ReKINdle: An MG Study and Strategy Series The Call: Movement Generation is calling upon place- based cohorts/pods with a commitment to embody creative leadership in their locales to participate in a 5-session interactive political education series. The Commitment: Regional cohorts/pods will need to meet, study and engage with each other between sessions. This series will also provide the opportunity to build with other cohorts from across the country who are engaged in similar work. Who should apply? We encourage cohorts of BIPOC, queer/trans/non binary, disabled, poor/working class folks, healing practitioners, farmers, organizers, parents, teachers, and artists who want to deepen their knowledge and practical application of just recovery/just transition in their local community to apply. If you're hungry to discuss real solutions and strategies that address the structural inequities that got us into this mess, then join us! Logistics: Sessions will be 3:00-5:30 PT/6:00-8:30 ET and will be held on Zoom biweekly beginning September 14 with a closing session in mid-November. All sessions will be include ASL, Spanish interpretation, and live captioning. Sessions will be recorded. The following is an outline of the sessions and dates: September 14: “What We Feed, Grows”: Place-based organizing, facilitated by Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan and Mateo Nube featuring special guests. In this session we’ll hear some practical examples that are both visionary and oppositional, showing how communities are shifting culture, are shifting normal, and are shifting space by building vehicles that grow political power AND vehicles for getting our needs met.
September 28: “If It’s the Right Thing to Do, We Have Every Right To Do It”: facilitated by Quinton Sankofa and Gopal Dayaneni. In this session we’ll be introduced to Rights of Nature as a legal framework to shift to bioregional economies that incorporate the living rights of rivers, salmon, trees, fungi, birds, soil, mountains and all of which human communities are a part of and depend on, as well as breakdown the renewed rise of Ecofacism.
October 12: “If We’re Not Prepared to Govern, We’re Not Prepared to Win” Land Rematriation & Capital in the Commons, Facilitated by Melissa Crosby and Deseree Fontenot plus special guests. This session will take a look at how our communities create financial vehicles to hold land & capital that move us from private ownership to the commons. We’ll take a deep dive into community-controlled loan funds, community land trusts, and philanthropic funds controlled by movements. October 26: “If It’s Not Soulful, It’s Not Strategic” Facilitated by Angela Aguilar and Carla Maria Pérez This session will dive into how healing and the healing way has always been an integral strategy to get us through structural transitions and transformations. We’ll discuss the role of healing in sustaining movements where harm and grief is ever-present, and introduce vehicles, institutions, and frameworks that commit to collective healing, and that engage healing as a political strategy.
November 9: ReKINdle Showcase! hosted by Tre Vasquez and Layel Camargo. This session will feature artists from the Creative Wildfire cohort and highlight some of the work that the study pods are doing on the ground
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