The time has come for us to reimagine everything. We have to reimagine work and go away from labor. We have to reimagine revolution and get beyond protest. We have to think not only about change in our institutions, but changes in ourselves. We are at the stage where the people in charge of the government and industry are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It’s up to us to reimagine the alternatives and not just protest against them and expect them to do better.| www.reimaginerpe.org
By Jess Clarke With a planet and a political system ever more out of balance, communities in resistance are called ever more urgently to the critical work of restoration. In this volume, organizers for sanctuary, restorative justice and social housing share their stories, strategies, and visions, and we continue to explore the rejuvenating power of the beauty, complexity and abundance prevalent within ‘Black Life’ in San Francisco. Immigrants, inmates and tenants are imprisoned in an econ...| Reimagine!
RadioReimagine-Bhopal-to-the-bay.mp3 Preeti Shekar interviews three social and environmental justice activists on the topic from Bhopal to the Bay. Subscribe via ITunes Radio Reimagine! NOOL - THREADS: Audio Tapestries from the South Asian Diaspora Climate Change Environmental Health Tweet| Reimagine!
RadioReimagine-RisingUpBookinterviewjune2023.mp3 Preeti Gamzeh interviews veteran radio journalist and author Sonali Kolhatkar on her new book Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice. Subcribe via Apple Podcasts or visit our new website at radioreimagine.com Radio Reimagine! NOOL - THREADS: Audio Tapestries from the South Asian Diaspora 8- Strategies for Change: Movement Building Tweet| Reimagine!
How a New Partnership Can Overcome COVID-19 Racial Disparities By James Head From the early days of the pandemic, as stark disparities in low-income Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities in hospitalization, infection, and death rates began to emerge, we knew that this unprecedented health crisis called for an unprecedented solution. Now, more than 18 months later, the crisis has not only persisted, but became even more complex. For example, compulsory vaccination in schools, ...| Reimagine!
By Jess Clarke Today’s emerging resistance movements can draw on a long and varied history to challenge the reactionary US government. Racial justice organizing has been the leading edge of progressive change for generations, and lessons learned and leadership from Black liberation struggles are key to moving beyond resistance and toward revolutionary abundance. This issue of RP&E, Conversations on Race and Resistance, brings together the voices of dozens of organizers and artists working i...| Reimagine!
Needless to say we canceled our release party at SF City College, so... You are invited to read volume 23 of Reimagine!Race Poverty & the Environment online! Great articles on Free City College organizing, immigrant women workers' rights, Black culture in San Francisco, food justice and green smoothies in Oakland and much more. If you make a premium level donation to honor our 30th anniversary you can choose from RP&E Journals/Anthologies and books for your acknowledgement gift. by Jess C...| Reimagine!
This section contains excerpts from Mujeres Mágicas - Domestic Workers Right to Writeby Las Malcriadas The book is edited and translated by Karina Muñiz-Pagán and Argelia Muñoz Larroa. Foreword by Karina Muñiz-Pagán I am a grandchild of immigrant domestic workers and a writer connected to la frontera, as if my ancestral umbilical cord is buried in the desert terrain of the U.S./Mexico border. I’ve spent the last several years excavating stories never told. When my father was ten years...| Reimagine!
By Gabriel Agurcia Source: Golden Gate Xpress “When we say black, what does that mean?” Phillips chose his favorite quotes from all the conversations and scattered them across the gallery’s long, curved wall. The gold lettering stood out against the black background, with gold dust resembling nebulas and galaxies strewn around the quotes. Phillips said he got the idea for this layout from his Christian upbringing. He said although he no longer has any religious affiliation, he’s fond ...| Reimagine!
By Kelly Curry This is an excerpt from the book Until the Streets of the Hood Flood with Green co-published by Reimainge! and Freedom Voices. My father was Horatio Alger… or at least the kind of character made famous by the Horatio Alger, the 19th century writer who chronicled through his fiction the archetype of the poor boy who works his way up from very little to achieve great riches, respect and love from the community. When my dad was a kid, America was still a place where this could h...| Reimagine!
By Marcy Rein, Vicki Legion and Mickey Ellinger| www.reimaginerpe.org