Institute of the Black World » Awakening The Movement Of Movements:
"As the crises we face intensify, so does the cry for the Movement of Movements to coalesce into one mass movement for change. But herein lies a seeming paradox: This revolution will not be organized under one umbrella – its diversity is part of its revolution. We are wandering in the woods, looking for the revolution of the Movement of Movements, not seeing the forest for the trees. The “Movement of Movements” is a phrase used to describe the current profusion of social justice movements sweeping the national and global social-political landscape. Neither an umbrella nor a grand unification organization, it is rather a way of perceiving the threads of connection that link these social justice movements together. The phrase emphasizes the diversity and multiplicity of many groups, organizations, campaigns and individuals, suggesting that the dispersed and varied efforts have a shared thrust to the direction of change we are moving in. The Movement of Movements neither has nor needs a central leadership, coordinating committee, hierarchical command, singular figurehead or slogan. Its strength lies in its complexity, like the numerous ecosystems that create the living biosphere of planet Earth. This is a breakthrough moment in human consciousness. The capacity to perceive the diverse, dispersed Movement of Movements emerges from a long series of social conditions. It arises from a generation of children taught elementary school ecology. It hinges on the introduction of the word ecosystem into popular vocabulary. It builds off decades of the development of complex and general systems theory that began to pick up steam in the 1970s. It is supported by the millions of Americans who have been studying Buddhist and Taoist philosophies rooted in impermanence and interconnection."
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