Facing the Pandemic
Summer 2020, Issue #100
-Compiled by Christy Korrow
21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge from Food Solutions New England
āWhile the scheduled twenty-one days of this year's Racial Equity Challenge wrapped up in April, we invite you to make use of this materials throughout the year. FSNE invests a significant amount of time and energy updating and improving the Challenge every year and it's our hope that its usefulness can be spread far and wide.
Think about whether you are doing this exercise on your own or if you want to organize a group of participants at your school, business, organization, etc. Make sure everyone planning to participates allocates at least 15-20 minutes per day of material that you're covering (more if you want to dive into the optional extra material offered each day). If you're working in a group, have an initial conversation about what people would like to get out of the Challenge and if/how you'll meet to discuss what you're learning and apply it to your activities. Visit our Tools for Groups page for help with some of this.
Decide whether you'll be doing this over twenty-one consecutive days, spread out over twenty-one weeks or on some other schedule. It's up to you.ā
-Resources compiled by Christy Korrow
Vote.
When We All VoteĀ is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that is on a mission to increase participation in every election and close the race and age voting gap by changing the culture around voting, harnessing grassroots energy, and through strategic partnerships to reach every American. www.whenweallvote.org
Run for Something.
Call your local county election office and learn more about which positions re open for reelection. Parks Commission, School Board, Library Board, City Council and on up. These local offices may not be on your radar but they can make a big difference in how and where money and services flow. Check out Run for Something. This org works exclusively with progressive Millennials and Gen-Zers running for local office for the first or second time. runforsomething.net
During the Covid-19 Outbreak, hundreds of mutual aid networks have sprung up around the US, and the world. The links below will take you to a wealth of interesting information ranging from the kind of activities a mutual aid network can offer, how to start a mutual aid network in your community, the history of mutual aid, and how and why mutual aid differs from top down institutional non-profit organizations and charity.
What is mutual aid?Ā
According to Dean Spade, Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, and scholar of the mutual aid movement, āMutual aid is a term to describe people giving each other needed material support, trying to resist the control dynamics, hierarchies and system-affirming, oppressive arrangements of charity and social services.
āMutual aid projects are a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions, not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on their representatives in government, but by actually building new social relations that are more survivable.Ā Most mutual aid projects are volunteer-based, with people jumping in to participate because they want to change what is going on right now, not wait to convince corporations or politicians to do the right thing.ā
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