Kuumba Lynx followed Neil’s talk and really showed the ways in which youth — and all of the energy that follows them — are needed in the movement. Their performance was a preview of a show their working on and will tour around the region in the coming months. I couldn’t help but thinking about the ways in which their struggle as youth of color is inherently linked to the issues we discuss at Jubilee USA.
Just as civil society presses to gain the ear of leaders and compel them to eliminate debt and make just trade policies in impoverished countries, these youth are talking — yelling even — about the importance of treating people with respect, thinking about ourselves as connected to others and as people of faith and conscience really allowing what we do spiritually to lead the ways in which we address unjust policies. These are simple concepts, really, but still notions some of us have a hard time following in our daily lives.
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