ECM’s Emergent Action Network - June Online Gathering
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 6-7:30 pm EST
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An Arrival - Joy in the Struggle
Please join us for the final installment of our “Building the Muscles of Resistance” series! Joy is a transformative and transcendent experience that enables us to live fully and persist even in the midst of difficult circumstances. There is a deep joy at the heart of working for meaningful change as part of a beloved community. True joy is not free of hard times, grief, or challenges - it exists alongside them.
Helen Patmon and Rev. Bernadette Hickman-Maynard will guide us in exploring how song, dance, folk tales, poetry and other art forms enabled Black communities in the U.S. to develop muscles of resistance against slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and other forms of oppression that persist in the US today.