Tag Archive: political

June 3, 2014

Barr Fellows Meet the Mayor

If you are a regular reader you’ve heard me talk about the Barr Fellows. It is one of the most powerful experiments in developing a leadership network within a geographic context – the City of Boston. I have the privilege of being on the design and facilitation team for this remarkable project. Read More

Power and Privilege: Undoing

by Cynthia Silva Parker

In case you missed my earlier posts in this series, [include hyperlink to first post], I am raising a series of questions about power and privilege in social change work at the invitation of the “Walk the Talk” zine/book project. Prior questions included:

“How do I handle my privileges responsibly and avoid the “oppression Olympics?”
How do I figure out which privileges to leverage, which to minimize and which to divest?
When is it more responsible to “hold the bag” and when is it more important to “let the ball bounce?” and What has my contribution been and how do my colleagues of color see me?

Today I want to pose two related questions. Read More

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July 12, 2011

Exploded Democracy

by Gibrán Rivera

I recently came upon the following abstract of a paper we presented at the Sutures Conference in the University of Toronto back in 2003. I was intrigued by the continuing relevance of the concept and how these ideas continue to inform my work: Read More