Anti-Racism

Lewis Steller created this zine to explore the ways that the traditional Quaker understanding of "Holding in the Light," a spiritual practice related to intercessory prayer, can be expanded to allow a broader range of understandings of how the Divine or Spirit can support us. This expansion can help reduce unnecessary pain that centuries of contrasting “good” light with “bad” dark can bring upon people who are racialized targets of white supremacy culture. "I'm Holding You in

Adopted by unanimous consensus at Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business on December 3, 2023 In November 2020, a sweeping super-majority of 82% of Portland voters approved a measure authorizing the creation of a new police oversight system to investigate and respond to police misconduct. A new oversight board and City department will replace the existing Independent Police Review.  A Police Accountability Commission (PAC) worked from December 2021 to August 2023 to de

Adopted by unanimous consensus at Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business on June 4, 2023 US society is addicted to surveillance and punishment, and our police and prisons are their institutional embodiment. They channel the human need for safety into racist fear and disgust, and use that excuse to control and destroy Indigenous, Black and brown people and communities. By any objective measure, police and prisons fail to “serve and protect” these communities. Because