In every city there are People who help out, A few become saintly The small spit of sand Comes from montaña de piedra. These tiny crystals are not broken They are bits of a whole. To not know life as a river is the worst. Both always follow the possible Never stopping...
Articles
Staff and students invite you to be a part of our on-going work studying and writing for self-change and social transformation. Articles can be searched by date or topic. Please contact us if you are interested in submitting an article.
Search Articles
Recent Articles
Brahms’ Requiem: Movement 7 Reflection by Jayda Gray
Wind rattles the window at 3 a.m. Next door the neighbor lady lives a structured life. But murder shakes things up. Blood drips Ducking down to escape bullets . She pulls in hard to get hold of her breath, A life force we usually take for granted. It’s a cover...
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...
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...
The Power of Love
Love is a tool. It is a valuable resource that transforms our community into becoming a more unified and peaceful place. There are multiple ways to use love. To better our society, we have to use the power of love with good intent and for justice. White supremacy and...
Shout for Justice
Justice in our country is asked for, shouted for in the streets. Some of us fail to recognize the accounts of those who need justice. Hardly do high ranking, rich and powerful officials, judges, and policemen live in the anguish of oppression. Yet, their accounts are...
Work for a More Just Education System
Educational institutions have a habit of dismissing themselves from students' circumstances. They claim that it is outside their jurisdiction therefore it is not their concern. This habit contributes to our children becoming left behind. It takes dedicated work to...
Learning as Conduct
Learning is a physical act, a conduct. We do not learn from just thinking about an idea, we learn from doing actions that connect ideas to the real world. If we take away our conduct, learning becomes a void. We are just memorizing facts without connecting them to the...
Friendly or hostile? Our Capacity to Choose
Dr. King teaches, as humans we are born neither inherently hostile, nor inherently friendly. Instead, we are born with the capacity to choose. We can choose to, and thus be, both good and bad. We can choose to unify or choose to disunify. To create harmony, or chaos....
Reflections on James Baldwin: Justice
Justice beats its heart when those who have been left out and pushed out exercise their rights and experience the promises of our democracy. We witness how our justice system protects the law. That is why police officers are called law enforcement and not peace...
Raising consciousness through conduct
The time is always right to do right. Dr. King recognized that what we do, affects who we are and how we think. At the Freedom Center, we refer to this concept of Dr. King’s as “the three C’s: Conduct, Character, and Consciousness” (Wilson). The essence of democracy...