If your inbox is like mine, it’s important to take time to pause, take a breath, and choose emails that give you life. I invite you to choose this email. A year ago I joined the staff of GGJ as Director of Resource Mobilization. There were many things that drew me to apply to be part of this fierce, member-led, internationalist powerhouse, and the first was that
title! “Resource Mobilization,” is a leftist movement field of practice that is fighting to decolonize wealth and philanthropy, and I wanted to be part of the scale and power embedded in that vision. At GGJ, resource mobilization is not only about the fundraising and money moving that is required to build an internationalist, feminist, anti-racist, regenerative economy agenda for the U.S. left, with all of the organizing, political education, and radical infrastructure that requires. It is also part of our broader political vision, and a commitment shared across the Sister Alliances of It Takes Roots, to carry out the political project of rematriating stolen wealth from philanthropy and other wealth hoarders. It is a radical practice of abundance that brings us together to liberate capital from capitalism, to demystify and share the information that colonized wealth likes to keep secret,
to move money to the grassroots, and to organize the great transfer of wealth and capital into the hands of our communities and movements – the Just Transition we need in order to create an economy for life. Resource mobilization called me into GGJ and the inspo has been non-stop ever since! GGJ has been up to a lot this year, and in the past few months we have been carefully experimenting with in-person actions and mobilizations. I invite you to take in these highlights from the last few months, and feel the life, culture and power of transformative organizing and people’s movements! Adelante! Bridget Brehen
Director of
Resource Mobilization
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