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Valarie Kaur's 2016 NYE Watch Night Address

WATCH the address viewed 40 million times around the world. Sikh activist, visionary, author, and lawyer Valarie Kaur gave this six-minute address during a watch night service (a late-night service) at the Metropolitan AME Church on Dec. 31, 2016, in Washington. 8 years later, as we process the results of another election, she shares these words for us and our movement: The future is dark. What if this is the darkness of the tomb — AND the darkness of the womb? I hold fast to every word I spoke 8 years ago during the Watch Night Address on New Year’s Eve. The story of America is one long labor — and we are in transition now, as a nation and as a species. It will be a long and painful transition. We need to hold fast to each other in the dark, now more than ever. We need the wisdom of midwife: BREATHE and PUSH. Today we breathe. Tomorrow we push. Together we will alchemize our pain and grief into courage and energy and action. We will build worlds of love and protection among each other. We will be one another’s refuge. We will refuse to relinquish our humanity. We will harness our rage. We will organize and innovate. We will keep our ancestors at our back, and the children we are laboring for in front of our eyes. We will practice joy. We will summon our deepest wisdom to hold the light and be the light — until there is another chance at rebirth. We will practice the world we want in the space between us. We will make love our compass. And in our hardest moments we will remember: In every turn through the cycle of human history, people have been thrown in the darkness. And they have a choice — we have a choice: Do I succumb to my despair, or dare lift my gaze and sing a song of love? Do I free only myself, or do I refuse to leave anyone behind? Revolutionary Love is the call of our times. I believe this now, more than ever. This is not a 4 year campaign. This is a 40 year vision. The only way we will birth the world we dream is through a shift in culture and consciousness — a way of being, a way of seeing, that leaves no one outside our circle of care. We have everything we need. We have been building a movement of Revolutionary Love for the last few years. I spent the last two months on a bus to 40+ cities across the country, meeting thousands of you — and we are ready. We have the tools we need to organize around love. We will meet this moment in history. Because we have each other, and that is everything. Stay in the labor with me. We will breathe and push — together. Learn more about the Revolutionary Love Project's mission to make the love ethic the foundation of our daily lives at www.revolutionarylove.org