Why it Matters
In one way, or another, we as people have come to define the world as unfair. Violence haunts families and pays the malicious; and what little paradise we individually hold onto becomes all we fixate…
Hate Speech Oregon
Hate Speech Oregon UNITE Oregon works to build a unified, intercultural movement for justice addressing racial profiling and hate crimes. Kayse Jama, Executive Director, discussed with Institute for Community Leadership delegates how we can become…
Singing – The Conceptualization
For thousands of years, all cultures in all parts of the world, have been singing as means to share stories and traditions. Like laughter, play, and exercise, singing helps underpin and maintain our well being.…
The Importance of Circles
Leadership calls on us to step out of our comfort zones. Everyone can see when something is unjust and wrong, yet not everyone will act to be part of the solution. The status quo seeks…
Community Minded in Spokane, WA
The cameras rolled in this Spokane studio with Community Minded TV and Black Lens monthly newspaper organizers, Ben Cabildo and Sandra Williams. The Institute’s youth and staff spent an hour filming a program about our…
Self-Change
To alleviate a social disease or dysfunction, problem, or injustice, we have to change our behavior. Alleviating HIV AIDS requires behavior changes. Addressing childhood diabetes requires effecting behavior changes. To gain more influence in city…
Interviews
Celebrating the 4th of July at Tacoma’s Freedom Fair, the delegation encountered Perry, a retired musician, originally from Oakland. Perry noticing the young people’s provocative red shirts which read in bright letters, “Vote, to us,…
Fourth of July
What better way to spend the 4th of July than registering people to vote, and getting civic? On the 4th of July ICL was invited to provide voter registration in both Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. …
My Vote Doesn’t Count
Those who think their vote doesn’t count are half right. A significant number of Americans who are eligible to vote, do not vote. Of those, a common explanation is that their vote doesn’t count. There…
WE THE PEOPLE
The Institute for Community Leadership(ICL) Civic Engagement Pilgrimage: A pilgrimage is a journey of cultural spiritual significance. A pilgrimage may involve sacrifice, leaving certain things behind, and opportunity for collective reflection. For the ICL staff…