Sadly, I cannot be there in person. For folks joining, I'd like to echo the importance of this meeting, and especially discussing a leadership structure. The Apartheid Free Pledge has been on the agenda for a while now and discussions have bubbled up here and there, but perhaps it is now time to vote --- though without a leadership structure in place, perhaps that would be putting the cart before the horse?
There is no neutral body from which our bodies deviate. Society has written deep into each strand of tissue of every living person on earth. What it writes into the heart muscles of five star generals is distinct from what it writes in the pancreatic tissue and intestinal tracts of Black single mothers in Detroit, of Mexicana migrants in Fresno, but no body stands outside the consequences of injustice and inequality