“We didn’t start the fire, but we have to figure out how to put out what has become a wildfire and regenerate the Earth and all its beings.” Vanessa Ludwig, South Africa

We must know and understand that genocide, armed conflicts, persecution, and the destruction of lives and souls, the natural environment, and so much more, are perpetrated in multiple locations in the world by multiple state, corporate, and civil society leaders of the globalized culture of killing that has engulfed us and threaten the very survival of the planet. So how do we, as feminist in our respective social and geographical locations, make sure to acknowledge that reality and develop planetary frames that amplify our interconnectedness and interdependencies? How do we learn from and with multi-generations of feminist and other radical and visionary families, movements, activists, artists, musicians, journalists, academics, and more on whose shoulders we stand and among whom we exist in this moment? What are things we simply cannot understand, are flummoxed about? What are the foundational principles and practices of “solidarity” in this historic moment? Who must be become to be in such solidarity, given the multiple ways we too ohave been socialized and influenced by the “culture of killing”?

Pregs Govender, Margo Okazawa-Rey, and Shailja Patel will share their ideas and invite other participants to share theirs.