Leadership

TINY Systems with Fresh Future Farm – COMING SOON

By conNECKted TOO / July 10, 2020

Join Fresh Future Farm and conNECKtedTOO –> TINYisPOWERFUL for a conversation about food access, food apartheid, and local systems. This event is Free and Open to the Public. email TINYisPOWERFUL@gmail.com to register for the new date (coming soon) ### Consider signing this petition to Support Land Justice for Fresh Future Farm by clicking here: https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/land-justice-for-fresh-future-farm

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letter to Mayor John Tecklenburg of Charleston SC

By Abetterbusinessxabb@gmail.com / June 28, 2020

feature image credit: Brad Nettles / bnettles@postandcourier.com Dear Mayor Tecklenburg, On behalf of conNECKtedTOO—> TINYisPOWERFUL, I need to congratulate you and your administration for choosing to remove the monument to JC Calhoun on Marion Square. I also would like to remind you that the Art presentation you inaugurated at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park […]

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Letter to Mayor Summey of North Charleston in support of Fresh Future Farm

By Abetterbusinessxabb@gmail.com / June 28, 2020

feature image credit: Fresh Future Farm April Newsletter Dear Sir, This letter is in support of FRESH FUTURE FARM, as it is attempting to purchase – directly from your city, without an intermediary and at a fair price – the land it has been farming for many years, to the great benefit of its neighborhood […]

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When The Torch is Passed: The Bowens’ Legacy and Future

By conNECKted TOO / June 24, 2020

by AYSHA BOWENS Burke High School Class of 2020 Valedictorian The legacy that I would like to leave behind is not only for my family but for those who travel the same path as mine. While my path was full of support from family members and friends, opportunities that allowed me to meet influential people […]

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What do I wish to See?

By conNECKted TOO / June 24, 2020

for conNECKtedTOO –> TINYisPOWERFUL (as published in Newsletter #12) CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL TEXT WITH FORMATTING WHAT DO I WISH TO SEE? A Tiny Business conNECKtedTOO… becoming …TINYisPOWERFUL: with a strong young leadership of mainly people of color. Thank you Victoria for your lead! able to protect and enrich the […]

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A Conversation

By conNECKted TOO / June 24, 2020

interpreted conversation fragments shared between ARIANNE KING COMER and VICTORIA RAE MORE Lift and connect work together to grow talk observe The gift is these connections Getting to the issues I Can’t Breath Discrimination across cultures What is your journey? How did you get to the light? I am Black privileged to have beyond just my blackness

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What Has Been Done? What Will Continue? A Few Examples…

By conNECKted TOO / June 24, 2020

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Response to the Murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Too Many Others

By conNECKted TOO / June 24, 2020

by KIT LONEY As published in Newsletter #12 1. I want to find the way to say the too many names that will echo, and keep echoing. I want the too many names to ride on the voices of children. I want the too many names to spell themselves out in the murmurations of starlings over […]

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…And Here We Are

By conNECKted TOO / June 24, 2020

by PAMELLA GIBBS As published in Newsletter #12 Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) – From the poem “Let America Be America Again” by Langston […]

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TINY IS POWERFUL – The Transformation

By conNECKted TOO / June 24, 2020

by VICTORIA RAE MOORE As published in Newsletter #12 The theme for this newsletter was decided many months ago but especially now it is clear this tiny transformation is part of something much bigger. conNECKtedTOO, a project by the Charleston Rhizome Collective is becoming TINYisPOWERFUL, a grassroots collaborative organization. TINYisPOWERFUL involves Artists, Educators, Cultural Workers, Youth, Civic […]

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