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We have the power within us to create the world anew. We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems: not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.
Grace Lee Boggs
Section one: getting our bearings
New to violence prevention? Check out our Prevention 101 resource!
The approach: The horizon point – Where we’re headed – Three things to read
While a Facilitator’s Guide is designed to lead conversations within our organizations or communities, the information is valuable for understanding the importance of working in and with community to create the community we want. This must inform the context for our prevention work.
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter even by a millimeter, the way a person looks or people look at reality, then you can change it.
“Violence against Indigenous women, femmes, queer folks is connected with the struggle to defend Mother Earth.” – Ya’at’eeh! Siihasin (Hope)
This conversation among organizers and leaders addresses gendered and racialized violence in our communities: from the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous and Black women, to targeted attacks against Asian women, to ongoing violence against trans and gender non-conforming people, to the trafficking of immigrant women.
