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June 8, 2020

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Beyond Protests: 5 More Ways to Channel Anger into Action

“A lot of people of color are tired. We’re tired of being the unseen and misunderstood,” says Inger E Burnett-Zeigler, a psychologist and associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She’d like to see more voices at the table. “I think it’s important for everyone, regardless of race, to ask, ‘What is my role in this system?’ ” she says. Ask yourself, ‘Have I been a passive bystander, and how can I change that? Perhaps it’s simply speaking up in situations where you may have been disinclined to speak up before,” Burnett-Zeigler says. These tragic events of recent weeks can also create an opportunity, because people are fired up. Given all the anger and frustration, experts say there are strategies to channel these emotions into action. { read more }

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June 7, 2020

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bell hooks: Love as The Practice of Freedom

Social commentator, essayist, memoirist, and poet bell hooks is a feminist theorist who speaks on contemporary issues of race, gender, and media representation in America.In Black Looks (1994), she writes, “It struck me that for black people, the pain of learning that we cannot control our images, how we see ourselves (if our vision is not decolonized), or how we are seen is so intense that it rends us. It rips and tears at the seams of our efforts to construct self and identify.” In Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (1994), hooks advocates a “progressive cultural revolution” by means of repudiating all forms of domination in a “holistic manner.” In order to decolonize our minds, suggests hooks, we must begin to,”surrender participation in whatever sphere of coercive hierarchical domination we enjoy individual and group privilege.” In the essay that follows from that book, hooks proposes an “ethic of love” as the means by which we might be guided to turn away from an ethic of domination. { read more }

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For more inspiration,read “No Longer Playing it Safe”, by bell hooks here. { more }

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June 6, 2020

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Notice the Rage. Notice the Silence.

The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” Krista Tippett sat down with him in Minneapolis, where they both live and work, before the pandemic lockdown began. Says Menakem, “You’re gonna have to build culture and community to be able to hold this. Your niceness is inadequate to deal with the level of brutality that has occurred. Your niceness — I’m glad you’re nice to me. But don’t attribute that niceness as embodied antiracist practice.” In this heartbreaking moment, after the killing of George Floyd and the history it carries, Resmaa Menakem’s practices offer us the beginning to change at a cellular level. { read more }

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Make an effort to experiment with Menakem’s practices, and share them with others in your life this month. { more }

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June 5, 2020

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30 Articles on Nonviolent Protest

“Even under aggressive provocation, nonviolence remains the key to success in the struggle against injustice. But nonviolence is a complex and challenging field of strategy, methodology and tactics which are always context-specific, eschewing easy generalizations about ‘what works’ from one time and place to another. To explore these complexities — and often borrowing material from incredible partners like Waging Nonviolence and YES! Magazine — we have published over fifty articles on nonviolent protest since 2013. Here are 30 of the best which provide important guidance both now and in the future.” Michael Edwards shares more here. { read more }

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For more inspiration, read “Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters”. { more }

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June 4, 2020

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7 Ways Protestors Showed Up For Black Lives

Amid the outpouring of outrage over George Floyd’s killing, are glimpses of solidarity and hope around the world. YES! Magazine shares more.
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Who are you standing in solidarity with in these times? For more inspiration read Maya Aneglou’s powerful poem “Still I Rise”. { more }

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June 3, 2020

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Deep Water– A Conversation with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee of the Global Oneness Project is a surfer, a filmmaker and an environmentalist inner and outer. His love of water led to his film, Elemental. The destruction of our water systems is a prime example of how separated we’ve become from whats fundamental to our survival. Rajendra Singh is one of the three people in Vaughan-Lees film. He brought seven rivers back to life in an arid region of India and now focuses on restoring the Ganges. Each story is entwined with the deep truths and issues of our relationship with water. { read more }

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If you stop and think about it, aren’t some of your earliest and happiest memories about being with water in one way or another? Does our collective forgetting of such moments mean we can just continue to take our supply of life giving water for granted?

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June 2, 2020

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Activism in a Pandemic : Progressive Examples from Australia

Each month the Commons Library provides a small taste of actions and events which challenged the status quo and pointed to better ways forward via their ever growing “From Little Things Big Things Grow: Events That Changed Australia” list. These posts generally focus on events from a particular month, but in response to the Coronavirus pandemic they are sharing protests, campaigns and events from the past which highlight ways in which we can undertake action whilst maintaining safe health practices. { read more }

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For more inspiration read, “Why Activism Must Be More Generous”. { more }

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