Next week, on the 28th, I will be sworn in as American Citizen. If you can be there, I would love to have your presence. I have to be there at 1:45, but will be there at 1:30 to meet you if you can come. Afterwards, I am going out for a toast in a bar somewhere, but that is all the partying I will do. I see becoming Citizen more as a commission than a celebration. Time to make some noise and get deeper involved in the struggle for social justice.
The ceremony will be held in Masonic Auditorium on Nob Hill.
Last Sunday Rev. Deborah Lee spoke about a Haitian green card holder, who was on the list for deportation for a conviction he had served time on ten years ago. He is still in the US, and alive, because of the civil disobedience by faith leaders and activists. They literally blocked the road and prevented deportation that way. That story impacts me in two ways. First, I don’t want to have to live under the threat of deportation if I do something the police doesn’t like, and second, I would like to be able to block the road myself. That kind of protest is also presenting your whole body as a sacrifice to God.
