Social Justice Dialogue and Response Group
The Social Justice Dialogue and Response Group meets once or twice per month to discuss topics related to current events, politics, and social justice. The group's purpose is to:
The Social Justice Dialogue and Response Group meets once or twice per month to discuss topics related to current events, politics, and social justice. The group's purpose is to:
- Provide a supportive space for individuals to express their thoughts and feelings on these issues,
- Discuss any related activities in which individuals are participating, brainstorm and share ideas about activism and social justice work, and announce upcoming actions and events, and
- Explore topics of interest to the group through presentations, short readings, videos, and group discussion.
- Chris Moore-Backman's book The Gandhian Iceberg: A Nonviolence Manifesto for the Age of the Great Turning
- Common moral frameworks of liberals and conservatives (Jonathan Haidt)
- Economic, racial, and gender equity
- Immigrant rights and white supremacy
- Framing: white racial frame (Joe Feagin), and political language (George Lakoff)
- Insight dialogue and compassionate listening
- #MeToo movement and sexual harassment
- Effective issue advocacy with elected representatives
- Climate change
- Conscious consumerism and investment
