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Jan/30/12//Cynthia Silva Parker//Featured, The Collaborative Organization

Reflect and Strengthen

I asked my colleagues for suggestions about grassroots leaders and organizations doing great things in the world. One suggestion was Boston-based Reflect & Strengthen, which turned ten in 2011.

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Jan/23/12//Cynthia Silva Parker//Race, Class, Power

Redefining Revolution

“In the 1960s all hell broke loose… The media called it a “riot.” The black community called it a revolution… Rebellion was an explosion of anger. Revolution was a tremendous leap forward, a tremendous evolution of consciousness and responsibility; a whole new way of thinking…We have the opportunity to change our thinking and our philosophy by understanding what is really happening; what time it is on the clock of the world.”

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Jan/16/12//Cynthia Silva Parker//Featured, Race, Class, Power

Practicing what Dr. King preached

This is the 26th official celebration of the national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I remember the struggle to establish the holiday and wonder what Dr. King himself might think of what it has become.

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Jan/09/12//Cynthia Silva Parker//Sustainability

Awareness

What am I missing because I’m not looking for it?

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Dec/29/11//Cynthia Silva Parker//Sustainability

People Power

The Black Mesa Water Coalition is an inspiring group of Navajo and Hopi young people who organized to protect the Navajo aquifer which was being depleted by coal production and transportation processes. They are a great example of people power, coming together and winning important gains for their community. And, they are an important reminder about the many ways in which Native people in the U.S. continue to face structural barriers to their own well-being. As we move the conversation about structural racism forward, I have to ask myself, as a black woman who grew up on land that was taken from the Wampanoag people, how can I be an effective ally?

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