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Reporting from Minneapolis
Protesters hang Black Lives Matter sign over the entrance of the 4th Precinct Police Station in Minneapolis. Image courtesy of www.swurvradio.com Dear Catalyst community, By now I’m sure you’ve heard that white supremacists shot 5 people at the#Justice4Jamar rally in Minneapolis on Monday, and shot at activists again last night. Jamar Clark was a 24 year-old Black […]
On Refugees, Repression, and Resistance in Times of War
The world is in upheaval and all of us–we who are agents of change, healers, lovers, people who care about building a just and sustainable world–are called both to grieve and to take action. The news is full of terrorism and refugees. Vicious attacks on non-combatants in Mali (yesterday), Nigeria, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and France just in […]
15 ways to strengthen anti-racist practice
This list is a collection of ideas and resources we’ve refined both from personal experiences and insights from our mentors and comrades in struggle. We have given this list to thousands of people over the years. And we’re asking that you continue this tradition by sharing with folks in your life looking for a starting […]
What I Learned About White Anti-Racist Study and Struggle
This summer, sixteen Catalyst Project volunteers came together in a six-session “Study and Struggle” group about Black liberation to deepen our understandings of the historical context for the current Movement for Black Lives. Read on to learn what we studied! You can access our curriculum here. We wanted to learn about the movements, leaders, and […]
Reportback From Catalyst’s Recent Work in Maine
This August I returned to my home state of Maine with Catalyst Project. I came back to find that Maine, like so many places in the U.S., has become a battleground of the Rightwing, where people in power are using racism and xenophobia to justify filling prisons and cutting public services. White people I grew […]
4 Ways White Privilege Shows Up In Social Justice Movements
“The answers will only be found by meeting the problem head-on, by taking hold of its most terrifying aspects and weaving them into the solution.” – Anne Braden Dear Friend, I want to talk with you about white supremacy. I want us, and I mean white people in large scale, to be real with each […]
Charleston & Ending White Supremacy
These are two responses from Catalyst Project members to the Charleston Massacre, including action steps. Since we wrote these, the first one was published in the SF Examiner. Dear friends, We don’t need more conversations about race, we need conversations about white supremacy and how to end it. Nine Black lives were taken in […]
Completion of the 5th Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizing Training Program
We are excited to announce the completion of the 2015 Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program! In this post you’ll find videos from the Visionary Politics panel and the Anti-Racist Strategies panel (both with transcripts); a list of guest speakers and workshop leaders and a list of Bay Area organizations where participants volunteered 1,800 hours of labor. — Videos, Transcripts […]
I Support the #BaltimoreUprising
“This is not just Baltimore’s problem, like it wasn’t just Ferguson. This is racism in America.” Photos by Devin Allen, a 26-year-old resident of West Baltimore Dear Friend, I’m from a majority Black and highly segregated city near Baltimore. Wilmington, Delaware had the longest domestic military occupation since the Civil War when the […]
Feb 22: Indigenous Resilience and Resistance to Colonization
Please join us February 22nd in San Francisco for the first open session of theAnne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program*: Indigenous Resilience & Resistance to Colonization Sunday February 22nd, 1-3pm The Women’s Building, 3543 18th St., San Francisco **Please read information on accessibility for our community below.** Four visionary panelists will discuss the politics and strategies of Indigenous resistance to […]