Louisville's Arms of Compassion

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Louisville's Arms of Compassion

Bringing together arms-of-love to replace arms-that-kill in solidarity with those suffering so that together we grow a nonviolent city.

Solidarity Action After Every Louisville Homicide

No one wants to lose someone they love, especially not to senseless or random violence. If this is true, then what can we do to transform the violence that exists in our city? Louisville’s Arms of Compassion invites everyone to recognize that we are interrelated by the very air that we breathe, through the city we share, and by our common humanity

. It invites us to choose to stand together and declare that we are all family. It encourages us to support those suffering from their loss of a loved one. It challenges us to commit to disarm any situation of violence we encounter – words, actions, or even our own thoughts. Whenever someone is murdered, Louisville’s Arms of Compassion will gather people of good will into a 30-minute solidarity gathering. We will meet within 48 hours in Jefferson Square to
• share the name of our brother or sister who was killed
• offer words and mindful silence in support of their family and friends
• take a personal pledge to foster nonviolence and compassion wherever we live, work or study

We are all related. We refuse to be separated by religious tradition, skin color, economic background, and age. We are one city and the violent loss of anyone is a loss for everyone. Louisville’s Arms of Compassion is an initiative of Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion in collaboration with organizations city-wide including: Passionist Earth & Spirit Center Compassion in Action Committee, St. William Church, Interfaith Paths to Peace, Highland Baptist Church, Compassionate Louisville, Muslim Americans for Compassion, Global Human Project, St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Sowers of Justice Network, ElderCounsel, Stand Up Sunday Stand Up Louisville Black Lives Matter, Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Social Action, First Unitarian Mission and Outreach, and more. To become a collaborating organization please email [email protected].

03/18/2024

https://youtu.be/5_VPLIcFTto?si=pp-cCOkOhhZ4T01H

ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་བ་ ༣ ཚེས་ ༡༨ ཉིན་བཞུགས་སྒར་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་ཕོ་བྲང་དུ། བོད་ཀྱི་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་དབུ་ཁྲིད་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸.....

12/31/2022

Happy New Year to you all my friends with best wishes and blessings from MAHA Bodhgaya

10/12/2022

06/07/2022

Please join us for the good of all people!

04/28/2022

Please join us to become Louisville’s Arms of Compassion on Friday, April 29 at Noon, from your own location via Zoom.

Help us connect in solidarity with the family and friends of Mary Solinger, 50, who was killed on Monday, April 18; Denim Sullivan-Miller, 19, who was murdered on Thursday, April 21; and Chordae Allen, 22, who was killed on Sunday, April 24.

You are also invited to commit to building a community of compassion and non-harm with a Pledge of Nonviolence.

If you would like to join us through our Zoom platform gathering, please contact us at [email protected] for the link.

No matter where you are, expand your practice of nonviolence so that together we are building a World of Compassion.

04/20/2022

Please join us to become Louisville’s Arms of Compassion on Friday, April 22 at Noon, from your own location via Zoom. We will mark our 6th anniversary with special speakers.

Help us connect in solidarity with the family and friends of Donald Newton, 58, who was killed on Sunday, March 13; Enok Nzayikorera, 16, who was murdered on Wednesday, April 13; Haris Boskailo, 32, and Alden Fernandez, 21, both of whom were killed on Thursday, April 14.

You are also invited to commit to building a community of compassion and non-harm with a Pledge of Nonviolence.

If you would like to join us through our Zoom platform gathering, please contact us at [email protected] for the link.

No matter where you are, expand your practice of nonviolence so that together we are building a World of Compassion.

03/31/2022

Please join us to become Louisville’s Arms of Compassion on Friday, April 1 at Noon, from your own location via Zoom.

Help us connect in solidarity with the family and friends of Maleke Seviour, 21, and Michael Cooks, 19, who were murdered on Saturday, March 5; Paula Rife, 50, who was killed on Friday, March 18; Jimmy Spruill, 31, and Anthony Watkins, 54, who were both murdered on Saturday, March 19; and Yvonne Felmley, 74, who was killed on Monday, March 21.

You are invited to commit to building a community of compassion and non-harm with a Pledge of Nonviolence.

If you would like to join us through our Zoom platform gathering, please contact us at [email protected] for the link.

No matter where you are, expand your practice of nonviolence so that together we are building a World of Compassion.

01/13/2022

Please join us to become Louisville’s Arms of Compassion on Friday, Jan 14 at Noon, from your own location via Zoom.

Help us connect in solidarity with the family and friends of Rodrickus Malone, 30, who was murdered on Tuesday, December 28, 2021.

You are invited to commit to building a community of compassion and non-harm with a Pledge of Nonviolence.

If you would like to join us through our Zoom platform gathering, please contact us at [email protected] for the link.

No matter where you are, expand your practice of nonviolence so that together we are building a World of Compassion.

01/05/2022

Please join us to become Louisville’s Arms of Compassion on Friday, Jan 7 at Noon, from your own location via Zoom.

Help us connect in solidarity with the family and friends of Dojuan Jefferson, 22 years old, who was killed on Friday, December 17, 2021.

You are invited to commit to building a community of compassion and non-harm with a Pledge of Nonviolence.

If you would like to join us through our Zoom platform gathering, please contact us at [email protected] for the link.

No matter where you are, expand your practice of nonviolence so that together we are building a World of Compassion.

12/28/2021

Please join us to become Louisville’s Arms of Compassion on Friday, Dec 31 at Noon, from your own location via Zoom.

Help us connect in solidarity with the family and friends of Jhovany Maldonado, 27, who was murdered on Tuesday, December 21; Michael Miller, 48, who was killed on Thursday, December 23; and Bradley Cross, 51, who was murdered on Thursday, December 23 as well.

You are invited to commit to building a community of compassion and non-harm with a Pledge of Nonviolence.

If you would like to join us through our Zoom platform gathering, please contact us at [email protected] for the link.

No matter where you are, expand your practice of nonviolence so that together we are building a World of Compassion.

Address

Drepung Gomang Center For Engaging Compassion 411 N. Hubbards Lane
Louisville, KY
40207

Opening Hours

10:30am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+15026145616

Website

http://www.drepunggomangusa.org/

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