Raise Your Voice: Blessed community

Peter Molenaar

By PETER MOLENAAR

Feb. 11, 2019”¦

I would brave the slippery streets, with the ongoing sixth mass species extinction in mind, in order to participate in the public visioning phase of the HOTB Mayday Parade. This was to be the last opportunity to make a modest appearance.

The chairs of the Avalon meeting room were well occupied to receive Sandy Spieler”'s guidance. As it turned out, Sandy had been entitled to choose this year”'s theme, and rightfully so. In keeping with Martin Luther King”'s intent, she chose: “Blessed Community.”

To develop this theme, the gathering was tasked to a rotating series of workshops, set in the auditorium. My first stop was captioned: “Barriers to a Blessed community.” The tally of square sticker tag commentary was to reveal an old question of causality: Is the human condition a consequence of “human nature,” or is human nature a reflection of social systems?

An appropriate MLK quote: “This country has socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.” Hmmm”¦

For example, consider the historic cost of U.S. interventions in support of brutal Central American regimes ”“ regimes now corrupted by drug cartels and street gangs who will rape your mother lest she flee ”“ flee to the border, only to have her baby stolen and placed in a cage.… Read the rest “Raise Your Voice: Blessed community”