Check out Religion in Revolt
Check out Religion in Revolt
I launched this project with writer and theologian Dwayne David Paul.
Last July, Dwayne David Paul and I launched our media project, Religion in Revolt.
Our mission is grounded in the belief that fascism in the United States is deeply tied to the nation’s white supremacist Christianity. The belief that “our world and country are on fire, and our planet keeps burning under empire.”
In “We are fighting for our lives,” our first essay, Dwayne and I wrote:
People are drowning in a deluge of economic insecurity and ecological despair. We are in the midst of a 40-plus year-long process of organized abandonment, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us, by both government and private industry. While company profits have soared to unprecedented rates, American workers earn less today than 40 years ago. Symptomatic of this abandonment, the United States entered the pandemic with 924,000 staffed hospital beds compared to over 2.3 million occupied prison beds. The state continues to disempower the disenfranchised, including the latest repeal of affirmative action and the federal refusal to cancel student debt.
We want to use R.R. to build an abolitionist, interfaith community.
We are committed to analyzing life under various oppressive systems and how these systems cannot be analyzed disconnected from our planet’s ecological crisis.
We are abolitionists, leftist storytellers, and historians. We will not just offer our media opinions or commentary—though much of our public writing does that already—we want to provide a way to build together, rooted in liberation theology and interfaith dialogue and action. We are focused on political education and community building. We are accountable to the communities we come from.
We are committed to doing this while rooted in local struggles and community practices in the Bronx and Hartford. As we build out the platform, these are the perspectives we will privilege.
Dwayne is an educator, theologian, and writer.
His political commentary—including what he shares on social media—is sharp, and you can find links to all his writing on his blog, Left Carnival. For Religion in Revolt, he has written on Palestine, Cop City, U.S. military aid and who benefits, and capitalism and the climate crisis.
My writing for RR includes:
Read more and subscribe over at Religion in Revolt. And stay tuned for the May 1 launch of our podcast.
Thank you to all my Bronx Frontlines community. Happy New Year.