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Greener Schools
Localized schools build lively communities4/11/2010 special to The Michigan CitizenDetroiters of all ages and backgrounds are meeting and marching to reject the Bing/Bobb proposals to downsize Detroit...
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Climate Justice - report from the Grassroots Global Justice delegation
December 6 2010 Ahmina Maxey and I safely made it through the espaco Mexico and via campisina marches today.It was a little sketchy because they changed guards from the state police to the policia...
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Climate Justice - GGJ delegation to COP16
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What is the Detroit People's Movement Assembly Process
I recently went to an excellent discussion about the state of Detroit's education at the Boggs Center. Over and over again it was emphasized that education often (maybe even mostly) happens outside of...
View ArticleMitten State: Beekeeping's subversive secret: These little trait...
I am re-posting Hugh's article because I enjoyed it so much and I thought you all would too!Mitten State: Beekeeping's subversive secret: These little trait...: "The hive. Karen did the artwork. I’m in...
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Celebrating Earth Day by Organizing to Defend our Rights and the Rights of...
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View ArticleGreen Job Creation: The power lies with the people
I love Ahmina - and I think you all should too! Here is her great piece from Green For All reposted:http://www.greenforall.org/blog/green-job-creation-the-power-lies-with-the-people
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Bringing the whole-self to work
I am writing this blog to share with you my experiences as a mother, eco-warrior, local activist and someone who is learning to live and lead from my “woman-ness” – or divine feminine.To me, leading...
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Re-imagine Justice
All of my work centers around environmental justice. I’ve been doing community organizing around environmental justice. This week I was challenged to think of something that in many ways is an old...
View ArticleInterview with Detroit Creative Will See...
Will See is a hip-hop artist and all around creative from Detroit. I choose him to do my creative interview because I am constantly using his music or an article of his for community workshop or...
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Patterns of Settler Colonialism:
I loved reading about patterns in Sparks of Genius – and how difficult breaking patterns can be if we are acculturated to preferring particular methods, as described in the book “[in European music]The...
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JUSTICE IN ABSTRACTION
Just as the key to understanding Picasso’s abstraction of Mari-Thérèse is to, “realize that abstractions may not represent whole things but one or another of their less obvious properties”...
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Healing Moves
“Until we are able to do healing for ourselves and each other I don’t think we can come together and talk about environmental justice. I’m not sure if some of us can event be in the room right now!”...
View ArticleI need to seek a lush arboleda
LUSH ARBOLEDA* (sung to the lyrics of smooth operator - Sade)Deciduous life, love of birdsTrees move in place for those who seek and believe in joy no lights for firefly nightsWhen you require a...
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Module 6: Assignment 1 – How Do I Love Thee: Modeling & Dimensional Thinking
As I was reading the dimensional thinking Chapter of Root-Bernstein’s Spark’s of Genius my thought’s wondered to my son and his current experience in kindergarten. He is bombarded in his class with...
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Creative “I”: Architecture of Space
PLAY "woodsy office" clipNatural Spaces – and Creative Engaging PlacesWhen contemplating on what spaces I use – and what spaces I find engaging I thought of so many buildings. I live in a historic...
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How Do I Love Thee?: Playing - Environmental Justice as an interpretive...
There are many times in which providing history or a timeline would be very helpful background information for the community, students or organization that I am working with. Using the reading this...
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Synthesis Curricula - Creative Organizing: Envisioning Environmental Justice
@SiDstudents - envision a new world!(view) by taking this interactive environmental justice engagement class! Register creativecurricula #JUSTCREATIVE*PROPOSAL - CREATIVE ORGANIZING: ENVISIONING...
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