A Year of Social Justice: Reflections on 2023
Description
When we understand what brought us to where we are today, we can decide where to go from here. In this episode, co-hosts Tania Roa + Adriana Maria Medina discuss social justice events in 2023 that led to collective action. As we reflect, we can learn from them and determine our priorities for 2024. It’s a new year, but our struggles are the same.
*Please note: some of the events we discuss include violence, police brutality, and Palestine.
Resources for events mentioned in this episode, and organizations supporting the causes mentioned, are below. Also, as always, scroll to find definitions.
U.S. News
U.S. Organizations to Support
International News
International Organizations to Support
Definitions
- Biodiversity: short for biological diversity; it is the variety of life on Earth and includes the variety of genetic, species, and ecosystem levels
- Occupation: when one group or country takes control over another territory through force, and the invading group establishes its own law in the now occupied region
- Zionism: a nationalist movement that emerged in the 19th century with a goal of establishing a homeland, protected by law, for Jewish people in Palestine - a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition
- Anti Semitism: hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews
- Genocide: the intentional destruction of a national, ethnic, or racial group in whole or in part
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