Since April 28, multiple cities, towns, and rural communities in Colombia have seen their young people, workers, and farmers, as well as Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities, join mass protests as part of a national strike. The mobilization began in response to proposed tax hikes amid the social and public health crisis caused by COVID-19.

Margaret Lechner is a retired wilderness educator from Earlham College, AVP facilitator, and member of Clear Creek Meeting in Richmond, Indiana.

Erica Pearson is a co-clerk of Clear Creek Meeting in Richmond, Indiana and a recently retired public elementary school teacher.

Do you want to be pushed out of your comfort zone, challenged and overwhelmed, but also supported, encouraged and guided?  Have you been reading and thinking about race in America, and do you want to find others who will talk and act with you?

We did, so we joined with nine other people from our Quaker meeting to use the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) e-course called “Radical Acting in Faith for White People.”