We are BACK from Memphis Tennessee, having experienced and participated in The Dream Reborn… an amazing gathering where over 1000 organizers (youth, used-to-be-youth, and elders) representing the totality of social justice issues affecting communities of color throughout the country joined forces, shared struggles, celebrated our cultures, and connected the dots to create sustainable change.
We are still talking about it!
As part of the Green For All video team we helped document THE DREAMS of dozens of people, and taped several panels and workshops. The Green Guerrillas were the youngest members of the grassroots collective responsible for recording this historic event, and were very well received!
Clips from GG v.2 (Green Whips, Racism in the ICSD, The MOVE Organization, Ithaca’s Peoples Garden Project) were shown to hundreds of people on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Conference.
Hundreds of folks (including many high school youth) stopped by to check us out — we were told that our booth was the HOTTEST!
We made connections with folks from Atlanta, Anahola (Hawai’i), Boston, Arctic Village (Alaska), Seattle, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia, and beyond. We have been invited to share our work with other youth groups from cities, communities, and indigenous territories all over Turtle Island.
We also shared in the powerful events which commemorated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We were at the National Civil Rights Museum when Dr. King’s family addressed the crowd from the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
On the last day of the Conference, two of us were interviewed by Davey D of the nationally syndicated hip hop news program Hard Knock Radio. Check it out!
