as of 2020 they can get firefighter jobs in CA. Thanks, Terry!)

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Above Everything

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David Ignatow

I wished for death often

but now that I am at its door

I have changed my mind about the world.

It should go on; it is beautiful,

even as a dream, filled with water and seed,

plants and animals, others like myself,

ships and buildings and messages

filling the air—a beauty,

if ever I have seen one.

In the next world, should I remember

this one, I will praise it

above everything.

Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

11 January 2025 /11 Tevet 5785

Yitgadal veyitkadash shemey raba be’alma divra hiruty veyamlih malhutey behayeyhon uvyomeyhon uvhayey dehol beyt yisra’el ba’agala uvizman kariv ve’imru amen.

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Yehey shemey raba mevarah le’alam ulalmey almaya.

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Yitbarah veyistabah veyitpa’ar veyitromam veyitnasey veyit-hadar veyitaleh veyit-halal shemey dekudsha berih hu le’ela min kol birhata veshirata tushbehata venehemata da’amiran be’alma ve’imru amen.

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Yehey shelama raba min shemaya vehayim Aleynu ve’al kol yisra’el ve’imru amen.

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Oseh shalom bimromav hu ya’aseh shalom Aleynu ve’al kol yisra’el ve’al kol yishma’el ve’al kol yoshvey tevel ve’imru amen.

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

11 January 2025 /11 Tevet 5785

Mourner’s Kaddish / Elliott batTzedek

So often am I lost,

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yet through the pall, yet through the tarnish, show me the way back,

through my betrayals, my dismay, my heart’s leak, my mind’s sway,

eyes’ broken glow, groan of the soul—which convey all that isn’t real,

for every soul to These Hands careen. And let us say, amen.

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Say you will show me the way back, my Rock, my Alarm. Lead the way, Oh my Yah

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And yet in shock and yet in shame and yet in awe and yet to roam and yet to stay and yet right here and yet away and yet —“Halleluyah!” my heartbeat speaks, for You live in all this murk and too in the clear and too in our wreckage.

You are the mirror of our souls, let us say: amen

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Life may harm me, rob me, ream me raw, try me, even slay me

Over all You will prevail. And let us say: Amen

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Say You shall loan me a tomorrow, Say You shall loan another day to all who are called Yisrael and all called Yishmael and all called We and They, and let us say, Amen

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

11 January 2025 /11 Tevet 5785

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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah

11 January 2025 /11 Tevet 5785