Building Equitable & Sustainable Institutions and Communities: A Response to Racism and Violence

CROSSROADS ADVANCED ORGANIZER TRAINING 2013

Update on Crossroads•Partnerships•Board EffortsFinancial SustainabilityBuilding CapacityRegional Partnerships Written Agreements

 Analysis Matrix INDIVIDUAL NSTITUTIONAL CULTURAL

POWER 1Power over People of Color

           

   

POWER 2Power for white people/institutions

   

POWER 3Power to destroy us all

     

Shaping Sustainable Communities: Reparation, Restoration & Anti-Racism •Accountability:

Answer to & Responsible for •Identity: Action Doing

Identity Knowing•“Empathic Civilization”•Resilient Communities

Diverse Adaptive Regenerative

Locating Anti-Racism within a Restorative Justice Framework •Multi-Cultural Diversity•Restorative Justice – repairing the harm caused by the crime Focus on repairing the harm Involve all stakeholders Develop collaborations Transform the traditional relationship between

communities and their governments

How would our organizing change if done through the lens of Restorative Justice?

Racial Equity Impact Assessments•REIA –

systemic examinationaffect on different racial and ethnic groups

proposed action/decision

•Applied Research Center - racial justice think tank using media,

research, and activism to promote solutions

publishes Colorlines.com

Assessment & Evaluation within an Antiracist Framework • Funders ask: How can you show your success?

Team wants to know: How are we doing? •Can show there’s a change in knowledge, but can’t

show the cause and effect in our work.•Use our Mission to evaluate what we are doing.• Team’s strategic plan - SMART Objectives

S pecificM easureableA chievableR ealisticT ime bound

Liberating Panopticon•Architectural design to allow a watchman to observe inmates of an institution without their being able to tell whether they are being watched or not. •Creates a consciousness of permanent visibility as a form of power, where no bars, chains, and heavy locks are necessary for domination any more, i.e. getting people to behave the way you want them to. •Anti-racism work is a threat to the status quo

OPEN SPACE conversation •Privilege as a counterpoint to oppression. But the focus on privilege denies the horror associated with exceptional access. Suggested adding “lacking of truth” to the phrase “white privilege.”

•How does globalization inform and impact racial practice?

How does missionary activity destroy community and reinforce privilege? •Young People’s Service Exchange Trips•Community-Global Expansion Model for Anti-Racism

From: Unintentional harm To: Empathic Global Community •Transformational Experience •Involve other groups in education

Transformation•I’d rather be rightly-related then right•History holds us and we hold history•Not about blame, but building Anti-Racist Identity & Anti-Racist communities