Solving our problems quickly means slowing down

Every time an organization broadcasts
their commitment to deep social change,
while instead prioritizing one-dimensional
results for their wealthy funders, the task
of dismantling multilayered systems of
 destruction is lost in translation. (Photo: JT)

Wise sister and civil rights organizer George Friday, once told me that "There are two paces to organizing for change: the speed with which our systems are collapsing and the slow intentional time that is necessary for deep movement building."

Too often, the anxieties about the world's problems lead to a hasty rush for solutions in which the slow time is compromised for the sake of moving actions, campaigns and institutional agendas forward. In that space, the complexities of systemic oppressions are overlooked, and the very inequalities that we are fighting to abolish continue to play themselves out.

Read the truthout story by Hénia Belalia - “The Crises Are Urgent, So Let's Slow Down.”