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COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATIONPOWERED BY
YOUTH LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT
CREATING WARRIORSMOVEMENT HUMANITY
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CREATING WARRIORS
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CREATING WARRIORS
Sharing- Who Are You??
Personal TransformationTo connect HumanityFor Solidarity across Race, Class, Gender, Age,
Sexual Orientation, Appearance, Etc.
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HUMANITY Fundamental Western Ideas: Ontology- The basic categories of being and their relation
4. Competition against forces of Nature5. Technology as Civilization6. Life is Material7. Seperation between Mind Body8. The Law & Property over Community9. Good & Evil10. Victim & Perpetrator11. Economics of Currency representing Worth
Static units of measurement with fluctuating value
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HUMANITY Cardboard pieces:How does the picture reflect oppression in society?
What is the opportunity for Transformation?
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HUMANITY Epistemology: How do we know what we know?
Western view of the world?4. Objective scientific observation vs. Religion5. Constructs of the State6. History, documentation, heirarchy
Indigenous Worldview?9. Subjective scientific observation with Culture10. Ritual, Myth, Narrative11. Interconnectedness of all things and their relation to life and
meaning
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HUMANITY
Understanding Transformation
Paradigm Shift• Subconscious belief: poor Black kids rise up means White
middle class kids get oppressed, lose power• Poor Blacks kids rise up means Humanity is awakened in society
and ALL kids are transformed by the lessons learned
Reality Transformed9. Transformation of societal & cultural values, ontological
assumptions and epistimological beliefs 10. Humanity faces a new (old) challenge…
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MOVEMENT
Reawakening Humanity through societal redesign.
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MOVEMENT
“Get up on some GAME!”
-Olis Simmons
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Frameworks for TransformationTHE YU FORMULA FOR CHANGE
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Personal Transformation + Systems Change = Community Transformation
Community Transformation Powered by Youth Leadership & Development
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Frameworks for TransformationPEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED
Paulo Freire
Main Points• Oppressor & Oppressed are inextricably linked• Freedom is indispensible- obtained through praxis which is
informed action, balance between theory and practice• Banking education dehumanizes teacher & student- Learning for
what? For liberation.
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Frameworks for TransformationCRITICAL RACE THEORY
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings
Main Points6. American was founded by a White Supremacist regime (slave
owners) • American Society based upon Whiteness as property &
prerequisite for Rights reinforces through Law• All issues in education: Achievement gap, discipline gap,
also know as the opportunity gap stems from a flawed institution, NOT a defective culture of the “other”. (Why “Educational Lynching” title)
• White supremacy is a virus- Racism is the disease. (Tim Wise grandmother)
• Interest convergence- Brown vs. Board
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Frameworks for TransformationINSTITUTIONAL NURTURING
Macheo Payne
Main Points6. Founding of new institutions and transformation of existing ones
with the Ontological premise of:
Humanity as the fundamental “property” That all possess unconditionally. It cannot be granted or revoked.(rather than individual or group attributes (whiteness, wealth, power, etc.),
land, material possessions, legal rights, ownership concepts, etc.)
2. Instititutions are therefore organized to function as a supportive, caring, respectful agencies that value and facilitate Humans supporting and caring for each other authentically.
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Frameworks for TransformationRADICAL HEALING
Dr. Shawn Ginwright
1. Urban ConditionsExodous of jobsEmerging crack cocaine economyDecline of Black radicalismHistorical & contemporary racism
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Frameworks for TransformationRADICAL HEALING
Dr. Shawn Ginwright
1. Urban Social ToxinsInterpersonal
Violence, fear, shame, uncertainty, nihilism, loss of controlStructural
Poverty, family dislocation, lack of access to health care, racism, poor-quality schools, (police brutality, housing discrimination, environmental racism, legal racism, etc.)
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Frameworks for TransformationRADICAL HEALING
Dr. Shawn Ginwright
1. Radical HealingCareCommunityConsciousnessCulture
Agency, hope & optimism, resistance, personal transformation, struggle against racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, political & social awareness, solidarity
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Frameworks for TransformationRADICAL HEALING
Dr. Shawn Ginwright
Through Community & Civic Action - Power & Control
WellnessSocial
Social movements, collective action, liberation, freedom from oppression, freedom to create, social justice, peace
CommunityCommunity solidarity, collective consciousness, community power, civic action, relationships, trust, social capital, community thriving
IndividualPolitical & social consciousness, hope & optimism, voice, freedom to create, resistance
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Frameworks for TransformationLEADERSHIP JAZZ
Max DePree
Leadership Jazz emphasizes symbolic forms like story, metaphor, and music. The symbolic frame, drawing on social and cultural anthropology, treats organizations as tribes, theaters, or carnivals.
It abandons the assumptions of rationality more prominent in the other frames. It sees organizations as cultures, propelled more by rituals, ceremonies, stories, (s)heroes, and myths than by rules, policies, and managerial authority. Organization is also theater: actors play their roles in the organizational drama while audiences form impressions from what they see onstage.
Problems arise when actors play their parts badly, when symbols lose their meaning, when ceremonies and rituals lose their potency. We rebuild the expressive or spiritual side of organizations through the use of symbol, myth, and magic.
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Frameworks for TransformationLEADERSHIP JAZZ
Max DePree
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“I COULD HAVE FREED THOUSANDS MORE IF I COULD HAVE CONVINCED THEM THEY WERE
SLAVES.”
-HARRIET ‘MOSES’ TUBMAN
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Moms at 23rd St Community Center, Dr. Small, ODAC & Mark Comfort, Lowdnes County
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Youth UpRising ZULU Nation
African Independence movement inspired by Black struggle in U.S. Malcolm, Patrice, Kwame, Nelson (Ghana 1957 inspired by Garvey & DuBois- who moved to Ghana
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Youth UpRising Nubia/Kemet
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Youth UpRising Oakland, CA
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