Convos relevant to communities of color. Based in Colorado by way of ocean waves & fire mountains of the Pacific Northwest & the Philippines
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In #DecolonizingWellness, #wellnesscoach #DaliaKinsey discusses the damaging effects of Eurocentric cultural biases on beauty, thinness, and diet fads, offering an empowering perspective for people with marginalized identities #bookreview #QTBIPOC
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Ecological healing requires awareness of how #Indigenous ancestral knowledge can complement Western scientific approaches to environmental restoration practices. Book review of “Medicine Wheel for the Planet" by Dr. Jennifer Grenz @Jennifer_Grenz @UMinnPress
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Today is World Day of #SocialJustice, an opportunity for students to learn about making meaningful change. Explore this year’s theme “Bridging Gaps, Building Alliances” with your students using our set of resources and journal prompts.
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.@BlkEconAlliance has released a new policy roadmap to reduce disparities and advance Black economic success.
Read the full agenda: foundation.blackeconomicalli…
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There are 85 million poor & low-income people who are eligible to vote in this country. It’s time to wake the sleeping giant & use our power.
On March 2, our #MoralMovement will be mobilizing in 31+ states & D.C. to build a Third Reconstruction. RSVP: poorpeoplescampaign.org/marc…
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For the past year, I’ve been working w/ @wilsonhartgrove to write a book that can cut thru the myths that divide us & bring Americans together to tackle the poverty that’s crippling our democracy. It’s truth-telling time.
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I am blessed to be invited to #Houston by the PAB - Palestinian American Bridge, on March 3rd from 4-8PM CST to speak about Gaza on the Global Stage with a great panel of thinkers, leaders, and organizers. For tickets: eventcreate.com/e/gazaontheg…
#CornelWest2024 #TruthJusticeLove
“Florida legislators are actively working to erase the history of Black people through school curricula and have sanctioned lessons that diminish the evil of slavery and frame the inhumane institution as somehow beneficial to the enslaved.”
The state of Florida has been cultivating ignorance, anti-Blackness, and bigotry that, along with lax gun laws, has now culminated in Black people there being hunted and fatally harmed.
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Qiana Arnold, a full spectrum doula, discusses the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. The ruling seeks to restrict the use of mifepristone in abortions nationwide. It remains on hold while the case makes its way to SCOTUS.
"Attacks on Abortion and Reproductive Rights Harm Black Women"
- Qiana Arnold of @TheAfiyaCenter joins @freedomrideblog on this week's Black Agenda Radio: blackagendareport.com/attack…
Join me at Virtual Squad Community Gathering to support our #undocumented neighbors in Colorado #UnitedWeDream #ImmigrantRights #OrganizingForChange action.unitedwedream.org/eve… via @UWDAction
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📣 Are you a skilled artist or graphic designer in the U.S? 🎨 🖌️
AAPI Data is searching for YOU to create an art piece that captures the essence of our AANHPI communities and embodies the theme “Data is Empowering” 💪😁
Visit aapidata.com/designcontest23 for more details.
“White supremacist and misogynistic, ageist, etc., views are overrepresented in the training data, not only exceeding their prevalence in the general population but also setting up models trained on these datasets to further amplify biases and harms.”
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The Sikh Coalition joins the LGBTQ+ community in grieving O'Shae Sibley, whose death is being investigated as a potentially bias-motivated crime. No community is deserving of or responsible for hate violence, and we must stand together in pursuit of both healing and justice.
We're saddened and grieving with the community over the violent death of O’Shae Sibley, a member of our community who was violently attacked and killed just trying to dance with his friends. Read more and take action avp.fyi/nycalert #LGBTQ+ #JusticeForOShae #OshaeSibley
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"In most American states, you can be fined for leaving a dog outside without water or shade. But with the exception of CA, OR, WA & CO
America’s 2.5 million agricultural workers don’t have the same protections under high heat conditions...."
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Deliberate misrepresentation of #CriticalRaceTheory is part of a broader movement to halt awareness & critique of interlocking systems of oppression: racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, etc.
Just so we’re clear: this isn’t just another “opinion” on DEI. This is apart of a long story of a radical conservatives who is clear about culture wars. motherjones.com/politics/202…
“The entire curriculum perpetuates the misbegotten, ahistorical narrative that most white people were interested in freedom, liberty and justice for Black people… (injustice) could not have continued if the vast majority of white people didn’t allow it.”
I actually read all 216 pages of Florida's new state social studies standards, and the enslaved-people-benefitting-from-slavery is not even the worst part. They basically created a K-12 course in Caucasian Race Theory
Here's the top 10 problems I found:
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Celsa examines a ripe WA state cherry after a day of harvesting. This is how her hands look after a full day of hand-picking cherries. She earns $4.50 for a 22 lb bucket or 20 cents a pound. The high temperature in Grandview WA last Saturday was 103°. #WeFeedYou #CALOR
ALT farm worker with dirty taped hands, holding a ripe WA cherry