SOUTHERN BEYOND SURVIVAL
SOUTHERN BEYOND SURVIVAL
SOUTHERN BEYOND SURVIVAL
Power, Oppression, Collective Liberation
Poder, opresión, liberación colectiva
MÁS ALLÁ DE LA SOBREVIVENCIA
SUREÑX
Tech Setup
Introduce yourselves in the chat.
Name, Pronouns, Location (Occupied Territory) https://native-land.ca/
and one other acknowledgement.
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Small Group Breakouts
Rename yourself. Put these numbers IN FRONT of your name to join the appropriate race and language.
Language>> Race \/ | English/ Ingles | Spanish / Espanol |
Black | “1E” | “1S” |
People of Color with non-Black heritage | “2E” | “2S” |
white | 3E | 3S |
Quiet room | 4 | 4 |
Comités por Raza
Renombráte. Pon estos números EN FRENTE de tu nombre para unirse al comité e idioma correcto
Idioma>> Raza\/ | English/ Inglés | Spanish/ Español |
Negrx | “1E” | “1S” |
Persona de color con herencia NO-Negra | “2E” | “2S” |
blancx | 3E | 3S |
Sala de Silencio | 4 | 4 |
Ve al “Menu de Participantes / Participant Menu”, elige tu nombre, haz clic en “Más / More” cuando aparece sobre tu nombre, y renómbrate.
Grounding
Consider what “Southern Beyond Survival” means to you.
Then pick a Southern dish or food that embodies that for you.
Share your dish and a few words in the chat.
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest one in the Solar System—it’s only a bit larger than the Moon
Economics & Governance �at Highlander
Image by Jidan Terry-Koon based on an original graphic from the minds of Elandria Williams and Rachel Plattus.
Strategic Goal & Orientation
Strengthen solidarity economy efforts throughout the South made in response to COVID
Intervene in the “return to normal” being pushed by the state and capital
by building Southern people's power to resist exploitation and �build alternatives to domination economy – RESIST & BUILD & HEAL
Strengthen
“Solidarity Economy” (SE)
in the South
EJP
MOF
SES Network
post-capitalist alternatives
+
grassroots governing power
Empower Southern people to resist exploitation and extraction while building the relationships, infrastructure, alternatives to meed our needs
RESIST & BUILD
Creating participatory governance interventions to facilitate building grassroots policy and capacity for electoral victories
Grassroots governing power in the South
Through PMA
participatory democracy + people power
We aim to abolish white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and all related forms of domination, marginalization, exploitation, and harm that prevent Southern people from meeting their needs through collective self-determination
THREADS 2022
Weaving 90 Years of Resistance
Southern Beyond Survival:
Methodologies Workshops
Our Facilitators
David Ferris (they-them-theirs)
Denzel Caldwell (he-him-his)
April Taylor
(she-her-hers)
Agreements
WHOLE GROUP
SMALL GROUPS
Small Group Breakouts
Rename yourself. Put these numbers IN FRONT of your name to join the appropriate race and language.
Language>> Race \/ | English/ Ingles | Spanish / Espanol |
Black | “1E” | “1S” |
People of Color with non-Black heritage | “2E” | “2S” |
white | 3E | 3S |
Quiet room | 4 | 4 |
Comités por Raza
Renombráte. Pon estos números EN FRENTE de tu nombre para unirse al comité e idioma correcto
Idioma>> Raza\/ | English/ Inglés | Spanish/ Español |
Negrx | “1E” | “1S” |
Persona de color con herencia NO-Negra | “2E” | “2S” |
blancx | 3E | 3S |
Sala de Silencio | 4 | 4 |
Ve al “Menu de Participantes / Participant Menu”, elige tu nombre, haz clic en “Más / More” cuando aparece sobre tu nombre, y renómbrate.
The first two breakouts will be by race, so make sure to rename yourself if you want something different (next slide)
Small Group #1 Instructions
We’ll open breakout rooms for 10 minutes. Each group will have quick 5 minute discussions of each term.
What does it mean to you based on your experience?
Take quick notes in the box provided for your group on slide 4 and 6.
POPULAR EDUCATION SPIRAL
Step 1: Start with the experience of participants
Step 2: Look for Patterns
Step 3: Add new information
OPPRESSION
What does it mean to you?
Oppression What does it mean to you? OPRESIÓN ¿Qué significa para ti?
Grp # | Quick notes from your discussion | Grp # | Notas rápidas de su discusión |
1 | Born in Apartheid Florida, racialized from birth.Undervalued. Oppression is people having inordinate control over your life. These others have undue control. If you are under the line society targets you, serveils you and you are worth less. Those who are not close to the center of power, have no ability to concentrate power | 7 | Being trapped, limitations/ allowed to do / systems that are entrenched making it hard for people to live - not a one off. |
2 | Scarcity; Opportunities and experiences that are taken away from you, because of your identity; certain people of power will keep populations down based on their race, religion, sexual orientation – criminalized | 8 | Not being able to get what you deserve or need, knowing you’re deserving of it, keeping you from your own ability and skills |
3 | No ser independiente, no poder tomar iniciativas, estas bajo la fuerza dominio de alguine mas. Con violencia sea. Tratar de manera injusta a una persona o gropo, atraves de la fuerza o no ser equtativo. Alto de doforcar, someter a alguien o una comunidad, tal vez usando vilnciao reprtimidar o umiyadas | 9 | Dominance, whatever is outside of consent, system set up to devalue or use people, different systems that constrain people’s ability to thrive (in the intersections of race and gender, etc.) |
3 | Translated: Not being independent, not being able to take initiatives, you are under the domination of someone else. With violence is. To treat a person or group unfairly, through force or unfairness. To stop, to subdue someone or a community, perhaps using violence, intimidation or intimidation. | 10 | Things that keep people down as part of a system; the use of power to keep people down; hierarchy-someone above is oppressing others; people that are oppressed are considered “lesser than” in a system |
5 | Abusive power, position & privilege; Not being able to fully participate in our fullness, being held down; somatically speaking - constricted, burdened, weighted, | 11 | Systems created by one set of people to hold power over another group(s) of people; lack of safety and neglect as a form of oppression, we can’t always see by looking at someone |
6 | Limited self/communal expression; harm/violence perpetuated generationally on majority by powerful few; imposed lack of agency; domination; life and possibilities determined by external forces that do not hold our best interests at heart | 12 | To continually hurt someone over time. A reality, unjust, internalized. Normalized. Accustomed. Deflation. Shrinking. Self censorship. Protection. Avoidance. Code switching. Contentment with shame. |
Grp # | Quick notes from your discussion | Grp # | Notas rápidas de su discusión |
14 | Imbalance in power, intentional systematic hurt, hurting my body, spirit, my family, is reactive and evolves to our victory, holding back progress, keeping us from advancing, keeping us from being who we are, keeping us away from anything that is positive (education, finance, power), can be external and internal, keeping us in poverty ( subsidized housing ) | 17 | Oppression: An effort to restrict access to necessary resources for a flourishing life, take away and use power and violence to keep them; needs hierarchy, about system/systemic, power for some at the expense of others; emphasis on it being systemic and intentional, oppression does what it is intended to do, its horror are not a mistake but the purpose Privilege: typically meaning unearned privilege, it’s a “leg up” that is usually at the expense of others; passed down, like generational wealth, you have it probably because someone else had it before you; class jumping and gaining privilege you may not have had before; benefits from being in the “in” group; gaining/losing privilege throughout your life |
16 | Pushing down, feels like invisibility, voicelessness, not having options a feeling of claustrophobia, privilege itself is a form of oppression - being cut off from others, as a person of color with some privilege those privileges can be limiting or alienating. | | |
Oppression What does it mean to you? OPRESIÓN ¿Qué significa para ti?
Oppression
When a group in society exercises its power to mistreat and/or take advantage of (an)other group(s).
Oppression is ongoing, historic, and systemic.
PRIVILEGE
What does it mean to you?
Privilege What does it mean to you? PRIVILEGIO ¿Qué significa para ti?
Grp # | Quick notes from your discussion | Grp # | Notas rápidas de su discusión |
1 | Anyone can have privilege, but white privilege includes oppression, so it dehumanizes others. Its about Power, actually, not privilege per se. A person has been given by virtue of race, class sexual id, etc and are vlaued over others. Those who are central or in very close proximity to power | 7 | Having things w/o working for them - having things and not realizing that’s happening, not worried about things ; unearned advantages - by chance of parents, geography; internal perceived / external percieved |
2 | Born with opportunities that others don’t have, certain things don’t happen to you (being pulled over because of your race); unfair advantage/extra advantages that you didn’t choose; not having to experience certain traumas because of your identity | 8 | As a white woman, what I live - comes with responsibility to work in concert with people so everyone has privilege -no unexpected barriers, not having to experience things that others have to experience, ease of building generational wealth As a Black woman, a white person who comes from money or more economic value, has upper-hand because of who they are |
3 | Una ventaga exlucisa de alguien, alguien que tiene/gosa de algo que puede ser solo para el o ciertas personas. Tener una ventaja mas que los demas, un trato dirferente que los demas. Mas arriba de los demas.Que no es equitativo, que se le da a una person o aun grupo | 9 | The inverse of oppression, being able to access choices, the privilege of being adjacent to power even when you aren’t looking for it, whiteness–not being able to extract yourself from that, a blindness |
3 | Translated: An advantage that is exlucised from someone else, someone who has/is in possession of something that may be only for him or for certain people. To have an advantage over others, to be treated differently than others. To have an unfair advantage over others, to be given to a person or a group. | 10 | An unearned advantage; makes life smoother; gives you a “leg up”; Power gives you an unearned boost. Prestige. |
5 | Taking up to much space; being able to experience your life without barriers; receiving and having access to unearned advantages and resources | 11 | Wealth (monetary and beyond, like safety), privilege and oppression are beyond what we can see by looking at someone |
6 | permission to self-define one’s experiences or opportunities in way that takes away from others (choice and agency at the expense of others); being able to survive/thrive while also ignoring the realities of others; part of a system that favors your life over the lives of others; unearned and taught | 12 | A chance. Tough (multiple forms of access to privilege even when oppressed). Survivor’s guilt. Depends on who’s asking or what’s happening. Question itself feels saddening. |
Grp # | Quick notes from your discussion | Grp # | Notas rápidas de su discusión |
13 | LaShauna -Oppression is intentionally holding down/holding back P unearned organized advantage Aljosie Oppression feels eyes/viewpoint/viewing from a space Pr: seeing from my own eyes/my point of reference RJ oppression and Pr as dynamics of how to access my pr to minimize my oppression LaShauna sitting with what has been said….its a rough draft. Pr still feel unearned; still sitting with that emotion. Something about privilege does not seem right in the context of liberation/liberation does not have privilege/ultimate freedom and imagination/priv seems to throw that off for me LaShauna i agree the emotion is feeling and grounded in politically/pockets of pri in my own life How do we leverage that Stretching at 8p… | 14 | Silent but deadly, having access to things, ability , generational wealth, feeling like one is owed something even when they havent earned it, born with it often and can be acquired, “things that are mine just because im me.” |
Privilege What does it mean to you? PRIVILEGIO ¿Qué significa para ti?
Privilege
Unearned access to resources, power, advantages, special rights, immunity, material and social benefits.
Generally increases the closer you are to dominant identities.
Privilege is the flipside of oppression, also systemic.
Small Group #2 Instructions
We’ll open breakout rooms for 10 minutes. Each group will have quick 5 minute discussions of each term.
What does it mean to you based on your experience?
Take quick notes in the box provided for your group on slide 9 and 11.
Note your new Group Number!
POWER
What does it mean to you?
Power What does it mean to you? PODER ¿Qué significa para ti?
Grp # | Quick notes from your discussion | Grp # | Notas rápidas de su discusión |
1 | Spiritual is a positive relationship to power | 7 | Having control or the ability to change your situation and/or things. To maintain or prevent things from happening. |
3 | I think of somebody with money and privilege, wealthy white folks on the coast who make decisions, ability to have control over your environment | 8 | La policia tiene mas poder que cualquier otro, el poder y privilegio de las personas blancas, pueden ejercer el poder para la justicia o para la opresion, mi relacion con el poder es medio, puedo ejecer el poder para influenciar a la gente hacer algo positivo en el movimiento (por mi posicion), |
4 | Encompasses my spiritual connection in the most beautiful way. Then negative power of being swallowed by government and systems. Some negative power, is raw and disconnected from spirituality. Not evolved- what can I get who can I overcome etc. Our goal could be to move into our full power in a positive way | 8 | Translated :The police have more power than anyone else, the power and privilege of white people, they can exercise power for justice or for oppression, my relationship with power is medium, I can exercise power to influence people to do something positive in the movement (because of my position), |
11 | Control over a person or people. Person wielding power must perceive that they have it. A concentration or exertion of will or desire. The capacity and will to act. | 9 | The method by which we impose our will or desires. Using structures to your advantage over someone and using it to get your way or belittle someone else. The ability to get what you want. Can be impacted by race, class, education, and status |
10 | Ability to manifest a desired outcome or to shift circumstances, structural hierarchy (in the military), sprituality there is an empowermenr. Power can be both negative and positive, it can be uniqure to, power is POWErFUL, it encompasses alot, firuging out the power that I have (with self, with god), meeting power where you are being swallowed, some power is unevolved! On one plane ( what can i get, who can i control) on another plane (wjhat can i give, what can i share) . —---- there can be a negative von | | |
Grp # | Quick notes from your discussion | Grp # | Notas rápidas de su discusión |
13 | Beginning of power is agency; collective power that is community-based, not charismatic; responsibility and burden | 15 | capacity to access and use resources/info to impact or determine material conditions; ability to help or harm; ability to decide the course or trajectory of a group/s of people; can be used positively or negatively; to wound or to heal; what an individual brings as well as what a community provides; social dynamic; a tool; organization of a community/society and its resources - the mechanisms of a society |
14 | Tener la avilidad y capacidad de poder hacer algo, tanto en el gobierno o posiciones de poder. Fuerza o energia, sobre un campo al rededor o los demas. La persona que tiene el poder ocupa el privilegio y oppresion para seguir teniendo el poder sobre otros. Por medio de la opresion, | 17 | Power over and how it influences decisions, emotions. Power is a tool, it’s something that marginalized people don’t understand how it works or how to use it. People with money have a lot of power. It’s subtle and we aren’t always aware of how it’s working. JUSTICE-Can we as humans actually administer it? |
14 | Translated: To have the ability and capacity to be able to do something, either in government or positions of power. Force or energy, over a surrounding field or others. The person who has power occupies the privilege and oppression to continue to have power over others. Through oppression, | | |
Power What does it mean to you? PODER ¿Qué significa para ti?
Power
“To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly, the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.”
JUSTICE
What does it mean to you?
Justice What does it mean to you? JUSTICIA ¿Qué significa para ti?
Grp # | Quick notes from your discussion | Grp # | Notas rápidas de su discusión |
3 | Being treated fairly and equally not based on skin color, fairness, everybody having access to the things they need to access, everyone has their own autonomy, it will take a process of redistribution to get to an equal playing field, justice is not the justice system, it will take imagination to understand an abolitionist approach to justicez | 7 | What people need, desire and imagine as a justice system without harm, transformative, creating a space where people can be who they are without a need or want for should be a given. It should be fair and equal. Itt implies a level of solidarity for meeting basic needs |
4 | Justice is self determined holistic that rightful feeling, Justice is used for vindication vs to harm people It takes insight | 8 | Que sean iguales con todos, es un conjunto de valores esenciales sobre lo cuales se basen la sociedad y el estado y estos son respecto, equidad, igualdad y libertad, que todos tengan el acceso y dignidad sin importar su rais, cultura, et cetera. |
11 | Justice is what love looks like in public (Cornell West). All-encompassing, neutralizing love that doesn’t leave anyone feeling harmed. Equity and people thriving. Waves of the ocean. Sunset and sunrise. Deep and nourishing family dinner. | 8 | Translated: To be equal with all is a set of essential values on which society and the state are based and these are respect, equity, equality and freedom, that all have access and dignity regardless of their race, culture, et cetera. |
9 | A correction of a wrong. Being guided by truth. Listening to the people impacted most when making decisions. | | |
Grp # | Quick notes from your discussion | Grp # | Notas rápidas de su discusión |
13 | About love, if it is just it is loving; welcoming; living for spaces of justice; space of justice to be able to be with people in this room | 19 | Aplicar las leyes de manera equitativa, no importando la raza, genero. A todos en general-sin ningun juicio Que se le de a cada quien lo que se le corresponde equitativamente. Libertad de ser. |
15 | the organization or mechanism of power that allows full participation of all persons in a society; everyone having basic needs met, including needs to thrive; life-giving institutions and relationships between people - contributing to the wholeness of people, not being fractured; ending of oppression and creation of new societies/institutions that are life-giving and affirming | 19 | Translated: Apply the laws equally, regardless of race or gender. To everyone in general-without any judgment That everyone be given his or her fair share. Freedom of being. |
| | 16 | Power means having a voice or a say in what affects your daily life (economic, social) Power is a behavior, owns or dominates the room with a network of norms. Power means access to resources and making decisions Justice is fairness, equality of outcome, have power to have justice Justice is different in different cultures because the concept of fairness is different (by the rules, or fair outcome) Justice is related equity to have what one needs to have fair outcomes |
Justice What does it mean to you? JUSTICIA ¿Qué significa para ti?
Justice
equal (or equitable) access to resources, power, �material and social benefits; �the absence of oppression and �the redistribution of privileges.
Justice
“The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want it to be. More than ever before we, as a society, need to renew a commitment to truth telling.”
“If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.”
– bell hooks
Transformative Justice
recognizes that oppression is at the root of all forms of harm, abuse and assault.
It’s about transforming the conditions,
systems change, replacing oppressive institutions with alternatives that recognize human dignity, help folks heal, allow for autonomy, & create shared power
Intersectionality
social categorizations and systemic oppressions are interconnected (race, class, gender, ability, size, etc.), oppressions overlap and are interdependent
CALL IT WHAT IT IS:
white supremacist capitalist patriarchy
Power Flower
Who Benefits?
All private wealth | US | Globally |
Top 1% | 40% | 50% |
Top 10% | 74% | 85% |
Top 30% | -- | 97% |
Bottom 90% | 36% | 15% |
2,153 Billionaires control more wealth than 4.6 billion people, or 60% of the global population.*
The rate of poverty reduction fell 50% since 2013.
Collective Liberation
We believe that every person is worthy of dignity and respect and a life free from oppression, systemic harm, and that within systems of oppression, everyone suffers. It follows that we must work together to create the kind of world we know is possible.
We don't jump into the struggle from the same position of power or privilege,
but we don't let the divisions of power and privilege keep us from seeing �a shared vision of the future and a shared strategy to move forward.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. �And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together.
— Audre Lorde
I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.
—bell hooks
The moment we choose to love, �we begin to move towards freedom, �to act in ways that liberate �ourselves and others.
What will it require of us?
the relationship of the other
Self love and lots of patience
Without mutuality, where mutual participation is absent, it can't be called love
Extending or refusing our privilege when possible and sharing our power
Privileged folks willingness to sacrifice personal luxuries, which come from oppression
Sleep, dream, act with deep integrity
acknowledgement that our fates are intertwined and acting accordingly
Meditate, pray, eat well, exercise and rest
me siento emocionada, entusiasmada, emociones! para aprender,y compartir con la gente.
dismantling capitalist values
Tenacious commitment
selflessness toward radical justice… diminish of the "I" and commitment to the "us"
What will it require of us?
Opening ourselves, even though it is HARD to be vulnerable
my elders tell me to know our worth
puedo comenzar por tratar a las personas a mi alrededor con humildad, respeto, amor, apoyo y equidad sin tener nin ejercer ningun juicio.
translated: "I can start by treating the people around me with humility, respect, love, support and fairness without having or exercising any judgment. “
Personal - self-examination, compassion and patience for self and others. Listening and caring.
ability to see past differences and focusing on our shared challenges
Practicing BEING THE CHANGE
having a better understanding of systemic issues and improving media literacy.
Bravery and compassion in our organizing, willingness to speak the truth and hear it
learning what it means to make decisions together even and especially when we disagree or find the process difficult.
Continue meeting and working in groups like the one this evening and extending out efforts outwards to others
personally and collectively it will require compassion for each other
What will it require of us?
ability to see past differences and focusing on our shared challenges
settle for nothing less than our due
Personally: unlearning hurtful patterns, negative self beliefs, and numbing out rather than asking for help
empower the least of these
bell hooks said by stepping into your own power you give empower others
I need more examples of real Justice and collective liberation-- what does this look like?
learn more about what's possible
What will it require of us?
Additional Probing Individual Questions
What will it require of us?
Additional Probing Collective Questions
Commitments
UPCOMING
THREADS 2022
Weaving 90 Years of Resistance
Southern Beyond Survival:
Methodologies Workshops
RESOURCES
Evaluation
Evaluation
THANK YOU
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