how to breathe when you want to give up, by Cleo Wade
"my time on earth may be short but it can be powerful if I dedicate it to love and fairness..."
Network Weaving in a Time of Breaking, Unraveling and Hunkering Down, by Curtis Ogden, Senior Associate, Interaction Institute for Social Change
"Even when connected, we can practice different kinds of pacing and spacing that can help people to restore, maintain or increase their energy."
We will not go back to normal, with Sonya Renee Taylor
"We will not go back to normal... We should not long to return, my friends."
The secret to keeping Connecticut segregated: See no evil, hear no evil, by Colleen Shaddox (Cohort 1)
“Grown men actually argued that there was no segregation here, because the town would welcome the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.”
Odell Montgomery Cooper (Cohort 15)
“…as a leader, I can’t worry about who I’m not anymore, what I can’t do - it’s who I am and what I can do. That’s what’s helping me to get through this.”
How to Knock Down a Neighborhood, by Lee Lee McKnight (Cohort 27)
"What makes me most angry is that a decree was handed down rather than a conversation being had.”
IfeMichelle Gardin – Writer, Playwright, Elm City LIT Fest Creator/Coordinator (Cohort 2)
“I intend to live the rest of my life with Love, in all the definitions of the name I selected for myself over 30 years ago. I am living intentionally in my Love of all aspects of the Culture of the African Diaspora.”
Meeting Our Needs Through Restorative Practices, by Cameo Thorne (Cohort 27)
“It allows the members of a community to be heard, for their needs to be addressed, and to come to an understanding about how to prevent harm.”
Asian American Art, Activism, and Allyship, by Annie Lin (Cohort 19)
“In places like this conversation, I feel the light of hope and the power of community standing in solidarity together against systems of oppression.”
Moments, Movements, CLP Alum Commitments (a community-wide invitation to respond)
How are you showing up? How will you show up? What commitments are you living or evolving into right now? Please share...