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A podcast for peacemakers. Every week Osheta Moore and a small group discuss our journey to becoming anti-racism peacemakers and the Beloved Community right where we are.
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Now displaying: November, 2018
Nov 22, 2018

Hey Sistas,

 

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Here are five things that I'm choosing to help me be a peacemaker today:

 

1: Remember small ordinary acts of peace

2: This Responsive Reading From the African American Heritage Hymnal

 

3: Twain's Feast from Audible

4: Simple Gifts By Yo Yo Ma  and NPR's Time Desk on Yo Yo Ma

 

5: From the Top NPR 

 

Thank you so much Sistas, Patreon Supporters, and Guests.  2018 has been an amazing year!

 

Love,

Osheta

 

Nov 21, 2018

Hey Sistas,

 

Today's guest is Shelley Jones!

 

Shelley Jones is the founder of dignify, an online boutique that sells handmade blankets that are made by women who are survivors of exploitation in Bangladesh. She is a wife, a mom, and a creative who is using what she has to work out shalom in her business, in the way she shops, and in the [online] world.

 

Today we talk about:

How she kinda tumbled into founding a fair trade company

How she loves to connect the stories of the women who shop Dignify to the women who make the blankets

How she LOVES, LOVES, LOVES Father Greg Boyle from Homeboy Industries 

How she uses what she has in her hands right now to be a peacemaker.

 

Shelley gave us a code for free shipping when we visit her site:

https://www.shopdignify.com/pages/about-dignify

Use the code: SHALOM 

through Nov. 26th for free shipping

 

Our Shalom Steps are:

1: Slow Down/ Calm Down

2: Make a List and start small

3: Shop Fair trade for women who cannot afford it for themselves

 

Shelley is a compelling and fun writer. Here are my favorite posts from the "Shop Good" blog.

 

SHOULD I CANCEL NETFLIX? OUR LIFE POST- NETFLIX BREAKUP

https://www.shopdignify.com/blogs/shopgoodblog/should-i-cancel-netflix-our-life-post-netflix-break-up

 

WE DON'T HIRE WOMEN TO MAKE BLANKETS. WE MAKE BLANKETS TO HIRE WOMEN.

https://www.shopdignify.com/blogs/shopgoodblog/we-dont-hire-women-to-make-blankets-we-make-blankets-to-hire-women

 

WHEN THINGS BREAK... SPENDING MONEY ON THINGS THAT ARE SUPER LAME

https://www.shopdignify.com/blogs/shopgoodblog/when-things-break

See you tomorrow with a Thanksgiving Themed Episode!

 

Osheta

 

 

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