{"id":26320,"date":"2024-09-14T22:20:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=26320"},"modified":"2024-09-26T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:25:31","slug":"collective-liberation-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/collective-liberation-what-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective Liberation: What it Means, A Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pablo DeJesus, Executive Director<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist, academic, and artist:
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\n“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”<\/p>\n

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Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Icon:
\n<\/strong>\"\" \"\"\u201cNobody’s free until everybody’s free.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nOpal Lee, Grandmother of Juneteenth, Civil Rights Icon:
\n<\/strong>\"\"“I have to tell you that none of us are free until we are all free.”<\/p>\n

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Aurora Levins Morales, Poet:
\n<\/b>\"\"\"\"“We cannot cross until we carry each other, all of us refugees, all of us prophets. No more taking turns on history’s wheel, trying to collect old debts no-one can pay. The sea will not open that way. … and all of us must be chosen. This time it’s all of us or none”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tenaja Jordan, Writer, Organizer and Research & Communications Director:
\n<\/b>\"\"“May we continue to work in true solidarity towards collective liberation, knowing that none of us are free until we are all free.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review a longer post about collective liberation by UUSJ’s Executive Director, Pablo DeJes\u00fas:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If “nobody’s free until everybody’s free,” shouldn’t we be…<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n

Advocates for Collective Liberation?\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n

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A Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n

Collective liberation is the idea that multiple oppressions are intertwined and that people must work together to end them. It involves:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n