Ep 75: Our Family Went to the Rally. Now What?

“As a caregiver with limited capacity but unlimited creativity, how will you get strategic, sustain the spark of solidarity, and meet this moment of fascism with everything you’ve got?”

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Episode Summary

To help us get organized and strategic, in this episode, you and I are going to explore how movements in the past won -- from the American Civil Rights movement to global nonviolence movements. Then, we’re going to use abolitionist organizing as a framework to help us sustain the spark and organize our advocacy. We’re going to be strategic about how to practice these skills too (hint: we practice them in everyday parenting to strengthen our social justice action muscles and our children’s development at the same time).

Full episode transcript here.

Episode Outline

  • From Symbolic to Strategic Actions: Sustaining a Spark of Solidarity

  • Honoring Rage & Grief

  • Abolition is One Strategic Framework to Guide Our (Two) Actions.

  • Staying Strategic When You’re Tired

Resources Mentioned:

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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