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Is Anti-Racism Teacher Eric K. Ward Tasked with Dividing Our Community Against Itself?
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Following my post from yesterday about the Dream Defenders video, around the same time, Eric K. Ward, a Portland-based self-described member of ANTIFA, and community organizer slash punk rocker, quietly co-founded Funders For Justice (a project of the Neighborhood Funders Group), organized funding conferences for BLM, and attended the BLM convening conference. Here is Ward, a comrade of the Dream Defenders, moderating a 2014 Ferguson strategy session on behalf of the Ford Foundation.
Seven years later, he crisscrosses the country promoting Critical Race Theory to Jewish Studies students at Universities. He is tasked with lecturing Jews that antisemitism and White nationalism must not and cannot be separated if Progressive Values are to prevail electorally.
A Movement-Based Federal Housing Agenda
What are the New Deal for Housing Justice and the BREATHE Act and how do they move beyond previous housing agendas? April 26, 2021, 8am PDT | LM Ortiz Share
Earlier this year, the Housing Playbook Project released the
New Deal for Housing Justice a set of policy recommendations to help solve the U.S. housing crisis, which has been made worse by the pandemic. And The BREATHE Act, a project of the Movement for Black Lives’ 501(c)(4) Electoral Justice Project, offers a radical reimagining of public safety and community care.
Shelterforce, Neighborhood Funders Group, and Funders Together to End Homelessness hosted a conversation on March 10 with people involved in each to discuss the highlights of each proposal and what needs to happen next.