A few later notes or lost in my fb thread with Brendan

Are lost

Graphic - revolutionary love project led by Valerie Kaur.

Also can talk about international situation.

Some of my words were imprecise

Yes international / global context / population well-being

I don't really register the word community as having clear meanings

Hear that

Our Bodies at the Borderlands
“To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras (without borders). Be a crossroads.” - Gloria Anzaldua
Life thrives on diversity. Ecosystems that team with the abundance of life are interdependent, interconnected stands in the web of life. And we live in a relational universe, despite what a culture that preaches our independence and individuality might tell us. Lines of division rooted in historical events and cultural processes have disrupted the ways in which we might otherwise find each other in relationship. Trauma and oppression impede the free flow of our life energy, as they impede the free flow of energy between us. Our dear brother, Bayo Akomolafe, invites us into a disorientation; the loss of the coordinates that tells us about who we ‘are’, who the ‘other’ is, and how the world is. In this disorientation and disruption, we’re invited to the borderlands.
The borderlands represent the place where things meet; we’re opened up to possibility (in quantum physics we might call this the wave-state of things not defined). This is where lines are blurred and fixity in what we think we know is challenged. When it comes to the social systems and historical events that have contributed to trauma & oppression, the borderlands represent an opening; a place of possibility between the seemingly fixed world we believe we know and the not-yet worlds to come.
It’s when the habitual world of what we know is disrupted that we make way for something else to emerge.
In Rooted, we’re embarking on an experience (a process; a project) of conscious and intentional community-building and reworlding (dreaming up and embodying new worlds). This calls upon the cultivation of curiosity, creativity, imagination and our agency, things that are often muted in the experience of trauma and oppression. For this, we need to bring in the body.

https://www.rootedandembodied.com/

Beloved Community
A Journey in Bridging, Building & Belonging
INTEREST FORM
We are living in a time of rupture and renewal, within a portal that has opened radically new pathways and possibilities. As we move from crisis toward recovery, how can we shape the ‘new normal’ we return to in liberating and life-serving ways? How can we respond to the opportunity of this moment and create a culture of reckoning, repair, relationship, and reverence for all Life? 
The Beloved Community Journey is a nine-month virtual series of learning, practice and taking action together to create a world where we all belong and thrive. Participants will engage with some of the leading elders, visionaries, activists & artists of our time; art and soul-filled community gatherings, small group circles & experiential events for going deeper; and curated resources to support your learning and keep you inspired along the way. You can participate at the frequency that works for you, and watch or listen to recordings of live sessions later.
As we move deeper into a decade of repair and renewal, we are building a bridge to the more healed and beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

The Beloved Community Journey especially welcomes & supports the participation of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Youth and folks with disabilities. We work to create supportive spaces deeply based in anti-racist, decolonizing, class-aware, and anti-ableist ethics.

BELOVED COMMUNITY: A PURPOSE & PRACTICE
We honor Beloved Community as a purpose that connects us all, one that is rooted in the legacy of Dr. King and the civil rights movement, along with the many efforts working to create an inclusive, interrelated society based on love and justice. 

We honor Beloved Community as a practice that includes the healing and transformation work we do inside ourselves & in community using the power of love, vulnerability, care and connection.

https://www.thrivenetwork.org/journey

The Three Dimensions of the Great Turning


From an imagined perspective of future generations, we can see how the Great Turning is gaining momentum today, through the choices of countless individuals and groups.  We can see that it is happening simultaneously in three areas or dimensions that are mutually reinforcing. These are:

1) actions to slow the damage to Earth and its beings;
2) analysis and transformation of the foundations of our common life; and
3) a fundamental shift in world-view and values.
Many of us are engaged in all three, each of which is necessary to the creation of a life-sustaining society. 

https://workthatreconnects.org/spiral/the-great-turning/

We must ask ourselves: what might we do to prepare the entire populace for such a revolutionary, inspiring, and terrifying endeavor? After centuries of abuse, oppression, injustice, inequality, and suffering, how would we heal enough of our wounds to even discuss the crafting of a new constitution with each other? Backloads of lies and propaganda need to be cleared out. Truth-tellings could be held (perhaps everyday in every town for the next decade). Story circles could be facilitated to help us learn to look into the eyes of our fellow citizens and start to hear and know each other beyond the stereotypes perpetuated in the fear-mongering and power-hoarding media apparatus of elites. The information bubble that hovers unseen over the United States needs to be burst so the bright ideas and best practices from around the world can be seen and shared. Knowledge must be spread of participatory, direct, wise, and real democracy; horizontal organizing, sociocracy, the commons, collective processes, and so much more. Lessons and training on how to hold a discourse (rather than a shouting match) need to become as common as driver’s education courses.
To even raise these ideas is undoubtedly considered treasonous under a Constitution designed to preserve the power of the rich under the guise of “democracy”.  The true revolutionary is always a traitor to the established system. The revolutionary, however, always shows steadfast dedication to the well-being of the people. They never rest on laurels nor suffer the laurel wreathe to be placed upon their heads. They leap down off of pedestals and wade into the muck of life. They describe the horizon of possibility long before others dare to look in the direction of the rising sun.

https://www.riverasun.com/constitution-2-0/

Note to find nonviolence video w/ R.sun on 10-10-80 - concept to meld with great turning 3

MADISON MUTUAL AID NETWORK

Check out the slides from the November 2021 Annual Meeting - the Madison MAN's Year in Review.
 
The Madison Mutual Aid Network (MAN) is a new type of networked cooperative, designed to create means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with the support of their community.
Based in Madison Wisconsin, Madison MAN Cooperative members engage in mutually beneficial sharing and exchange, in service to equitable and sustainable communities, and embodying the following practices:
• Reciprocity
• Democratic member control and economic participation
• Voluntary and open membership
• Mutual aid among mutual aid networks
• Transparent, open, and accessible processes
Common Funds
We're developing shared savings pools to provide investment funding for each other's projects and needs, and emergency funds for neighbors in need.
Common Shared Resources
Meeting spaces, tool and expertise libraries, exchange platforms, and a vehicle for cooperative ownership of the things we need, but don't use often or can't afford alone.
Our local home base is our cooperatively run Mutual Aid Workspace (the MAW) in Madison's Social Justice Center.
You can access our local exchange system by joining the Madison MAN Cooperative if you haven't already, and setting up or logging into your account here, on the lower left-hand corner of this page. Exchange or share time, stuff, price-based mutual credit, even regular old bank money!
Building Community
Regular social events for new and existing members, workshops to learn about and create the economy we want, free food and childcare for members and guests, and expert project assistance. Calendar here
Global Solidarity and Shared Learning
The Madison MAN Cooperative is a founding member of Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks (HUMANs), a global cooperative network designed for mutual learning and support in service to building a neighborly global economy.

https://madisonman.coop/madison-mutual-aid-network

Relationships Evolving Possibilities
Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP) is a network of dedicated abolitionists showing up to support others in moments of crisis or urgency, with care and respect for the full dignity and autonomy of the people in crisis.
We are guided by our core values:
• Black love and liberation
• Ancestral knowledge
• Radical consent
We work, organize, and care for one another with deep respect and gratitude for the enduring legacies and influence of revolutionaries before and with us still. We are the ripples of the movement of fellow abolitionist organizers in Minneapolis including AIM Patrol, MPD150, Resmaa Menakem, Ricardo Levins Morales and countless others who dream of collective liberation from state-sanctioned violence.
REP is one node in an interconnected network of projects created by communities to manifest safety and centers Black life, liberation, and joy. We continually learn from these projects and comrades in other cities, including the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, CAT911, MHFirst Oakland, and Cahoots.
Our Mission
The mission of REP stems from Black love and liberation, with a vision that all communities thrive when our needs are met. We are grounded in the belief that as a community we have the ability and capacity to love and protect each other without giving our agency to systems that were built to destroy, consume, or commodify us. Relationships Evolving Possibilities is the foundational pedagogy for our approach to community safety.
REP is an engagement strategy that facilitates the formation of localized pods for mutual aid and reinforces transformative crisis support within community networks. Our programs promote wellness and create safer and thriving communities. 

https://www.repformn.org/

For The Wild

We join some of the brightest thought-leaders and visionaries of our time– to uplift a multitude of perspectives, to amplify grassroot voices, and to tell stories that would otherwise disappear in mainstream media. Key topics include the struggle to protect wild nature, to promote ecological renewal and resistance and to heal from the disconnection furthered by consumer culture and human supremacy.

https://forthewild.world/podcast