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Flip the script on Social Justice
Week Thirteen: Flip the Script on Social Justice
Day Eighty-five:
“Resistance alone is a losing strategy.” ~Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, Yes! executive editor and Sonali Kolhatkar, Yes! racial justice editor.
On the cover of Yes! magazine’s Winter edition 2022, New Social Justice, there is a drawing of a pink and purple butterfly with words on four different wings:
Resist. Reform. Rebuild. Heal.
The editors of the magazine highlight Leah Penniman’s panel discussion talk where she drew on “Grassroots Economic Organizing’s” butterfly model of transformative social justice.
(Link to Grassroots Economic Organizing website: https://geo.coop/)
The Four Wings for transformative social justice were described like this:
Resistors: the people in the blockades, the protests, the work stoppages.
Reformers: the folks trying to make change from within systems, including schoolteachers and elected officials, like those getting into the prosecutor’s office and working to get prison sentences lowered.
Builders: those who create alternative institutions such as freedom schools, farms, and health clinics.
