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Social Justice – Winter 2025

Social Justice – Winter 2025
Photo Credit: WB
 
 
Mindful Conversations for Social Justice
All people are invited to join our next meeting of hearts and minds!
This work is lifelong; every thought, conversation and action makes a difference. Join us as we support each other in our commitment to increasing awareness and taking action for anti-racism, equity, and social justice.
 
Next Meeting: Fri, Feb 14, 2025 1:30 PM Pacific on Zoom
 
REGISTER HERE to get the Zoom Link (same for each meeting). 
 
 
Suggested Content for Discussion: 
  • Responding to this moment in our country and the world.
  • Taking turns sharing personal experiences with race and class in our upbringing and throughout our lives. Consider:
    • When was the first time you became aware of, resisted, questioned, or were confused by race or racism? By class or classism?
  • Tricia Hersey’s Book Rest is Resistance (Liz’s suggestion)

Watch/listen to recent suggestions:

  • Poem: Cross That Line (Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Netflix Series: The Six Triple Eight: Inspiring story of World War II’s only Women’s Army Corps unit of color. 
  • Book: James (Percival Everett)
  • Hulu Series: We Were the Lucky Ones (based on a true Holocaust story)
  • Practice Staci Haines’ 5-min Somatic Centering to respond when triggered, embody our commitments, and take action fromwhat we care about most. (Or 7-min practice has more explanation.)

 

After George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis Police officer on May 25, 2020, our mindfulness community came together as a commitment to being a positive force for racial justice. We continue to evolve these monthly open meetings to affect real and lasting change in the fabric of the United States and the world.

Each session is inspiring as we listen, learn, share and stir up ideas and actions, supporting each other in a safe space.

 

 

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