Policy/Politics

Don’t decide to run until you have your helpers. You need a treasurer or someone to collect up the money and put it in the bank and get the thank yous ready. You need a volunteer coordinator who will recruit people to go door knocking with you who will help. You need someone to head up doing your social media.

“Women are the majority, and it is time we exert our voting power to get the equality we deserve.”

Since mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and mass policing clearly have not ended murder, assault, or rape, the authors write, isn’t it time to think of better ideas?

“If you are imprisoned and you are innocent of a crime, you can imagine that it just compounds the trauma.”

“We punish those who are already victims of their own circumstances and put them into even worse circumstances.”

Getting funded requires a culture shift in society, she says. “A recognition that incarceration does not work. We do not acknowledge the reality of where the harm is coming from.”

“It became clear to me that any program addressing the violence women had committed would also need to address the aggression and violence they had personally experienced.”

She cautioned that my status as a transgender woman likely would generate some strong negativity, and given that, she would understand if I wanted to pass on running.

We often focus on what patriarchy is doing to us. We don’t focus on what we are doing to patriarchy.

We all need to be involved
in building communities, not focused solely on developing things. — Winona LaDuke

We have an upside-down narrative that seems to allow a few people and institutions to profit from the public spaces we care for.

What communities are capable of doing in a time of democratic crisis and economic rebuilding.