#build communities

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

‘Collective Care is the Future’

Poster by @thefaztastic is available as a free high resolution download at amplifier.org

[hellyeahanarchistposters]

‘Build Communities’

[bummerbetch]

Bummer Book Club

Continuing our Reading of Policing the Planet The lives of those with Black and Brown bodies are threatened long before situations escalate to murder at the hands of police.

“Hyper-aggressive enforcement of minor nonviolent infractions that targets communities of color doesn’t make any of our communities safer” (page 64)

Since 2010 we have seen “an explosive rise in incarceration, a generation growing up with criminal records, the dismantling of communities, the shattering of trust in the police, and a police force trained to focus on the quantity and not the quality of arrests” (page 79). 

Lives of those in lower income communities, particularly for young Black men, are negatively affected by police, even without direct contact. Money and resources that should be spent on bettering community services and resources instead are used to increase policing and degrade the idea of a community. 

Those who survive police custody are not spared, but rather forced into a system of mass incarceration that robs them of their lives in a different way. Those arrested as teens are denied their childhood often for no valid reason at all. There is no hope in bettering our society until we stop treating children as adults in the name of the law, end sentencing for low level offenses (or the mere perception of one) and focus on education. After surviving the prison system, into adulthood, these individuals are forced to navigate a society that does not treat those with criminal records kindly -- in some cases denying such basic rights as voting, regardless of the charge. 

[theentrepreneurway]

(via 503: Overcoming the Fear of Big Ideas and Taking the First Step with Nicole Ertas Founder and Owner of the Ertas Group - The Entrepreneur Way)

To find out more click this link =>>

http://theentrepreneurway.com/podcast/503-overcoming-the-fear-of-big-ideas-and-taking-the-first-step-with-nicole-ertas-founder-and-owner-of-the-ertas-group/

Nicole is an executive advisor and recognized global brand strategist who has helped build many of the world’s finest and most powerful brands. Her thinking has been embraced by companies such as Jim Beam, Wrigley, Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, Kraft, and Nestle. Nicole’s work on global innovation and brand strategy has been recognized in Adweek, The New York Times, Crain’s and Forbes.  @freerangebrands

[jessicamaccormackrmack]

[xxwelxx]

There rly is not much else to say except stay alive

But I feel like you could do it. People are so resilient we’ve gone through so much already. I hope we’re able to find community in the coming times (and I really hope natural causes does its thing by the first year ahahah what who said that)

But actually, we’ve done it before we can do it again.

[christinemonk]

Inspiring Generations to Build Communities for the Greater Good - xMonks

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The 20th guest on the xMonks Drive podcast is an entrepreneur who was struck by the love for building communities which led him to explore philanthropy. Madhavan Rangaswamy is the name of the beautiful soul in the conversation.