[Announce-DAN] Tools for White Guys Working for Social Change...FWD

["Liz ..." <realitywhitewash@hotmail.com>]

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>The Modern Times Collective - http://www.aao.net
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>Some tips on anti-oppression.....   frank
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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:33:00 -0800
>From: Chris Crass <chriscrass1886@hotmail.com>
>To: chriscrass1886@hotmail.com
>Subject: tools for white guys working for social change
>
>Tools for White Guys who are Working for Social Change and other
>people socialized in a society based on domination
>
>1. Practice noticing who's in the room at meetings - how many men,
>how many women, how many white people, how many people of color, is
>it majority heterosexual, are there out queers, what are people's
>class backgrounds.  Don't assume to know people, but also work at
>being more aware.
>
>2a. Count how many times you speak and keep track of how long you
>speak.
>2b. Count how many times other people speak and keep track of how
>long they speak.
>
>3. Be conscious of how often you are actively listening to what
>other people are saying as opposed to just waiting your turn and/or
>thinking about what you'll say next.
>
>4. Practice going to meetings focused on listening and learning; go
>to some meetings and do not speak at all.
>
>5a. Count how many times you put ideas out to the group.
>5b. Count how many times you support other people's ideas for the
>group.
>
>6. Practice supporting people by asking them to expand on ideas and
>get more in-depth, before you decide to support the idea or not.
>
>7a. Think about whose work and contribution to the group gets
>recognized.
>7b. Practice recognizing more people for the work they do and try to
>do it more often.
>
>8. Practice asking more people what they think about meetings,
>ideas, actions, strategy and vision.  White guys tend to talk
>amongst themselves and develop strong bonds that manifest in
>organizing.  This creates an internal organizing culture that is
>alienating for most people.  Developing respect and solidarity
>across race, class, gender and sexuality is complex and difficult,
>but absolutely critical - and liberating.
>
>9. Be aware of how often you ask people to do something as opposed
>to asking other people "what needs to be done".
>
>10. Think about and struggle with the saying, "you will be needed in
>the movement when you realize that you are not needed in the
>movement".
>
>11. Struggle with and work with the model of group leadership that
>says that the responsibility of leaders is to help develop more
>leaders, and think about what this means to you.
>
>12. Remember that social change is a process, and that our
>individual transformation and individual liberation is intimately
>interconnected with social transformation and social liberation.
>Life is profoundly complex and there are many contradictions.
>Remember that the path we travel is guided by love, dignity and
>respect - even when it is bumpy and difficult to navigate.
>
>13. This list is not limited to white guys, nor is it intended to
>reduce all white guys into one category.  This list is intended to
>disrupt patterns of domination which hurt our movement and hurt each
>other.  White guys have a lot of work to do, but it is the kind of
>work that makes life worth living.
>
>14. Day-to-day patterns of domination are the glue that maintain
>systems of domination.  The struggle against capitalism, white
>supremacy, patriarchy, heterosexism and the state, is also the
>struggle towards collective liberation.
>
>15. No one is free until all of us are free.
>
> >From the Colours of Resistance webpage http://www.tao.ca/~colours
>
>Please distribute and share!!
>
>
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