from Friendly Fire
Our October issue is out. We’re on time-ish.
O C T O B E R F R I E N D L Y F I R E
SEVERAL INCORRECT THINGS IN THE NEWSLETTER, INCLUDING:
-we’ll continue to meeting at 7 PM (not 7 AM) on Tuesdays
-wrong link for the ordination’s event page! here ya go
from Friendly Fire
The September issue of Friendly Fire is out!
It’s a bit late, and we apologize for that, but perhaps we can use this as a chance to convince you to submit some writing to our blog and/or newsletter?
If you have any piece of writing you’d like to share – whether it be a report-back of a Christian leftist demo, a devotional or theological reflection, or anything related to the vision of Friendly Fire and the Christian Left – feel free to send it in. We want our blog and newsletter to amplify and connect the work of comrades in Christ.
All submissions can be sent to friendlyfireinfo@protonmail.com, as well as any others questions/inquiries.
Vision statement: In the spirit of International Workers’ Day, the May Day retreat will be a worship gathering for Christians and mystics with revolutionary leftist convictions. Our hope is that this space will be a time of collaboration and fellowship intended to foster the emergence of a Christian/Religious Left.
We are currently taking applications for the May Day retreat! Apply here!
The retreat fee will be a sliding scale of $45-95
We will be meeting in Philadelphia on May 1st for various direct actions, but we have reserved cabins outside of Philly for lodging and our time of fellowship. People are welcome to come a day or two before and we are definitely willing to help arrange housing situations.
For more information: friendlyfireinfo@protonmail.com
If you want to join the ever-growing Planning Committee, let us know!
from Soundcloud
Me and Hye Sung Francis from the Friendly Fire Collective were interviewed by Dean and Matt from another radical Christian podcast called The Magnificast about our Quaker organizing praxis, our upcoming May Day retreat in Philadelphia, and more! The deadline to apply for the retreat has been extended to March 29th, so if you are interested there is still time to apply 🙂
friendlyfirecollective.wordpress.com/retreat/
An update on our f/Friends who were arrested in Lansing:
friendlyfirecollective.wordpress.com/2018/0…iends/
from It’s Going Down
Local Quakers and friendly mystics from around the so-called “United States” are gathering outside of so-called “Philadelphia,” from May 1-3rd for direct action, worship, collaboration, mysticism, and fellowship to stir-up an emerging revolutionary Christian/religious Left. We invite mystics and people of faith from all traditions who share our struggle “against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world.” (Ephesians 6:12)
Our desire for this retreat is it will serve to strengthen and connect the forming Christian/religious left. This retreat is coming at a time when we are seeing our institutions of religion crumble before our eyes as the evangelical Right is endorsing fascism, white supremacy, and xenophobia. The Friendly Fire Collective is a loose network of anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist Christians and mystics seeking to eradicate this institution and share in the act of Creation by building new religious traditions that lift up the oppressed instead of tearing them down.
In the Spirit of International Workers’ Day, we will be participating in various direct actions which are currently being planned by our ever growing planning committee. The retreat fee will be a sliding scale of $45-95 and we will have scholarships available to ensure accessibility. If you would like to donate to allow poor, qpoc, and other marginalized people come to our event please email us.
For safety concerns we will not be discussing the location of our event until a few weeks out.
We are currently taking applications for the May Day retreat! Apply here!
For more information: friendlyfireinfo@protonmail.com https://friendlyfirecollective.wordpress.com
from facebook
“Having spent the 60’s as a voice for Revolution, political, cultural, artistic change I felt a need for a spiritual (not religious) dimension as well. And so Revolutionary Animism. The material domination of life is at best vacuous and must be addressed.” – Ben Morea
Ben Morea, a former major activist and revolutionary artist in the 60’s will speak on his journey from approaching activism from a place or anarchy to now coming from values of animism. He is well known historically from the 60’s for his involvement in Black Mask, Up against the wall Mother fucker, and his art. He left society for many years, spending time deep in nature, only to reemerge to speak all over the world around the ties between environmentalism and animism. This will be a special night at ahimsa as we enjoy the warm hearted and wise nature of Ben Morea as he speaks on his many years of standing up for and loving mother nature and her inhabitants.
[September 22 at 7:30pm at 5007 Cedar Ave]
