Mijente’s guide for organizing in times of uncertainty.
The challenges we face feel big. We’re offering a tool to support your creative process as we continue to come together to organize, make demands, and challenge our different cities and local governments to do much more—para todes.
Tenemos Asuntos que arreglar.
It is urgent that grassroots, progressive, and community forces work together to re/build a liberatory political project that comes from the people.
We hope this toolkit will support your creative process as we continue to come together to organize, make demands, and challenge our different cities and local governments to do much more.
Following the 2024 election it's not surprising that it may feel like the possibility for positive change is distant and daunting. Taken together, the ideas in this document do not pretend to be a magic wand to whisk all threats away. However, we assert that politics do shift in ways that can flip what feels fixed and insurmountable. The pace and direction in which this happens is impacted when people come together to defend against threats or demand change.
We hold the view that what must be born, what must come next will likely, as we have seen time and time again in history, come from the most unlikely. Even now, we continue to believe that ordinary people, those often counted out, can indeed make history. At the very least, we can be protagonists in our own lives and communities. Amidst so much need for big change, the first or the next step gets us a little closer. It's the spark that powers us to keep going. This toolkit is offered in the spirit of the spark, the first or the next step, towards the promise to make change in our communities and equally as important to transform ourselves.
Ahead we share seven different issue areas that impact our communities and examples for approaching them. While the number of issues impacting our communities is larger and more interconnected than what is covered here, our intention is for this offering to be a starting point for further strategizing.
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