🎙️ Agape Love | Growing Our Organizing Muscles to Fight Big Techno-Fascism

Hi Y’all! 👋🏽

the roots of change podcast is growing with more conversations to address creating change today through an organizing ethos of Radical Love.

What the world needs now is radical love, sweet love.

If you haven't noticed, we're in quite a moment in history! Radical Love is the answer to how we organize ourselves out of fascism. The Big Tech machines have siloed our vibrant communities, shrunk our self-worth, and distracted our movements. I reject the world that they are building and know we can collectively envision more. ✨🌍

We need that Agape kind of love right now. MLK Jr. preached of Agape as the core of a nonviolent movement. "Agape is creative, understanding, redemptive, goodwill for all." (watch video)

Friday was the 60th Anniversary of Selma Bloody Sunday where nonviolent leaders, including the quiet and unassuming John Lewis, put their bodies on the line for something greater than themselves. They knew that the men they were confronting hated them and that violence would likely come. But they were able to stand their ground because of Agape Love.

They said, and I'm paraphrasing, "I know that you hate me, but I also know that this harmful system hurts YOU too and I love our world enough to want better for every living creature on it."

MLK Jr's speech on Agape could be spoken today. We are caught up in hating the person, not the system. Our society encourages this hate. To hate people who vote differently than us. To hate people who's bodies are different than yours. To hate the people that have the things that you want.

I reject hate. I reject that we can't have that Agape kind of love in our movement today, while also protecting ourselves and building safety in a multiracial movement. It won't be EASY! But we are resourceful, resilient, and creative creatures beneath our white supremacist capitalist patriarchal upbringing.

Cultivating Agape & Restoring Our Souls

I, and millions of others, are ready to stand up against this hateful system and build a better world. Many of us are operating within these harmful systems without a compass. 🧭

We are constantly being harmed by a system that we are trying to fight and that's taxing. My hope with the roots of change podcast (and all of our resources) can be a respite from the noise and a place to grow our hope and organizing muscles.

Hope is an action. Hope is a verb. When we are acting for change, we can have hope. (that's why they want to keep us scrolling)

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Building Resilient Communities

As we enter this new era of movement organizing, we are planning more conversations with organizers and communicators who are cultivating change differently to combat the threats we face, while creating a liberatory world.

The first conversation in our private podcast feed is about the hard work of building community in an imperfect world. My conversation Lisa Hurley and Sharon Hurley Hall is joyful, while also challenging us to dig deeper into how we can actually build intentional community.

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In Solidarity,
Sam Chavez
the roots of change agency