Anti-Oppression
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AJP Funds Sharing Policy
This policy was initiated from an idea farmer Jennifer Taylor (of Lola’s Organic Farm) brought to AJP in 2023. Leah Cohen worked out the details of implementation in collaboration with Jennifer. It was piloted from 2023 through AJP’s sunsetting in 2026, sharing over $17k in benefits divided among 19 beneficiaries.
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AJP will pay a designated share of our funding directly to frontline community members who are subjected to race-based systemic injustice and whose stories help AJP obtain grants and donations.
...Five Faces of Oppression
Partial synopsis of Justice and the Politics of Difference, by Iris Marion Young (1990), helpful for facilitating conversations about what justice means given the different ways that people experience oppression.
Throughout the 1980s and even still today, many people have dismissed “identity politics” as a mere distraction. Iris Young’s book Justice and the Politics of Difference was a milestone in the fight to prove that so-called “identity politics” had serious demands and ambitions for social transformation. Young synthesized years of theorizing by social movements, presenting claims for social justice in a clear, incisive form that was hard for mainstream liberals to ignore. Her book is particularly helpful for how it talks about power and its relation to oppression.
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