Jesus, movement building, peace with policing and prayer breakfasts?

RantWoman, WHY are you putting all these items in the same post? 

Because God tells me to?

Because God is versatile and speaks in different ways

Because I know darn well an editor and making 3 blog posts might be more on point, but I need to celebrate abundance. 

Because RantWoman does not want to lose the meat of the content having an extravagant tirade about WTF real accessibility means and why explaining over and over all the dimensions of access / accessibillity to one's faith community has a lot in common with the average workplace and therefore this item also qualifies as observance of #NDEAM 

An exhortation and provocative piece from email

Quoting Friend Joe Snyder of Multonomah Meeting because the email is highly germane to the conversation:

Dear Friends,

   I just suffered through a large meeting of folks wanting to improve (or in some cases perhaps abolish) policing in Portland where there was considerable discord and disrespect for others.  Then along comes this message from Wess Daniels which seems to address some of it, and certainly addresses some issues we have as Friends.  It is a long message, but I found it worthwhile, and I would encourage you to share it widely as yousee fit.

Wess Daniels on Quaker exceptionalism, Jesus and Movement Building

Peace and Policing: Friends Journal article

From recent RantWoman commentary on an article she came across in Friends Journal

I came across this piece tonight.

When Peace Requires Police

I like it a lot. I like that it includes voices of color. I like that it seems better grounded than other recent items which have crossed RantWoman's path. 

Because RantWoman has wound up on the ChangeWashington Email list

RantWoman generally prefers to buck the trend of algorithms giving her only one flavor of thinking about anything. RantWoman is posting part of a fundraising appeal verbatim in all its cringeworthy glory mainly as an excuse to also post some protest comments on the other side of the video.

Friends— According to Change Washington adviser and former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, Seattle is at the precipice. In her words, city leadership will determine whether we “turn and keep [Seattle] the top-tier world class city that it is or if we’re going to just let mayhem and destruction take us in a different direction.” Change Washington is excited to share with you the first of a series of videos to be released in the coming weeks that feature Chief Carmen Best. Take a moment to watch Chief Best as she explains in her own words some of her motivations for resigning and her thoughts on the upcoming November election. Consider supporting Change Washington’s partnership with Chief Best by investing in our Chief Carmen Best Public Safety Initiative. Donations will keep Chief Best as the face of public safety in our region as Change WA holds public officials accountable through focused and relentless communication infrastructure. Click here to make a donation today! Next week, Change Washington will release more from Chief Best on the police staffing crisis and constructive police reforms. You can support Change Washington’s partnership with Chief Carmen Best to make Seattle a safer and more livable city by donating to the Chief Carmen Best Public Safety Initiative here.

RantWoman means to write a more thoughtful piece about upcoming local elections but some cringeworthy themes.

This wing of the public is sick of police officers who are dawdling about getting vaccinated and RantWoman has particular scorn for officers who won't wear masks when asked 3 times by Harborview ER nurses.

Much of the public is sick of MANY forms of over policing including dumping all manner of "less than lethal" chemicals and projectiles all over neighborhoods. This wing of the public is completely unsympathetic to pleas for more resources if one of the things more money will be used for is resupply all the noxious tools overused during the past year's protests. 

This wing of the public is sick of what one city attorney categorizes as misdemeanor court full of attempts to police poverty and disability.

RantWoman means to consult one of her walking encyclopedia services for some estimate of where the social safety net presently is because RantWoman's instinct is NOT to give the police more money but to do more about the problems some want to police our way out of. 

This wing of the public would like to inspire an able journalist or two to look at, well, how much exactly does it cost to feed and maintain any hand-me-down equipment offered local police departments as side effects of the last 20 years of war.

Prayer breakfasts?

RantWoman, you almost forgot about prayer breakfasts. Prayer breakfasts at their best can draw people of good will with diverse points of view together in an exercise in shared civicpiety. Do you think you stand any chance of even getting invited Uhhh