🌍 Bound by Love, Moved by Solidarity
A Global Reflection the Power of Transnational Love
April holds within it a tender truth: it is a month of remembrance, resistance, and recommitment. As we honor Genocide Awareness Month and observe the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, we are invited to expand our hearts across borders and histories, naming the deep connections between our struggles and our shared humanity.
From Sudan to Palestine, from immigrant communities navigating displacement in the U.S. to Indigenous nations resisting erasure, the call is clear: none of us are free until all of us are free. In a world shaped by the legacies of colonialism, white supremacy, militarization, and forced migration, freedom is not a siloed journey, it is a collective act. It is rooted in love, guided by memory, and sustained through solidarity.
At Love Before ALL, we believe love is not passive. It is not silent in the face of oppression. Love is a verb. A choice. A strategy. In the face of genocide and global violence, it is love that insists on remembering. Love that dares to imagine a world without domination. Love that compels us to speak out, show up, and build alternatives grounded in dignity, care, and collective thriving.
We must also name the cost of militarization in war zones, in our neighborhoods, schools, borders, and city budgets. As military spending balloons globally, essential services like education, housing, and healthcare are defunded. When nations invest in weapons instead of wellness, the most marginalized communities are the first to pay the price. And yet, around the world, everyday people are resisting. Women in Sudan leading mutual aid efforts. Youth in Palestine turning to art and culture to preserve their history. Immigrant communities in the U.S. organizing sanctuary networks and border support teams.
These movements teach us that solidarity is not charity, it is kinship. It is rooted in the understanding that our freedom is bound up in each other. Bell hooks reminded us that “rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” In this spirit, we must widen our lens beyond nationalism and see the ways in which violence is systemic and interconnected and so too must be our healing and our hope.
As we reflect on the grief and resistance that April holds, let us recommit to people-centered leadership, to joy as a form of resistance, and to policies that prioritize CARE over control. Let us ask: How can we use our positions in nonprofits, in government, in community to sow seeds of FREEDOM & HOPE? What does it look like to invest in life instead of war? And how can we keep showing up in moments of crisis and in the long haul of healing?
We are not powerless. We are not alone. From Memphis to Khartoum, from Gaza to Guatemala, there are people dreaming, organizing, and loving into existence a different kind of world. A world where budgets reflect our values. A world where borders do not define our belonging. A world where no one is forgotten, and everyone has a place to rest, resist, and rise.
💛 With love, always
Your Co-Conspirators at LBA
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