We hope that your New Year is off to a powerful start! We are so grateful for the abundant blessings and unexpected growth spurts that 2015 brought. Every day that we wake up with the opportunity to channel our creative energy into shifting culture to build the world we dream of, is a profound gift from every ancestor who has guided us this far.
2015 was a year of great loss and grief as we mourned such wide spread and unthinkable human-on-human violence, while the earth endured the hottest year on record. We also saw the rise of so much powerful resistance and celebrated victories. To name a few drops of water out of a rising tide of change:
- African women forging new solutions to climate change across the continent
- A Dutch physician defying abortion bans by bringing her clinic to sea
An 85-year-old nun activist infiltrating a top U.S. nuclear site urging peace
- Families demanding justice in overlooked police killings of Black women
Chicago Police torture victims winning $5.5M in reparations
- Marriage equality becoming the law of the land
- Undocu-Trans activist Jennicet Gutiérrez challenging Obama on deportation at a White House event
- A growing movement of Dalit Women in India resisting caste-based violence
- Teachers striking in Chicago and Seattle to challenge the privatization of public schools and racial inequity
- Prisoners forcing California to scale back solitary confinement
- An indigenous movement in Guatemala defeating Monsanto law
- New York & Maryland banning fracking
- The emergence of a new powerful student movement in the U.S. (from the ripple effect of the Missouri Tigers football team who ceased playing until the university president was forced to resign amidst racial unrest, to schools campaigning to divest from fossil fuels)
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