As If It Could Be Otherwise
As If It Could Be Otherwise
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The Legacy of Displacement: Reclaiming Borders & Solidarity across North America
Today’s immigration and child welfare systems are the same colonial machinery that ran boarding schools and slave patrols, and no amount of privilege will shield you when that machinery decides you are next. Indigenous, Black, and other communities of color...
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Beyond Democracy, Everyone Eats
Where did the concept of American democracy come from? And are we living up to its core values? As we mark 250 years of America, these are pertinent questions to consider. In this conversation, Claire Maracle, Executive Director of Words...
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Organizing as Ancestral Practice: Building Infrastructure for the Next Era of Movements
All social movements need infrastructure capable of sustaining across multi-generational fights. But how do we build this infrastructure and ensure that we lower the cost of onboarding new people into our movements so they can grow? As Judith LeBlanc, Executive...
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Repair in Practice: On Wealth Redistribution
Wealth redistribution, as a relational practice rooted in accountability, has the potential to spiritually transform a person, as shared here by redistribution organizers Brittany Koteles and Morgan Curtis. Koteles, Executive Director of Land Justice Futures, an organization that supports Catholic...
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Democracy and Decolonization: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Black and Indigenous Fight for Mino Bimaadiziwin
We are living in fascist times, which means we must remember history to help us understand the possibilities of our futures. Do we want to subjugate ourselves to the tyranny of a dictatorial leader? Or do we want to struggle...
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Braided Movements: Black & Indigenous Perspectives on Reclaiming Land
In a country where land has historically been central to wealth and power-building, we must carefully consider how we want to work together towards land reclamation. Kailea Loften in conversation with Nick Tilsen and Brea Baker At the start of...
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Reclaiming Power as a Practice to Get Free
The abolitionist movement transformed America from a slaveholders’ republic into a multiracial democracy in just decades, proving that organized people are the engine of real change. As America turns 250, social movements can look back on where we’ve been to...
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A New Politics of Togetherness: Rebuilding the Sacred Canopy
If we’re going to work to bring diverse groups of people into conversation and ultimately solidarity, we will need an updated politics of togetherness capable of bringing nuance to intersectionality. Trevor Smith in conversation with Amara Enyia and Scot Nakagawa...
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The Right To Wealth
Trevor Smith in conversation with Anne Price and Jhumpa Bhattacharya of The Maven Collaborative. The racial wealth gap is not a product of individual behavior but of policy design. Because of this, we must create new frameworks for wealth, inheritance,...
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Tending to Liberation
The American Dream was built on stolen land and enslaved labor, so true freedom means rejecting it and building a Liberation Economy rooted in repair and abundance. You and I will always sit at a crossroads, surveying our options at...