Movement Generation

Part 2 of the Three Circles Strategy Tool! How do people move what is materially and culturally necessary into the realm of the politically realistic? Mateo breaks down how this worked in a recent progressive electoral campaign. This video is for educational purposes only ✌🏽 Featuring visionary art by @amir.khadar @lucydreamsof @roundwaterdesign 💖

Do you realize that visionary politics like #AffordableHousing, #UniversalHealthCare, inexpensive and accessible public transit, and free child care are popular? Of course! These things are good for everyone except billionaires. How do we push the edges to realize these visions? Here’s a framework that captures how change happens and how visionary politics become reality: the 3 Circles Strategy Tool.

Our offering. Ecological justice is the state of balance between human communities and healthy ecosystems based on thriving, mutually beneficial relationships and truly democratic, participatory self-governance. There is no ecological justice in a world in which Palestinians are bombed, starved, displaced from their lands, and have no freedom of movement or agency over their lives. “From the river to the sea” refers to the ecological boundaries of historic Palestine and all its peoples and all their diverse cultures. It is a call to freedom, true democracy, reparations, and restoration. What does a free Palestine look like, from the river to the sea, where borders are nonexistent and the land and all people are liberated? Swipe left to read the full text or visit link in our bio. ✌🏽✊🏽🙏🏽 #FreePalestine #PalestineWillBeFree #FromTheRiverToTheSea #ceasefireNow #EndTheOccupation #StopArmingIsrael #EndApartheid #FreeGaza IMAGE IDs: screen shots of a blog titled “the path to ecological justice runs through a free Palestine”. Full text is available at the linktree.com/MovementGeneration

You are not alone. No shame! Healing is a journey, and we are here to help you through it at our free clinic.

In our beautiful future we, the people, have the power to define the rules that shape our lives and our livelihoods. We determine our hours, the kinds of jobs we will do, our relationship to technology, how the fruits of our collective labor will be distributed and more. Our work is a beautiful offering to our collective thriving through which we are each empowered. Our work reflects our gifts and skills. . In this future our labor cannot be extracted instead, it nourishes our communities, our bodies and our spirit. We express deep gratitude to each other for our labor and recognize each others’ contribution. We each are asked to work in our sacred calling and also to work to sustain our communities. And even so, work is not the center of our lives. . To make this, or any other vision, real, we will need to cultivate the collective power now to redefine the terms of our labor. We must adopt a power orientation. . What if we cultivated the power to redefine the terms upon which we will live and work?

There are existing principles, including the Principles of Environmental Justice and Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing, that have been important in guiding our work. These Just Transition principles are an attempt to consolidate and synthesize various Just Transition principles from among Climate Justice Alliance members and allies, built off the deep work and discussions amongst ourselves. Understanding that Just Transition will look different in different places, we believe a core set of shared principles can strengthen our collective work. —————— After centuries of global plunder, the profit-driven industrial economy rooted in patriarchy and white supremacy is severely undermining the life support systems of the planet. Transition is inevitable. Justice is not. We must build visionary economy that is very different than the one we now are in. This requires stopping the bad while at the same time as building the new. We must change the rules to redistribute resources and power to local communities. Just transition initiatives are shifting from dirty energy to energy democracy, from funding highways to expanding public transit, from incinerators and landfills to zero waste, from industrial food systems to food sovereignty, from gentrification to community land rights, from military violence to peaceful resolution, and from rampant destructive development to ecosystem restoration. Core to a just transition is deep democracy in which workers and communities have control over the decisions that affect their daily lives. To liberate the soil and to liberate our souls we must decolonize our imaginations, remember our way forward and divorce ourselves from the comforts of empire. We must trust that deep in our cultures and ancestries is the diverse wisdom we need to navigate our way towards a world where we live in just relationships with each other and with the earth. ———- Soundtrack by @mad.lines

Our vision for healing justice from a Kanaka ʻŌiwi perspective is grounded in the growth of a Puʻuhonua society capable of meeting the basic needs of our lāhui (people/nation). This is the foundation for our free healing clinic.

Our care team is from our community. Lehua is a Lahaina fire survivor and lomi practitioner with Maui Medics Healers Hui. We love you, Lehua!

Movements for liberation will at times sideline healing as a secondary or tertiary concerns. But healing justice shows us that healing must have a place in the movement if we want real change. @kindredsouthernhj

If you’ve been feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, dispersed, take a breath and try to turn away from the screens and connect with something organic (soil, tree, body). Close your eyes and reconnect with yourself. Just notice your breath if that is available to you. . We are processing too much horrible information combined with too much useless information combined with too much information on productivity and efficiency. Combined with avoidable inflation, violence, cruelty and harm. And we are suffering in many ways. Important to be gentle with ourselves and others, to be strategic with our attention and use of time, to connect to what clarifies and discerns. . Some mornings I have been waking up with no choice but to repeat softly to myself, “Another world is possible. Another world is possible. Another world is possible.” . It helps to take some time to imagine her incapable detail. To know her intimately so that as she emerges you can recognize and nurture her into being. . Do you ever think about the way music makes you feel? How it conveys and carries certain emotions across time and place? . These will@be up on the street soon. Because we could all use the reminder,

The deep bond between Lingít people and herring has been evolving in Southeast Alaska for at least 10,000 years. Today, the @HerringProtectors — led by Indigenous women, including founder K’ash’eechtlaa @LouiseBrady4727 — are honoring the fish and its sacred place in the web of life through ceremony and collective healing. Photojournalist Brooke Anderson (@movementphotographer of @movementgeneration ) shares how the Herring Protectors offer valuable lessons about processing grief and leveraging "ceremony as sovereignty" for water, land, and life protectors everywhere — especially in this era of exploitation. Link in bio. Image 1: Women hold up flags for Herring Protectors at the Yaaw Koo.éex’ ceremony, a multi-day gathering to honor and grieve herring. All photos by Brooke Anderson. Image 2: A whale breaches off the coast of Sheet’ka (Sitka) in Southeast Alaska, near herring spawning grounds. Image 3: K’ash’eechtlaa Louise Brady, founder of the Herring Protectors, speaks at the Yaaw Koo.éex’. Image 4: Volunteers distribute hundreds of bags of freshly harvested frozen herring eggs, still on hemlock branches, to attendees of the 2025 Yaaw Koo.éex’ to take home. Image 5: An attendee at the Yaaw Koo.éex’ holds out three bracelets they had been gifted, woven from red cedar. In the months-long lead-up to the Yaaw Koo.éex’, the Herring Protectors put volunteers to work doing what they know and love. Image 6: At the Yaaw Koo.éex’, members of opposite moieties take turns singing to each other, recognizing each other’s grief and reaffirming their commitment to one another. . . . #herring #Lingit #yaaw #southeastalaska #ceremony

CEREMONY AS SOVEREIGNTY. Earth Island Journal 🔗 link in bio or bit.ly/eij-herring In the incredibly biodiverse ecosystem of the Lingít Aaní (the ancestral homeland of the Lingít people of Southeast Alaska) herring is both a keystone species and has been central to Lingít foodways, spirituality, and cultural life for millennia. Yet, colonization and commercial fishing have put the sacred fish and subsistence harvesters in danger. “The extraction of the female roe as a capitalist resource parallels the genocide of our matrilineal structures and knowledge. We fight for the yaaw [herring] because their survival is paramount to our own fight for sovereignty,” says the @HerringProtectors . Founded by K’ash’eechtlaa Louise Brady (@louisebrady4727 ) in 2016, the Indigenous women-led Herring Protectors are using a strategy of “ceremony as sovereignty, or ceremony as resistance” to defend the herring. @MovementGeneration was grateful to be invited by the Herring Protectors to attend last year’s Yaaw Koo.éex’ ceremony honoring the herring in Sheet’ká (Sitka), Alaska. One year later, MG staff Brooke Anderson (@MovementPhotographer ) has a piece out today in @EarthIslandJournal exploring what other communities might learn from putting sacredness and reverence at the heart of their struggles to protect what they love. Read and share the piece, and follow @HerringProtectors to support their work.