Land Acknowledgment links:
Telling the truth about the lands we inhabit: https://www.livinglutheran.org/2021/11/48330/
Labor Acknowledgment link: https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15108677/on-labor-acknowledgements-and-honoring-the-sacrifice-of-black-americans
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“You ever notice how the inner voice that says we're powerless, and that this will never work, is louder when you feel alone? Loneliness and isolation amplify despair, but community, partnership, and action are the anecdotes. Hope is a group project.” – Jemar Tisby
Wayfinding: all the processes that allow us to orient ourselves in spaces, as we travel from place to place, and on unknown pathways
Commons: "The term may be unfamiliar, but the idea has been around for centuries. The commons is a new use of an old word, meaning 'what we share'—and it offers fresh hope for a saner, safer, more enjoyable future…. More than just a philosophical and political framework for understanding what’s gone wrong, the commons furnishes us a toolkit for fixing problems… beyond something you own to a bigger idea: how we live together." (from https://www.terrain.org/articles/27/walljasper.htm)
“All that we share is all we need to change the world.” – Jay Walljasper, All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons
More on the Commons: "Peter Linebaugh, a preeminent historian of the commons, has coined the word ‘commoning’ to describe the growing efforts he sees to protect and strengthen the things we share. 'I want to stress the point that the commons is an activity rather than just a material resource,' he says. 'That brings in the essential social element of the commons.' … Julie Ristau and Alexa Bradley, community organizers with extensive experience,…detect in others 'a broad yearning for hope, connection, and restoration. We see a remarkable array of efforts to reconstitute community, to relocalize food, to move toward cooperative economics, to better harmonize our lives with the health of our planet. These efforts spring from a deep human need and desire for different ways of interacting and organizing resources that will help us reconstitute our capacity for shared ownership, collaboration, and stewardship.'" (from https://www.terrain.org/articles/27/walljasper.htm)
