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Archive for month: July, 2016

From Enough to Abundance:  To My Black Brothers & Sisters from a (decolonizing) Indigenous Latina

By Ana Perez   |  July 11, 2016
Reflections | 1 Comment

It is not enough for me to tell you how brokenhearted I am

It is not enough for me to know that your liberation is also my liberation

To move to abundance, I will hold at the forefront of my heart the wisdom of our ancient cultures and will conjure the place where our ancestors meet and bring forward loving memory

It is not enough for me to tell you that I see and honor your full humanity and that I can not imagine the anger and pain you feel right now

It is not enough for you to know that I will challenge anti blackness in every space and with all people – especially with my own

To move to abundance, when we meet I will remember In Lak’ech/ Ubuntu … you are the other me

It is not enough for you to know that I will always see, listen and believe you, especially in moments when the world scapegoats you

It is not enough to reassure you that your passion in uplifting the injustice on black people does not make my people’s struggle invisible

To move to abundance, I commit to fight for your children as fiercely as I fight for my own, because indeed our children’s innocence is worth fighting for

 

It is not enough for me to lift up and make visible the African legacy present in Latin America and push for black Latin Americans to be included

It is not enough for you to know that as I fight for reparations for indigenous communities in the Americas, I will also fight for reparations for all formerly enslaved Africans

To move to abundance, I will stand and walk with you through the fire, knowing when to follow and when to lead

 

It has been 524 years since this land, my land, began to be colonized, and 324 years since the first African was brought to this land enslaved

And this country is an infant at 238 years old, when we hold thousands and thousands of years of our people’s collective knowledge

We have enough time to turn this around but only if we turn from the US to a We

Vision Beyond Violence

By Taj James   |  July 9, 2016
Reflections | 2 Comments

What if we had a system of community care and safety organized around the values of dignity, wellbeing, safety, restoration and love?

What if we thought about the application of care before we thought about the use of force?

What if care was the central organizing principle for the way we generate community safety?

To create communities of care and safety we need to move simultaneously to end racialized and gendered inequality. The anti-black/anti-human violence at the heart of our police and military is there to defend and maintain our system of economic inequality. Ending violence and inequality must happen together.

We need to send the police home and start over. These institutions can not be incrementally reformed. They need to be disarmed and disbanded. Community needs to take charge of community safety.

What do we do when the real solution is clear but seems impossible?

We turn to movements to make the impossible possible.

In one place.

Then in many.

Then everywhere.

‪#‎RevolutionInValues
‪#‎DisarmThePolice
‪#‎DismantleThePolice
‪#‎WeAreAllBetterOffWithoutThem
‪#‎CommuntySafteyThroughCareAndCommunitySolutions

Vision Beyond Violence Readings & Resources

Below is a preliminary list of readings and resources grounded in the vision needed at this time.

Black Lives Matter Leaders Respond to Dallas Police Shooting, Colorlines

Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody’s Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World, José Martín, Rolling Stone.

Big Dreams and Bold Steps Toward a Police-Free Future, Rachel Herzing, Truthout

Demilitarize the Police, Demilitarize America, Greenlining Institute

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality, Mychal Denzel Smith, The Nation.

Asian Americans are crowdsourcing a letter to explain Black Lives Matter to their families

4 Self-Care Resources for Days When the World is Terrible, Miriam Zoila Pérez, Colorlines

This is what white people can do to support #BlackLivesMatter, Sally Kohn, Washington Post

Resource Links*

Color of Change’s petition calling for justice for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

Showing Up for Racial Justice (link to Black-led racial justice organizations you can support)

Black Lives Matter

Campaign Zero – Solutions

Color of Change’s petition calling for justice for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

Cut50.org (founded by Van Jones)

Showing Up for Racial Justice (link to Black-led racial justice organizations you can support)

The ACLU Mobile Justice App

 

*Thanks to Democracy for America for original list

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