Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner 🏳️🌈
@rockinrevrobin
Mama. Minister. Queer. Organizer. Poet. Unitarian Universalist. #AbolishIce #FreeFamilies #ReparationsNow #FightPovertyNotThePoor #AbolishPoverty #LGBTQRights #UU
So grateful to host these amazing youth organizers as we demand @TomKean stop taking blood money from big tech. hunting our people and poisoning our waters big tech has got to go. #NoPalentir #NoDataCenters
In the pain, despair, rage and lament remember: fascists always fail. Eventually, sometimes at horrendous costs and harm, and often not alone. Prepare for the failure for that is the moment to move more deeply toward liberation.
We returned to Delaney. And we will keep coming back until all the walls come down. #FreeFamilies
On hard days and good days, I look to the moon. Even in all her phases, she is ever faithful.
There are days, I worry about us humans. And then there are nights like tonight…when I return to Delaney Detention Camp to place ribbons. I look up… the woman who was hit by a car a few weeks ago is back…praying and witnessing for our beloveds all over again. We keep our humanity. #FreeFamilies
Faith in NJ is leading us in Jersey to end child and family detention. In truth, all detention hurts the children- separating families, cutting off financial support, and creating generations of trauma. But we get to choose to be part of the healing. Choose healing today.
As we walked yesterday in Newark, we marked the sites where neighbors have been abducted by ICE. We had to double back and create more as they were all over the city kidnapping people yesterday. The streets were unusually quiet especially for summer. We must end this terror. #FreeFamilies
Remembering to take in the peace between the storms.
4 years ago…Arianna came into our lives. We shared major milestones- airplanes, swimming, learning how to say her name, first pet and school. She is a joyful, curious, funny, smart and strong child. Arianna Cheryl Lee Alderman is now officially, legally part of our family! #adoption
When your al-anon daily hits hard and real. “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” John Burroughs
@kairoscenter.org and many other beloveds brought song and shifted the space…we will keep singing, praying, protesting until every camp is shut down. No one is free until all are free. #FreeFamilies
Elders are more than a notion. In our ever consumerist culture, we must resist by welcoming seasoned wisdom and long tenured service. My Granny helped raise me, and I give thanks regularly that my life was blessed with elder wisdom from the beginning.
Mayor Baraka lifted the curfew and moved the barricades. We are back outside Delaney- focused on the families and those detained. Next, we free them all. #FreeFamilies
Not one more dollar to this monstrous system. At Delaney Hall, the camp in Newark, food has worms, water is undrinkable and medical care is being denied. There are no conditions that will make it safe to give these people another 70 Billion dollars. Shut it down. #FreeFamilies #ICEOut
Congress went home until June 1 without funding ICE. Keep up the pressure when they are home. #FreeFamilies
Congress is about to give 70 Billion MORE dollars to ICE. We can’t feed our children in America but we gonna pay for cages for our kids? Hell no! Call now. 1 (855) 999-8503 even if you don’t think your rep cares, call. Make them hear you. #FreeFamilies
On hard days, I remember that this was just 4 months ago. I am so lucky to have these beautiful children in my life. #momsky
Pastor Dianne Garcia along w/ many community members walked 90 miles from Dilley Detention where they are detaining children (Liam Ramos was held here) to San Antonio demanding an end to family and child detention. #FreeFamilies add your voice 👇 childrensdefense.quorum.us/campaign/146...
Proud mama moment…two oldest shoveling out our neighbor without asking for a dime. #momsky
Nothing like a Jersey blizzard and watching your neighbor take a break to have a 3 on 1 snowball fight to restore a little faith in who we humans can be.
No lunar new year celebration would be complete without…
Beauty from my daily walk. Grounding in the endurance of goodness
Today was one of those days with simple gifts easy to miss…a walk, peace between brothers and kindness of a pup. Not documented- one of the rowdiest games of UNO ever. What simple gifts are keeping you going?
Some beauty for you, beloveds. Seek the beauty too.
Good morning beloveds, just a reminder that good things can still emerge in this new day.
Yesterday, we sat in meditation with 5,000 people for over an hour emanating loving kindness and today we were at the Capitol putting meditation into motion. Not one more dollar to ICE. #FreeFamilies #ICEOut And yes, my face as always tells the truth…
In line to attend a 2 1/2 hour meditation led by Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, leader of the group of monks who walked from Fort Worth, TX, to Washington, D.C. The line wrapped around blocks and blocks. Inspiring.