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Liberating social justice from nonprofits: a review of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

August 17, 2025August 17, 2025Rebekah Kohlhepp

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex caught my eye from the moment I saw it. I’ll admit that I was nervous to see what the essays edited by INCITE! Women of Color would say about the industry I had chosen. What I found were incredibly validating tales and analysis of the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC). Was nonprofit work really a means of achieving liberation? Or does it just keep activists too busy to notice their own exploitation and deradicalization?

Americans United for Separation of Church And State doesn't want you to know about its Zionist hypocrisy | a photo of the Summit for Religious Freedom 2025 program lying torn up in the road

The Zionist hypocrisy that Americans United for Separation of Church and State doesn’t want you to know about

July 28, 2025July 28, 2025Rebekah Kohlhepp

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On April 5, 2025, my boss, Andrew L. Seidel — yes, that Andrew L. Seidel — kicked me out of the Summit for Religious Freedom for wearing my keffiyeh. I had chosen to wear it to show my solidarity with the Palestinian people and their 77 years of resistance against Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide. But my taking this stance at the Summit for Religious Freedom was strictly forbidden, because I was an employee at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, who organized the conference. As Americans United (AU)’s graphic designer, I helped create the Summit for Religious Freedom. It’s only fair, then, that I be the one to tell you that the people who run this conference are far more committed to upholding Zionism, colonialism, and apartheid than they are to fighting for religious freedom.