FROM COLONY TO COMMUNITY

Help us create a place where all lives truly matter!

The journey from a colony to a community is one that we are all on, but we start from different places. We recommend starting with listening and learning, so we are providing information, resources, and opportunities to join with others to find our way together.

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What is Colonization?

Colonialism is defined as “control by one power over a dependent area or people.” In practice, colonialism is when one country violently invades and takes control of another country, claims the land as its own, and sends people — “settlers” — to live on that land.

Jamila Osman (De)colonized in Teen Vogue, October 2020

Equal Rights

“Asking you to give me equal rights, implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve.”

Elizabeth Peratrovich Testimony: Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945

Embracing Difference

Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives there. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.

Audre Lorde - The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Featured Projects

Benches and Birds

This project is part of the 'gathering of people'. It involves public art and public space as the tools to create welcoming and respectful spaces. The first part of the project aims to create yellow cedar benches that honor those who seek justice and peace.

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

The project is working to raise awareness of the difference in efforts by law enforcement to investigate and pursue cases that involve the disappearances and killings of Alaska Native people.

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Project 108

This project helps us keep track of all the great things that are happening in the community. We are aiming for 108 each year.

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