RAWtools Weekend in CU – Sunday

Sunday July 31, 2-5 pm – Self-Care Community Repair Wellness Fair, Cunning Township Supervisor’s Office, 205 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
FREE activities, food, plants and garden supplies! Rain location: Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 202 S Broadway Ave Suite 203, Urbana, IL 61801.

What is RAWtools? RAWtools is a Colorado-based organization that is rooted in the Mennonite Church. The organization collects firearms, decommissions and dismantles them, and then uses a blacksmith’s fire and hammer to transform them into garden tools. The prophetic image comes from the Bible’s prophets: “they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war anymore.” (Isaiah 2:4)

Tools meant for destruction and death pass through the fire, emerging on the other side remade as a tool fashioned for growth and new life. This is the RAWtools vision for all of us caught up in cycles of violence and trauma. Transformation. Learn more about RAWtools at their website.