Is Defunding Police Departments Right for Your City?Will it Lead to Sustainable Success or Catastrophic Failure?People around the world are protesting against racism and police brutality. The system is breaking…
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NETWORK VALUES
Having a group or network take a values survey raises awareness of the values and behaviors that enable networks to be system shifting or transformational.Network Weaver has published a Network…
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DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS PART II: THE REVOLUTION WILL BE BUILT ON TRUST
Read PART I: Decentralized Networks And The Black Radical Tradition: From Collective Organizing to Building Black Futures. HEREIn this month’s feature, Kei Williams shares their “activating moment,” touches on movement building tools and shares their…
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BRAVE QUESTIONS: RECALCULATING PAY EQUITY
Asking Brave QuestionsPerhaps it was a gutsy move. The four of us, a multi-racial team of independent consultants for social justice organizations, working with a local food justice nonprofit on…
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DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS AND THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION – PART 1
FROM COLLECTIVE ORGANIZING TO BUILDING BLACK FUTURESEvery second Thursday of the month, Network Weavers Yasmin Yonis, Kiara Nagel and Marie DeMange host a Community of Practice conversation on Zoom. The skill-building space is…
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WHO AM I
Adhel Arop is a two time award winning filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada. She has been a poet since the age of eight, writing poems for conferences and school assemblies. She has…
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DEEPER THAN HAIR DISCRIMINATION: A MOVEMENT TO ADDRESS AND DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC RACISM
When I graduated from Columbia University, I was informed in a professional development workshop at a national conference that my hair should not distract from my excellent credentials. I did…
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A PATH OF LEARNING, RECOGNIZING AND HONOURING TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
It was the release of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission reports that nudged our organization to read, reflect and better understand how we could both as an organization and network learn our…
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