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The Need for Long Term Solutions
If every soul mattered in this world to every person, it would be a different world. If our lives were not so consumed with the shallowest of worries, perhaps our actions would better serve our Earth and our world house. If activism was a lifestyle rather than a post...
Combating Indifferences towards Homelessness
This Saturday the Freedom Center visited an encampment to meet with two comrades, Andrea and Greg, in Oakland. Greg and Andrea, two people with very different philosophies, have learned to live together. Their struggle of homelessness is one that requires forgiveness...
To Be of Use
Common good or I feel good? You don’t put a band-aid on a broken leg. Hand you an ice pack when you’re bleeding out. Give you a dollar and ignore your concussion. Where are you going to spend it when you can’t walk? That’s benefitting me alone. I feel like I did...
Organizing to Move Forward
We have goals that we not only want to achieve but need to achieve. Theories, practices, and challenges take us down the road to justice. Square wheels will not move us. Triangular wheels delay the much-needed process. Organizing, constructing relationships, and...
Hopeful World
In the morning, the sun rises,Hope across the world. Toddlers play, parents watch, hand out applesauceJoyous world. In the temple, monks meditate.Peaceful world. In the Capitol, white supremacists murder.Mocking democracy and the peopleFear wounds, fear...
Join us for the 30th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. March and Rally online: Monday, January 17, at 10 am...
The schedule for this weekend's World House Documentary Film Festival is now available online!
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Join us for the World House Documentary Film Festival--a free, weekend-long, virtual event celebrating the 2022 Martin Luther King Jr....
"Change comes from more than a dream. Change comes from action."
This week, sixty young people and...
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Press Release: 40 Students Study the Myth of the First Thanksgiving and the Role of Gratitude in Civil Rights and Social Change
Daily Democrat: Students research importance of Native Sovereignty for Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center annual Days of Gratitude
40 MLK Freedom Center Students Study Myth of 1st Thanksgiving, Role of Gratitude in Civil Rights and Social Change
Pixels For Peace
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Join us for the 30th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. March and Rally online: Monday, January 17, at 10 am PST, featuring Freedom Center student speakers with Congresswoman Barbara Lee, CA Attorney General Rob Bonta, music and other civic leaders. This annual event stands as...
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