Thank you for showing up again this month to stand for racial justice in Kansas City! Our meeting this month focused on solidarity action. As the country embraces for a Trump presidency, we know that we will be entering a time of increasing mass protest. Now, more than ever, we need to be prepared to bring analysis and strategy that centers racial justice to action spaces of which we are a part. Now is the time to push ourselves, embrace our growing edge, and take risks we have been hesitant to take in the past.
We referenced a number of tools and resources for how we can show up powerfully and bring a strong anti-racist lens to our direct action work. We wanted to make sure to make these available to you.
Here you can find the Enid Lee essay “Looking Through an Anti-Racist Lens.”
http://www.austinschools.org/campus/small/principal/documents/LookingthroughanAntiRacistLens.pdf
Here you can find the Catalyst Project’s “Tools for White Anti-Racist Organizing.”
http://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Catalyst_Tools_for_White_Anti-Racist-Organizing.pdf
Here is the link to the website for the Midwest Academy and their book “Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manuel for Activists.”
http://www.midwestacademy.com/manual/
Lastly, we welcome your feedback on what we are doing well and what we can do better with our monthly mass meetings. Please take a few minutes and fill our our mass meeting evaluation by clicking on the link below.
https://goo.gl/forms/ap7EUNeGLfVetNtf2
We will continue to let you know about opportunities to show up for racial justice in 2017. Onward!