March 27th, 2020 Español abajo Dear Family,We are so humbled, thankful, and inspired from our time together on the first call of the Shaping Change Together call series. We look forward to continuing building and sharing with one another throughout the series. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts
for showing up in your brilliance, in your strength, and in your revolutionary vision. Thank you for Shaping Change with us.Here are some highlights of what was shared by our speakers on turning crisis into collective movement action:" This is a moment to coordinate and push together for a paradigm shift, moving from concessions to demands for long-lasting transformation." - Cindy Wiesner, GGJ “I believe in mutual aid,
we gotta help each other out. But we are not going to “do-it-yourself” out of this. The government needs to take some action. We can’t let them off the hook, and they owe us. I’ll be damned if I’m going to let them give $50 billion to corporations and not support our communities.” - Barbara Ransby, The Rising Majority “People shy away from universal healthcare because we are told it is impossible. But if we don't have a practice of demanding things that seem impossible, we won’t know that they actually are possible and be ready to demand them when we need them.” - Drew ChristopherJoy, Southern Maine Workers Center “We need to build a movement, not another non-profit. How do we not go back to what was before? We need to Dream Beyond Bars, and organize for relocation and return of our resources.” - George Galvis, CURYJ “We are in a revival moment for anti-war movement building. Trying to make sure that what we are building is grounded in working-class, Indigenous, black, brown, queer, trans folks, disabled folks, most impacted by a system rooted in power. There is a real opportunity to build a new center of gravity. As we grow momentum for near term goals, we see them as one stepping
stone in a larger field of goals to demilitarize.” - Brittany Ramos de Barros, About Face
As promised, we are following up our first call with the english and spanish recordings, the demands, campaigns, and resources that were shared on the call, as well as ways to take action, and more information on the remaining two calls in our series.
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