> The venture-capital industry is indeed a clique: too white, too male, too Harvard/Stanford.
A few pages before that:
> the venture business is open to investors of Asian origin: about 15 percent of VC partners are ethnically Asian, more than double their share of the labor force.
#Poverty & #FoodInsecurity have worsened in most of #Canada in the past year & most provincial governments aren't doing enough to address the problem, according to a just-released series of #ReportCards.
“The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings as well as print materials dating primarily from the late-1960s to the mid-90s. These collections chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements for liberation and social justice.”
Rebecca Solnit: "Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists take the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting. It’s the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand." @bookstodon#hope#socialJustice
At the Crossroads of Fear and Freedom: The Fight for Social and Educational Justice by Robert L. Green, 2015
Robert L. Green, a friend and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., served as education director for King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference during a crucial period in Civil Rights history, and—as a consultant for many of the nation’s largest school districts—he continues to fight for social justice and educational equity today.
The alternative #degrowth informed manifesto for the UK at: https://gettingreal.org.uk/
Explore #GettingReal about the Crises Facing the UK - Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
For international friends - while it's focussed on politics in the UK, it's #internationalist with relevance elsewhere.
A bit more work to do on it: make it more phone-friendly, create topic modules & add infographics.
🧒Children are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis, facing increased risks of malnutrition and infectious diseases due to changes in food access, water quality, and maternal care. #ChildrensHealth#ClimateCrisis#SocialJustice (1/4)
🍲 The climate catastrophe threatens children's access to nutritious food and clean water, exacerbating malnutrition and increasing rates of diarrhea in low-income households. #FoodSecurity#PublicHealth#SocialJustice
Join the Workers Circle to learn how to build grassroots power to demand the democracy we need. A Democracy Circle is a small group of people you bring together — friends, colleagues, family — to take simple, concrete actions to demand the democracy we need and learn how to counter threats to our democracy today. Learn how people just like you have started circles across the country that are building community and having impact.
Join us next Thursday, April 18, at 7:00 PM ET for "Build Power: Start a Democracy Circle."
Reading for Justice: An Evening with Mac Marquis and Victoria Law
Join One Book One New Orleans and Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners for a conversation about #SocialJustice, #literacy, #activism, and more. Mac Marquis, author of Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement and Victoria Law, author "Prisons Make Us Safer" and Twenty Other Myths About Mass Incarceration, will discuss their books and their justice-focused work. Guests will also hear from Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners and One Book One New Orleans about their efforts at the local level.
This event will take place on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM at the Community Book Center (2523 Bayou Road). The event is FREE, family-friendly, and open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be served.
In hierarchical societies, reformers challenge the status quo with provocative and uncivil speech. Accusing them of hate speech is ill-intentioned. Karthick Ram Manoharan writes.