Awakening through Race, Intersectionality, and Social Equity (ARISE)
ARISE Sangha is a community of mindfulness practitioners and monastics who come together to heal the wounds of racial injustice and social inequity, beginning with looking deeply within ourselves and using the energy of compassion, understanding, and love in action. Visit arisesangha.org to learn more, subscribe to the email newsletter, or view the newsletter archive here.
Beloved Community Circles
Beloved Community Circles is a close-knit, decentralized network of people in many countries working towards climate and racial justice in our communities, grounded in nonviolence, emotional healing, spiritual practice, and mindful action. Visit belovedcommunitycircles.org to learn more, subscribe to the email newsletter, or join their Mighty Networks to get connected with others.
Earth Holder Community
The Earth Holder Community aspires to weave earth & racial justice into all aspects of work through growing an earth-loving community, sharing earth-based mindfulness practices, uplifting and supporting the leadership and voices of Black, Indigenous and People of Color, and other marginalized communities, and advancing earth-healing compassionate direct action. To explore their support materials, join their Mindful Hub, and learn about actions you can get involved with, please visit earthholder.training.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
An interfaith organization, Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) USA’s mission is to organize, train, and grow a diverse movement of people of conscience committed to using the transformative power of nonviolence to create peace, end structures of violence and war, and build the beloved community. Visit forusa.org to explore movement building with a long history of peaceful action.
Fierce Vulnerability Network
The Fierce Vulnerability Network is a constellation of direct action teams positioned at the intersection of racial healing and climate justice. Within this movement ecosystem, FVN is called to two inseparable core commitments: to contribute to racial healing and reconciliation by making and facilitating concrete acts of reparations and to honor, uplift, and defend life through bold civil disobedience and creative initiative to address racial injustice and the climate emergency. To learn more and get connected, visit thefvn.org.
Happy Farm
The Happy Farm is an agroecology project which incorporates regenerative and organic practices. Farms are located within mindfulness practice centers and communities. Volunteers and retreatants in the Plum Village Meditation Practice Centres experience first-hand the interconnection between earth, rain, sun and seed with the hand and food of the farmer. Visit thehappyfarm.org to get involved and explore how the Happy Farms welcome Earth as a teacher.
Love in Action for Palestine Sangha
This global online sangha meets on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month from 7:30pm to 8:15pm ET. For more details and to join, please email David: dpviafora@gmail.com
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