Ally...

Principals of Ally work

-           - Change involves personal and institutional/systemic

-           - Aim to dismantle the systems we benefit from and the ones we don’t

-           - Understand where we are placed in relation to systems of privilege and oppressions and unlearn habits and practices that protect those systems

-           - Know we need to accept and acknowledge power imbalances and not avoid them

-           - Systems of oppression are connected

-           - Anger and truth telling are part of the process

-           - Social justice is collaborative work

Becoming an Ally – 3 Areas

-           1) EMOTIONAL/PERSONAL – becoming aware, accepting where we are oppressive and benefit

-           2) KNOWLEDGE – learning about peoples histories, following

-           3) ACTION – only after the first two

Why?

-           - All oppressions are interlocking

-           - Use positions of Privilege à Responsibility

What?

-           - Supporting another group EVEN if you don’t identify

-           - On the same side

-           - Dismantling the Matrix of Domination

-           - Fighting oppression and educating

BECOMING AN ALLY INVOLVES ACTION!

Resources:

http://www.becominganally.ca/index.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccoelnmJ7jo