NYC Disaster Morgue, Brooklyn, NY. Photo Credit: Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters
Six months after the first confirmed COVID-19 death in NYC, WAYS OF PEACE returned to the chain link perimeter of the NYC disaster morgue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn — to bear witness to 19 years since the 9/11 attacks and 160 days of our remote vigil for the COVID-19 dead and beyond.
After the World Trade Center attacks, NYC volunteers sustained a vigil at the 9/11 disaster morgue for eight months around the clock. Share the Vigil extends this legacy of bearing witness into our current time of crisis.
Zen teachers sometimes invoke the paradox of a "seamless monument" in this broken world of ripped seams, violence, illness and death. Our 9/11 Share the Vigil witness was part of a nationwide week of memorial-making. Yet our memorial is "seamless" — an invisible awareness sustained over time and space, continually mindful of our connections with all those beyond our power to name. LEARN MORE
Share the Vigil is a "How to Mourn AND Organize" initiative of WAYS OF PEACE.
Emerging from the 9/11/01 disaster relief — and gathering momentum since the 2016 elections — How to Mourn AND Organize brings together timeless wisdom with contemporary best practices to foster progress toward social transformation.
