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

HOW TO SILENCE A WOMAN: RETREIVING HER VOICE…
–When someone says, “We’re saying the same thing.”
Say, “We are not saying the same thing.”
–When someone says, “Don’t question, just have faith.”
Say, “I am questioning, vato, and
I have supreme faith in what I think.”
–When someone says, “Don’t defy my authority.”
Say, “There is a higher authority that I follow.”
–When someone says, “Your ideas are seductive.”
Say, “No, my ideas are not seductive,
they are substantial.”
–When someone says, “Your ideas are dangerous.”
Say, “Yes, my ideas are dangerous, and
why are you so afraid hombre o mujer? ”
–When it is said, “It’s just not done.”
Say, “It will be done.”
–When it is said, “It is immature.”
Say, “All life begins small and
must be allowed to grow.”
–When it is said, “It’s not thought out.”
Say, “It is well thought out.”
–When they say, “You’re over-reacting.”
Say, “You’re under-reacting, vato.”
–When they say, “You’re being emotional.”
Say, “Of course I have well placed emotions,
and by the way, what happened to yours?”
–When they say, “You’re not making any sense.”
Say, “I don’t make sense, I am the sense.”
–When they say, “I can’t understand you when you’re crying.”
Say, “Make no mistake, I can weep and be fierce
at the same time.”
–When they say, “I cant understand you when you’re being so angry.”
Say. “You couldn’t hear me when I was being nice,
or sweet or silent, either.”
–When someone says, “You’re missing the point.”
Say, “I’m not missing the point, but you seem
to be missing my point — What are you so afraid of?”
–When someone says, “You are breaking the rules.”
Say, “Yes, I am breaking the rules.”
–When someone says, “That’s not practical.”
Say, “It’s practically a done deal, thank you very much.”
–When it is said, “No one will do it,
believe you, or follow it.”
Say, “I will do it, I will believe in it, and in time,
the world may well follow it.”
— When it is said, “No one wants to listen to that.”
Say, “I know you have a hard time listening to that.”
–When it is said, “It’s a closed system,
you cant change it.”
Say, “I’m going to knock twice
and if there is no answer,
then I am going to blow the doors off that system
and it will change.”
–When it is said, “They’ll ignore you.”
Say, “They won’t ignore me and the hundreds of thousands who stand with me.”
–When they say, “It’s already been done.”
Say, “It’s not been done well enough.”
— When they say, “It’s not yet time.”
Say, “It’s way past time.”
–When they say, “It’s not the right day,
right month, right year.”
Tell them, “The right year was last year,
and the right month was last month,
and the right day was yesterday,
and you’re running behind schedule, vato,
and what in the name of God and all that is holy
are you going to do about it?”
–When they say, “Who do you think you are?” —
tell them …
tell them who you are,
and don’t hold back.
–When they say, “I put up with it,
you’ll have to put up with it too.”
Say, “No, no, no, no.”
–When they say, “I’ve suffered a long time
and you’ll have to suffer too.”
Say, “No, no, no, no.”
–When they say, “You’re an incorrigible, defiant,
hard to get along with,
unreasonable woman … ”
Say, “Yes, yes, yes, yes …
and I have worse news for you yet —
we are teaching our daughters,
and our mothers,
and our sisters …
we are teaching our sons,
and our fathers,
and our brothers,
to be
just
like
us.”
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“How To Silence A Woman, Retrieving Her Voice,” ©1980, 2008, 2018C.P. Estés, All Rights Reserved. {Parts of the preamble are from an article at ncr.online.} For permissions: projectscreener@aol.com…
This blessing, is a chant, a lyric form from my ethnic tradition. It is made to be spoken aloud, so not just meanings, but its heartbeat, can be discerned; enjoined. Colloquially, in the family, we’d call it a song rather than a poem, in this case, a “song for straight vision and strength.” The word vato, is a slang Spanish word, for a person who might know the streets, and also an informal way of addressing a man, such as in the street … e.g., “Man, don’t you realize?”

Over time, this prayer-poem “How To Silence A Woman, Retrieving Her Voice” has been put forth at the United Nations, and presented during a tribal women’s coalition in South Africa, as well as carried into session at the parliament in the Netherlands, and given before U.S. Congressional hearings on welfare reform in the 1990s.
Brief Bio
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés is Mestiza Latina [Native American/ Mexica Spanish], presently in her seventies. She grew up in the now vanished oral tradition of her war-torn immigrant, refugee families who could not read nor write, or did so haltingly, and for whom English was their third language overlying their ancient natal languages.
She is a lifelong activist in service of the voiceless; as a post-trauma recovery specialist and psychoanalyst of 49 years clinical practice and missions with persons traumatized by war, including exiliados and torture victims; and as a journalist covering stories of human suffering and hope.
As a post-trauma recovery specialist, she served students, teachers, and familles at Columbine High School and community for three years after the massacre.