Forrest Raven – 843?- There Goes the (Neighbor) Hood Bibliography

“There Goes the (Neighbor) Hood” Bibliography By: Forrest Raven For more amazing work from Forrest check out her website here: https://www.favoritelibrarian.com/ and their Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/favoritelibrarian/ Explore the history of Atlanta’s historic neighborhoods with this collection of resources. Resources include the Jackson Cluster electronic resource, the effect of redlining, wealth building, “segregation by design,” housing […]

If Racism Was a Monster

It might look like me It might look like my father it might look like my daughter it might look like diabetics it might look like paramedics it might look like the systems like invisible systems it might loom like me it might move in the night but it moves in the light yes it […]

843? – How Do Knowledge & Education Relate to Generational Wealth?

Aysha Bowens – 843? zine – The Garden

“The Garden” By: Aysha Bowens while tending my garden, i see its potential where the soil dried up, even though there was no sun in the shadows of working through my past i envision others finding solace in my garden one day   i hope they find peace  as they walk by the lilac  that […]

Aysha Bowens for 843? – zine – A Heartful History

“A Heartful History” By: Aysha Bowens It was acknowledged that I was creative, but instilled in me that I must take the more stable and safer route. That it was great that I could put things together on a computer screen to make them look good, but how would I make it in the real […]

QUESTION / RELAY

There is no pre-existing agenda. This format transforms participants in leaders of the conversation. Each of them has a chance to ask a question and to answer another one. Here is a description of our process: conNECKtedTOO –> TINYisPOWERFUL RELAY QUESTION Process • To facilitate potential topics, ideas and questions that can be used for […]

SOLIDARITY ECONOMY

When in Charleston, pre-covid, Sarah Turquety, with a simple exercise in social awareness, transformed a disparate group of individualists into a cluster of community strong neighbors. Her poetry speaks of solidarity, militancy, family, nature. Her voice is spiced with a ray of sun. She is young and French, an artist living in a region of villages with 200 to 2000 inhabitants, in SW France

What can you imagine?

What can you imagine? For your future? For your community/communities? For your neighborhood? Your business? For the next generation and their education? For the future of food and food ecosystems?

Pause for a minute and try. Pick one.

Independence

The following is an excerpt written by Bernie Mazyck, Present & CEO of the South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development (SCACED) which was as the fiscal sponsor for 3 years of conNECKtedTOO as a predecessor to TINYisPOWERFUL. A Clearer and Truer Meaning of Independence As we approach the July 4th Independence Day holiday, better known […]

TINYisPOWERFUL – TINY Dialogue Booklets

Click here for the 2021 TINY Dialogue Booklet The work of TINYisPOWERFUL is process-oriented and prioritizes a journey toward an unknown destination or series of destinations we can create together. At its core, TINY is about the power of human connection — the possibilities that exist when we take time to listen to each other, […]