Seed305

Combating Oppression with Radical Self-Love with Sonya Renee Taylor

With a heavy heart we must announce that Leah, who was with Seed305 from nearly the start, will be leaving the co-op for good as she moves on from South Florida. We thought it'd be nice if we could send her off with love. For folks who have been involved with Seed in the past, if you'd like to send her a heart felt message or share a memory or simply send well wishes, please email us at: [email protected]

Seed305 is offering a free Environmental Racism workshop this Saturday at the Miami Worker's Center in honor of Take Back the Land's 10 year reunion!!! 3-5:30pm. Hope to see you there:)

In two weeks, on June 28th, we will be hosting a session on Classism. Classism is the very basis that our capitalist economic system is built upon. That is, the intentional exclusion and marginalization of those who are lower-income, defined by inaccessibility to resources and wealth.

Location: Florida International University, South Campus
Labor Center from 4pm-6pm*.

Here's a great episode series on capitalism and its connection to our classist society that has developed global neoliberalism as we know it:

Episode 093: Capitalism Equals Classism Let's face the truth--Capitalism equals Classism. If you believe in the system of capitalism, then you believe that it is okay for some classes to "have" their needs met (and then some), while other classes suffer. On this episode of The Axiom Amnesia Theory, Heit & Cheri challenge you to make some…

This Sunday, we're hosting a session on Queerphobia.

Location: Florida International University, South Campus
Room: Labor Center, 110.

Bring a friend or family member! :-)

Heteronormativity is “a concept developed in q***r theory that describes the social privileging of heterosexuality and the assumption that heterosexuality is the only natural and normal sexuality”.

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/ppkstn8

Queering Space: Challenging Heteronormative Practices/ Performances in Architecture Queering Space: Challenging Heteronormative Practices/ Performances in Architecture

"...each life [is] a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth."- Eli Clare, "Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation" (1999)

This Sunday, we're hosting a session on Ableism.

Ableism is a system of discrimination and exclusion that oppresses people with mental, emotional, and physical disabilities. We hope that this workshop will provide the context to connect with the issue of ableism that may affect ourselves and folks we know. Challenging ableism is about forming the conditions to a create a culture of accessibility and it begins with all of us.

Join us! Bring a friend :-)

Where: FIU South; Labor Center, Rm. 110, 4pm-6pm*

"Of course, there are white individuals who commit active and intentionally racist acts. But, the most powerful manifestation of white supremacy as a type of group power is how individual white people in American society can still passively benefit from white racism and the psychological, material and political advantages it brings to their group."

10 Things Everyone Should Know About White Supremacy In the age of Obama, the phrase "white supremacy" is used in political discussions like an imprecise shotgun blast.

Session 1

Shout out to Students Working for Equal Rights and Lake Worth folks who came all the way from there to join us for our first session: Identity & Power. Today's session offered an illuminating and reflective beginning to our 13-week series where we will explore different systems of oppression and the intersecting effects on communities of struggle.

Next up, White Supremacy facilitated by Mo Tarafah this Sunday April 27th in the Labor Center room 110 at FIU-South, 4 - 6pm.