Protective Presence
Artwork on left, by Bay Area abortion defenders Joe and Agnes Sampson, circa 1988. (Courtesy of Joe and Agnes Sampson’s personal collection), from this Ms. Magazine web page. On right is slide from Katie Loncke’s presentation in Making-Visible: Protective Presence in the West Bank.
On another level, protective presence might describe the inner, spiritual refuge that true presence offers practitioners of mindfulness who choose to engage in political nonviolence.
-Katie Loncke
Our Protective presence series began with Protective Presence in the West Bank
with Katie Loncke. Katie spent over two weeks in the West Bank, serving as a protective presence for Palestinian families.
Katie describes protective presence as the following:
A beautiful phrase, perhaps with a double meaning. On the surface, protective presence describes a tried-and-true political activity of strategic nonviolent accompaniment, where the privilege and presence of outsiders means protection for locals.
On another level, protective presence might describe the inner, spiritual refuge that true presence offers practitioners of mindfulness who choose to engage in political nonviolence.
Our second conversation in this series is Protective Presence for Abortion Access
with Angela Hume. Angela is the author of Deep Care; the radical activists who provided abortions, defied the law, and fought to keep clinics open. Two activists, Brenda Cummings and Lizzie Chadbourne will join us.
Scroll below to learn more about this topic and our sessions.
Protective Presence in the West Bank
with Katie Loncke
February 7, 2024, 7:00-8:30pm EST
Katie Loncke (they/them) (above), a previous speaker at Making-Visible, and a U.S. American Buddhist person of Jewish and African-American ancestry, spent over two weeks in the West Bank, serving as a protective presence for Palestinian families.
Protective Presence for Abortion Access
with Angela Hume
Abortion access is about a woman’s right and ability to access needed healthcare.
May 8, 2024, 7:00-8:30pm EDT
Angela is the author of Deep Care; the radical activists who provided abortions, defied the law, and fought to keep clinics open and joins us to share how abortion clinic defense can be understood as a form of protective presence. Two activists, Brenda Cummings and Lizzie Chadbourne will join us
Artwork above on left, by Bay Area abortion defenders Joe and Agnes Sampson, circa 1988. (Courtesy of Joe and Agnes Sampson’s personal collection), from this Ms. Magazine web page. On right is cover of Angela Hume’s new book Deep Care.