Another World is Possible: Visionary Politics

A panel discussion with Rachel Herzing from Critical Resistance and Creative Interventions, Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan from Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project, Sara Kershnar from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Chela Delgado from INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence. The panelists discuss visionary politics for our movements based in the work of their organizations.

Visionary politics are political frames that invite us to imagine and create a world organized and operated by values of justice, cooperation, and liberation.  This panel focuses on ways that social justice organizations balance addressing the urgency of organizing against oppressive forces and their immediate impacts on people’s lives with building sustainable alternative institutions and practices in line with their alternative visions for the world.  Panelists discuss ways that their organizations balance fighting for concrete wins and advances in the world with transforming the process and culture of how that organizing happens.

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The Catalyst Project‘s Anne Braden Program is a four-month intensive anti-racist organizing training for white social justice activists.  The program combines workshops, mentorship, and volunteer placements at local racial and economic justice organizations, in an effort to develop white anti-racist leadership to build support for racial justice in white communities and help build powerful multiracial movements for collective liberation.

Open sessions of the Anne Braden Program provide an opportunity for participants to invite friends and family to join them in their learning process.  While the Anne Braden Program is designed for white social justice activists, the open sessions welcome guests of all backgrounds.  The open sessions are an opportunity for Anne Braden Program mentors, site supervisors, volunteers and allies to participate in the program.  These sessions are a space for us to come together and learn as a larger community.