[Antiracism] a few thoughts

[Cate Woolner]

Not as many thoughts as Kazu. By the way, Kazu, I appreciate your thoughtful process and the insights you shared with us for consideration. It adds to my perceptions.
My thoughts speak to (can thoughts speak?) the goals of the conference. Since it is Hampshire based with lots of person power coming from students and folks close in age to undergrads and grads, are we mainly looking toward that age group and the academic community in general? That is fine with me.  But if  not, I think our outreach strategies and program planning need to keep in mind how we cultivate participation from individual community activists who do not have an affiliation with an academic community either by job, experience or location. One important consideration is the sustainability of this work. It can't (and doesn't, of course) only depend on the energy of folks who may leave the Valley in a few years. So I think it will be important to build into the structure of the day, ways to think about capacity building, sustainability and creating/strengthening/ insuring cross-Valley, cross- identity, cross organization  etc. networking. 
Thanks
Cate Woolner
no peace without justice
"The time is always right to do what is right."  MLK
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