"Las diferencias no nos dividen. Es nuestra falta de reconocer, aceptar y celebrar esas diferencias.
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2nd Movement-Building Conversation
2nd Movement-Building Conversation
Location: DenverNumber of Visioners: 5
About This Group:
People from the last movement-building conversation invited people from El Centro Humanitario, Illif School of Theology, the Colorado Council of Churches, and the AFSC.
Participants:
Minsun Ji
Julie Todd
Jesse Quizar
Dawn Duval
Esther Knox-Statsman
Julie Todd
Jesse Quizar
Dawn Duval
Esther Knox-Statsman
First Question:
What are the strengths of our efforts to create change (either in your own organization or in what you’ve seen)?
Answers:
- Creative families-supporting each other, building communities around social change
- Christian faith community works together well across race and class
- Good sharp people who get big picture
- Support from local higher ed institutions
- We're compassionate
- Staying focused on collective vision
- Commitment to use of arts as a means for social change
- Great community radio/media
- Passionate leaders with progressive vision
- 35-hour work week!
- Groups working together toward one goal, esp. DNC
- Denver: unique-network of community organizers, strong coalition will to jettison ego
- Good at sharing resources
- Interns!
- Good at identifying what's wrong with world-our critique
- Good at conflict resolution: standoff ? melt ? come together
- Groups realize importance of rank and file organizing and leadership
- Respect each others' work
Second Question:
What are the weaknesses of our efforts to create change?
Answers:
- Reactionary: anti-this, stop that
- Constantly reacting to ballot initiatives
- Don't know how to respond to vocal right wing; don't understand limits/possibilities of 501c3s, not enough 501c4s
- Professional organizers-centralized movement; have to have a college education to lead a nonprofit
- Messaging-high brow "what the hell are they talking about?" right wing keeps it simple, direct
- Hierarchical non-profit structure
- Limited by structures and funding, limits our ability to act collectively
- Nonprofits, liberals, progressives, anarchists unable to work together, e.g., DNC
- Busy-ness
- need flexibility to respond
- we are comfortable with what we do
- overly professionalized
- nonprofit heavy
- haven't figured out how to deal with people's resistance to act-people in church care? And work with band-aids
- disconnect between the organizers and the organized-this dichotomy is a problem in itself
- hyper PC conversations about racism
- hierarchy, sexism, racism
- we aren't playing well together in an interfaith setting
- not enough "doers" in the faith community-lots of talkers
- walk the talk
- love isn't at the fore
- need funding!
- Mainstream nonprofits get lots of the funding
- Afraid to offend, afraid of conflict: lack of genuineness, little gets done
- Ministers aren't taking ACTION
- So frightened to blur lines between church and state
- Not enough gall! Too cautious
- Schools not doing all they could: so much money, so many passionate students, but we aren't leveraging that-no programs.
- We don't call for proactive measures
- Funding: comes with strings attached, not enough of it, we think we need it.
- Weaknesses 4
- We think of resources as money, not people
- We don't model the society we wish to see: charity; mainstream non-profits; lobbying
- Not enough thinking about the bridge between where we are today and where we want to be
- Don't have politicians on our side
Third Question:
Envisioning the movement we’d like to see
Answers:
- Translating thought and talk into action
- Less division between organizers and the organized-no "organizer" role or identity, rather it's integrated into our lives (social change is embedded in our lives)
- Dis-establishment of nonprofit structure
- Mass mobilized social change
- There was never a non=profit that started a revolution
- Our actions express deepest spiritual beliefs, come from love and compassion
- More base
- We are creating the world we wish to see
- Strengthen communities-barter for services with neighbors
- More people in the streets
- Young people, e.g. working for themselves
- People not paid for social change
- Everybody's doing it-it's part of day-to-day life, the way you live
- Everyone has what they need
- Less consumption
- More grassroots (base) not segregated between organizers and organized
- Local food economies
- Bartering
- People feel responsible and able to change community
- Strengths-based approach
- Multigenerational
- Cultivate engaged, authentic activists
- Concerned with shared humanity
- Shake up how we think about our work
- Different vibe
- Inclusive
- Honesty-pursuit of truth (with others and with self)
- People say/conceive of "hard" things
- Framed as liberation rather than obligation
- Deal with need for instant gratification of service
- Celebrate accomplishments, even the small ones
- Diversified funding sources
- Community meeting-survey of skills, bartering
- Focus on what we have
- North Denver's time share thing
- Involvement of kids-hearing from them, what they're experiencing, how it feels, ideas for fixing it
- Cultivate this empowerment from young age ? authentic activity
- Multi-ethnic groups come together, respectful
- Returning land to Native Americans
- Reparations
- We create pressure on political institutions
- We have freedom to say what we want to say
- *Build alternative structures-nonprofit leaders give up jobs? Give up privilege OR leverage strength of non-profit sector-but not in the lead
- collective ways of organizing
- movement not be led by men or white people
- more people of color are decision makers
- truth telling about how I have benefited at the expense of others or telling of my experience of racism
- compassion
- go deep
- support for personal transformation
- develop safe, sacred spaces where people can be vulnerable, honest, truthful
- balance between this and acting
- more outreach to faith community
- new way of engaging with faith community so that it leads to action
- the movement feeds us at a deep level
- social justice groups set up ventures to generate income-no more stigmatizing making money
- self-sufficiency
Fourth Question:
How do we get there? -- What are some steps we can take to build this movement?
Answers:
- Consciously experimenting with new tactics above the organizational level
- Share experiments with each other
- People we're helping are involved in the planning and not just superficially
- We include ourselves in the power analysis honestly
- Block parties with regular folks-showing movies, politicizing, but also food and fun!
- Distribute organizing work
- Get vision for where we're going from ordinary folks
- Nonprofits share resources
- Avoid tokenism
- Look at composition of decision-making groups
- See ourselves in the power analysis
- Broader sources of vision
- Have permission to "not respond" but to advance our vision
- Acknowledge successes
- Find spaces to think outside of the box, e.g. c4 roundtable
- Organizations identify and share what "their" piece of the puzzle is-all look strategically at the big picture.
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