RESOURCES

• “Demand for Immediate Release of Mohsen Mahdawi and Other Unlawfully Detained Individuals” - a solidarity letter signed by one hundred and thirty five Buddhist teachers, practitioners, and supporters.

• Before his ICE arrest, Mohsen Mahdawi built a broad network of friendships in Vermont's Upper Valley - an article from Vermont Public.

• The 2025 Robert N. Bellah Lecture on Religion and Public Life welcomes the Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, whose lecture offered bold and timely insights into spiritual leadership and individual accountability in today’s complex world.

• “Student activist and former Columbia Buddhist Association leader Mohsen Mahdawi detained; facing deportation,” Lion’s Roar article updated April 16

• North Bay Organizing Project: A grassroots, multiracial, and multi-issue organization comprised of twenty faith, environmental, labor, student and community-based organizations in Sonoma County. 

• A Buddhist Coalition for Democracy: A Call to Action: a newly formed alliance of Buddhist sanghas and individuals representing multiple traditions responding collectively to the ongoing destruction of democratic principles, the rule of law, and to the cruel persecution of demonized vulnerable groups.

• Letters to An American: a newsletter written by history professor, Heather Cox Richardson, about today’s political landscape that explores what it means, and what it has meant, to be an American.

• Meditations in an Emergency: An independent publication launched in January 2025 by Rebecca Solnit. Essays and analysis.

• Indivisible SoCo: Focuses on building the resistance to the new Administration while increasing the number of effective progressive voices in local, state, and national offices.

• Waging Non-Violence: People powered news and analysis.

• The Contrarian: A new pro-democracy media outlet, committed to defending our fundamental freedoms and values essential to a pluralistic democracy.

• Buddhist Global Relief: Responding to the cuts in USAID.

• Engaged Buddhist Election Retreats: Plans for 2025

• Jewish Voice for Peace: they are organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people.

• White Stork: U.S. Veterans delivering humanitarian aide directly to Ukraine.

• North Bay Rapid Response Network (NBRRN): The network provides a 24-hour hotline - 707.800.4544 - to immigrants facing a raid by federal immigration agents.

• Sonoma County Secure Families Collaborative: The backbone organization to a network of 8 partners who provide pro-bono legal services, social services, and mental health support.

• Talk by Renee Saucedo, local immigrant rights activist, who spoke at the Sebastopol Community Church. Renee is one of the organizers of the Sonoma County Sanctuary Coalition, an organization that people could participate in.

• 350.org: Focused on climate, this is a movement made up of ordinary people taking action in several ways, from quick online action to deep organizing and campaign leadership.

• Third Act: Harnessing generational power to safeguard climate and democracy.

• Earth Justice: Because the Earth Needs a Good Lawyer

• Sierra Club Public Lands Action Hour to take meaningful action together.

• Interfaith Power and Light: putting faith into action for a safe climate and environmental justice for all.

• Repairers of the Breach: Building social justice movements that uplift of moral values.

• Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity: Working at the intersection of spirituality and social movements, they mobilize congregations to take a stand on issues of social justice

• Chop Wood, Carry the World: an occasional newsletter for Chop Wood, Carry Water subscribers who want to advocate on issues outside of the U.S.

• Buddhist Global Relief: Responding to the cuts in USAID.

• The Contrarian: A new pro-democracy media outlet, committed to defending our fundamental freedoms and values essential to a pluralistic democracy.

• 350.org: Focused on climate, this is a movement made up of ordinary people taking action in several ways, from quick online action to deep organizing and campaign leadership.

• Sonoma County Secure Families Collaborative: The backbone organization to a network of 8 partners who provide pro-bono legal services, social services, and mental health support.