Freedom Dreaming
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Freedom Dreaming 〰️
What does it look like for DC to be free?
The fight for a DC that is free means much more than simply stopping attacks against us. Before we can win a DC that is free, we need to define what this means to us. What would a free DC smell like? Sound like? What will we be able to do with our bodies that right now we cannot? What resources will we have that don’t currently exist?
This summer, Free DC is setting out to define our Freedom Dreams and Freedom Demands through a community visioning series. Liberation movements throughout history have used processes like these to shift collective understanding of what is possible, and define our dignity on our own terms.
We want you to join us this summer to share your Freedom Dreams and inform our Freedom Demands. We will compile the ideas we hear during these sessions into a collective vision and strategic guidance that will inform the next three years of our work and organizing.
Be part of it
Contribute to this project in any of the following ways.
1. Attend a Freedom Dreaming Workshop
The heart of this project will be a series of in-person participatory workshops. In these session we’ll explore together the ways our day-to-day lives could be different if DC had full political power. We’ll also define the things we want to be different when we have won the full rights, resources, and power that DC deserves.
2. Complete a Freedom Dreaming Worksheet
Prefer to dream in writing? Download our Freedom Dreaming worksheet and use it to articulate your dreams for a DC that is free. This is a great activity to do together with friends, neighbors, your Crew, or you Ward Team.
Liberation should engage all our senses and this process should too. To do that, we invite community members to contribute to a Freedom Dreams quilt that will bring together the ideas we hear throughout this series.
After attending a workshop or completing a worksheet, we invite you to create and contribute a quilt square about your Freedom Dreams. Quilt squares should be 12” on all sides, be made of cotton or other non-stretchy material, and should answer the question: “To me, a Free DC means ___________.”
3. Contribute to the Freedom Dreaming Quilt
Feel free to quilt, embroider, draw, emboss, or bedazzle your square. You are also welcome to use a piece of fabric or clothing that is meaningful to you. Quilt squares will be assembled on a rolling basis starting in August. Once your square is complete, bring it to any upcoming Ward Team meeting, or contact your Ward Team leader.
Have quilting supplies or skills to share? Email us at team@freedcproject.org.
