[Durham->#BlackLivesMatter]: meeting notes from 12/29 meeting

[Serena Sebring]

 *...these were posted to facebook, but for the sake of creating easily
accessible records of our communications, I'm posting here as well*





*Meeting Notes12/29/2014 6pm @ The LoveShackFacilitated by: Mama Nia,
Omisade, Mya Hunter*

Healing

•           Sustained spiritual grounding (breathing)

•           Love and Respect

•           The right to a shared existence

•           Healing from trauma imposed by Police and or community

•           Healing individuals, families, communities, nations

•           What do I do with my anger?

•           How can this movement be sustainable and avoid burn-out

•           Freedom of speech

•           Healing

Black Leadership

•           Black Leadership within the larger movement

•           Why are we having a P.O.C (People of Color) meeting during a
time of Black crisis?

•           Theoretical foundation for Black autonomy

•           How can I as a non-Black P.O.C help support this as a Black led
movement

•           How can I support Black folks leadership as a non-Black person
of color?

•           Black control of resources

•           Want to begin seeing a goal being defined locally for the
#BlackLivesMatter movement

Transform the System

•           Dismantling White Supremacy and getting free from White Culture

•           Queer liberation/transformation in this work

•           ?

Self Determination

•           Self Determination - Black business, food, education- not
reliant on outside world

•           What does our economy look like? How do we structure our own
economy?

•           Stopping gentrification

•           access to equal sustainability

Economic Scarcity & Financial Support

•           Money/economic scarcity - I worry about being homeless again
and the trauma that causes

•           How to ... self-supportive financial base to support our own
programs

•           Right now I need a financial intervention

Police Violence

•           Finding a real community alternative to calling 911/cops

•           The urgency for me is to keep as many of us safe in the streets
as possible and to stop feeding money into the system w/ fees

•           As a new mom, I feel unsafe at rallies b/c of the fucking
police

•           Direct action targeting the DPD

•           Policing in Black communities

•           Effecting systemic change in Police state in *Durham *

•           Police as community predators

Youth and Family

•           (Re)creating family (relationships based on trust, love, truth,
justice)

•           Reducing isolation for people in Durham, especially youth who
have become entrapped by the criminal justice system

•           Challenging the inadequate education of the youth

•           How do we support families of color with children?

•           Creating Safe spaces and communities for children of color,
especially children from poorer communities

•           How, what do we teach our children? How do we prepare them for
the future?

•           Youth Focus

Strategy & Dynamics

•           Being militant against the cops

•           Building solidarity w/ various groups in Durham despite
political differences

•           Effective and direct artistic action in response to Govt.
injustices

•           Intentionally Black lead actions and spaces

•           I feel the need for a youth-led and youth centered space, and
for an end of to co-op-tation and adultism in #BlackLivesMatter Durham
space

•           What other movement techniques are folks interested in
participating in other than rallying and getting arrested

•           Solidarity- communicating, collaborating, creating, SQUAD DEEP

•           Building creative community that is tied to the movement -
infusing art into protest

•           Strategy

•           United agenda around a solution to the Black on Black crimes
issues

•           Strategies for direct actions around police entities?

•           I feel a need for basic principles or group agreements shared
among groups, organizing around #BlackLivesMatter in Durham - Including
stuff like not snitching or talking shit about each other to the media

•           I am concerned about *solidarity* within the movement -
specifically between: Anti-police v. Anti-brutality, How can White and
Non-Black P.O.C be allies? Reform v. Revolution, Are we on the same page?

•           Maintaining/ building energy for a movement

•           Surveillance of freedom fighters!

•           How do we mobilize larger community of color i.e. non-activists

•           Strategies for Future

•           Not feeling welcomed in Durham as a young, black person trying
to organize w/ other young, black people

•           How to mobilize folks who want to be mobilized - lots of people
want to "do something" but don't know what to do, Specifically students and
younger generation

•           Encouraging/participating in social activism within faith
communities

•           Please our communities to learn strategies how to defend
ourselves when shit goes down and people are being beat up in the streets


Serena Sebring
North Carolina Field Organizer
Southerners on New Ground  <http://southernersonnewground.org/>
919.597.9043
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