Welcome everyone! Please introduce yourself: name, pronoun, and what environmental justice means to you in 5 words or less.

Welcome all!

Welcome everyone! Please introduce yourself: name, pronoun, and what environmental justice means to you in 5 words or less.

Welcome everyone! Please introduce yourself: name, pronoun, and what environmental justice means to you in 5 words or less.

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Erika Dudley, she/her/hers, environmental Justice is my lifeblood.

Welcome Erika! :)

http://www.lvejo.org/our-mission/mission-vision-statement/

Thank you Edith!

This has been wonderful! Thank you! I have to leave, but will watch the rest of this from the recording. Thank you for your presentation of your powerful work. <3

What are the places that we want to make that work for more people? What would that look like in Chicago?

Feel free to drop it in the chat as well if you feel shy ;)

1. safe spaces for healing. Allowing grief for what it is.

Acknowledge that the things in place are not natural and that we can imagine what’s possible outside of what is in existence

What questions come up in our grief and how do we address them?

CO-OP housing, communal gardens, food sovereignty, lending libraries where we share tools, mutual aid centers,

Art centers,

Spectrum of activism: dreaming, our personal narrative, curatorial work, archival work, facilitation, organizing. How do we make this more sustainable and continue engaging together?

Picking up garbage, sharing garden goods, sharing information on what’s going on. Looking at what’s available and supporting it

A healed person as a safe space. Work starts with the individual. One person with a healed nervous system..makes a difference in you, in your family, and radiates outward

Addressing the burn out by healing our wounds and grief

I’m in Springfield, IL. I've been planting midwest native plants in my yard over the past 10 years. I'm a lazy gardener, but it's been amazing and nourishing to watch the ways they ebb and flow each year and thrive so much better than the non-native plants in the long run. And all the different insects they care for….

Thanks for sharing Hinda!

Just terrific! Thank you all.

DIY brave spaces

Connect to people where they are at

Thanks for sharing Hinda

Thank you for joining Erika!

Allowing people to thrive outside of regular work (making it economically sustainable) and using art to make work visible in community gatherings

Holding elected officials accountable

Love this conversation -- it would be awesome to be able to have these conversations with our parents/ grandparents, etc. They are abstract and finding the language to feel/ heal/ connect. My entire family are landscapers started by my dad who did it to survive and support the family. But he LOVES it and to him it is his art. he calls himself an artist. My youngest brother is now doing a Phd in conservation/ saving bees...and he is bringing these new methods to the family business. it has been cool to see it a part of conflict but also bringing them together as my dad teaches him the business (he's retiring) and my brothers teach him

Thanks for sharing Reveca

reveca! yarderos unite! thank you for sharing that.

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carlos@chicagoartdepartment.org

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Thank You!