hilos

part of creating a city that thrives and allows people to grow with it, means having resources available for all those who need them and want to use them. one really big obstacle that undermines our potentials and hapiness as people is violence. violence, discrimination, stereotypes, all these things and more keep us from exploring what we want and from creating ourselves into who we want to be.

i’m writing about domestic violence because i just came from a march to end domestic violence. it was held from pilsen to little village and it was very empowering to see people come together and demand that violence stop. that all humans deserve respect and derserve not to fear anyone; not their parents, not their partners, not cops, not anyone. 

the people who came and organized the march have been working on this issue in a variety of ways. they have done a lot of work not only towards this march but doing grassroots organizing and all kinds of things wich include art works and all that stuff. this is really amazing work. the question is how i can support and how i can get more involved. there are too many issues that i want to work on and there is just no time, and even if there was there are too many things that i don’t even think it would be productive.

how do we get involved? are calls to representatives enough? do we go out and protest? do we organize? how do we organize? what if we are working two jobs and have kids? i mean there are so many ways in which people are kept from organizing… or that limit our participation in what we want to do.

i have to figure this out.