So now, here we are. We are homeless. We are denied health care. We experience police violence and state violence and incarceration. We can’t get decent jobs, and we can’t pay our rent, and our wages are not keeping up with inflation, and we don’t know how we are going to feed our families. Our people are dying from disease induced by pollution, and nothing is done to address the climate change that will damage each of our communities, some beyond repair. All of these realities are felt even in the poor white communities I am from, but Indigenous and Black and brown communities experience them at even higher rates, along with constant racism and hatred at every level of society. Queer people and trans people, we are also being targeted. We are in a particularly dangerous moment when white Christian nationalism gains power; they are trying to roll back all the gains of the civil rights movement.
And we are facing an election that makes us feel helpless, because there are no candidates that are even addressing our plight. In this moment, capitalism and colonialism and imperialism have the upper hand. They are winning. We feel helpless in this moment. They have all the power. And so many people are dying because of it.
So I want you to breathe again. As you breathe in, imagine that you are drawing power, power from the earth, from each other, from your ancestors. And as you breathe out, imagine you are releasing that power into this space.
I want you to feel your power.
I want you to feel our power together.
