"The liberation of our people is the center of our work... The generations after us, the ones who are not yet born, the beautiful ones—we are creating a better world for them by challenging this belief that this is the only way; this is how it is. It's not the way it has to be." - Oya Amakisi
"Protests & electoral politics need each other, like peanut butter and jelly! Because protests, without leveraging the power of the streets in the ballot box, means that people get elected who are not accountable to our communities." - Judith LeBlanc
As we approach November 3rd elections and continue to advocate for the voices of our communities to be heard, fight to transform inequitable systems, center community solutions, and imagine a more just future, we encourage you all to remember the inspiring words of Oya Amakisi and Judith LeBlanc from our webinar on healing-centered practices. Let our power be heard through our protests and our votes:
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PRAXIS RESOURCES & EVENTS
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Disaster Justice & Digital Storytelling Learning Circles: We are wrapping up our virtual 2020 Learning Circles. It has been incredibly powerful to come together during this challenging time to heal, center our visions, celebrate our victories, and continue to nurture each other's work to advance health and racial justice. The Praxis Project appreciates all of the groups participating this year. We are grateful to be able to hold space for such amazing community leaders.
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Roots & Remedies:
Our 2020 Roots & Remedies t-shirts have shipped! Our 2020 in-house t-shirt design is the theater ghost light—the light and protection that is driven by your organizing, advocacy, and community work. Did you receive yours yet? Show us! Tag us on social media with #RRrewind2020.
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Kourtney & Candace in their shirts! #RRrewind2020
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Soda Taxes as Community-Centered Investment to Advance Health, Justice & Racial Equity: On August 5th, Praxis was joined by community leaders to discuss how soda taxes have served as community investments in Berkeley through authentic partnership and inclusive engagement of community-based organizers and advocates. Webinar recording and materials.
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Recognizing Healing-Centered Community Practices as a Complement to Trauma-Informed Interventions and Services: This brief showcases the importance of addressing community trauma through identifying and making space for healing-centered practices that communities have evolved over time, acknowledging and understanding the roots of trauma, and addressing the persistent, structural causes of trauma. In a webinar on August 26th, Praxis was joined by Judith Le Blanc with Native Organizers Alliance and Oyatunde Amakisi with Detroit Women of Color, Inc. who shared their insights. Access the brief or view the webinar recording and materials.
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Civic Participation for All (CP4All): Organizing Beyond the Ballot Box: This report highlights how basebuilding community organizers promote civic and community-centered engagement to enact change for justice and equity. On October 7th, Praxis was joined by LUPE's civic engagement leadership to discuss how they advance civic participation in their communities to build power. Access the brief or view the webinar recording and materials.
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PRAXIS HEALTH JUSTICE INTERN PROJECTS
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Praxis was graced with three phenomenal summer interns this year who have supported our team on everything from Learning Circles to updating our Social Determinants of Health framework to podcasts. We are so proud of everything they have accomplished and are excited to share their individual projects:
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Public Health Needs A New Publicist: Praxis' Health Justice Intern, Julian Johnson, worked on a blog series that shares his perspective on public health and examines how public health is traditionally defined and advocates for broadening the who, what, and why of public health work. Read the blog.
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Transforming Community Safety: Looking Beyond Reforms: In her new blog post, Praxis Health Justice Comms intern, Kourtney Nham, discusses the need to look beyond band-aid solutions to police violence and incarceration and instead uplift transformative, abolitionist visions with highlights from Black Organizing Project. Read the blog.
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School Nutrition, Food Procurement, & Equitable Community Development: Praxis' Health Justice Intern Roxana Rodriguez authored this brief on the importance of centering racial equity and justice within school nutrition and food procurement. This brief highlights how nutrition policy and procurement in K-12 institutions can advance health, justice, sustainability, equity, and community power. Read the brief.
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PRAXIS LEGISLATIVE & ADVOCACY UPDATES
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The BREATHE Act: The Breathe Act offers a radical reimagining of public safety, community care, and how we spend money as a society. The Praxis Project is proud community co-sponsor to this visionary bill that divest tax dollars from policing and invest in a new vision of public safety. Learn more.
THRIVE Agenda: Time is ripe for transformative change. The THRIVE Agenda is crucial response to the interlocking crisis we face at this moment. The Praxis Project is a proud supporter of THRIVE and its commitment to addressing issues affecting BIPOC communities. Learn more.
Abundant Birth Project: Praxis has been in partnership with San Francisco's Expecting Justice, Abundant Birth Project (ABP). ABP is a pilot program to provide basic income to Black and Pacific Islander women during pregnancy. ABP is the first program of its kind in the country. The launch of the program was announced by Mayor London Breed in September. To learn more about ABP watch their mini-documentary. Learn more.
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California Ballot Proposition Guide: We released our 2020 California Ballot Proposition guide. Our guide was influenced by our partners across the state of California that build power, center community and advance equity. Learn more.
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OCHIN Health Justice Communications Training: In collaboration with Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG), Praxis facilitated a half-day health justice communications training for OCHIN's marketing and communications team. We covered the principles of health and racial justice, and BMSG provided guidance for equitable communications framing to advance racial justice.
APHA 2020: From October 26th-October 28th, Praxis will be participating in the virtual APHA 2020 conference. We will be presenting on community power, the role of culture in community organizing, Praxis' Working Principles for Health, Justice and Racial Equity, and civic participation beyond the ballot box. We will be highlighting the work of LUPE, Chinese Progressive Association, and Nollie Jenkins Family Center in our presentations! Learn more.
Vital Village Network’s National Community Leadership Summit: On October 26th, Praxis is presenting at 2020 National Leadership Summit, hosted by Vital Village Network. This year’s event, “Our Future, Our Communities” will lift up the grassroots leaders who work daily to address racial and social inequality in our communities, brought into stark relief recently by the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and the killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans. Praxis is highlighting our Working Principles for Health, Justice and Racial Equity and community-led efforts in our network.
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ABOUT US
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