Justice Rajee 5/20/19 Justice Rajee 5/20/19

Monday Movement

Virtue of The Week:

Love - Love is a special felling that fills your heart. You show love in a smile, a kind word, athoughtful act or a hug. Love is treating people and things with care and kindness because they mean so much to you. Love is contagious. It Keeps spreading.

Video of The Week:

Something to Read:

https://www.inc.com/benjamin-p-hardy/if-youre-too-busy-for-these-5-things-your-life-is-.html

Justice Rajee 3/18/19 Justice Rajee 3/18/19

Monday Movement - Chicago Love Edition

The photo above was taken by this brother right here: @thelensoftruth

Virtue of the Week:

Trustworthiness - Trustworthiness is being worthy of trust. People can count on you to do your best, to keep your word and to follow through on your commitments. You do what you say you will do. Trustworthiness is a key to success in anything you do.

A Message Before You Go:

The city of Chicago has a lot of stories to tell. It should not be overlooked or undervalued in your study fo the Black story of this country. I have had to fortune to connect with the city in the last two years and I look forward to spending more time there in the future. This weekend I spent time connecting with my brother’s over few days. The maintenance of your relationships is highly important. We can take for granted that the ones we love, including our friends, are static objects. Locked in at that time we met and remaining how we remember them forever. The truth is that the world and everything in it is moving, growing, and changing. We have to be intentional and present in our relationships. Nothing matters more. As a man you do not exist on an island formed of just your personal identity. We are a piece of the whole. Be great, be righteous, and be with your brothers.

Justice Rajee 1/21/19 Justice Rajee 1/21/19

Monday Movement

Movement Monday is a new weekly word to motivate us all to make progress towards our goals and aspirations. Take the best part for yourself. Peace

Virtue of the week:

Diligence - Diligence is working hard and doing your absolute best. You take special care by doing things tep by step. Diligence helps you to get things dones with excellence and enthusiasm. Dligence leads to success. Read more at: www.virtuesproject.com

Video of the week:

A clip from this video made the rounds on the social media this weekend. The full piece is worth your time. I have some Giovanni and Baldwin in the library, but getting to watch them engage with each other is a treasure. Lock in.

MLK Bonus Video

Many folk have heard that the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. made the comment that the U.S. government [was/is] "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today". This was in context to a speech delivered on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City - exactly one year before his untimely death.

Financial Intelligence:

All forms of money or items of value are determined by the culture in which it is traded.

An Instagram feed you should be following:

Why Does Representation Matter? Recently I have seen a lot of discussion around representation and people struggling to understand or articulate why it's important. Why does it matter how people and ideas are shown in film, photography, and the news? Aren't there more pressing on the ground needs that we should focus on instead? Since this account is about changing representations of land, I wanted to address it here. Representation matters because it creates the ideological conditions necessary for realizing on the ground change. Basically, the more we talk about something in a certain way, the more we hear it and see it represented in a certain way, the more likely we are to accept it as true, as natural, or as "common sense" regardless of it's actual basis in truth. This is what psychologists call the Illusory Truth Effect - the tendency to believe information to be correct because of exposure rather than reason or evidence. This kind of ingrained belief especially across whole groups of people and cultures leads to what is called reification - or making REAL something that previously had only been imagined or talked about. In other words, we try to shape physical reality to fit our believes rather than allowing our beliefs to be shaped by truth. (Example of this is comments. My original post was too long.) - Once established, these realities are easy to perpetuate and incredibly difficult to destabilize. (Especially when, like wilderness, they intersect with entrenched power structures like colonialism and capitalism). But the whole idea behind Indigenous Geotags is that this process can go the other way, that representing these lands as deeply cultural and historical, as belonging to indigenous people, is the first step toward creating a more just reality. Feel free to share your thoughts. #publiclandisnativeland * * * #indigenous #honortheearth #indiancountry #nativeland #publicland #decolonize #wilderness #activism #nationalparks #nativepride #landscape #travel #socialjustice #adventure #natureporn #naturegram #idlenomore #greettheoutdoors #keepitwild #getoutstayout #environmentaljustice #nativeamerican #resist #representation

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