East Point Peace Academy

Less than 48 hours after we updated our own Line 3 travel fund fundraiser, we have exceeded our stretch goal of $10,000!!! THANK YOU ALL so much for your generosity and support!!! We also want to let you know that our friends with the 1000 Grandmothers Bay Area is also raising funds for their delegation to Stop Line 3 and want to encourage you all to support them now! Thank you all!!!

With everything going on in our world today, it is sometimes hard to know where to seek joy. Belinda and Omar are hosting on April 21st a circle with East Point to help us remember the reasons we have to smile... Register here! https://www.eastpointpeace.org/gratitudecircle

Wow, just in the 3 hours since we posted an update on our fundraising page, we've already received $2,815 to support Bay Area water protectors traveling up to support the Line 3 resistance movement! Thank you all so much for your love and support! Check out the link if you would like to support as well. We are prioritizing making this trip accessible to BIPOC folks, leaving money behind at the Indigenous led camps in Minnesota who are leading the movement, and subsidizing travel costs for other members of our 2 upcoming delegations (close to 25 people!).

East Point will be sending a delegation of a dozen activists to Minnesota to support the Line 3 resistance on April 10th. The day before the departure, folks will be gathering in San Francisco for this mural action and march! Please join us and spread the word!

See below direct action activists continuing to deploy massive creativity to stop the construction of Line 3 in Minnesota. East Point is currently helping 30 members of our community in their prep' to travel to Line 3 in April and May. If you would like to travel, send funds, or lend winter gear, please email us at [email protected] asap!!

Join us and some great friends for this book event with Healing Resistance author Kazu Haga! Hope to see you on Wednesday!

Check out The People's Inauguration: 10 Days to Activate Revolutionary Love, currently underway! At East Point, we are impressed by the speakers and the messages delivered in this series: https://thepeoplesinauguration.org After participating, please join us for two opportunities to share together about our experience on Jan. 26th, 7-8pm Pacific and/or Feb. 1st 12-1pm Pacific! You can register for our sharing circles here: www.eastpointpeace.org/pisc1 You can register for the... People's Inauguration here: We will discuss the key takeaways and new questions this 10-day process is unearthing for us, here at the beginning of what we so fervently hope will be a new era of transformation in our society. Please join us for this special opportunity to be together and to share with one another what we're seeing and how we're doing at this pivotal moment in history!

Check out this video, "Emergency," particularly related to police violence - by Benjamin Mertz, a very charismatic and powerful songleader, with strong roots in the gospel tradition, who lives in the East Bay. Many thanks to Jean Farmer for the share! ""Emergency" is a love letter to everyone who is oppressed, afraid, struggling, or unsafe in their own neighborhood. It is a love message to anyone who has felt their hearts fading in their chest. Most importantly, "Emergency" is dedicated to all of those who have died too young, especially those killed by state violence." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K-Y2UjpOIM&feature=youtu.be

On Christmas day of 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave us this heartfelt sermon to remind us of our interdependence and to our relationship with each other. An important reminder as we transition into a new year.

East Point is taking a break for a little while and will start offering workshops again starting February, but you can join Kazu for this workshop on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Weekend, exploring the intersection between the teachings of Dr. King and Buddhist Dharma. Offered by Spirit Rock Meditation Center! https://spirit-rock.secure.retreat.guru//the-dharma-of-k/