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The Rev. Laura Rose of the First Congregational Church of Alameda, like many of her fellow religious leaders, has embraced the Occupy movement.\u00a0 Photos by Luke Thomas for Media Workers Guild.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Rebecca Rosen Lum<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

March 14, 2012<\/p>\n

More than 40 years after the Civil Rights movement, religious leaders still have their eyes on the prize.<\/p>\n

They are not leading Occupy Wall Street as they did the Civil Rights movement. And if churches served as a vital network for communication and planning during the days of the sit-ins, that role today has been usurped by the Internet \u2013 by Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n

But in sanctuaries and on the streets, faith has both fueled a passionate commitment to the Occupy Wall Street movement and a passionate debate about its methods.<\/p>\n

The OWS movement, which protests social and economic inequity and predatory practices that benefit the wealthiest 1 percent at the expense of the rest of society, was kicked off by the Canadian group Adbusters and began in September in the heart of New York City\u2019s financial district. Since then, the movement has been adopted and localized in cities across the nation, some focused on specific issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cOccupy movements have a strong religious presence,\u201d said the Rev. Ben Daniel, pastor of Foothill Presbyterian Church in San Jose and a leading progressive thinker and writer. \u201cFrom a religious perspective, poverty, inequality are important issues. In Gospels, Jesus talks about economic inequality more than anything else. One of the few times Jesus condemns someone it is for failing to feed the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

High profile clergy from across the nation and beyond have weighed in to sanction the movement in varying degrees, including the Archibishop of Canterbury\u2019s robust assertion that Jesus would spend Christmas with Occupy demonstrators at St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral in London, \u201csharing the risks, not just taking sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

All faiths emphasize social justice, said the Rev. Phil Lawson, a veteran of the Civil Rights movement who engaged in his first act of civil disobedience in 1950 at the age of 15.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Laura Rose had no plan, no idea what she would say, when she invited parishioners at First Congregational Church of Alameda to stay after services to talk about the then-three week old Occupy movement. Twenty people showed up, impassioned enough to continue an extended conversation that reliably erupts past its scheduled closing time. She described the tenor of the first meeting as \u201cmessy and raw, deep and unsettling,\u201d leaving many questions unanswered.<\/p>\n

\u201cReligion can become the keeper of the status quo or it can become a liberator,\u201d said Rose, who joined with 13 other religious leaders to create Occupy Oakland\u2019s Interfaith Tent, made up of indigenous elders, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims and Jews. \u201cJesus\u2019 whole reason for being was to wake people up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five months later, \u201cI don\u2019t think there is a dividing line; that\u2019s the beauty of the idea of the 99 percent,\u201d she mused. \u201cThis is a movement that has brought the middle class alongside the working class, the poor. We have to find what divides us and what unites us. It\u2019s what makes this movement expand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rev. Laura Rose.<\/p><\/div>\n

No social movement in the U.S. has succeeded without the involvement of the faith community, said the Rev. Harold Mayberry, senior pastor of the 2,000-member First AME Church in Oakland.<\/p>\n

Lawson goes further: \u201cI do not believe a justice movement can<\/em> work without a spiritual basis,\u201d he said. \u201cAll justice movements arise from a spiritual core, and the concept of justice is found in all faiths.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about nonviolence. The goal is to win over the hearts and minds of opponents \u2013 perhaps a taller order when the prize is amorphous. Faith leaders, united in a call for peaceful resistance, are presented with a challenge in Oakland, the only Occupy local that has not voted on a pledge of nonviolence.<\/p>\n

Rose\u2019s group recently watched the documentary, \u201cA Force More Powerful,\u201d which shows nonviolent resistance ultimately triumphing over threats, torture and killings in Chile, South Africa, and Knoxville, Tenn.<\/p>\n

Lawson is showing the film as part of a six-week course in nonviolence at the Church of Religious Science in Oakland. In a recent session, students questioned Lawson\u2019s emphasis on faith, afraid it will alienate some activists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is this resistance from young people \u2013 although they are very appreciative of the presence of interfaith people,\u201d Lawson said.<\/p>\n

Lawson mesmerized participants in a dialogue called by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) between non-violent protesters and those advocating a \u201cdiversity of tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNonviolence is not a tactic or a strategy,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a way of life. It is a way of life for the courageous. It always persuades the opponent of the justness of the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Lawson, there is a larger problem: Occupy Oakland has failed to consider the city\u2019s faithful \u2013 and without them, the movement lacks the authenticity necessary to make lasting change, Lawson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings are not in close relationship with the community, and any solution has to involve the community. It can\u2019t be done without the community, and it can\u2019t be done on behalf the community. So far, there\u2019s a big disconnect.\u201d<\/p>\n

One exception: A fight to get the city to stop investing with Goldman Sachs that began with Allen Temple Baptist Church.<\/p>\n

\u201cOakland in part is a very important venue because it\u2019s more diverse than Occupy in other areas,\u201d Rose said. \u201cNonviolence does not break down racially. It\u2019s not going to be smooth and easy. There is a very high level of mistrust of police based on a history of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spray painting buildings cannot compare with the destructive power of tear gas canisters hurled into a crowd, as occurred in clashes with police here. A police projectile fractured the skull of Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen, intensifying mistrust and anger, she said.<\/p>\n

For those who have not been exposed to Gandhi or King, the Occupy demonstrations have brought teachable moments, said Laura Magnani, Friends interim director. Buddhists brought a persuasive calm to Occupy Oakland by \u201cmoving in as a group and meditating.\u201d<\/p>\n

In planning talks for the recent Occupy Prisons vigil outside San Quentin, a disparate group agreed to adopt nonviolence. Despite provocations \u2013 police blocked off freeway exits and closed the parking lot \u2013 \u201cthat decision was honored,\u201d Magnani said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are just a lot of people feeling their way,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have been using spirit to give voice to these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

National faith leaders will gather to discuss the role of faith in the Occupy movement in a public conversation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 20 at the Ecumenical Center, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Ave., Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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