[mgj-announce] Mon.: MGJ Openness and Accessibility Working Group Meeting

[Hendrik Voss]

At the general Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ) meeting on Wednesday, a
brief introduction to Anti-Oppression work was presented and people started
to talk in small groups about the culture of MGJ, visible and invisible
power dynamics, and the way meetings are run and decisions are being made.
These conversations are important and they resulted in some very valuable
feedback about issues of marginilazation within the Mobilization for Global
Justice.  As a community, we have the responsibility to dismantle the
systems and behaviors that perpetuate oppression and inequality, in our
lives and in the movement.  There's a lot to debrief and discuss and next
steps to be put in motion - please join

the next meeting of the Openness and Accessibility Working Group

on MONDAY, March 08 at 7:00pm
at Haydees (3103 Mount Pleasant Street NW)

Make challenging oppression and increasing accessibility a top priority of
your organizing work!


background information:

Oppression can be defined as the institutionalized, systematic, pervasive,
day-in, day-out, mistreatment of a person or group of individuals based
solely on their race, their sexual orientation, their gender, their age,
their class, and many other categories. Despite our best intentions,
oppression seeps its way into our work because we are socialized and
organize within a society based on domination.  On the following page,
you'll find an incomplete list of articles, intended to help activists and
groups to educate themselves and to better understand and deal with issues
of oppression.

Anti-Oppression Resources:
http://sept.globalizethis.org/article.php?id=13