Liberationist manifesto ADD

.obsidian/app.json

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+{
+  "showRibbon": true
+}

.obsidian/appearance.json

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+{
+  "cssTheme": "Minimal",
+  "theme": "obsidian",
+  "accentColor": "#3e7043",
+  "baseFontSize": 16
+}

.obsidian/community-plugins.json

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+[
+  "obsidian-smart-typography"
+]

.obsidian/core-plugins.json

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+{
+  "file-explorer": true,
+  "global-search": true,
+  "switcher": true,
+  "graph": true,
+  "backlink": true,
+  "canvas": true,
+  "outgoing-link": true,
+  "tag-pane": true,
+  "properties": false,
+  "page-preview": true,
+  "daily-notes": true,
+  "templates": true,
+  "note-composer": true,
+  "command-palette": true,
+  "slash-command": true,
+  "editor-status": true,
+  "bookmarks": true,
+  "markdown-importer": false,
+  "zk-prefixer": false,
+  "random-note": true,
+  "outline": true,
+  "word-count": true,
+  "slides": true,
+  "audio-recorder": false,
+  "workspaces": false,
+  "file-recovery": true,
+  "publish": false,
+  "sync": false
+}

.obsidian/graph.json

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+{
+  "collapse-filter": true,
+  "search": "",
+  "showTags": false,
+  "showAttachments": false,
+  "hideUnresolved": false,
+  "showOrphans": true,
+  "collapse-color-groups": true,
+  "colorGroups": [],
+  "collapse-display": true,
+  "showArrow": false,
+  "textFadeMultiplier": 0,
+  "nodeSizeMultiplier": 1,
+  "lineSizeMultiplier": 1,
+  "collapse-forces": true,
+  "centerStrength": 0.518713248970312,
+  "repelStrength": 10,
+  "linkStrength": 1,
+  "linkDistance": 250,
+  "scale": 1,
+  "close": true
+}

.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-smart-typography/manifest.json

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+{
+	"id": "obsidian-smart-typography",
+	"name": "Smart Typography",
+	"version": "1.0.18",
+	"minAppVersion": "0.15.0",
+	"description": "Converts quotes to curly quotes, dashes to em dashes, and periods to ellipses",
+	"author": "mgmeyers",
+	"authorUrl": "https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography",
+	"isDesktopOnly": false
+}

.obsidian/themes/Aura/manifest.json

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+{
+	"name": "Aura",
+	"minAppVersion": "1.6.0",
+	"author": "Ashwin Jadhav",
+	"authorUrl": "https://github.com/ashwinjadhav818/",
+	"version": "2.3.3"
+}

.obsidian/themes/Dawn/manifest.json

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+{
+  "name": "Dawn",
+  "version": "1.0.2",
+  "minAppVersion": "1.0.2",
+  "author": "min"
+}

.obsidian/themes/Flexoki/manifest.json

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+{
+	"name": "Flexoki",
+	"version": "1.1.0",
+	"minAppVersion": "0.16.0",
+	"author": "@kepano",
+	"authorUrl": "https://twitter.com/kepano"
+}

.obsidian/themes/Flexoki/theme.css

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+/*
+Flexoki
+MIT License
+Copyright (c) 2023 Steph Ango
+https://stephango.com/flexoki
+*/
+.theme-light {
+  --color-red-rgb: 175, 48, 41;
+  --color-orange-rgb: 188, 82, 21;
+  --color-yellow-rgb: 173, 131, 1;
+  --color-green-rgb: 102, 128, 11;
+  --color-cyan-rgb: 36, 131, 123;
+  --color-blue-rgb: 32, 94, 166;
+  --color-purple-rgb: 94, 64, 157;
+  --color-pink-rgb: 160, 47, 111;
+
+  --color-red: #AF3029;
+  --color-orange: #BC5215;
+  --color-yellow: #AD8301;
+  --color-green: #66800B;
+  --color-cyan: #24837B;
+  --color-blue: #205EA6;
+  --color-purple: #5E409D;
+  --color-pink: #A02F6F;
+
+  --accent-h: 175;
+  --accent-s: 57%;
+  --accent-l: 33%;
+
+  --color-base-00: #FFFCF0;
+  --color-base-05: #FFFCF0;
+  --color-base-10: #F2F0E5;
+  --color-base-20: #F2F0E5;
+  --color-base-25: #E6E4D9;
+
+  --color-base-30: #E6E4D9;
+  --color-base-35: #DAD8CE;
+  --color-base-40: #CECDC3;
+
+  --color-base-50: #B7B5AC;
+  --color-base-60: #878580;
+  --color-base-70: #6F6E69;
+  --color-base-100: #100F0F;
+}
+.theme-dark {
+  --color-red-rgb: 209, 77, 65;
+  --color-orange-rgb: 218, 112, 44;
+  --color-yellow-rgb:208, 162, 21;
+  --color-green-rgb: 135, 154, 57;
+  --color-cyan-rgb: 58, 169, 159;
+  --color-blue-rgb: 67, 133, 190;
+  --color-purple-rgb: 139, 126, 200;
+  --color-pink-rgb: 206, 93, 151;
+
+  --color-red: #D14D41;
+  --color-orange: #DA702C;
+  --color-yellow: #D0A215;
+  --color-green: #879A39;
+  --color-cyan: #3AA99F;
+  --color-blue: #4385BE;
+  --color-purple: #8B7EC8;
+  --color-pink: #CE5D97;
+
+  --accent-h: 175;
+  --accent-s: 57%;
+  --accent-l: 33%;
+
+  --color-base-00: #100F0F;
+  --color-base-05: #100F0F;
+  --color-base-10: #1C1B1A;
+  --color-base-20: #1C1B1A;
+  --color-base-25: #282726;
+
+  --color-base-30: #282726;
+  --color-base-35: #343331;
+  --color-base-40: #403E3C;
+
+  --color-base-50: #575653;
+  --color-base-60: #6F6E69;
+  --color-base-70: #878580;
+  --color-base-100: #CECDC3;
+}

.obsidian/themes/Minimal/manifest.json

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+{
+	"name": "Minimal",
+	"version": "7.7.18",
+	"minAppVersion": "1.6.1",
+	"author": "@kepano",
+	"authorUrl": "https://twitter.com/kepano",
+	"fundingUrl": "https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kepano"
+}

.obsidian/themes/Obsidian gruvbox/manifest.json

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+{
+   "name": "Obsidian gruvbox",
+   "version": "0.2.1",
+   "minAppVersion": "0.16.0",
+   "author": "insanum",
+   "authorUrl": "https://insanum.com"
+}

.obsidian/themes/Obsidian gruvbox/theme.css

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+
+:root
+{
+    --dark0-hard_x:     29,32,33; /* #1d2021 */
+    --dark0-hard:       rgb(var(--dark0-hard_x));
+    --dark0_x:          40,40,40; /* #282828 */
+    --dark0:            rgb(var(--dark0_x));
+    --dark0-soft_x:     50,48,47; /* #32302f */
+    --dark0-soft:       rgb(var(--dark0-soft_x));
+    --dark1_x:          60,56,54; /* #3c3836 */
+    --dark1:            rgb(var(--dark1_x));
+    --dark2_x:          80,73,69; /* #504945 */
+    --dark2:            rgb(var(--dark2_x));
+    --dark3_x:          102,92,84; /* #665c54 */
+    --dark3:            rgb(var(--dark3_x));
+    --dark4_x:          124,111,100; /* #7c6f64 */
+    --dark4:            rgb(var(--dark4_x));
+    --gray_x:           146,131,116; /* #928374 */
+    --gray:             rgb(var(--gray_x));
+
+    --light0-hard_x:    249,245,215; /* #f9f5d7 */
+    --light0-hard:      rgb(var(--light0-hard_x));
+    --light0_x:         251,241,199; /* #fbf1c7 */
+    --light0:           rgb(var(--light0_x));
+    --light0-soft_x:    242,229,188; /* #f2e5bc */
+    --light0-soft:      rgb(var(--light0-soft_x));
+    --light1_x:         235,219,178; /* #ebdbb2 */
+    --light1:           rgb(var(--light1_x));
+    --light2_x:         213,196,161; /* #d5c4a1 */
+    --light2:           rgb(var(--light2_x));
+    --light3_x:         189,174,147; /* #bdae93 */
+    --light3:           rgb(var(--light3_x));
+    --light4_x:         168,153,132; /* #a89984 */
+    --light4:           rgb(var(--light4_x));
+
+    --bright-red_x:     251,73,52; /* #fb4934 */
+    --bright-red:       rgb(var(--bright-red_x));
+    --bright-green_x:   184,187,38; /* #b8bb26 */
+    --bright-green:     rgb(var(--bright-green_x));
+    --bright-yellow_x:  250,189,47; /* #fabd2f */
+    --bright-yellow:    rgb(var(--bright-yellow_x));
+    --bright-blue_x:    131,165,152; /* #83a598 */
+    --bright-blue:      rgb(var(--bright-blue_x));
+    --bright-purple_x:  211,134,155; /* #d3869b */
+    --bright-purple:    rgb(var(--bright-purple_x));
+    --bright-aqua_x:    142,192,124; /* #8ec07c */
+    --bright-aqua:      rgb(var(--bright-aqua_x));
+    --bright-orange_x:  254,128,25; /* #fe8019 */
+    --bright-orange:    rgb(var(--bright-orange_x));
+
+    --neutral-red_x:    204,36,29; /* #cc241d */
+    --neutral-red:      rgb(var(--neutral-red_x));
+    --neutral-green_x:  152,151,26; /* #98971a */
+    --neutral-green:    rgb(var(--neutral-green_x));
+    --neutral-yellow_x: 215,153,33; /* #d79921 */
+    --neutral-yellow:   rgb(var(--neutral-yellow_x));
+    --neutral-blue_x:   69,133,136; /* #458588 */
+    --neutral-blue:     rgb(var(--neutral-blue_x));
+    --neutral-purple_x: 177,98,134; /* #b16286 */
+    --neutral-purple:   rgb(var(--neutral-purple_x));
+    --neutral-aqua_x:   104,157,106; /* #689d6a */
+    --neutral-aqua:     rgb(var(--neutral-aqua_x));
+    --neutral-orange_x: 214,93,14; /* #d65d0e */
+    --neutral-orange:   rgb(var(--neutral-orange_x));
+
+    --faded-red_x:      157,0,6; /* #9d0006 */
+    --faded-red:        rgb(var(--faded-red_x));
+    --faded-green_x:    121,116,14; /* #79740e */
+    --faded-green:      rgb(var(--faded-green_x));
+    --faded-yellow_x:   181,118,20; /* #b57614 */
+    --faded-yellow:     rgb(var(--faded-yellow_x));
+    --faded-blue_x:     7,102,120; /* #076678 */
+    --faded-blue:       rgb(var(--faded-blue_x));
+    --faded-purple_x:   143,63,113; /* #8f3f71 */
+    --faded-purple:     rgb(var(--faded-purple_x));
+    --faded-aqua_x:     66,123,88; /* #427b58 */
+    --faded-aqua:       rgb(var(--faded-aqua_x));
+    --faded-orange_x:   175,58,3; /* #af3a03 */
+    --faded-orange:     rgb(var(--faded-orange_x));
+}
+
+body
+{
+    --accent-h: 12; /* --faded-red #9d0006 */
+    --accent-s: 107%;
+    --accent-l: 32%;
+
+    --link-decoration:                none;
+    --link-decoration-hover:          none;
+    --link-external-decoration:       none;
+    --link-external-decoration-hover: none;
+
+    --tag-decoration:                 none;
+    --tag-decoration-hover:           underline;
+    --tag-padding-x:                  .5em;
+    --tag-padding-y:                  .2em;
+    --tag-radius:                     .5em;
+
+    --tab-font-weight:                600;
+    --bold-weight:                    600;
+
+    --checkbox-radius:                0;
+
+    /* --list-indent:                    2em; */
+
+    --embed-border-left: 6px double var(--interactive-accent);
+}
+
+.theme-dark
+{
+    --color-red-rgb:                 var(--neutral-red_x);
+    --color-red:                     var(--neutral-red);
+    --color-purple-rgb:              var(--neutral-purple_x);
+    --color-purple:                  var(--neutral-purple);
+    --color-green-rgb:               var(--neutral-green_x);
+    --color-green:                   var(--neutral-green);
+    --color-cyan-rgb:                var(--neutral-blue_x);
+    --color-cyan:                    var(--neutral-blue);
+    --color-blue-rgb:                var(--faded-blue_x);
+    --color-blue:                    var(--faded-blue);
+    --color-yellow-rgb:              var(--neutral-yellow_x);
+    --color-yellow:                  var(--neutral-yellow);
+    --color-orange-rgb:              var(--neutral-orange_x);
+    --color-orange:                  var(--neutral-orange);
+    --color-pink-rgb:                var(--bright-purple_x);
+    --color-pink:                    var(--bright-purple);
+
+    --background-primary:            var(--dark0);
+    --background-primary-alt:        var(--dark0);
+    --background-secondary:          var(--dark0-hard);
+    --background-secondary-alt:      var(--dark1);
+    --background-modifier-border:    var(--dark1);
+
+    --cursor-line-background:        rgba(var(--dark1_x), 0.5);
+
+    --text-normal:                   var(--light0);
+    --text-faint:                    var(--light1);
+    --text-muted:                    var(--light2);
+
+    --link-url:                      var(--neutral-green);
+
+    --h1-color:                      var(--neutral-red);
+    --h2-color:                      var(--neutral-yellow);
+    --h3-color:                      var(--neutral-green);
+    --h4-color:                      var(--neutral-aqua);
+    --h5-color:                      var(--neutral-blue);
+    --h6-color:                      var(--neutral-purple);
+
+    --text-highlight-bg:             var(--neutral-yellow);
+    --text-highlight-fg:             var(--dark0-hard);
+
+    --text-accent:                   var(--neutral-orange);
+    --text-accent-hover:             var(--bright-aqua);
+
+    --tag-color:                     var(--bright-aqua);
+    --tag-background:                var(--dark2);
+    --tag-background-hover:          var(--dark1);
+
+    --titlebar-text-color-focused:   var(--bright-red);
+
+    --inline-title-color:            var(--bright-yellow);
+
+    --bold-color:                    var(--neutral-yellow);
+    --italic-color:                  var(--neutral-yellow);
+
+    --checkbox-color:                var(--light4);
+    --checkbox-color-hover:          var(--light4);
+    --checkbox-border-color:         var(--light4);
+    --checkbox-border-color-hover:   var(--light4);
+    --checklist-done-color:          rgba(var(--light2_x), 0.5);
+
+    --table-header-background:       rgba(var(--dark0_x), 0.2);
+    --table-header-background-hover: var(--dark2);
+    --table-row-even-background:     rgba(var(--dark2_x), 0.2);
+    --table-row-odd-background:      rgba(var(--dark2_x), 0.4);
+    --table-row-background-hover:    var(--dark2);
+
+    --text-selection:                rgba(var(--neutral-red_x), 0.6);
+    --flashing-background:           rgba(var(--neutral-red_x), 0.3);
+
+    --code-normal:                   var(--bright-blue);
+    --code-background:               var(--dark1);
+
+    --mermaid-note:                  var(--neutral-blue);
+    --mermaid-actor:                 var(--dark2);
+    --mermaid-loopline:              var(--neutral-blue);
+    --mermaid-exclude:               var(--dark4);
+    --mermaid-seqnum:                var(--dark0);
+
+    --icon-color-hover:              var(--bright-red);
+    --icon-color-focused:            var(--bright-blue);
+
+    --nav-item-color-hover:          var(--bright-red);
+    --nav-item-color-active:         var(--bright-aqua);
+    --nav-file-tag:                  rgba(var(--neutral-yellow_x), 0.9);
+
+    --graph-line:                    var(--dark2);
+    --graph-node:                    var(--light3);
+    --graph-node-tag:                var(--neutral-red);
+    --graph-node-attachment:         var(--neutral-green);
+
+    --calendar-hover:                var(--bright-red);
+    --calendar-background-hover:     var(--dark1);
+    --calendar-week:                 var(--neutral-orange);
+    --calendar-today:                var(--neutral-orange);
+
+    --dataview-key:                  var(--text-faint);
+    --dataview-key-background:       rgba(var(--faded-red_x), 0.5);
+    --dataview-value:                var(--text-faint);
+    --dataview-value-background:     rgba(var(--neutral-green_x), 0.3);
+
+    --tab-text-color-focused-active:         var(--neutral-yellow);
+    --tab-text-color-focused-active-current: var(--bright-red);
+}
+
+.theme-light
+{
+    --color-red-rgb:                 var(--neutral-red_x);
+    --color-red:                     var(--neutral-red);
+    --color-purple-rgb:              var(--neutral-purple_x);
+    --color-purple:                  var(--neutral-purple);
+    --color-green-rgb:               var(--neutral-green_x);
+    --color-green:                   var(--neutral-green);
+    --color-cyan-rgb:                var(--neutral-blue_x);
+    --color-cyan:                    var(--neutral-blue);
+    --color-blue-rgb:                var(--faded-blue_x);
+    --color-blue:                    var(--faded-blue);
+    --color-yellow-rgb:              var(--neutral-yellow_x);
+    --color-yellow:                  var(--neutral-yellow);
+    --color-orange-rgb:              var(--neutral-orange_x);
+    --color-orange:                  var(--neutral-orange);
+    --color-pink-rgb:                var(--bright-purple_x);
+    --color-pink:                    var(--bright-purple);
+
+    --background-primary:            var(--light0-hard);
+    --background-primary-alt:        var(--light0-hard);
+    --background-secondary:          var(--light1);
+    --background-secondary-alt:      var(--light1);
+    --background-modifier-border:    var(--light2);
+
+    --cursor-line-background:        rgba(var(--light1_x), 0.5);
+
+    --text-normal:                   var(--dark0);
+    --text-faint:                    var(--dark3);
+    --text-muted:                    var(--dark2);
+
+    --link-url:                      var(--neutral-green);
+
+    --h1-color:                      var(--neutral-red);
+    --h2-color:                      var(--neutral-yellow);
+    --h3-color:                      var(--neutral-green);
+    --h4-color:                      var(--neutral-aqua);
+    --h5-color:                      var(--neutral-blue);
+    --h6-color:                      var(--neutral-purple);
+
+    --text-highlight-bg:             var(--bright-yellow);
+    --text-highlight-fg:             var(--dark0);
+
+    --text-accent:                   var(--neutral-orange);
+    --text-accent-hover:             var(--bright-aqua);
+
+    --tag-color:                     var(--neutral-aqua);
+    --tag-background:                var(--light1);
+    --tag-background-hover:          rgba(var(--light1_x), 0.6);
+
+    --titlebar-text-color-focused:   var(--bright-red);
+
+    --inline-title-color:            var(--bright-yellow);
+
+    --bold-color:                    var(--neutral-yellow);
+    --italic-color:                  var(--neutral-yellow);
+
+    --checkbox-color:                var(--light4);
+    --checkbox-color-hover:          var(--light4);
+    --checkbox-border-color:         var(--light4);
+    --checkbox-border-color-hover:   var(--light4);
+    --checklist-done-color:          rgba(var(--dark2_x), 0.4);
+
+    --table-header-background:       rgba(var(--light3_x), 0.4);
+    --table-header-background-hover: var(--light2);
+    --table-row-even-background:     rgba(var(--light1_x), 0.2);
+    --table-row-odd-background:      rgba(var(--light1_x), 0.7);
+    --table-row-background-hover:    var(--light2);
+
+    --text-selection:                rgba(var(--neutral-red_x), 0.6);
+    --flashing-background:           rgba(var(--neutral-red_x), 0.3);
+
+    --code-normal:                   var(--bright-blue);
+    --code-background:               var(--light1);
+
+    --mermaid-note:                  var(--bright-blue);
+    --mermaid-actor:                 var(--light3);
+    --mermaid-loopline:              var(--neutral-blue);
+    --mermaid-exclude:               var(--light2);
+    --mermaid-seqnum:                var(--light0);
+
+    --icon-color-hover:              var(--bright-red);
+    --icon-color-focused:            var(--bright-blue);
+
+    --nav-item-color-hover:          var(--bright-red);
+    --nav-item-color-active:         var(--neutral-blue);
+    --nav-file-tag:                  rgba(var(--neutral-blue_x), 0.9);
+
+    --graph-line:                    var(--light1);
+    --graph-node:                    var(--gray);
+    --graph-node-tag:                var(--neutral-red);
+    --graph-node-attachment:         var(--bright-green);
+
+    --calendar-hover:                var(--bright-red);
+    --calendar-background-hover:     var(--light1);
+    --calendar-week:                 var(--bright-red);
+    --calendar-today:                var(--bright-red);
+
+    --dataview-key:                  var(--text-faint);
+    --dataview-key-background:       rgba(var(--faded-red_x), 0.3);
+    --dataview-value:                var(--text-faint);
+    --dataview-value-background:     rgba(var(--neutral-green_x), 0.2);
+
+    --tab-text-color-focused-active:         var(--neutral-yellow);
+    --tab-text-color-focused-active-current: var(--bright-red);
+}
+
+table
+{
+    border: 1px solid var(--background-secondary) !important;
+    border-collapse: collapse;
+}
+
+thead
+{
+    border-bottom: 2px solid var(--background-modifier-border) !important;
+}
+  
+th
+{
+    font-weight: 600 !important;
+    border: 1px solid var(--background-secondary) !important;
+}
+
+td
+{
+    border-left: 1px solid var(--background-secondary) !important;
+    border-right: 1px solid var(--background-secondary) !important;
+    border-bottom: 1px solid var(--background-secondary) !important;
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+Holograph backup creation:
+
+1. Stop `sharkey_web` container:
+   `sudo docker container stop sharkey_web`
+2. Dump PostgreSQL database:
+   `sudo docker exec sharkey_db sh -c 'pg_dumpall -U ograph' > /opt/sharkey/holograph_pg_ver[VERSION WITHOUT '.']_[DATE].sql`
+3. Archive entire sharkey directory. From inside `/opt/sharkey`, run:
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+4. Copy backup via method of choice. (SFTP, SCP, etc.)

Ideas.md

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+- [ ] Start a webring

Index.md

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+This is the index page for my digital garden. My eventual goal with this is to grow it into something which will replace my website.
+
+The [[Liberationist manifesto]] documents my personal perspective on [[Liberation]] and what being a liberationist means to me.

Kapwa.md

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+> “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others. This Filipino linguistic unity of the self and the other is unique and unlike in most modern languages. Why? Because implied in such inclusiveness is the moral obligation to treat one another as equal fellow human beings. If we can do this – even starting in our own family or our circle of friends – we are on the way to practice peace. We are Kapwa People.”
+ 
+— Virgilio Enriquez, the founder of Filipino psychology

Liberationist manifesto/Liberation is change.md

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+Action and reflection oriented around creating radical change
+
+1. Building collective power (coalition building), building alternative & more just systems and institutions to nourish communities, building communities based in solidarity & care
+2. (Re)centering marginalized/oppressed/disenfranchised
+3. Learning to be more radical and teaching others

Liberationist manifesto/Liberation is connection.md

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+Interconnected/interdependent, intersectional, radical
+[[Kapwa]]

Liberationist manifesto/Liberation is freedom.md

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+Freedom from: injustice (oppression, exploitation, domination, alienation, etc.)
+Freedom to: thrive (live as our fullest selves, connect with others)

Liberationist manifesto/Liberation is human condition.md

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+Operates on human condition (societal/environmental), seeing limitless potential of what could be, answering what it means to be human, viewing the future not just in terms of “isms” but in concrete/material terms

Liberationist manifesto/Liberation.md

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+Collective liberation is, generally speaking, a pursuit of freedom for everyone. Liberation understands that our freedom is connected to and dependent on the freedom of others; realizing freedom requires that we work together and that we provide for everyone’s basic needs. It is the spirit which animates Fannie Lou Hamer’s words that “nobody’s free until everybody’s free” and connects that freedom to our basic needs. A liberationist is one driven by this spirit — one who works towards liberation.
+
+I look at liberation primarily through five lenses: the result, which is freedom for all; the understanding that this freedom is intrinsically interconnected and, in our current environment, radical change will be necessary to realize it; the scope, which is the human condition and the future we are building together; the values, which are justice and love; and the means, which center on change-oriented action and reflection.
+
+My writings on liberation are rooted in many different concepts spanning cultures and movements and radical traditions. The following is not a comprehensive list but documents some works which have been influential to me:
+
+- [[Kapwa]], a concept and core value in Filipino psychology which is deeply rooted in Filipino cultural notions of inherent unity and interconnectedness between oneself and others
+- The Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist lesbian socialist organization active in Boston from 1974 to 1980, and their 1977 statement, powerful for a multitude of reasons but highlighted here for their view on oppressive systems (white supremacy, capitalism, capitalism, heteronormativity, etc.) being interconnected and on the centering of Black women in social justice causes: “Black women are inherently valuable, that… (their) liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else's but because of (their own) need as human persons for autonomy…”
+- A Siksika (Blackfoot) perspective on human needs and a collective way of realizing them, which Cindy Blackstock refers to as community actualization — sharing responsibility for “the work of meeting basic needs, ensuring safety, and creating the conditions for the expression of purpose” — and which informed Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-06-18/the-blackfoot-wisdom-that-inspired-maslows-hierarchy/)
+- A personal perspective (based on various other works) that economy is the system of how we meet basic human needs, culture is the storytelling which perpetuates economic systems while also being shaped by them, politics is the culturally rooted decision-making revolving around economy, and society includes the spaces and relationships in which these processes take place, change, and evolve
+- “What we mean by collective liberation,” an article which articulates a spiritual vision of what collective liberation entails and which comes from *enfleshed*, a spiritual organization focused on “creating and facilitating spiritual nourishment for collective liberation” (https://enfleshed.com/blogs/news/what-we-mean-by-collective-liberation/)
+- “all about love,” by bell hooks, a book which explores the subject of love within modern society, what our society teaches us about love, and what a more liberatory view of love might look like, presented alongside hooks’ own experiences with love
+- My experiences with the Unitarian Universalists, through whom I have been able to witness more of the spiritual aspects of collective liberation work in a face-to-face setting
+- “Let This Radicalize You,” by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, which provides “a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe”
+- “The Millionth Circle,” by Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, which reveals a vision of women’s circles as a means of liberatory transformation
+- And a myriad of others, whose stories, theories, critiques, models, experiences, ideas, works, and art pieces all had a role in the development of my perspective on collective liberation
+
+[[Liberation is freedom]]
+[[Liberation is connection]]
+[[Liberation is human condition]]
+[[Liberation is justice and love]]
+[[Liberation is change]]

Liberationist manifesto/Liberationist manifesto.md

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+The Liberationist manifesto is a collection of my writings on [[Liberation]] and what being a liberationist means to me.
+
+1. [[Liberation]]
+2. [[Liberation is freedom]]
+3. [[Liberation is connection]]
+4. [[Liberation is human condition]]
+5. [[Liberation is justice and love]]
+6. [[Liberation is change]]
+7. [[Personal evolutions]]
+8. [[On soup theory]]
+9. [[On symbols]]
+10. [[On theory]]

Liberationist manifesto/On soup theory.md

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+s I started to develop my writing on liberation, one of the first questions I asked myself was: What values does liberation require? I wrote previously about love, hope, and vision. I’ve also talked about connection, change, and justice, and I could fill a book with scrawlings about how this or that value relates to this work. Originally, I was going to do that now, starting with love. But when I encountered a TikTok talking about voting rights for convicted felons, I saw a better direction for this essay. In the comments under that video, someone shared a question for testing our readiness for change, more specifically social justice and *especially* more controversial questions like whether convicted felons should have voting rights. As you may have guessed by my title, yes, this one is about soup.
+
+This question originally comes from Rev. Oliver Snow, a progressive Christian minister who goes by @revpoppopandfriends on TikTok, and it goes something like this: **Do you believe everyone deserves to vibe and eat their favorite soup?**
+
+Like with anything on the internet, there were a milieu of responses to Rev. Oliver’s original post. Some wholeheartedly answered ‘yes,’ while others disagreed with the question’s framing. Some agreed but had misgivings, while others rejected it entirely. Surely it’s not perfect, but regardless of where people stood on it, I felt that the question provided a great starting point for having a dialog on liberation (especially our readiness for it). I appreciate particularly how it identifies a moral core, from which we can build social justice; furthermore, I see its potential for inspiring someone who is new to the work, for guiding those who feel lost in it, for evaluating our impacts, and so on.
+
+In breaking down how this question can help guide us, I decomposed what some are calling “Soup Theory” into three parts, somewhat based on Rev. Oliver’s discussion but infusing my own thoughts on liberation. The first part is “*Everyone* deserves”—that everyone (and that really means *everyone*) deserves to vibe and have good soup. The second part is “To vibe and eat their favorite soup”—that, if we really have justice, not only are everyone’s material needs met (food, shelter, clean air, clean water, healthcare, education, etc.) but they are also worthy of comfort, safety, and security. This part centers everyone’s innate dignity. The third part, the invisible aspect to this question, is a call for justice—that we can and should provide for all, that we can find a sustainable, equitable way to do it, and that we commit ourselves to justice.
+
+This isn’t meant to be a one-size-fits-all, dogmatic approach since there are many entry points into justice and liberation. I find, however, that it helps to center yourself and, even better, to model a perspective on justice based on love, rather than based on spite or vengeance. So, without knowing your politics, your morals, or your values, let me ask once more: **Do you believe everyone deserves to eat their favorite soup?** Find your answer, and then we can begin again.

Liberationist manifesto/On symbols.md

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+Yesterday, I had the idea for a particular network of “recipe sharing groups,” while I was thinking about building mutual aid networks as a means of sharing organizing strategies and ideas. Then I got to wondering about what kinds of ‘recipes’ might be shared in such a network, and about how people affiliated with it would mark their space’s alignment with the values of the network. This led me to create a symbol for liberatory work as a proposal for how we could identify with a common principle and connect in networks, even without a centralized body. I call this symbol the seven-heart-circle.
+
+The **heart** represents a radical heart—the heart which embraces liberation, love, and justice and knows that social and cultural change are essential to realize them but also require us to “grasp at the root.” The heart also incorporates the idea of humankind and all things having a shared soul, leading to a realization of deep interconnectedness. I relate this nature of the radical heart to *kapwa*, a concept in Filipino psychology created by Virgilio Enriquez:
+
+> “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others. This Filipino linguistic unity of the self and the other is unique and unlike in most modern languages. Why? Because implied in such inclusiveness is the moral obligation to treat one another as equal fellow human beings. If we can do this – even starting in our own family or our circle of friends – we are on the way to practice peace. We are Kapwa People.”
+> — Virgilio Enriquez, founder of sikolohiyang Pilipino.
+
+With a radical heart, we forge communities built on care and transcendental solidarity, through which we have the collective power to resist oppression, work for justice, and live with love.
+
+The **seven** represents the Seventh Generation principle, based on a moral philosophy of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the world’s oldest extant democracy, and which is believed to come from the Great Law of Peace. We live in time—our universe and Earth are billions of years old, our human existence on this earth is millions of years old, what we recount as the history of civilization isn’t even 1% of that existence, and our own lives aren’t even *specks* of time—and yet the impact we have endures ages beyond our physical deaths, our spirits echoing through history. Although we might die or be killed, what we stood for may live on, maintained by cultural perpetuity. The Seventh Generation principle calls us to consider how our words, works, choices, and actions will affect seven generations after us. This call especially rings true for the environment, which we have a responsibility to preserve for future generations, and for nature, which we ultimately belong to and must live in rhythm with. The seven also has a second meaning: wholeness, completeness, and creation.
+
+The last of these symbols is a **circle**, a shape which is sacred and important to many. Liberatory work often sees us organizing into and joining circles. This concept of the circle derives in part from the work and writing of Jean Shinoda Bolen, a feminist, psychiatrist, and Jungian analyst. Within a circle, all points—our spirits—are equally distributed around an invisible center. In the sanctuary of a circle, there is neither up nor down, neither top nor bottom, space for neither hierarchy nor domination. The space is shared, as well as its responsibilities and powers. The circle also represents the cyclical nature of life: all things live and die in cycles, our habits and systems are repeating cycles, the Sun, Earth, and Moon move in cycles, and even the seasons change from one to the next in one great cycle. In this regard, we are much like spirals, a closely related geometry: moving about a center but expanding outward. Having zero sides and infinitely many at the same time, the circle could also imply a union of opposites: the unifying power of consensus, cultural plurality, and unity in diversity. Circles are across cultures seen as magical and spiritual, like the ensō in Zen art, which is associated with “absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and emptiness.”
+
+These symbols come together in the color **purple**, although you can certainly draw the symbol in any color you like. Purple means many things to different peoples around the world, among them magic, mystery, wisdom, and creativity—all things we touch through liberatory practice. It connotes a harmonious mixing of blue and red, combining blue’s stability, calmness, emotional depth, and empathy with red’s energy, righteous anger, warmth, and passion. Purple also holds a double entendre to those of us in the United States; it implies choosing a path which transcends duopoly. With the color purple, we also honor femininity, queerness, transness, and gender nonconformity and acknowledge that our collective liberation depends on the liberation of women, trans people, and queer folk.
+
+I offer the **seven-heart-circle** to be used in your spaces as symbolic reminders of your commitments to liberatory work, no matter what your work is or what it looks like. Add the symbol to flags, to social media profiles and display names, to tattoos, to works of art, to signatures, stamps, and stationary, to stickers, screens, and stencils. Provide the symbol as something you and your group can align to, a way to know you are among friends and comrades or spot new ones on the streets.

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+Lots of experiences and feelings in my life drive me to be more radical - the list grows every single day. I tried before to tell a coherent story about the most important things, then I tried to list the things exhaustively. I wasn’t satisfied with either approach. There’s just too many things to list, they’re all so deeply interconnected, and they’re each relatively equally important. Each represents a new layer of complexity to my thoughts. Each experience, each action, each lesson, each thought, each feeling brings new understandings and transforms my views. Each day as I collect these things, I notice more hierarchies, cycles, and systems. I witness in all kinds of ways — from the individual to the family to the group to the community to the society to the nation, from the day-to-day of our lives to the changing seasons to the defining eras to the unreachable eternities, from bias to habit to tradition to norm to system — the fractal nature of our connected lives. I witness our relations to each other and to the world around us. And I’m all the more radical for it; the deeper I dig, the more truth I find in Angela Davis’ remark that “radical simply means ‘grasping at the root.’”
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+In this context of ‘witnessing,’ representing a decade of personal and political evolution, I call myself a liberationist. I am not (and cannot) (directly) operate on *all* parts of the human condition, but I regard what I do not experience or act on (directly) as equally important to what I do. It all lives within my radical heart. It represents what Filipino psychology refers to as “[[Kapwa]]” — a recognition of the self in the other, the concept of having a shared soul with all other things (and not just humans, either). Hurt experienced by one is hurt experienced by all. It is organizing against oppression, hierarchy, injustice, and exploitation. It is organizing towards change, empowerment, justice, and community. It is raising consciousness. It is a spiritual calling to build a better world, to love wider and louder, to raise the human condition. To answer the question of what it means to be human.
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+Liberation contains limitless possibilities for what could be. It is bold and hopeful. It is defiant and resilient. It is radical and revolutionary. It is active and reflective. It is love which creates justice which brings peace.

Reading notes/The Millionth Circle (Bolen, 1999).md

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+Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen
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+# Zen and the Art of Circle Maintenance
+
+- Dismantling patriarchy and changing the world
+- Written for women primarily, especially women’s circles, including women’s consciousness-raising and support groups
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+“It depends upon a simple hypothesis, whose mechanism has been proposed and observed, and is one that can be intuitively and immediately grasped: When a critical number of people change how they think and behave, the culture does also, and a new era begins.”
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+* Experiences as a member of women’s circles since 1985
+  * One which fell apart and abruptly dissolved due to a failure of trust
+  * A long-running prayer/meditation circle
+  * Women’s wisdom workshops - meeting in large circles, leaderless small groups
+  * Membership in boards and committees
+* “One form fosters the psyche, trust, authenticity, other facilitates productivity, the effective use of power, and persona"
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+“The part of me that appreciates how beauty and truth are linked saw how ritual and ceremony tapped into the imagination and were a medium for creativity and spirituality.”
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+Looking at the circle as a personal, egalitarian archetype which ‘comes more naturally to women’ - the circle emphasizes collaboration, emotional closeness, lessening of hierarchical relationships
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+Book makes use of poetry as well- metaphors + analogies + drawing from symbolic level of the psyche, language of the soul.
+
+# How to Change the World
+“The Millionth Circle”
+
+“There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo
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+“Feminism *catches fire* when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.” — Carol Lee Flinders, *At the Root of This Longing*
+
+* “The Hundredth Monkey” and antinuclear activism → critical point for cultural change
+* Marshall McLuhan: “The medium is the message”
+  * “a circle is nonhierarchical—this is what equality is like. This is how a culture behaves when it listens and learns from everyone in it.”
+* “The more circles there are, the easier it is for new circles to form; this is how morphic fields work. Each circle is a regeneration of the archetypal shape and form that draws from every woman’s circle that ever was, and each circle in turn adds to the field of archetypal energy that will make it easier for the next circle. Morphic fields and archetypes behave as if they have an invisible pre-existence outside of space and time, become instantly accessible to us when we align ourselves with that form, and are expressed in our thoughts, feelings, dreams, and actions. The circle is much more than the experience of this generation, a sacred circle especially.”
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+“See One, Do One, Teach One” - medical school process and how procedures were learned. Doing a circle would be the same way.
+* Circles go through all kinds of changes, flourish or flounder, heal or hurt members, can be transient or can be lifetime
+* Relationship skills carry into circles but circles also affect relationships beyond them
+* Circles can provide models - be a place to practice honest and caring communication until this is what you do and expect from others in your life → transform the patriarchal structure of your relationships → ripple effect of change/transformation
+* Place to become aware of how we perpetuate the status quo and how we might change it
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+Being in one circle leads to being in others → circles propagate, one circle at a time
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+The millionth circle - the one which tips the scales for humanity
+
+# Casting the Circle
+
+- Net, fishing line, magic circle, casting in a movie or play and selecting who will be in it
+- Deciding how the circle takes form
+- Begins with the idea or yearning for being in a circle
+- Joining the image of a circle with the intent to form one — vision meets intention
+
+* Think of who might want to be part of it & if you can’t, how could you find them
+* Is there enough energy to carry it “to term”?
+* Recount previous experiences/lessons and cultivate your intentions then move forward
+* Arrange gatherings, then arrange future gatherings
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+* Circles can have other purposes and goals besides just being circles — CR groups, mutual aid networks, learning societies, quilting bees, etc.
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+“Whatever it is called, / whatever the agenda may be, / if it is a circle with a center / its members are witnesses, role models, and soul connections / for each other. / Providers of intangible spiritual and psychological support, / validators of reality and possibility. / Mutual aid and learning societies. / Agents of change.”
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+* Find a place which can serve as a sanctuary for the circle
+* The secret for making a circle is for the women in it to know each other’s personal stories, journeys, “know what is of consequence, where the challenges and difficulties are that matter.”
+* Time - frequency and duration - can vary, but consider how much time you’re allotting for each person
+
+# Centering the Circle
+
+Centered = in the shape of an invisible wheel or mandala. Meets as if around a sacred fire at the center of a round hearth. The invisible center as source of energy, compassion, and wisdom.
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+Center makes the circle special, or sacred.
+
+“Begin the circle / with something that centers it.”
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+- Using some kind of sacred/spiritual ritual to ring in the circle and ‘center’ it.
+- Sometimes it’s necessary to re-center the circle by whatever means your circle chooses - sometimes circles and people get off-center
+
+# A Circle of Equals
+
+- Idea of circle of equals is common intention
+- “Each woman is committed to developing and maintaining it”
+- Consensus decisions
+  - Requires honesty
+  - If one fears being truthful lest feelings be hurt or punishment follows = codependency
+  - Codependency and equality are incompatible
+- Attentiveness
+- Speaking for yourself only
+- Shared responsibility
+- Hear from everyone
+- Check in and go around
+- “Talking stick”
+  - Being comfortable with silences, devoted listening without interruptions
+  - Calling upon the wisdom, honesty, and compassion in the center of the circle and in us
+- Ask for input from women who haven’t spoken → even if maybe silence is what’s called for from her, but we won’t know if we don’t ask
+- Comparison to jazz, improvising music, everyone’s playing different instruments or taking different roles in the circle → “Playing together as equals takes practice and presence.”
+
+# A Circle Needs to be Safe
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+- Maintaining the boundary of the circle
+- Ability to hold the contents, necessity for trust
+- What is said in confidence is held in confidence
+- No ridicule or indifference
+
+# A Circle in Trouble
+
+- Trust can be shaken/betrayed
+- Personality clashes, negative projections, anger, judgments, hurt feelings
+- Lack of commitment, i.e., habitual absense, lateness, leaving early, treating it as optional when it’s important for others
+- Energy leaks out - resentment and withholding step in
+- Can become stagnant
+- Can become overwhelmed if for example one has too high expectations for the circle, maybe forgets that the one circle can’t solve all our problems
+- Avoidance, dysfunction - when we can’t speak up about how uncomfortable/powerless we feel, participants become less present
+- “Sometimes facing what needs to be said and needs to be done / becomes an unexpected turning point, / not an end.”
+- Sometimes things have to end also.
+
+### How to Keep a Circle Healthy
+
+> 1. Each keeps the intention and image of the circle with a center in mind, especially when there are difficulties.
+> 2. Each seeks her center, in meditation and silence, prays for wisdom, compassion, discernment, and courage for herself, and for the circle.
+> 3. Each examines the state of her own psyche whenever she feels off-center, or the circle does, and considers possibilities that she is part of the problem. Am I projecting my shadow onto someone? Is this a familiar polarized state I get into—is it my complex?
+> 4. When the energy in the circle feels “off,” anyone can ask for silence for each women to check-in with herself: How am I? and inquire into the state of the circle: How does it feel? What is going on? When it’s a minor misalignment, the check-in time usually reconnects the circle to the center. If there is a major problem still to be resolved, this is the time for each and how she is and what the circle might do next.
+> 5. If what was said in the circle was not held in confidence, it is a boundary problem for the circle (and not only a problem between two of its members). If it is not brought up and resolved the circle is not safe for anyone.
+> 6. If one person dominates the circle, it is a problem for everyone. Remember that this is a circle of equals. Each needs to go to the center for wisdom and discernment, for compassion and courage. Each needs to speak up and name the problem that is, for herself. When there is a problem in the circle if one woman speaks her truth there is a strong possibility that she speaks for others who are silent or speaks for a silenced part in others.
+> 7. Once we see how our actions appear and affect others, the problem we may be to others may be solved. A circle of women is a multifaceted mirror in which each sees herself reflected. What she sees of herself in the words and faces around her depends on the capacity of each woman as mirror to be clear and compassionate. What we see depends upon the quality of the mirrors and the lighting, which can be kind to us or not, however true the image. What we see in ourselves, we can work on changing.
+> 8. When the problem is letting a woman go when she is ready to leave the circle, the solution begins with acknowledging feelings, however irrational. Suppose there is anger or guilt, or feelings of abandonment or depression—(that really belong to an unhealed loss from the past) Then this insight is a parting gift. A leave-taking needs to be worked through, and have a ritual to mark its significance for the women and for the circle.
+> 9. When a woman has a problem that is too much for the circle, the separation from the circle is harder. Not just for the women who leaves under such circumstances, but on the circle as well. Both need to “bite the bullet” as the excision is done, and work on healing after. Maybe something will help, maybe nothing will but time.
+> 10. Remember that a women’s circle is not perfect.
+
+# Ceremonial Circle
+
+Rituals, altars, celebrations - but also vigilance against obligatory, empty form “we’ve always done it this way” → mindfulness of the intention of our traditions and why we do them, not just doing them just to do them
+
+# The Millionth Circle
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+“There is no “always was, always will be” in human affairs.”
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+“You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round… The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours… Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.” —Black Elk, Oglala Sioux Holy Man