Mass incarceration is a civil rights issue of our day
When I was in college, I read Angela Davis’s book Are Prisons Obsolete? That tiny book has influenced a lot of my thinking about what Davis terms the prison industrial …
TurnUp to BailOut
This post originally came from our Compassion Team Circle Mobilizing Because Black Lives Matter blog here. This Saturday, we’re Turning Up, and you’re invited. November 18th is a night of …
There’s a humanitarian crisis in Yemen, we are helping and so can you.
Ever hear of Yemen? Some of us probably haven’t because it is not a country that the U.S. political leaders have told us to pay attention to. I told our …
CompasShow: Benefit show for our compassion teams
With encouragement and great organizational skills from Amanda Capasso, our Circle of Hope Gallery leader, we had our first CompasShow on Saturday night! This was a benefit show where we had …
Lots of People Care About the School to Prison Pipeline
On July 11, more than 100 people gathered at our building in South Philly to learn, talk and pray about the “School to Prison Pipeline.” It is getting harder and …