Amplifier

We are a design lab dedicated to reimagining and amplifying the voices of social change movements through art and community engagement.

10/07/2026

The final day of the Adelanto Pilgrimage!

8 days. 96 miles. Extreme heat. Boundless love.

Can you feel the beauty, energy and resolve of this sacred pilgrimage? It began at Adelanto Detention Center last week and ended at the Federal Building today. A love-based uprising of faith leaders, organizers, artists and neighbors fighting for immigrant families. We come with flowers. And we will keep coming with flowers until all are free.

Join us tomorrow Wed for an interfaith vigil at Adelanto Detention Center 10-11am. I’ll be there with my team. 9438 Commerce Way, Adelanto, CA

If you want to help, there is one significant thing you can do right now. Give to the BOND fund to get people out of detention. Link in bio: lasacredresistance.org/adelanto-to-dtla-pilgrimage

The Adelanto Pilgrimage was conceived and led by the extraordinary Rabbi Susan Goldberg + organized by nefesh Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice along with LA Voice LA Sacred Resistance and many more. We at Revolutionary Love Project walk with you today and every day.

10/06/2026

In honor of the 250th birthday of the United States, it is time to reckon with our past and redeem our future by supporting the reparations movement in the United States.

Black racial harm did not end. It compounds every day we wait. Federal comprehensive reparations is how we finally break a cycle that can benefit everyone. It is a practice of peace, and the next 250 years begins with what we do now.

The wounds of chattel slavery lives on in housing segregation built through public policy and private practice, in underfunded or closed down schools serving majority Black students, in violent policing and the expansion of the carceral system in the early 20th century, disparity in poverty rates, the deliberate disruption of Black political power during Jim Crow, and the long-standing and systemic disparate environmental-based harm to redlined Black communities.

When the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling the enslavement of African people the gravest crime against humanity early this year, the United States voted no.

In partnership with Liberation Ventures three artists turned federal reparations research into visual art: Brittany Harris Noa Denmon☀️ and 𝙅𝙚𝙣𝙞 𝙅𝙚𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙨 . Repair is not optional. It is a debt that needs to be paid.

These artists carry those ideas and research into classrooms, city streets, and communities nationwide. These images are meant to be seen and shared, download the free artwork, show it to your loved ones, and let it support the work you’re doing in your communities to build a culture of repair for everyone in the US.

How much do you think the history of chattel slavery in the US still shapes people’s lives today?

09/29/2026

Content warning: sexual violence

Two years after she reported being r***d at a Cornell fraternity, a grand jury will finally hear her. R**e culture survives because powerful institutions look away. We stand with survivors. We call on all of us to educate, speak up, and demand full accountability, from perpetrators of sexual violence and from the systems that shield them.

Her body is more sacred than his ego.
Her life is more precious than his career.

These are artworks we’ve commissioned over the years. Every one is free to download in high resolution at amplifier.org. Print them. Post them. Put them where they’ll be seen.

Slide one: Amanda Nguyễn by Shepard Fairey
Slide two: Molly Crabapple
Slide three: Brooke Fischer
Slide four: Mary Purdie
Slide five: Courtney Lewis
Slide six: Camila Rosa
Slide seven: Natalie E. Rogers

09/21/2026

September 21 is the International Day of Peace 🕊️

Amid ongoing injustice, violence, and fascism, the pursuit of peace may feel overwhelming or naive. But it has never been more urgent.

Today we want to honor grassroots peace builders - everyday people who work, despite their circumstances, to bring people together and create a more just world. These people build community through solidarity, uplift the overlooked, and model the future they want to see.

The Parents Circle - Families Forum is a joint Palestinian - Israeli collective made up of people whose family members have been killed and who are organizing around restorative justice and solidarity. They have paid the highest price, and recommit themselves every day to a future of freedom, equality, and dignity for all. In the darkest moments, they hold onto humanity.

We are excited to share Peace is a Practice with you, in partnership with Amplifier and University for Peace

Artwork created by Nurul Yaquin and commissioned by Amplifier, based off of photographs by Chen Leopold. No AI was used in the creation of this artwork.

09/17/2026

IT’S UP TO US.

That’s not a slogan. It’s an invitation.
An invitation to believe that the future of this country isn’t already decided by the people in power.

It’s shaped by the people who show up.
This Labor Day, it’s about the people who organize their neighbors. Who teach the next generation. Who care for their communities. Who create something new. We refuse to give up on the promise of what this country could be.

Today, we’re honored to debut the next round of new artwork from the US@250 National Creative Assembly — 5 new artists from 5 different states, bringing their own vision, history, and imagination:
Vanessa Bowen (New Mexico) BWNC • Bowen Creative LLC Ryan Stolp (Wyoming) Lift Lines Comics Dylan Fant (Vermont) Dylan Fant Claire Monroe (Missouri) Claire Monroe Marius Keo Marjolin (Massachusetts) Marius Keo Marjolin Emily & Betsy Sokolosky (Basecamp Printing) Base Camp Printing Co.

America is unfinished.
And what comes next is up to us.

09/16/2026

CALLING ALL EDUCATORS 🔊🔊🔊

Peace isn’t a one-time lesson. It’s not a destination. Peace a daily practice🕊️

and are inviting schools to become a peace_isapractice School, building peace skills all year long with a free workbook of lesson plans and reflection prompts for students, teachers, and your whole school community.

Virtual info session: Thursday, Sept 24, free registration link in Education Amplifier bio!

Will you practice peace with us? Tag your favorite educator below 🗝️

09/10/2026

🕯️ Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

This is a moment to reckon with our past and reimagine our future.

We grieve the thousands of lives lost that day. We remember the millions of lives shattered by the hate violence, state violence, and war that followed and that continues today.

We stand in solidarity with the Sikh, Muslim, Arab, and other communities who have carried the weight of bigotry, backlash, violence, and discriminatory policy in the 25 years since.

In the aftermath of 9/11, , then a college student with a camera, set out across the country to document stories of hate violence against people of color, especially Sikh Americans. That film became DIVIDED WE FALL: AMERICANS IN THE AFTERMATH (2006).

25 years later, Revolutionary Love Project has re-released it: free for anyone, with dialogue and educational guides included.

📽️ Host a Watch Party in your classroom or school and help bring these stories to a new generation of students.

Find the link in Revolutionary Love Project bio 🔗 9/11 Hub

09/04/2026

WE THE PEOPLE, MEANS ALL OF US.

Three words that carry a promise, and a challenge.

For generations, Americans have expanded the answer to a fundamental question: Who gets to belong? Who gets to be heard? Who gets to shape the future of this country?

The answer has never been given freely. It has been fought for, organized for, created for, and carried forward by ordinary people determined to make the promise of America more real.

This Labor Day, we honor those who care enough to fight for what they believe in.

Today, we’re debuting another set of new artwork from 5 artists across the country as part of the US@250 National Creative Assembly:

Molly Crabapple (New York) Molly Crabapple
Monique Laraway (Arizona) revolta art
Travis Knight (Tennessee) Travis Knight
Taylor Rushing (Georgia) Taylor W. Rushing
Jillian Goeler (Connecticut) Jillian Goeler

Their work reminds us that the people isn’t an abstract idea.

It’s our neighbors. Our families. Our communities. The generations who came before us and the ones still finding their place in the story.

09/03/2026

NO WRONG ANSWERS:
WHAT IS AMERICA’S DEFINING STORY?

Ask ten people, and you’ll get ten different answers. But perhaps that’s the point.

America has never been defined by a single monument, political party, or moment in history. Its story lives in the people who imagined they could build the future together and then got to work trying to materialize it.

We hold great respect for and gain inspiration from the movements that expanded rights, communities that cared for one another and in the artists, teachers, organizers, workers, parents, and neighbors past and present who refuse to accept that the country had to remain exactly as it was.

It is this story that we celebrate this Labor Day.

We’re honored to debut the second round of artists from our US@250 series, one artist from every state + Washington DC, reimagining the next 250 years of the United States.

Very honored to announce:
Apollo (Alabama) Apollo
Scott Whitehouse (Maine) Scott Whitehouse
Nathan Schafer (Alaska) Nathan Shafer
Michael Hirshon (Utah) Michael Hirshon

America’s defining story isn’t just what happened. It’s what people made happen.

And the story is still being written. How are you contributing?

09/02/2026

If you lose your capacity for imagination, you lose a lot of the essence that makes you human 🔊🔊🔊

We are building a global archive of visions for our future from peacebuilders, humanitarians artists and youth from around the world for our peace_isapractice campaign. Tap in to hear from Imane Karimou, a the UN Representative for Nonviolent Peaceforce, urging us to keep imagining.

Our need for hope is a stubbornly human one. Imagination allows us to reckon with what has been and still is, while asking what might come next.

The challenge is to do both: to stay grounded in reality and dream boldly about what could be—for ourselves and for those who come after us—in the pursuit of peace.

Join our mailing list at peace_isapractice header and be the first to receive our open source educational tools launching at the end of this month.

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