Weekly Wrap 6.23.17: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 6.23.17: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. Here’s What You Can Do Now About the Senate Health Care Bill
“At The Summit, Sojourners' annual gathering of leaders from across the country, attendees spent Friday morning calling their senators, demanding they vote against the bill — which Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to push through next week, before the July 4 recess. Those gathered are calling on their constituents to do the same. Here's how.”

2. The Literal Whitewashing of Chicago’s Latino Murals
The increasing gentrification of the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago favors luxury condos over iconic images of Frida Kahlo, Emiliano Zapata, Subcomandante Marcos, and César Chávez.

3. Watch: The Summit — Healing + Resistance
Sojourners has been live streaming The Summit’s core conversations on Story, Truth, Resistance, Disruption, and Healing, plus an incredible artist showcase. Catch the last session today and view the whole library of recordings here.

4. Ohio State Recruit Breaks Internet with Wokest Shirt Ever
“I decided to wear the shirt because I wanted to bring attention to the epidemic of blacks being killed at an alarming rate,” Tyreke Smith told reporters. “What we would like to do is have people talk about these issues to reduce the murder rate of African Americans.”

5. Choosing Life: Why an Immigrant Mother Chooses Sanctuary
What does faith require when we talk about mass deportation?

6. Bill Cosby’s Sexual Assault Education Tour
You read that correctly. According to his spokesperson: “Anything at this point can be considered sexual assault. It’s a good thing to be educated about the laws.”

7. Things You Can’t Unsee
How do we avoid becoming numb in the face of online tragedy and violence?

8. On the Vital and Audacious Rage of Valerie Castile
“All that is left for them, after their children have been executed, is work. Work to draw attention to their children’s murder, work to seek charges, and finally; work to seek legislative reform after their children’s murderers are routinely acquitted.”

9. When Christians Love Political Power More than People
Among other things, a heath care bill that favors tax cuts for the wealthy over literal human lives happens.

10. Survey: No Religious Group Supports Religiously Based Service Refusal of LGBTQ Individuals
“The survey also finds increasing evidence of an emerging consensus on LGBT rights, with majorities of young Republicans and young white evangelicals (age 18-29) now supporting same-sex marriage.”