The How of Transformative Change
By Tomas Garduno|Dec 2, 2014|
A few weeks ago I got to spend two days in Oakland with a tremendous group of wonderful people brought together by the Movement Strategy Center.
We came together to explore one big question: [...]
From an Economy of Violence to an Economy of Care
By Kristen Zimmerman|Oct 22, 2014|
Reading “When Living on Tips Means Putting Up With Harassment” in the New York Times this week made me reflect on my own brief career as a waitress.
As a student in my late [...]
Don’t Buy the Frozen Eggs!
By Jovida Ross|Oct 17, 2014|
I laughed out loud when I first read about Facebook and Apple’s plans to cover the cost of freezing eggs for women employees.
What a surreal attempt at gender equity within a sector that [...]
Healing Justice, Acupuncture & Social Change
By Tanuja Jagernauth|Aug 4, 2014|
The connections between systemic oppression, health, and healing became clear to me in the summer of 1999 when I was helping to organize a Type 2 diabetes support group at Las Fuentes Health [...]
Gentrification on Steroids: The Detroit Water Shut Offs & You
By Julie Quiroz|Jul 31, 2014|
In the past four months, more than 15,000 Detroit households have had their water shut off, generating a crisis the United Nations calls “a violation of the human right to water and other [...]
“This Is About Energy Sovereignty” — One Step Toward Home
By Navina Khanna|Jun 19, 2014|
As someone working to change policies and practice to bring us closer to food sovereignty, I think a lot about land and how our current systems are built on private property ownership. I [...]
What Kind of Food System Do We Want?
By Julie Quiroz|Jun 5, 2014|
“Food sovereignty is about people’s right and ability to shape their own food system, including policies, practices, governance, and ownership,” says MSC Innovation Fellow Navina Khanna, who gave the opening words to 600 [...]
Learning to Walk: Gender, Economy, & Ecology
By Jovida Ross|Apr 30, 2014|
I am learning how to walk again.
I lost my walk after an intensive yoga training — the third of nine I am undertaking to strengthen my personal practice and my role as a [...]
Mothering Through Climate Chaos – Mamas Day Our Way
By Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan|Apr 23, 2014|
Our kids love it when we tell good stories. Throughout time, we mamas have imparted wisdom and values through storytelling. Like all humans, mamas are narrative creatures. But many of us have lost the art of storytelling, forgotten the values and wisdom of our ancestors. Our kids hear their stories from mainstream media, often closing their minds to the possibilities of another world—or as the Zapatistas say, a world of many worlds. So we try to find good books for our kids—stories that depict our girls as the agents of change, images that show the real diversity of our families, teach the morals of taking care of each other.Creating Sea Change — To Win
By Jodeen Olguín-Tayler|Feb 18, 2014|
Over the course of 15 months, Caring Across Generations engaged a base of more than 1 million people. By our second year we were a leading force in the coalition that won minimum wage and overtime protections for 2.1 million workers. Many of us in the community based organizing field see this scale of engagement and impact as cutting edge for our sector. But, as innovative and exciting as they are, these indicators of scale are an entirely inadequate measure of success.