Break Away Blog
Of The Earth: Reimagining Nature as Community | Grand Canyon ABCS
When humankind first began to traverse the planet, people and the natural environment were inseparable, symbiotic. This “spiritual interdependence”, as articulated in the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit’s Principles of Environmental Justice, was simply the natural state of things.
Finding the Power | Keene ABCS
Corporations are informed by millions of consumers. So as a single individual trying to resist something so large, that familiar sense of powerlessness begins to creep back in and we find ourselves frozen into inaction in the face of such an immense problem.
Defining American | Atlanta ABCS
During the Atlanta ABCS, we partnered with three community organizations—Freedom University, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, and El Refugio—each working with diverse immigrant populations. We spent the week deconstructing the meaning of “American,” while working to develop our understanding of a nation historically built and sustained by immigrants (both stolen and willing).