Hey, it's Major.

For the next two weeks, our guest's host spot will be filled by none other than Slowdown producer Micah Kilbon.

I'll be back on November 25th.

I'm Major Jackson, and this is the slowdown.

My friend Maria Magdalena Campos Ponds possesses a vision that should be viral.

I participated in her art project, Procession of Angels for Radical Love and Unity.

If you chanced upon it, you were transformed.

Magda organized 200 people to walk from the southern edge of Central Park to Madison Square Park.

Dressed in white robes, we strode down Fifth Avenue carrying placards.

I held a bouquet of sticks and roses wrapped with twine.

Others walked with signs that said gratitude, angel, love, radical love. Puppets representing important Cuban artists such as the singer

Celia Cruz and the great poet Jose Marti presided over us.

Poets read their poems at historically important sites along the journey.

At the end, we danced.

Pedestrians stopped to listen.

Taurus pulled out cell phones. Many filmed this mass of human beings parting

the great sea of foot traffic in New York. No taxi or truck drivers seemed annoyed at having to wait

at stoplights longer than normal. Some even shouted words of support.

I mean, what kind of person would you be to protest a walk for love?

It made me wonder this.

What if we designated an international holiday guided by Magda's vision, one in which we paused to celebrate and reflect upon our

commonality, a holiday that did not gather us under the banner of patriotism, but under the

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