Socially Just

Stand in solidarity with those whose access to material resources and free self-expression is limited by unjust systems of power and privilege.

The Pachamama Alliance states “consciously and unconsciously created systems of ongoing oppression and inequality exist in the world. The outcomes generated by those systems are directly in opposition to our vision of a thriving, just and sustainable world.”

Pachamama Alliance Resources

The Pachamama Alliance offers a pathway to engagement through free online courses and groups on the global commons such as:

• Pachamama Alliance Standing in Solidarity
• Resilience and Possibility in These Times Conversations and more
• Black Lives Matter and the Pachamama Alliance
• Conversations on Democracy
• Indigenous Wisdom groups and the Rights of Nature
• What are Environmental Rights?
  

SOPA Action, Projects & Resources 

• Art writing and research by activist artist Catie Faryl
  

Local Partners, Resources & Action

• Bellview Grange, Ashland
• Channel 12 report “Feds release Oregon’s first Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons’ report”
• Deconstructing Whiteness Learning Space
• Interfaith Social Justice Coalition
• Main Street Alliance of Oregon
• Oregon Community Rights Network
• Post Growth Institute (Offers and Needs)
• Red Earth Descendants
• Southern Oregon Climate Action (SOCAN) Statement on Racism
  

National & International Resources & Action

Racial Equity and Anti-racism

• 4 Lessons on Anti-Racism from Brené Brown and Ibram X. Kendi
• 5 Mindful Books About Equality and Racial Justice
• Black Lives Matter
• Cambridge Press suggestions on protesting, police and race
• Dream Corp: Dream Corps closes prison doors and opens doors of opportunity. We bring people together across racial, social, and partisan lines to create a future with freedom and dignity for all.
• Facing History and Ourselves website challenges teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate by examining and addressing racism, anti-Semitism, and prejudice at pivotal moments in history.
• How to Support Antiracism in Yourself & in the World
• Isabel Wilkerson, author of the book Caste, podcasts
• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community
• Obama.org
• The Shift Network’s Resources That Speak to Racial Justice and Healing
• White Awake
• Why Rural America Is Joining the Movement for Black Lives
• Allyship/Decolonizion/Reparation
  • Becoming a Good Relative
  • Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy, “A Trip to the Grocery Store”
  • Guardian Article
  • Liberated Capital
  • Paying back an unpayable debt
  • A territorial acknowledgment app, part of our collective racial and societal healing
  • We can’t return to the way things were
• More Resources
  • America Reframed, a PBS series brings to national audiences compelling stories that illuminate the changing contours of our ever-evolving country through a diverse selection of independent documentaries. 

Women and Girls

• Article by Jimmy Carter on equality for women and girls.
• Bioneers
• She Decides
• Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network

Rights of Nature

• Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights
• Community Environment Legal Defense Fund
• Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
• Harmony with Nature, UN
• Indigenous Environmental Network 
• Movement Rights
• Native American Rights Fund
• Navdanya International
• Right to Clean Water
• Rights of Mother Earth
• Rights of Nature.org
• Rights of Nature Tribunal
• Rights of Wetlands
• A recorded Rights of Nature webinar
• Treesisters
• Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network, International

Diving Deeper

• The 1619 Project: The 1619 Project, an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
• American Civil Liberties Union
• The Bail Project
• Common Cause.org: Since 1970 Common Cause has been working to hold power accountable through lobbying, litigation, and grassroots organizing. Our non-partisan, pro-democracy work has helped pass hundreds of reforms at the federal, state, and local levels. Here is information about its social media monitors.
• Dr. Joy DeGruy presentation to the UVA Engineering community on February 23, 2017, as part of the Excellence Through Diversity Distinguished Learning Series.
• Equal Justice Initiative
• First Nations Development Institute
• Human Rights Campaign
• Making Democracies Worthy of the Name… and More
• NAACP
• The Reimagine Oregon Project
• WORLD TRUST page on Social Justice & Equity Movement Building
  
  Books
  • Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva
  • Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxane Dunbar Ortiz
  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy Degruy
  • The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist