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Building Our Roots - Coggle Diagram
Building Our Roots
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Anti-capitalism
E1: Tensions that emerge in thinking about work/labour/productivity. Thinking around Hilary’s question of what does Climate ReCentered actually do; community building, holding space for one another - it is not producing material, measurable gains.
E1: Emphasis on measurable outcomes and productivity - hard to get away from capitalist mindset of “work”
E3: Universities as businesses; "it can sometimes seem like the true spirit of the university is no longer to educate students" (quote)
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E3: There is a need to encourage students to participate in activism as part of their education, as opposed to seeing it as an extracurricular/add-on.
E3: Students churned out to be employable (Leila, 24:40); yet not encouraged to participate in activism, seen as “extra thing you can do” - what can university curriculum do to encourage engaged students, and putting theory into practice?
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Importance of community
Mental Health
E1: Creating space because we recognize that people in this movement burn out constantly, centring health and joy as foundation of a strong movement. This is different from other climate organising spaces.
E4: Importance of rest and alone time; and “Being okay with being imperfect, and we’re always trying our best every day”
E4: Emiko’s words to Marynil in encouraging rest and caring for the self: “You can’t save a burning planet if you’re burnt out yourself.”
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Student Choice
E1: Teachers took the curriculum into their own hands, gave really valuable projects (ex. Social studies 9) → Gave students opportunity to pursue what they cared about (example about writing a paper on any topic)
E1: Creativity and passion of children...People understand how intelligent, creative, and brilliant children are….”AMBITIOUS AND PASSIONATE WITH CRAZY, OFF-THE-WALL IDEAS THAT NEED TO BE NOURISHED” - Passion around children wanting to help
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