Exploring Power and Privilege

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion is an important focus of our climate justice work at 350PDX.

Exploring our relationships to power and privilege is key to being able to foster broad partnerships and coalitions, which allows us to build the movement of movements we need in order to win a bold Green New Deal.

As individuals and groups, we experience varying levels of privilege and power. Recognizing our relationship to institutionalized oppression can bring feelings of defensiveness, guilt, shame, rage, terror, and grief, among other emotions.

Join 350PDX and Oregon Humanities in this conversation project, “Exploring Power and Privilege with Courage, Creativity, and Compassion.”

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What will we be discussing?

How can we craft transformative pathways for these feelings to unfold in ways that deepen our collective healing, rather than taking away from it? What transformations can we unlock when we choose courage, creativity, and compassion? What do we, as individuals and communities, need in order to heal and thrive in a beautiful and broken world?

Facilitator Ridhi D’Cruz invites us to metabolize our participation in systems of oppression with vulnerability, forgiveness and empathy. This conversation may include hands-on activities.

Who is facilitating this conversation?

Ridhi D’Cruz is a placemaking consultant, sociocultural anthropologist, and permaculture educator living in Portland. They work to foster place-based empowerment within diverse communities, including people facing housing insecurity and governmental agencies, by drawing on diversity, equity, and inclusion, cultural sustainability, social permaculture, and placemaking and asset-based community development. They also enthusiastically participate in life affirming practices involving urban wildcrafting, plant medicine, natural building, and participatory technology. Ridhi is currently a co-executive director of City Repair Project, a grassroots placemaking nonprofit organizations in Portland.

Watch this video to hear Ridhi speak about this conversation project!

Accessibility

The Fellowship Hall at Central Lutheran Church (1820 NE 21st Avenue) is ADA accessible with both gender neutral and gendered bathrooms available. We will have an ASL interpretation onsite. Childcare will also be provided. Please reach out to Anissa at anissa@350pdx.org if additional accommodations and accessibility options are required for you to participate fully in this event.