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Cara Page | Lifting Up Legacy, Place and Healing

The first things that you will notice about Cara Page are her thoughtfulness, her warmth, her ability to articulate layers of complexity and meaning, her abiding interest in the impact and responsibility of legacy, her commitment to centralizing healing into movement building, her deep Love for the South…

Grace Lee Boggs | The Answers Are Coming from the Bottom

Democracy Now!’s June 2010 interview with Grace Lee Boggs, “a Detroit-based radical organizer and philosopher. Born to Chinese immigrant parents in 1915, Grace Lee Boggs has been involved with the civil rights, Black Power, labor, environmental justice, and feminist movements over the past seven decades.”

Norma Wong | Stance, Energy, Awareness, and Rhythm

Ryuko (Norma) Wong Roshi is an Institute of Zen Studies instructor. Her career has spanned service as a State legislator, public policy and planning, strategy, and native Hawaiian issues. She developed a technology called Forward Stance, a method of highlighting experiential learning as a vehicle for movement building.

Albino Garcia | La Cultura Cura

Chicano/Native activist Albino Garcia founded grassroots organization La Plazita Institute located in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2004. He grew up in Chicago and is no stranger to the streets; his background closely mirrors that of the populations that La Plazita Institute serves. He has done extensive healing work with youth, veterans, and gang members. His leadership style is grounded in traditional culture, and he is known and respected for approaching challenging situations with creativity, honesty, inclusiveness, and innovation.

Grace Lee Boggs | The Answers are Coming from the Bottom

A reprint of Democracy Now!’s June 2010 interview with Grace Lee Boggs, “a Detroit-based radical organizer and philosopher. Born to Chinese immigrant parents in 1915, Grace Lee Boggs has been involved with the civil rights, Black Power, labor, environmental justice, and feminist movements over the past seven decades. Along with her late husband Jimmy Boggs, Grace has been at the forefront of efforts to rebuild urban communities.”

Report Back from USSF | Practice Every Moment and A Movement Defined

Thousands of activists from all over the nation gathered in Detroit last month for the US Social Forum. The 5 day gathering was jam-packed full of workshops, people’s movement assemblies, direct actions, plenaries, performances, cultural events, healing events, and more.

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Ai-Jen Poo | Organizing With Love

Ai-Jen Poo shares her views on transformative organizing, social justice movement work, collaborative dialogues, and important organizing principles and political lessons learned from over 15 years doing organizing work. Interview reprinted from the Organizing Upgrade website.

Transformative Intermediaries Group | Who are the TIGgers?

This month’s Activists, Allies, and Agents of Social Change (3A) section highlights all of the organizations that make up the Transformative Practice Canopy at the US Social Forum (USSF).

Gihan Perera | A Declaration for a Free Arizona

Gihan Perera has become a nationally recognized progressive movement leader, organizer, and strategist. He began his activism as a student in high school in Los Angeles and then at UC Berkeley. While organizing against the first Gulf War, Perera hosted a radio program on a local station melding his passion for social and racial justice and music. In 1999, together with Tony Romano, he founded the Miami Workers Center (MWC), a dynamic organization which plays a leading role locally and nationally in the social justice movement.

Karen Muktayani Villanueva | Vehicle of Freedom

i’ve often said that choosing to live, work, and practice at CXC is advanced citizenship; meaning: it is best suited for those that are willing to know themselves and love themselves (warts and all) and be willing to make the choices and sacrifices that are called for in order to do this well.

Chuck Courts | Directly Supporting How Change is Done

I want folks to know that The Center for Transformative Change is really is about changing the way change is done…I realize that there must be freedom and justice for everyone in order for freedom and justice to exist at all. The work that I do here at the Center directly supports the work done by the Center.

Tbird Luv | Meeting the Better Half of Myself

Being a part of CXC is like being in a spiritual boot camp made for those who truly do what ever is necessary to release from habitual patterns of delusional justification of scattered and disfunctional choices that lead to irresponsible leakage of personal energy.

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