“The imagination and dreaming is key to what we want to be doing. In this moment, folks demanding money from police budgets and putting it into the community is beautiful.” - Erica Perry
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“We can change the question. People don’t have to reduce their imagination to what their experience has been.” -
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“Policy and budget is just as much about courage. Community have been asking for this for a really long time. We have not had the elected officials to have the courage to do it” -@traceyecorder on how we grow participatory practices #communitycontrol #M4BL
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"Attend public meetings, influence your elected officials, you can have real impact!" Brooke from
@ReflexDesignC put it best - when we show up we can "expanding their capacity to listen to communities.”#participatorybudgeting#communitycontrol#M4BLShow this thread -
Erica Perry on possibility in this moment: "I'm hungry for other ways to vision. I find that the orgs I have been naming have been training us to vision what another world can look like... together. I'm finding a lot of hope." YES!
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#M4BL and the pain of this struggle, remember, “There is so much hope and joy in this resilience.” -@traceyecorder#communitycontrolShow this thread -
Did you catch our conversation about
#communitycontrol in solidarity with#M4BL featuring@Shari_Davis1@traceyecorder@ReflexDesignC & Erica Perry? Be sure to connect with our speakers, their work and organizations. What are ways you want to see & advance community control?Show this thread
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