Autumn's Current Projects
Rock Dove Collective
The Rock Dove Collective is a radical community health exchange working to address the need for accessible and anti-oppressive health care in our communities. We coordinate a network of health practitioners who provide physical, mental, sexual, emotional, social and spiritual care from a progressive perspective on well-being. We also organize monthly skillshares on health practices to improve health education in the community. Many of our network practitioners accept mutual aid in exchange for their services; the Rock Dove Collective strongly encourages this and believes that incorporating mutual aid into more instances in our lives will help to set the foundation for a freer and more just world. To learn more, visit www.rockdovecollective.org.
SmartMeme
SmartMeme builds movements and amplifies the impact of grassroots organizing with new strategy and training resources, values based communications, collaborations, and meme campaigning.SmartMeme uses the power of narrative to advance a holistic vision of grassroots social change that connects struggles for democracy, peace, justice, and ecological sanity. In the Fall of 2009, I joined the Board of Directors. To learn more, visit www.smartmeme.org.
The Resisting Racism Curriculum
The Resisting Racism Workshop is a 2 Day intensive designed to guide community organizers - both people of color and white allies - through a process of exploring the history of race, the current political environment around race and racism, and strategies for organizing resistance to the systems and institutions that perpetuate this plague in our communities. Day 1 explores the history of race and the construction of whiteness in America, as well as the experience of power through internalized oppression, privilege, and social rank. Day 2 lays out an action framework for organizing to dismantle racism, looking at our collective histories of resistance for lessons in utilizing power analysis, storytelling, and tactical resistance.
The Consensus Mechanics Curriculum
In the early spring of 2009, I piloted a new course on consensus decision-making at The Brecht Forum, Consensus Mechanics: Decision-Making as Change. This curriculum bridges the history of consensus practices across the globe with the process structures used today that help organizations do socially transformative work using consensus. The curriculum gives special attention to race, power, and privilege in terms of how they impact group process. To learn more about this course, visit the workshops section of my website or contact me directly.