Categoria: antiracism

Learning, Unlearning, Continuing – Ecotopian Antiracism Reading Circle Returns

Learning, Unlearning, Continuing – Ecotopian Antiracism Reading Circle Returns After our summer break, our Antiracism Reading Circle has started again! We meet every Sunday at 19:00 Central European Time (till 21:00) on Signal, and everyone who feels connected to Ecotopia – past, present, or future – is warmly invited to join. Whether you’ve been on the Biketour before, plan to come, or are just curious about the community and the work of unlearning racism, you are welcome. We’ve reflected on how we want to continue, and decided on this Every other week we continue reading Me and White Supremacy by…

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Antiracism Reading Circle: Let’s learn together!

The Ecotopia Bike Tour touches by it’s nature on many aspects of life where people with racial privilege will have a different experience than those without, for example crossing borders, hitchhiking to the bike tour, dumpster diving, camping in places where people may not expect us… We also find that during the bike tour, we often lack understanding of each other’s struggles. While Ecotopia has the values of antiracism and “trying to be open for all” we also find aspects of our own biases back in how we organize. It should also be noted that the bike tour remains mostly…

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challenging white ecotopia

dear ecotopians – especially dear black, brown, indigenous, asian and migrantized ecotopians, —- for a long time the ecotopia biketour has been quite the white environment and it mostly is that way still. this doesn’t mean that no BBIPoC or migrantized people have joined ecotopia in the past or have been/are part of the tour and orga, of course. but they have usually been a minority or even just a single person. some of our PoC friends feebacked that they were hesitant to join or didn’t come to the biketour because our group was so white. we would like to…

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