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SHIFT the Narrative with Dr. Damita Brown
Dr. Damita Brown, a community-based educator specializing in racial justice work who has been teaching leadership, anti-racism, and allyship workshops for over 12 years. We will be discussing the George Floyd uprisings and the essential role of Black leadership during … Continue reading
Decolonize ALL The Things
It seems like a miracle to me, to witness millions of people around the world coming together to demand change, demand justice. To witness the sustained gatherings day after day. I have spent the past several years following leadings of … Continue reading
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Concepts of race, property and value
I found this video by Sonya Renee Taylor to be very thought provoking. “When capital is more valuable than black bodies, capital must be disrupted.” I continue to be uplifted by the masses of people going to the streets to … Continue reading
Support for racial justice comes to Indianola, Iowa
It is amazing to see thousands of people who have gathered together, marched together to demand the end to structural racism and White superiority that leads to the violence against, the killing of people of color by police. People have … Continue reading
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SHIFT the Narrative Episode 4
This is the 4th episode of the excellent SHIFT the Narrative series, a project of Seeding Sovereignty. The biographies of Owl and Kali Reis are at the end of this. Kali “K.O” Mequinonoag Reis, Seaconke Wampanoag and Cherokee Nations & … Continue reading
SHIFT the Narrative
I recently wrote about the concept of narrative shift and how that idea is being used by my friend Christine Nobiss and her colleagues involved with SHIFT – Seeding the Hill with Indigenous Freethinkers, a project of Seeding Sovereignty. The … Continue reading
Moral Reckonings
As Krista Tippett says below, “it feels important to me, in a moment like this, to look below the radar of rupture — to see models and practices that work, and that in fact can take up the huge hard … Continue reading
Pandemic and decolonization
This is another of those times, and there have been many, when I’m beginning a journey into something I want to know more about. That is, I’m likely to make some errors, but that is how I/we grow. The concept … Continue reading
Updated diagram of social systems
A week ago I wrote about some diagrams I’ve been working on. The intention was to visually represent things I’ve been learning about indigenous culture and the complex interactions between native people and the White settlers. As usually happens, as … Continue reading
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Narrative shift
We need to shift away from our capitalistic system to one that embraces indigenous ways of living. Not only to find answers to the dramatic failures of the current political and economic systems, but also to address the urgent need to deal … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 