Build-Block-Be

If you're here, you're probably an activist of some sort whether you know it or not - whether it's within your tiny family community, or bigger.

I wanted to share a couple of frameworks for how we make change in the world that have spoken to me. What I like about them is they say *all* of these things are needed - you might find yourself focusing your energy on 1 or 2 areas, and someone else on other areas, and that is exactly what we need.

This one is by Movement Ecology and it breaks movements in times of crisis into 5 areas. This video explains the image I attached to this blogpost -

The ayni institute explains more, and has some self guided trainings (I haven't done them before!) https://ayni.institute/enroll/

I also am a big fan of the simple Block-Build-Be framework the @buddhist peace fellowship coined. Block is how we invest our energy in blocking harm - harmful policies, harmful institutions and actions, harmful people. Build is how we invest our energy in building the world we want to see. And Be can be interpreted in a few ways - but I think of it as how do we be present with the world exactly as it is today AND how do we resource ourselves to continue the hard work of blocking and building.

Blocking could look like blocking policies that make it harder for disabled people to take the lead in Building the future. Protesting against seclusion and electrocution. Blocking ABA and behavioral approaches in schools and as the only therapies easily covered by insurance.

Building could look like making a school more inclusive, starting a summer camp led by disabled people centering disability justice to show what's possible. Build can be living your own family in a way that embodies freedom.

https://www.dawnhaney.net/buddhism-social.../block-build-be/