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Agape Visit to Paul Hood
Suzanne and Brayton visit Paul Hood, long-time Quaker activist and co-founder of Alanthus: nonviolent witness for Peace.
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Agape Easter Vigil
Easter Vigil with Bonfire and Mass with Father Fred Enman SJ from Boston College School of Law Resurrection mode: singing and celebrating after Mass at Agape on Holy Saturday!
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Brandeis University Rural Immersion!
Brandeis University students prepare Agape Grounds for summer planting!!
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Agape at Fordham and the Native Nations Rising March
Brayton and Suzanne were invited to Fordham University to speak in classes taught by Eric Martin, who just edited a book of letters of Dan and Phil Berrigan, called The Berrigan Letters. Eric’s class was a diverse one, with continuing ed students who listened attentively to two guys from the Catholic Worker, St. Joseph House,…
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A Pilgrimage to Standing Rock: “After 500 Years of Oppression, All We Have Left Is Love” by Brayton Shanley
The following is Brayton’s account of his five days at Standing Rock encampment in December of 2016. The Lakota people were defending their sacred burial grounds, land, and water from the intrusion of the oil pipeline going through their ancestral grounds. Coming soon: Purchase this article Suzanne informs me that long-time activist friend, Hattie Nestel,…
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After Images of Historic Protests
It takes a very good reason to get us to Washington, DC to protest these days. I do my protesting closer to home in Central Massachusetts. But for Donald Trump’s inaugural, we just had to be there to stand against this dangerous and tragic farce. So, down we went for back-to-back protests. The first was…
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Trump’s Inaugural Witness with Answer Coalition and The Women’s March in Washington DC January 20-21, 2017
Our first steps towards the Inaugural Protests were ones of staring into the unknown at 5am, departing from the home of friends in Cheverly, MD, taking a subway to the Naval Memorial, to the day of Donald Trump’s abomination. It is still difficult to write or say these words. Jane Fonda will not use Trump’s…
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Darkness Descends – by Brayton Shanley
After voting for local candidates, I spent the remainder of Election Day fasting alone in our hermitage. I sought relief from the hellish fixation of a presidential campaign. The next morning, I came down at 5am to drive to Boston to be in a meeting supporting our Iraqi Family with Sabah and his Family. As…
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“Democracy is coming to the USA.” Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) – by Suzanne Belote Shanley
Post-election depression is palpable, all too real. I wonder by the time our readers set their eyes on this piece, written over a week after our national catastrophe, where we will be as a people. Several days after the deluge, during an interview with David Remnick of the New Yorker, I hear Leonard Cohen’s voice,…
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Living the Story by Connor May
I began to see an alternative faith experience unfold at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA, with a powerful epiphany while on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius during my senior year, which caused me to start seeing connections that I could not ignore. Seeing my life through Jesus’ eyes is a Catholic cliché yes,…
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