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DJATD-Sustainability

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Sustainability Includes It All
Moving Deeply Into Abandoning Rituals of Disconnection
Practice is Everything and Everything is Practice

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DJATD-Recognizing Wholeness

People have inherent worth outside of commodity relations and capitalist notions of productivity. Each person is full of history and life experience.
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Multicultural Wisdom on Wholeness and Belonging-Interconnection is Key
Modern Relational Wholeness and Belonging - Belonging, which is Identity, which is Wholeness
Ritual, Wholeness, Belonging
Abandoning Rituals of Disconnection

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DJATD-Commitment to Cross-Movement Organizing

Shifting how social justice movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, disability justice lends itself to politics of alliance.

Marginalization, inherently, is a disablement

Awareness of intersectional failures is an essential component of embodied awareness as the practice of being with the true nature of reality, not just ultimate reality, but the relative reality of the imperfections of humanity.

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DJATD-Anti-Capitalistic Politic

In an economy that sees land and humans as components of profit, we are anti-capitalist by the nature of having non-conforming body/minds.

Indigenous peoples of North America had no word “disability.”

If this Planet was a body, I would say that it has a disease. There could be many names for it, brutality, hatred; Shakyamuni called it delusion. Perhaps the name of the disease is not as important as the medicine, which is to keep ourselves as cells in the body as clean and healthy as possible.

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DJATD-Leadership of the Most Impacted

We are led by those who most know these systems.

Leadership and Impact are Inextricably Interwoven
Right Action has to follow Right View
Soothing, Comfort, Care, Support, Gratitude
Short list of organizations run by and for disabled people

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DJATD-INTERSECTIONALITY

“We do not live single issue lives” –Audre Lorde. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world “invalid.”

Intersectionality is like “being impacted by multiple forces and then being left to fend for yourself.” -Audre Lorde

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