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ABCD in Action Global Gathering Monthly Zoom
These global gatherings are opportunities for members of ABCD in Action to join via Zoom to talk about questions/topics they care about. Currently we are focusing on one main question each month and interested participants from around the world spend time in small groups diving into the questions.
- In August and September, we asked what community building looks like during a pandemic.
- In October, we explored how ABCD (or an asset-based approach) might be used for social and racial justice.
- In upcoming months, we plan to talk together about how communities can think about public safety (with John Ziegler) and how thinking about gifts can change our communities (with Bruce Anderson).
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Questions? Suggestions for future gatherings and/or are interested in co-hosting a gathering with Deb? Email her at abcd@abcdinaction.org
Do you Use the Term: Citizen in Your ABCD Work?
Join the conversation on ABCD in Action.
One of the most powerful concepts in ABCD is that each person has gifts, skills and abilities, that they can share them to connect with others, and that they can do so in a way that is powerful and can lead to being a co-creator or co-producer of community life. We often refer to this role and responsibility as being a 'citizen' - someone actively engaged in co-producing their community's future. As understood in contrast to a passive 'client' of government or 'consumer' of culture, 'citizen' has been used in ABCD training and practice to refer inclusively to all members of a community who share gifts, connect, engage and co-create.
Some, especially in the U.S., have pointed out that the term 'citizen' can feel exclusive or even demeaning in certain contexts where the concept of citizen as a government-recognized legal status has been used to separate people and marginalize those who do not have that government status and associated legal rights.
We have had some robust discussions about this on the Board of the ABCD Institute and would love to know how, linguistically, people refer to people in communities who share their gifts, connect with others and engage in co-creating their community's future. Do you use the word 'citizen?' If so, why? If not, why not? Do you use other terms? What are they and what do you like about them or see as limitations? Please add to the conversation here
ABCD and Bringing Racial Justice to Black and Brown Communities. The ABCD Institute Publications Team is seeking short and long publications that address the issue of examining racial justice in Black and Brown communities. Some examples might include: policing, the criminal justice system, closing the health gap, reducing economic inequality, education, housing, environmental justice, among other topics.
You might address how institutional relationships contribute to inequality and how they might combat it, the work of associations as well as other assets that might be mobilized. Accepting publications from the U.S. and other countries.
Contributions might include: (1) Notes from the field (800-3,500 words) or (2) full-length original articles or reports (3,500 words or more),
Short or long articles should be submitted by email to ABCD Faculty member ivis.garcia@gmail.com. Feel free to send your ideas and suggestions too!
Call for Stories: Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) edition of IACD’s Practice Insights Magazine
Dee Brooks and Michelle Dunscombe are creating a special edition of Practice Insights magazine focused on ABCD. Submit your story or idea in 200 words or less by Friday, December 4, 2020 to dee.brooks@iacdglobal.org
Editors will respond to all proposed submissions by Friday, 25th December, 2020; invited contributors will then have until Friday, January 15, 2021 to submit their full contribution. The submissions will undergo a peer review process and authors will then have two weeks to address any suggested edits.
For more information and a flyer to share
ABCD E-Book Creation Are you interested in working on the development of a global ABCD collection of stories? A group that formed at the 2019 Goa Conference came up with this idea and are beginning the planning and collaboration stages. Contact Dee Brooks at dee@jeder.com.au to join the growing team of collaborators.
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