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https://www.facebook.com/BayAreaTransformativeJustice/photos/a.129673930844666/129673617511364/?type=1&theater
Song Alma de Canta'ora
by Amparo Sanchez
(former Manu Chao collaborator)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx3wCTAbJI4
Transformative justice
Path of individuals and collective healing through community accountability, compassion, and commitment. It was a way of creating a system of community-based justice grounded in the humanity -not the brokenness- of i
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s members in our creative capacity to transform and heal from living in a violent and imbalanced society. Instead of turning to the state, we drew on the streng
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h and resources already in our community to end sexual assault and bu
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safer, healthier relations among and between activists.
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From: The Chrysalis Collective. A group of womyn and trans folk of color with experience organizing aroun
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reproductive justice, queer health, racial justice, gender justice, youth issues, i
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migration rights, and food justice.
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We envision a world where everyday people can intervene in incidences of child sexual
abuse in ways that
not only meet immediate needs such as stopping current violence, securing safety and taking accountability for harm; but that also
prevent future violence and harm by actively cultivating things such as healing, accountability and resiliency for all — survivors, bystanders, and those who have abused others.
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From: The Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) / Oakland, California, a community collective of individuals working to build and support transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse.
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VALUES:
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Interdependence
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Integrity and authentic connection
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Trust
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Compassion
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Humility and courage
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Healing
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Responsibility and accountability
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Sharing and sustainability
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Transformation and growth
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Liberation and possibility
PRINCIPLES
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Value-based work
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Personal and systemic transformation
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Building through relationship and trust
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Taking accountability
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Building relationships in service of liberation
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Showing up for each other out of duty and choice.
PRACTICES
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Proactively taking accountability
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Prioritizing our relationships with ourselves and each other over action or goals
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Encouraging decentralized growth
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Holding the humanity and dignity of everyone
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Holding contradictions and complexity
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Practicing transparency while holding confidentiality
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Engaging in personal growth and healing work outside of group
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Collective action and collective leadership
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Challenging oppressive dynamics in the service of connection and trust
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Engaging in conflict openly and honestly
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Putting the work first, keeping it moving forward
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Individual and collective reflection and adaptation
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Expressing gratitude and appreciation
EXERCISE WITH HANDS, COMMUNITARY SKILLS,
Draw your hand in a piece of paper and try to answer inside each finger this questions:
1) natural skills / personality / roles you use to play in collective conflicts?
2) can you remember a (past/first/important) conflict/problem ?
3) optional
4) wich skills you have adquired / tools you have to deal now as an adult / migrant
5) there is an on-going problem in your collective, family or Collective Conditions sessions you want to work with it
The power is inside of us, the feminine (the feminst) awakeness, I am the power, I am the heaven, I am the energy.
Feminist Healing
Chicana Feminism - Borderlands -- Dealing with: Immigration, Segregation, Having two tongues, Two Nationalities, Two ways of oppression or patriarchy,
Chrysalis Collective - Based in Belgrave, Australia
What kinds of protocols are in place to establish a transformative justice practice?
https://supportny.org/transformative-justice/
--> Another reference
Ann
Body sensitive
Observation
Intersectional communication
Not afraid to propuse solutions in an experimental way
Helen
Potato energy
: stay calm, motor energy 'this is what we have to do'
Protect people inside institutions (hide
while being present
with
people)
, deep cover: undertaking work underground
Starting energy
,needs help to finish
Z
Good at starting
Proposing alternative perspective to see things
Sharing and distribution
(ressources, information, tasks)
Participation of all - Social skills
Varinia
reading bodies
finding practical solutions
very handy
(materially)
emotions are mystery
Raphaël
Critical Thinking
from
a dominant point of view
, I don't know what it
is like to be oppressed
desire to show solidarity
very full energy ressources, aware of my own privileges
people listen to me
Aay
sharing vulnerabilities
start energy
enthusiasm :)
lik
e one-on-one situation
Nina
Empathy
only in one-on-one situations
In/patience
fear of patronizing attitudes in conflicts
Consistency (?)
Good to connect people
Good to connect topics
I'm no afraid to be smashed
Julia
Dealing with testosterone
in
a
non-conflictual
way
Humor as a way to disarm conflict
I don't use to say people what to do it, but to help them to reflect
on things
and find solution themselves
I talk in a simple way
of speaking
/ leveling the discussion
Sky
Potato energy
practise in de-escalating in heated situation
mediator
with people I know
/
middle position between lot of people that do not always like each other
up for challenges
Loren
Pretty friendly
likes organising things
emotional
Inteligence
: psychotic /mental illnesses
showing care
good at finding loopholes (way to use system for what it was not intended for), think creatively
Verena
empathize with anyone, also people 'you should not' empathize with
keeping secrets
people think I'm calm
Conflict to work with:
- older man crossing the line of youngsters admiring him, how to asnwer him so that he hears it - subtle tone of him makes it difficult
- growing public presence of hate, intolerance, racism, ecology
- ideological, move from radical leftist to ideological 'mutual' (?) environments, frustration of being the trouble maker, attention/energies towards 1 person instead of towards the group, weird dynamics what do you speak from and who do you speak to
- sexual harassment in the street, slow reaction, threw stones - to understadn when something is a limit, not being afraid to say this is my limit - women in patriarchal society & private life
- how ot create family/friend like structure where there is commitment and places of suuport for pain issues, without producing familiar violence