Amid criticism from religious detractors, Vance speaks at religious freedom summit

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The speech came as the Trump administration, just 2 weeks old, is already facing lawsuits arguing that it violated the religious freedom of Christians in the U.S.

Vice President JD Vance speaks at the International Religious Freedom Summit at the Washington Hilton, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)
Jack Jenkins
February 5, 2025

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Vice President JD Vance addressed a group of religious leaders on Wednesday (Feb. 5) at the International Religious Freedom Summit, arguing President Donald Trump will prioritize the right to worship freely abroad even as his administration faces lawsuits accusing him of infringing on religious freedom at home and criticism from faith groups whose funding has been affected by the president’s actions.

“Our Founding Fathers rightly recognized this, listing freedom of religion first among the liberties enshrined in our great Constitution,” Vance told the crowd gathered at the Washington Hilton. The annual summit is co-chaired by Sam Brownback, who was appointed as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom during Trump’s first term.

Vance, a Catholic, dedicated a significant section of his address to framing religious liberty as a product of Christianity.

“Religious freedom flows from concepts central to the Christian faith, in particular the free will of human beings and the essential dignity of all peoples,” Vance said, later insisting it is the “church fathers of classical Christianity to which we owe the very notion of religious liberty,” a historical argument popular in conservative circles.

“We remain the world’s largest majority-Christian country, and the right to religious freedom is protected by the people for everybody, whether you’re a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim or no faith at all,” he said.

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Vice President JD Vance speaks at the International Religious Freedom Summit at the Washington Hilton, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)

Vance celebrated several of Trump’s actions in his first term and over the past two weeks, such as executive orders to “end the weaponization of the federal government against religious Americans,” along with efforts to combat antisemitism and the pardoning of anti-abortion protesters.

Vance also said Trump has worked to “stop the federal censorship used to prevent Americans from speaking their conscience and speaking their mind, whether it’s in their communities or online,” an apparent reference to Trump’s executive order “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” Among the main sponsors of the summit is Meta, the parent company of Facebook owned by Mark Zuckerberg, who attended Trump’s inauguration.

Near the end of the vice president’s remarks, he pivoted to a discussion of international policy.

“In recent years, too often has our nation’s international engagement on religious liberty issues been corrupted and distorted to the point of absurdity,” he said. “Think about this: How did America get to the point where we’re sending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars abroad to NGOs that are dedicated to spreading atheism all over the globe?”

The question appeared to be a reference to a conservative argument criticizing work done by the U.S. State Department to promote a version of religious freedom that includes protecting the rights of nonreligious people. Recently, Republican leaders have listed the argument alongside criticism of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which the Trump administration has aggressively gutted in recent days and placed under the leadership of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. From fiscal years 2013-2022, the largest single recipient of USAID funds was Catholic Relief Services, according to Forbes.

Vance’s speech was met with hearty applause, with several summit attendees celebrating his remarks. The Rev. Greg McBrayer, an Anglican Church in North America priest and a presenter at the conference, said he was “absolutely thrilled” with Vance’s speech, calling it “very encouraging.”

“There’s an administration in place right now that will give us the opportunity to continue to grow as a people and grow our faith,” McBrayer said, adding that he hopes the U.S. will be “used as a global instrument to promote that kind of growth and receptivity around the world.”

But there was also disagreement in the room. Shortly after Vance finished, an attendee walked quickly past where press were gathered and said in a loud voice, “That was gaslighting!”

The Rev. Mae Elise Cannon, head of Churches for Middle East Peace, one of the sponsors of the conference, also expressed frustration with the address.

“Vice President Vance gave lip service to international religious freedom and liberty for all. However, the subtext of his message included deeply disturbing assumptions about the superiority of Christianity and the idea that only the ‘right kind of people’ should have complete freedom and human rights,” Cannon, who was present for the speech, said in an emailed statement a short time later.

“As a follower of Jesus, the idea that America is a ‘Christian nation’ ignores the multi-faceted, complex, and often oppressive history of the United States,” she wrote.

The Rev. Mae Elise Cannon, executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace, speaks during a vigil at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington, Nov. 28, 2023. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)

Cannon also wrote that Vance “did not say that our churches and Christians are protected when we seek to live out our faith by ‘welcoming the stranger’ and protecting the undocumented,” a possible reference to the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the sensitive locations policy — an internal government policy created in 2011 that discourages immigration raids at schools, hospitals and churches. The decision is currently the subject of a lawsuit filed against the administration by Quaker groups who argue the government’s actions violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. At least one immigrant was reportedly arrested while attending worship at a church in Atlanta last week.

Cannon, whose group has long advocated for Palestinians, also criticized Vance for not mentioning that “the rights of Palestinian Muslims and Christians have been violated in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas” or “the ways Jewish people have been suffering from increased antisemitism around the world because of being unilaterally associated with the unjust policies of the State of Israel.”

Vance’s speech came the morning after Trump proposed that the U.S. “take over” the Gaza Strip and relocate Palestinians displaced by the Israel-Hamas war elsewhere, actions experts argue would violate international law.

Standing outside the ballroom shortly after the speech, Godfrey Yogarajah, World Evangelical Alliance’s ambassador of religious freedom, took issue with Vance’s remarks about atheism, saying in an interview, “Freedom of religion or belief also gives people a right not to believe.”

Yogarajah was also concerned about cuts and freezes to funding at USAID, arguing it will create a vacuum that could be filled by rivals of the U.S. that may have a different posture toward religious freedom.

“I think maybe the U.S. is just playing into the hands of China,” he said. “It is not in the interest of U.S. to really withdraw, because I would think that some of these values being out there actually is in the interest of the U.S.”

He was echoed by Mike Gabriel, head of the religious liberty commission at the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka. Gabriel said that he was encouraged that Vance recommitted to advocating for religious freedom abroad, but that freezes on U.S. funds have already impacted his group.

“We work with U.S. government funds on advanced religious freedom in the country,” he said, later clarifying the funds come through USAID and go toward working with persecuted Christians in Sri Lanka. “Right now, because of the funding freeze, urgent support to document religious freedom violations, provide aid to persecuted Christians such as legal support for litigation, have come to a halt.”

Gabriel expressed hope that the funding would eventually be restored but described the current situation as “really unfortunate.”

In addition to ongoing lawsuits, Vance’s remarks speak to a series of clashes between faith groups and the new Trump administration over the past two weeks. After the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, pleaded with the president to “have mercy” on transgender children and immigrants in a sermon at the Washington National Cathedral, Trump decried her remarks as “nasty in tone” and dismissed the prelate as a “so-called bishop.”

A few days later, after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other Catholic organizations issued statements condemning the president’s executive orders regarding immigrants and refugees, Vance himself questioned the motives of Catholic prelates, suggesting they were more concerned about their “bottom line” than helping the needy.

Trump has also all but frozen the U.S. refugee program and cut off funding to the seven religious groups that work with the government to resettle refugees — and, in at least one instance, is allegedly refusing to reimburse the groups for work done before Trump assumed office. The organizations staged a protest outside the White House on Tuesday, with leaders saying their staff has undergone widespread furloughs and layoffs in order to cobble together the resources needed to care for resettled refugees.

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At two prayer breakfasts, Trump calls himself champion of religion

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Trump took the occasion to announce he would appoint Florida Pastor Paula White to lead his White House Faith Office.

President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Jack Jenkins
February 6, 2025

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Appearing at two events on Thursday (Feb. 6), both of them part of the festivities surrounding the National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump spoke about the centrality of religious belief to the United States and announced that he would create a new presidential commission on religious liberty.

“From the earliest days of our republic, faith in God has always been the ultimate source of the strength that beats in the hearts of our nation,” Trump said in his first appearance in front of a gathering of lawmakers in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. “We have to bring religion back. We have to bring it back much stronger.”

Later, at a separate NPB Gathering at the Washington Hilton hotel, Trump announced he would appoint Florida Pastor Paula White to lead his White House faith office, as she did at the end of the first Trump administration.

At the Capitol, talking to members of Congress from both parties, Trump expressed hope that lawmakers will find common ground, specifically mentioning transgender rights, which he inveighed against during his presidential campaign. He related a conversation with a transgender rights supporter who opposed the president’s recent executive order banning transgender women from women’s sports. While he didn’t agree with the person, Trump added, “He’s a good person, and just believes it.”

Trump, once identifying as a Presbyterian but in recent years calling himself a nondenominational Christian, closed his speech to lawmakers with an endorsement of religious belief. “I really believe you can’t be happy without religion, without that belief,” Trump said.

The remarks came as his administration finds itself at odds with several religious groups that have objected to recent orders halting humanitarian aid, ending the U.S. refugee program and giving law enforcement officials permission to raid houses of worship in search of migrants. Several administration figures, including Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance, have criticized U.S. Catholic bishops and other faith leaders for their use of federal funds.

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The National Prayer Breakfast, which has been held since 1953, was convened for most of its history by the International Foundation, a Christian group more familiarly referred to as “The Family,” and for decades met at the Washington Hilton.

Beginning in 2010, after the publication of journalist Jeff Sharlet’s 2008 book on the group, questions arose about how the breakfast granted access for conservative Christians to the White House and Congress. In 2023, a new organization held its breakfast on Capitol Hill, while many of the previous organizers of the International Foundation continued to meet at the hotel.

Trump saved his announcements about the new religious liberty commission and the return of White for the crowd of thousands at the Hilton. After White introduced the president, he said, “This week, I’m also creating the White House faith office led by Pastor Paula White, who is so amazing.”

Trump did not give any other details about the commission, other than saying: “It’s going to be a very big deal, which will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right. Unfortunately, in recent years, we’ve seen the sacred liberty threatened like never before in American history.”

The president also said he will create a task force, which will be overseen by Attorney General Pam Bondi, that will “eradicate anti-Christian bias,” making good on a promise he made on the campaign trail.


Pastor Paula White introduces President Donald Trump during the NPB Gathering at the Washington Hilton, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington. (Video screen grab)

Trump pointed to his recent decision to pardon 23 anti-abortion protesters who were convicted of illegally blockading a reproductive health clinic in D.C. as evidence of his dedication to the cause.

The White House faith-based office was originally instituted by President George W. Bush as the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to coordinate outreach to faith communities and help foster economic opportunity. President Barack Obama recast it as the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a name later reinstated by Joe Biden.

In the past, the director of the faith-based initiative has been involved with supporting national and Cabinet-level efforts to partner with religious and community groups to address social needs, from fighting the Ebola virus to feeding hungry schoolchildren.

In his first administration, Trump only set up his version of the office, under White, late in his administration, but White had already been filling some functions in connecting the White House to faith groups, mostly evangelical pastors.

On Tuesday, religious groups that help resettle refugees in the United States demonstrated outside the White House to protest the administration’s decision to bar refugees from the country and the administration’s alleged refusal to pay for already completed resettlement work. Musk, the president’s adviser and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, has alleged — without evidence — that federal funding for various Lutheran organizations that perform humanitarian work is “illegal.”

Vance has chastised the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for joining with an array of religious groups that have condemned the president’s executive orders related to immigration, questioning the prelates’ motivations as rooted in a concern for their “bottom line.”

Several Quaker groups have filed a lawsuit aimed at overturning an executive order rescinding the sensitive-locations policy, which discouraged immigration enforcement agents from raiding schools, hospitals and churches. The groups say the order violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. On Wednesday, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship joined the suit.

Trump spent his first full day in office sparring with the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, with the president decrying the Episcopal bishop of Washington as a “so-called bishop” for a sermon at the Washington National Cathedral in which she pleaded with Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrants.

As they have in the past, atheist and secular groups criticized the prayer gatherings themselves as an inappropriate mixing of politics and religion. The Freedom From Religion Foundation Action Fund joined other groups in a letter urging members of Congress not to attend the breakfasts or related events.

In a separate letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, four members of Congress called the Statuary Hall event “an affront to the Establishment Clause” of the U.S. Constitution that “promotes division by excluding certain people while privileging others.”

“Just as there will always be prayer in school as long as there are math tests, there will always be prayer in the Capitol as long as there are tough votes,” Scott MacConomy, director of policy and government affairs for the Secular Coalition for America, told RNS. “That doesn’t mean it should be institutionalized with an annual event inside the Capitol near the statue of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the ‘wall of separation’ between church and state.”

Richa Karmarkar and Adelle M. Banks contributed to this report.

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Opinion

Defunding and demonizing the government's faith-based partners will make its job harder

(RNS) — Whether you are a person of faith or not, Musk’s actions should concern you because they threaten the bedrock principles of our democratic freedoms.

People wave signs as they gather to protest against the Trump administration on the steps of the Washington state Capitol, Feb. 5, 2025, in Olympia, Wash. 

(AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Aaron Dorfman, Amanda Tyler, and Jennifer Walker Thomas
February 6, 2025

(RNS) — On Monday (Feb. 3), Elon Musk and Mike Flynn sent a shot across the bow of every faith-based organization in the United States when they falsely accused a swath of Lutheran social service organizations of “money laundering” and promised to immediately halt payments on contracted funding.

This action from the newly created and unregulated Department of Government Efficiency run by Musk (who was neither elected nor confirmed by Congress) comes on the heels of the haphazard, now-canceled halt order on billions in federal funding from the Office of Management and Budget. Funding is still “paused” to refugee resettlement agencies, all partners of the U.S. Agency for International Development (known as USAID) and others. DOGE has now commandeered access to the Treasury Department payment systems as well. (A lawsuit has been filed by the federal employees’ unions to challenge this.)

As leaders of three organizations from different faith traditions and with different faith-based missions, we write to sound the alarm on these developments. Monday’s comments are not only an attack on the Lutheran community (though they certainly are that); they are an attempt by one individual to redefine, without consulting Congress or the people, who is worthy of dignity, who is worthy of help and who is allowed to offer that help. The administration’s actions are an assault on the carefully constructed government systems that enable our collective ability to serve the most vulnerable, and it is a direct violation of the principle of religious freedom at our nation’s core.

Take, for example, the immediate “stop work” order on refugee resettlement. This work supports those here legally, right now, often after years of robust vetting by the federal government in response to devastating situations in their countries of origin. Some of us have volunteered with Global Refuge and other faith-based organizations who do this work. We can personally attest that they do the lifesaving work of finding housing, offering food to those who haven’t yet found employment and helping prepare children for school in a new country.

Not only do compassion and the tenets of our faiths compel us to support these human beings, we would argue that refusing to do so is also profoundly counterproductive and counter to the common good. Without support from agencies such as Global Refuge and HIAS, many are likely to become wards of the state, ending up in police stations, public hospitals or without stable housing.

We must also note that these social service efforts — resettlement or otherwise — are done in partnership with the government, under government oversight, and in response to direct requests from the government to serve this function. This is a public-private partnership that has regularly enjoyed bipartisan support and that frees the federal government from having to build the infrastructure to provide direct services to the American people. The costs that will result from eliminating these programs will ultimately be borne by the American people — further burdening already strained local and state governments.


Refugee advocates rally to support the United States Refugee Admissions Program, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)

There is an additional, more subtle, dimension to Musk’s actions. They come after a barrage of executive orders over the last two weeks that constrict the ability of nonprofits to do their work, including one to revoke the protected nature of “sensitive locations” such as houses of worship and schools. These actions — many taken illegally — represent a clear consolidation of executive power, and the use of that power to police and punish those with whom those in power disagree or whom they don’t understand.

Our concerns are based on firsthand understanding of human needs and a knowledge of how support for the most vulnerable among us is dispersed across our society.

We take seriously that faith-based groups can and do disagree on the direction of policy, including government spending. But there are two things without which Americans of faith simply cannot be free: First, a healthy democracy in which faith-based communities and organizations can act with courage and discernment and without fear of intimidation or targeting from the federal government. Second, the right and privilege afforded by the Constitution to freely pursue their values and missions, including by serving the most vulnerable populations with respect, compassion and mercy.

Whether you are a person of faith or not, Musk’s actions should concern you because they threaten the bedrock principles of our democratic freedoms.

Together, we call on Congress and President Donald Trump to provide necessary oversight to the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, ensuring that the freedom for religious organizations to practice and honor their faith is not infringed upon by government action. As people of principle and faith, we too are faced with a fork in the road: We can sit and wait for our specific community or organization to be targeted, or we can work together in defense of all of us.

(Aaron Dorfman is executive director of A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy; Amanda Tyler is executive director of BJC, the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty; Jennifer Walker Thomas is co-executive director of Mormon Women for Ethical Government. The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of RNS.)

Refugee advocates rally outside White House amid furloughs, frozen funds

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The crowd of about 100 was protesting Trump's suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which vets refugees for entry into the United States and works with refugee resettlement agencies.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks during a protest against the shuttering of the United States Refugee Admissions Program, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington.

 (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)

Aleja Hertzler-McCain  

RNS

February 4, 2025


WASHINGTON (RNS) — Over the sounds of construction machinery dismantling inauguration-related viewing stands and other structures in front of the White House, faith-based advocates for refugees worked to make their voices heard Tuesday (Feb. 4) in Lafayette Square.

“ Gracious God, we gather on this day so that we might bear witness to your love for all people,” prayed Bishop William Gohl Jr., of the Delaware-Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, “and that you would help us to be the moral conscience and voice of this nation again, reminding each one of us that we are immigrants who have found our way to this place.”

The crowd of about 100 was protesting President Donald Trump’s suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which vets refugees for entry into the United States and works with refugee resettlement agencies, the majority of them faith-based, to support those refugees for the first 90 days.

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Some who had protested on behalf of refugees at the beginning of Trump’s first term said they were experiencing a sense of dejá vu. “I’m encouraged, while at the same time discouraged, to see that some of our signs have returned,” the Rev. Sharon Stanley-Rea, director of the Washington office of Church World Service, an organization that resettles refugees, responds to disasters and works on poverty and hunger issues, said at the protest. Held aloft were signs quoting the Gospel of Matthew and the Hebrew Prophet Isaiah; others said “Cold Heart, Frozen Funds,” and “Stop Hate, Love Refugees.”

Stanley-Rea told the assembly that more than two-thirds of Church World Service’s national staff had been furloughed, including 100% of the Washington office staff.

“ Yesterday, because of the furloughs, (caseworkers) had to cancel appointments to help children enroll in school, postpone opportunities to assist with legal services, halt connecting a child with urgently needed mental health services, delay chances to help someone get a Social Security card and not help someone apply for benefits who has been a victim of human trafficking,” Stanley-Rea said, her voice breaking at times.

Refugee advocates rally to support the United States Refugee Admissions Program, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)

Izhar, a furloughed Church World Service staffer who declined to share his last name in order to protect family outside the U.S., told RNS he came from Afghanistan to the U.S. seeking asylum because his work with U.S. Army contractors made him a target of the Taliban.

While he’s been unable to bring his family to join him, Izhar has worked with Afghan, Ethiopian, Cuban and Asian refugees. “ I was very happy when I started working with the refugees, because I’ve gone through all the things they need, all the support they need morally,” he told RNS.

He remains concerned about Afghan refugees who are stuck in Pakistan, where, he hears, they are facing kidnappings, targeted killings and harassment by police. Citing an Afghan found dead by suicide who reportedly felt deep despair about delays in resettlement in Canada, Izhar said those waiting to get into the U.S. often face devastating effects of delays.

Other advocates spoke out against the Trump administration and allies’ targeting of faith-based immigration work.

A depiction of a refugee being held by Lady Liberty, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington

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“ For goodness’ sake, enough with the slander, the insults, the lies directed toward faith communities and others that are welcoming refugees and helping those in need,” said John Slocum, executive director of Refugee Council USA, which organized the vigil with Interfaith Immigration Coalition and Northern Virginia Friends of Refugees.
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Over the past few days, Elon Musk, the billionaire leading the Department of Government Efficiency and owner of X, has accused faith-based aid groups, including Church World Service and various Lutheran aid organizations, of criminality. Last weekend, Vice President JD Vance falsely characterized the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ resettlement of refugees as helping “illegal immigrants,” while questioning whether they were motivated by their “bottom line.”

Danilo Zak, director of policy at Church World Service, told RNS that the attacks are “part of the misinformation that’s being spread about what refugee resettlement agencies do and what these federal funds are for. And I think it’s really important to understand that we’re providing these funds directly to refugees and individuals in need.”

Although the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has received bipartisan support in the past, Republicans have not publicly protested Trump’s shuttering of the program or his allies’ denigration of faith-based aid. U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, was greeted at Tuesday’s rally by shouts like “I’m so proud you’re my congressman” as he took the bullhorn and called Trump’s decision “ to slam the door shut on refugees” a “ betrayal of America and our values.”

“Nobody slammed the door shut in the face of the Trump family from Germany. Nobody slammed the door shut in the face of Melania Trump, who got an O-1 and EB-1 visa for extraordinary ability,” Raskin said. “Nobody slammed the door on Elon Musk, who came from racist, apartheid South Africa, who came here on an F1 student visa,” he continued, referring to a Washington Post report that Musk had worked illegally in the U.S. at the beginning of his career.

The Rev. Sharon Stanley-Rea, center, stands with other furloughed Church World Service staff while speaking in support of the United States Refugee Admissions Program, Feb. 4, 2025, during a rally near the White House in Washington.

 (RNS photo/Aleja Hertzler-McCain)

Jenifer Smyers, who worked in the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Biden administration, told the attendees, “We rebuilt (the refugee program), and we can rebuild it again.” She continued: “It’s our humanitarian imperative. This country is better, it is stronger when our policies reflect our values.”

After the rally, Smyers told RNS that dismantling the program was bad strategy. “When we’re talking about foreign policy, when we’re talking about national security, when we’re talking about diplomacy, a lot of that is deeply influenced by what happens to people who are displaced, because displacement causes instability.”

Jessi Calzado-Esponda, a Cuban American refugee, spoke about her love for the U.S. and the opportunities she had been afforded in this country after leaving her family behind in Cuba. “When people looked at me, they didn’t look at an invader, they looked at a child,” she said. “I think that we have to bring that back.”

“There’s nothing more American than welcoming refugees,” Calzado-Esponda said.

The Rev. Anne Derse, a deacon at St. John’s Norwood Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase, Maryland, left the crowd with a mission: “ In addition to calling all of your representatives every single day and demanding that we resume the funding that they have unjustly cut off, please see if you can help a (refugee) family.”

Opinion

USAID: The best of bipartisan and faithful work now nearly lost

(RNS) — It is perplexing to hear the vice president champion faith-based aid initiatives while, at the same time, funds for efforts like these are literally being turned off.

Demonstrators and lawmakers rally Feb. 5, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., against President Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk over their disruptions of the federal government, including dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, which administers foreign aid approved by Congress

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Adam Nicholas Phillips

RNS
February 6, 2025

(RNS) — There is an unfolding tragedy of epic human proportions happening at the start of 2025 that has been entirely preventable and remains, this very moment, something that can be reversed.

Imagine this:

Children waiting in the hot summer sun in southern parts of Africa with their moms and dads for a lifesaving medicine at a regular monthly appointment one by one, with one sibling receiving it and the next turned away.

An orphan in Latin America being told halfway through the school day to shut her books, go home, with no plan to ever return.

An entrepreneurial young woman in southeast Asia, who after surviving years of human trafficking received a course in business skills and a little bit of financial investment, now told her only source of income is under threat because the market in which she sold her goods would be closed.

Stories like these are unfolding one by one, across communities in around 130 countries, because of the decision this past week by the Trump administration to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.

For more than 60 years, Republican and Democratic presidents have invested in USAID’s mission as “the lead international humanitarian arm of the U.S. government … to alleviate poverty, disease and humanitarian need.” It has done this through direct partnerships with faith-based and other groups to address immediate needs such as hunger, clean water, health crises and human trafficking, as well as helping poor nations and communities get up on their feet with development projects. It’s often described as America’s soft-power tool in foreign policy to combat terrorism and autocracy and has been promoted by everyone from U.S. army generals to fiscally conservative hawks on capitol hill — including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who, before joining the new administration, argued its budget should be increased and its workforce expanded.

My old boss, administrator Samantha Power, described USAID as “the ground game of American foreign policy and the face of American values.”

I was the lead Biden administration official at USAID working on faith-based partnerships, which meant a global portfolio that ranged from large, battle-tested NGOs like Catholic Relief Services and World Vision (two of the U.S. government’s largest partners) to whip-smart, community-based organizations on the front lines of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, the aftermath of genocidal-level killings by ISIS in Iraq, and those recovering from tsunamis, earthquakes and famine.

While I was at USAID, administrator Power and I, along with our incredible career colleagues in the 10,000-strong USAID workforce, prioritized these faith-based partnerships by launching the first-of-its-kind U.S. government policy on religious engagement. No matter if the faith-based organization or community was evangelical, Catholic, Jewish, Baha’i, Buddhist, Muslim, Latter-day Saint, Hindu or other, we prioritized working with faith-based groups because they were on the front lines of saving lives, protecting children and making the world a safer, better place.

This wasn’t new. This was something even the first Trump administration was kicking off in its Evidence Summit on faith-based partnerships. Every administration since the Kennedy era has worked with faith-based partners. That’s why the news of the past two weeks is utterly shocking and truly, deathly concerning.

This week at the International Religious Freedom Summit, Vice President JD Vance declared that he and the president were committed to promoting religious freedom worldwide as both an American and Christian value. I support that effort — both as a person of faith and as an American citizen and taxpayer — and sitting there at the breakfast I thought about how I could do my part to partner with those who don’t vote like I do. Again, this is what presidential administrations, no matter what party, have been doing for decades. So, because of that commitment, I did find it a little confusing when Vance characterized efforts like USAID as shoveling money to NGOs dedicated to spreading atheism. It’s misinformed at best and disingenuous at worst.

The vice president told one story I found deeply and personally resonant when he championed the first Trump administration for “bringing relief to Yazidis, Christians and other faith communities facing genocidal terror from ISIS.” It’s true. This was, in large part, because of the tireless efforts of officials like Max Primorac (author of the Project 2025 chapter on USAID, which, while I disagree with much of its policy pronouncements, did not argue for the destruction of the agency).

In early 2021, I was fully briefed on the first Trump administration’s efforts in Iraq with faith-based groups and found so much of it to be inspired and rooted in the best of American foreign policy and development work. So, in 2022, I went. While in Baghdad we repeatedly found ourselves in bunkers, duck-and-covering from flying shells in the Green Zone, and while up north in Irbil, constantly watchful of further violence. But that was absolutely nothing compared to what Yazidi survivors and other Iraqis had experienced for years. I met with many of these women, broke bread with them and am forever marked by their stories of trauma and resilience. I was proud that we continued to support communities like these with taxpayer-funded programs.

So it was perplexing to hear the vice president champion these initiatives while, at the same time, funds for efforts like these are literally being turned off.

Maybe the attacks on USAID are just misinformed and will be righted. Maybe there is a bold plan to invest in foreign assistance. I take administration officials at their word and I’m praying these decisions are reversed with haste.


(Adam Nicholas Phillips is a former Biden administration USAID official, ordained pastor and interfaith bridge builder. The views in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of RNS.)

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Feb 8, 2025

From Anarchist Agency


Murphy Hoopes, an early collective member of Agency, who helped launch our organization in 2013, passed away in San Diego, California on January 18, 2025. He was 38. Born and raised in the Washington D.C. area, Murphy was drawn to the possibilities of a new world at an early age. In high school, he joined D.C. Food Not Bombs, cooking and serving vegan food to the hungry while protesting US aggression in Iraq. His generous spirit and cooperative nature continued through a lifetime of support for social and environmental struggles, and myriad contributions to the global anarchist movement. Immersed in the punk rock community, Murphy was deeply passionate about music and the power of counterculture and creative expression to build stronger communities and make social change.

A sharp critique of political authority, a disdain for oppression by rulers, and an immense joy for life fueled Murphy. In his teens and early 20s, he was a collective member and regular volunteer at the Brian MacKenzie Infoshop, a radical bookstore and community center in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. He lived in vegan and anarchist collective houses in D.C., before moving to North Carolina. An avid writer, Murphy was a regular contributor to CrimethInc. and other media outlets and public education initiatives. He was also a co-producer of The Ex-Worker and The Hotwire podcasts.

Murphy was fluent in Spanish, living on two separate occasions in Santiago, Chile, supporting anarchist organizing, and documenting political and social struggles there. His film, Fell in Love with Fire, documented the 2019 uprising in Chile.

Murphy sailed several times to Cuba and became an avid surfer. He made lasting friendships everywhere, traveling widely in South America, Europe, and the United States.

In 2024, Murphy earned a law degree at the University of Arizona. He devoted many hours to providing legal services through the Civil Liberties Defense Center, and other organizations that support access to legal representation—bringing an anarchist lens and aspirations for total liberation to this work.

Murphy’s boundless energy and consistent commitment to a better society in all aspects of life was an example to everyone who knew him.

Vancouver Anarchist Bookfair, March 27-28



anarchistnews.org
Feb 6, 2025



From CITR 101.9FM & Discorder Magazine (instagram)
January 30, 2025

New Year, Same Book Fair.
Books are in, authoritarianism is out (duh).
CiTR & Discorder are proud to present to you another 𝘼𝙉𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙎𝙏 𝘽𝙊𝙊𝙆 𝙁𝘼𝙄𝙍.

Calling all independent makers and creators. We are now taking submissions for tabling.

The book fair will run March 27-28th in the AMS Nest Atrium (right outside our station)!

Please contact sponsorship@citr.ca to book a table. 50% of the table are reserved for marginalized folks.

we're looking for writers, artists, musicians ~ all types of creators, and community focused orgs. It's getting real, it's time to work together, skill up, and focus on building Community. This year we're focusing on mutual aid, active resistance, and community building. If you embody fighting back, we want you!

WANNA BOOK? GOT QUESTIONS?
LET'S HEAR THEM
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE FEBRUARY 28, 2025

March 27th and 28th, 2025
AMS Nest at UBC
6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

Hosted by CiTR & Discorder
- Free to everyone
- Our venue only permits service/working dogs
- Wheelchair access through elevators to the far left and far right of the space.
- Masks are welcome, but not mandatory.
- Ask consent before photographing or otherwise documenting any individual at the event.

We are following in the tradition of the Victoria Annual Anarchist Bookfair, promotes mutual aid, autonomy, and solidarity.
- share our values with the UBC and broader Greater Vancouver Community,
- create a safe space to stand together in a time of war and genocide
- celebrate human the art and creativity

What we are not:
We are NOT a space for hate and we do NOT condone any activity that puts peoples lives at risk. We are anti-authoritarian, anti-imperial, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist. Transphobia is not acceptable. Neither are Nazis. We will not accept participants (vendors or visitors) who holding these values.

Come join us!
We provide space for books, pamphlets, zines, cassettes, CDs, videos, found sounds, along with artists and vendors of materials such as buttons, T-shirts or patches who fit within these principles. We do not accept the participation of political parties or candidates in the bookfair.

Website (not updated for this year's bookfair): https://vancouveranarchistbookfair.pubpub.org/

COMMUNIQUÉ 

A Report on the Night Demo at mcgill on February 5th

anarchistnews.org

Feb 7, 2025



From MTL Counter-info

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

Yesterday in Tiohtia:ke, forty anarchists (and our friends 🙂 ) attacked the buildings of mcgill university. Armed with rudimentary tools, we succeeded in destroying all windows that stood in our way. With the help of hammers, rocks, and glass bottles, we vandalized this symbol of the colonial capitalist system. Within 15 minutes, we smashed over 30 windows on multiple pavillions of the institution, as well as the electronic locks of the administration building. An exam in progress during the protest was cancelled for 350 students. According to a mcgill spokesperson, the damages are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Two comrades who were momentarily detained by the failed pigs of a private security agency, subcontracted by mcgill, were gloriously de-arrested. The police response was slow and ineffective, the protest led to no arrests or injuries. We dispersed completely before the arrival of the spvm.

Graffitis were left behind denouncing the acquisition of the royal vic hospital (site of unmarked graves) by mcgill for $700 million, and its complicity in the genocide in Palestine. We also denounce the desecration of the tree of peace, planted on the lower field by decolonial activists this summer, as well as the historical complicity of mcgill in psychiatric experimentation on Indigenous children, and the transphobia and racism of mcgill’s administration. For us, mcgill is nothing but a symbol of a colonial and capitalist system, of which we call for the complete destruction.

We encourage our comrades to extend the struggle towards the destruction of all oppressions, and to continue escalating towards revolution.

We’d also like to underscore the categoric refusal of mcgill – and their disdain in the face of student activists’ demands on this subject – to divest from genocide and the military-industrial complex. In a board of governors meeting at the end of the fall 2024 semester, the zionist cronies who sit on said board openly stated that they’d waited until the end of the semester to present the findings from their ‘investigation’ of divestment, when nobody would notice (wishful thinking, deep). In the face of their condecension and their attachment to continuing the genocide, we say: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable! Our actions last night are in keeping with this line of thought.

Viva Palestina, long live the tree of peace, death to capital and empire, down with colonialism and transphobia, fuck McKill!

Protestors spray paint Glasgow university building over investment in Israeli arms firms

Olivia Barber 

7 February, 2025 
Left Foot Forward

The University of Glasgow has £6.8 million in shares in arms companies such as BAE systems and QinetiQ.

Two activists from Youth Demand, the student branch of Just Stop Oil, spray painted a University of Glasgow building yesterday over the institution’s refusal to divest from Israeli arms firms.

In November last year, the University of Glasgow voted to continue allowing endowment fund managers to invest in companies that earn more than 10% of their income from arms manufacturing.

The University of Glasgow has £6.8 million worth of shares in arms companies such as BAE systems and QinetiQ.

They have also received around £600,000 in research funding from BAE systems and Rolls Royce since 2017.

QinetiQ, a supplier of military robotics, has been criticised for exporting arms to Israel and their involvement in the British Army Watchkeeper Programme which allegedly tested the drones on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

More broadly, the Youth Demand protest demanded that the UK government impose a trade embargo on Israel, including on arms sales.

Youth Demand, which was formed in April 2024, is calling for an end to all new licences and consents for exploration of fossil fuels in the North Sea and a two-way arms embargo on Israel.

Catriona Roberts, one of the students who took part in the direct action, said: “The Palestinian people are still under siege. No ceasefire will wash away the blame from our genocidal government.

“We demand our government stops arming the Israeli state and imposes a full trade embargo. Our institutions follow the lead of our government, who continue to trade and send arms to Israel, a state guilty of genocide. We refuse to be made complicit in the mutilation of children.”

Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward

Malaysia: 3rd Conference of Anarcho-Syndicalists of the Asia-Pacific Region

anarchistnews.org

Feb 3, 2025


From Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS)

December 30, 2024

On December 27-29, the 3rd conference (“convergence”) of anarcho-syndicalists from Asia-Pacific countries was held in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. It was attended by delegates from Australia, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia, representatives of the Secretariat of the International Labor Association and the M.A.T. Sub-Secretariat in Asia-Pacific, as well as on-line comrades from a number of other countries.

Delegates were sent by the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (ASF, M.A.T. section in Australia), the Workers Solidarity Federation (WSF, M.A.T. friendly organization in Pakistan), PPAS (M.A.T. section in Indonesia), a group of M.A.T. supporters in Seoul, Korea, initiatives for M.A.T. from Yangon, Burma, and Singapore. Comrades from Thailand, Japan and other countries participated via videoconference.

The participating delegations introduced their organizations, spoke about their local and regional work, the economic situation of the working class in their countries and the situation of trade unionism, anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism in the workplace.

The PPAS delegation opened the meeting with a presentation of their organization and network / federations in the production centers in the cities of Jakarta, Surabaya, Tamanggung and Bogor. The difficulties faced by PPAS, which currently has to work illegally, were described.

The delegation from Thailand presented the actions being carried out, cooperative work among workers, the current situation of trade unions and the spread of industry and services in the region.

Comrades exchanged information on the social and political situation in their countries, as well as experiences of struggle. Ways and methods to improve the coordination of activities on a regional and international scale were also discussed.

During the meeting it was noted that anarcho-syndicalists in the region have to operate in difficult conditions: in Singapore protests are forbidden, in Myanmar the civil war between the junta and its opponents is raging, in Indonesia the authorities are waging a campaign against anarchism, in Indonesia and Pakistan atheist propaganda is punishable by death, in Indonesia there are big problems with employment of women and youth, etc.

The meeting expressed solidarity with CNT-AIT, the M.A.T. section in Spain, which has been sued in the most shameful way by the dissident reformists from CIT in a bourgeois court. The resolution adopted on this occasion states:

“The 3rd Asian-Pacific M.A.T. Conferencia 3 expresses its solidarity with the CNT-AIT of Spain. We condemn the CNT-CIT for taking legal action against it and attempting to intimidate the anarcho-syndicalist organization, the CNT-AIT.

We also express our concern about CIT's actions in Southeast Asia, where it supports authoritarian labor unions that collaborate with the state and support the government.

For international solidarity!”

The Revolutionary Importance of Celebration & Cyclical Time

anarchistnews.org

Feb 2, 2025



from Return Fire

[Translated from Catalan for the final double-issue of Return Fire magazine, winter 2024-2025. For articles cited in the footnotes by title, see Return Fire volume 6 (releases in progress).]

If it is strange to say that celebration and cyclical time are of revolutionary importance, it is precisely because they are not issues that have received too much emphasis in today’s anti-capitalist environments. However, for the State, they have not been unimportant issues: on the contrary. The State has fought hard to impose the Roman calendar – the most powerful artifact of the most powerful Western empire of antiquity – on both its subjects in Europe and its subjects in the colonies around the world. What are the features of its calendar? Months divorced from the moon and any other natural rhythm, weeks based on the commercial cycle (with days bearing the names of the gods of the empire with some Catholic modification for the last two, thus imposing a spiritual homogeneity upon the whole empire) and, above all, a linear count of the years beginning – approximately – with the birth of the central figure of the imperial religion.

Within a reality that is precisely defined by its cyclical nature, a rhythmic and circular progression that is one of the main ways for people outside the State to relate to nature and get to know the changes of the earth intimately, it gives us a system of measurements that makes no reference to the earth, or the moon, or the seasons, or any other natural cycle. It is no mystery why the Roman Empire, and later the Catholic Church, imposed this calendar. What is mysterious is why many revolutionaries who fight against domination have not insisted on abolishing the concept of linear, statist and alienated time and on creating tools that make it easier for us to develop another concept.

In the same way, the conquest of celebration was key to the extension of State-Catholic power throughout Europe, the subsequent colonial extension to other continents, and the universal extension of capitalism on the same ground already conquered. When they did not have the power to annihilate often eco-centric, indigenous, and matri-focal [ed. – central stable figure in families being female] spiritualities, both in Europe and Western Asia and the Americas, Catholics recuperated them, turning revered spirits or ancestors into saints and turning goddesses into different aspects of the Virgin Mary. The Christianity of Constantine [ed. – Roman Emperor who made it State religion] was absolutely misogynistic. If the Virgins later abounded and Mary appeared as a fourth deity apart from the trinity, it was only because this was the only way the monks and bishops had to incorporate and domesticate the strongly anti-patriarchal paganism they found at the limits of their expanding empire. By controlling celebrations, they could subordinate the pagan figures so that in the end the people would be worshiping Jesus, the Pope, the State itself.

The next counter-revolution was that carried out by the Protestants.1 Capturing the real, widespread and ingrained rage against Catholic corruption, they waged battle against the Virgins and celebration itself, gutting religion to wipe out Mary and reduce the hundreds of celebrations and festivities of medieval Christianity to leave only two or three of the most austere. The subversive bacchanal – which had survived some 1,200 years of ecocidal, misogynistic, homophobic, corpophobic (hating bodies and earth) and regimented Christianity – had died.

So, if much of the year was not for celebration, what was it for?

The answer is simple: to work. The counter-revolution of the Protestant Reformation paved the way for the ruthless advance of capitalism, reaching in a couple of centuries – and much faster, for enslaved Africans – a reality in which people without capital were supposed to work about 363 days a year.2 They had no other value: they were useless. And what concept of celebration do we have within revolutionary movements? For many of us, our referents are Durruti3 and Makhno,4 men who did not even stop when wounded in battle. We have inherited a model of militancy that surpasses even Protestantism’s productivism. We do not recognize “holy days”; that is pure superstition. We now intend to dedicate the 365 days of the year to the work of the revolution. We are the only people for whom a strike means a lot of work.

By this we do not mean to equate imposed discipline with self-discipline. Frantically engaging in a task of our own choosing – which arises from our desire and will – is one of the greatest joys of life. While we claim the “right to laziness,” we also claim all the hard work that is usually needed to organize ourselves, for example, in an effective and combative strike. Our critique is aimed at how, sometimes, revolutionaries do not realize the new dominant trend of power. In the nineteenth century, when Christianity was already obsolete and science was the new religion of the State, many revolutionaries were enthusiastic about denouncing the church and vindicating rationalism, or proclaiming how new technologies would set us free (a mistake repeated by techno-enthusiasts of the early 21st century with respect to the internet).5

Our critique is about how a revolutionary culture has unconsciously adopted a trend of Puritanism6 – productivism – and has paid no heed to the question of celebration, rather than understanding the great importance of this aspect of life.

Nor is it real, the model we criticize. Like any model, it is a fiction, a narrative that we tell ourselves to make visible or reward certain things and to hide others. We don't know anyone who dedicates all their time “to the revolution,” but a majority who want to pretend they do. The truth is that almost all of them put a lot of effort into celebrating every weekend. What we are worshiping is capitalism, the temporal structure that divides – in a totally artificial way – time into seven-day segments to make it easier for people to self-deceive themselves that they are not devoting their entire lives to the wage labor regime. but “only” five or six days. So every five or six days, every weekend, they have to celebrate the end of the usual ordeal. But it is not a celebration of life, of the body, of our health, of the land that has fed and supported us so that we can survive another week of exploitation, nor is it a celebration of our endurance, our dreams outside of the misery of capitalism. It is a celebration of capitalism itself, because it is a ritual of forgetting. Like the obligatory oblivion imposed by any dictatorship, the weekend is an amnesic's holiday, a reset of our being and our memory, achieved with the help of the drugs that capitalism itself provides us, in order to break the continuity of time and prepare for another work week.

Not to survive, nor to resist. But to conform.

The notion of time we reproduce and the rationalism it represents wreak havoc on our bodies and our imaginaries. We are not machines. We are not able to maintain a geometric trajectory of militancy.7 Revolution is not a linear increase in pressures and forces. It is a storm, it is cyclical, it has its own seasons, like life itself. If we do not learn to adapt to these cycles – and even better, to celebrate them – we will always burn ourselves out,8 we will always fall into disappointment, misunderstanding, and bad strategies when a peak, an insurrection, is not followed by revolution. Nor will we know how to adapt to the inevitable changes in our bodies, our relations, our environments.9

Conversely, when we celebrate cyclical time, our bond with the earth and our past, we gain a great deal. We gain recognition and appreciation for rhythms and changes, we learn to adapt and be more careful, we do not burn out but mature,10 we learn when is the most appropriate time for what type of activity and so we also improve our strategies. We gain a stronger and more intimate connection with life, we protect ourselves from capitalist alienation. We improve our emotional and physical health, we find the strength to engage in a struggle that goes far beyond our atomized beings, we discover a philosophical and existential basis for our struggle that breaks with the liberalism and colonialism that have so polluted Western anti-capitalist movements. And we gain the ability to build a reality that centers our experiences, our stories, our imaginaries; we interrupt the amnesic spectacle of capitalism that tells us “what you have in front of you is everything; nothing else has ever existed.” We create a bond with our ancestors, we make their memory our memory and so, again, we improve our strategies.

A brief review of the history of May Day11 can illustrate very well the importance of celebrations and critical memory. All anti-capitalists know the events of Haymarket in 1886 and the subsequent execution of the Chicago Martyrs.12 But the Haymarket rally was on May 4th, convened to protest a series of police raids on the day of the general strike, May 1st. Few people remember that historic general strike was called for May 1st because, at the time, many recently-proletarianized workers – people who still preserved a peasant memory – still celebrated Beltaine [ed. – as the holiday is known in Celtic-derived traditions] as a popular day, a day of revolt, associated with the imaginary of the world turned upside down13 and with the dances around the maypole. In these dances, all the people of the village danced around a mayo (a tall pole decorated with colorful fabrics). This was a symbol of fertility and a celebration of the earth and spring. At times, dancing and feasting developed in an even more communal and libertine way that totally rejected Catholic morality and its hatred of bodies, the earth, abundance, and pleasure.

The world turned upside down was a celebration, and also a kind of protest and a revolutionary horizon very present in the Middle Ages and which in the rural world would survive the spiritual austerity of the Enlightenment.14 It was about turning the whole social order on its head. Many times people put on clothes assigned to the other gender, put the last first and first last, didn't work, imagined a world where the poor had everything. They crowned a clown as a “king,” made fun of them ruthlessly and sometimes forced some village officer from secular and religious authorities to dress absurdly, ride a pig or a goat and receive all sorts of insults.

In short, it was a good day for ordinary people, and it is no mystery why in their war against a new enemy – industrial capitalism – they chose it to call a general strike.

For centuries, its memory, its celebrations and its more cyclical and ecocentric concept of time were a very strong weapon in the struggle against the State and also a tool for building a communal, supportive and rebellious life.

Today, to face an all-powerful capitalism, we need these weapons and tools more than ever. Time is one more terrain on which we struggle; as we recover it, it will provide us with advantages on all other fronts, it will facilitate us cultivating healthier relationships with other people and our environment from which to better organize ourselves, avoiding burning ourselves out.

ed. – see 'The Scarcity Dynamo'
Every day except Christmas and Saint Stephen. The total number of working days was considerably reduced thanks to the labor
ed. – see Return Fire vol.1 pg86
ed. – see Return Fire vol.2 pg45
ed. – see 'From Fringe Prophecy into Voguish Ideology'
ed. – see Return Fire vol.4 pg89
ed. – see Memory as a Weapon; Barcelona Anarchists at Low Tide
ed. – see A Cautious Reply
ed. – see the supplement to this chapter of Return Fire; The Swell
ed. – see You Are the Good Cause
ed. – see Return Fire vol.3 pg87
ed. – see Return Fire vol.1 pg86
ed. – see 23 Theses Concerning Revolt
ed. – see Return Fire vol.4 pg48

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