The most important thing was just taking the time to be together and connect. Our gathering brought survivors of the military industrial complex and prison industrial complex together over cups of tea. Having the opportunity for veterans and people returning from prison to share was extremely powerful. All of the connections from language to shared traumas and yet within all the entanglements so many differences to acknowledge and question. The activation gave us the opportunity to be together, reflect, share, and learn while being grounded in personal experiences that question the normalized systems of violence that we all navigate.