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· Feb 5
2025 will be a year of action. We invite you to click on the link below and learn more about the ‘where’ and ‘how’ we will accompany, uplift, and invest in the folks we’ll be partnering with around the globe.
tinyurl.com/bdpxjj5h
tinyurl.com/bdpxjj5h
Why should be boycotting the UAE in solidarity with Sudan? We put together a brief explainer and a few tips on 'how' to boycott.
March 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Why should be boycotting the UAE in solidarity with Sudan? We put together a brief explainer and a few tips on 'how' to boycott.
Seattle. 2pm. 🇵🇸.
February 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Seattle. 2pm. 🇵🇸.
2025 will be a year of action. We invite you to click on the link below and learn more about the ‘where’ and ‘how’ we will accompany, uplift, and invest in the folks we’ll be partnering with around the globe.
tinyurl.com/bdpxjj5h
tinyurl.com/bdpxjj5h
February 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
2025 will be a year of action. We invite you to click on the link below and learn more about the ‘where’ and ‘how’ we will accompany, uplift, and invest in the folks we’ll be partnering with around the globe.
tinyurl.com/bdpxjj5h
tinyurl.com/bdpxjj5h
Our friends and partners at Mother Africa are putting on this very cool initiative in South Seattle. Survivors of FGM/C or any form of gender-based violence are warmly encouraged to join.
Seattle-area friends, organizers, and social workers, please feel free to share with folks in your network ✨
Seattle-area friends, organizers, and social workers, please feel free to share with folks in your network ✨
January 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Our friends and partners at Mother Africa are putting on this very cool initiative in South Seattle. Survivors of FGM/C or any form of gender-based violence are warmly encouraged to join.
Seattle-area friends, organizers, and social workers, please feel free to share with folks in your network ✨
Seattle-area friends, organizers, and social workers, please feel free to share with folks in your network ✨
Friends in Benghazi, the Libyan Emergency Medicine Association is holding their 6th annual seminar this weekend at BMC. Full of helpful insight and reflection both for current practitioners and those transitioning into the sector...
January 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Friends in Benghazi, the Libyan Emergency Medicine Association is holding their 6th annual seminar this weekend at BMC. Full of helpful insight and reflection both for current practitioners and those transitioning into the sector...
Real excited to accompany, partner, and platform our friends Dreams of Women in Sri Lanka this year ✨This month they'll launch what they feel will be a life-changing, ‘dreaming-building’ program that will be investing in women working in the STEAM field. Stoke levels of all involved on ten.
January 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Real excited to accompany, partner, and platform our friends Dreams of Women in Sri Lanka this year ✨This month they'll launch what they feel will be a life-changing, ‘dreaming-building’ program that will be investing in women working in the STEAM field. Stoke levels of all involved on ten.
From the organizers, to the aunties and 3mos who brought out their friends/family or cooked dishes, to Emi's powerful storytelling and Asmae's voice, we have so much gratitude for the community, spirit, and magic The Nile Gala brought to so many in December.
January 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
From the organizers, to the aunties and 3mos who brought out their friends/family or cooked dishes, to Emi's powerful storytelling and Asmae's voice, we have so much gratitude for the community, spirit, and magic The Nile Gala brought to so many in December.
Meet, Dr. Maryam. One of many heroic Libyan doctors who helped sustain the Libyan health system in Benghazi following the revolution. The first woman to become a vascular surgeon in Jordan. Member of our Locally Led family + advisory collective collaborating with us on our work in Benghazi...
January 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Meet, Dr. Maryam. One of many heroic Libyan doctors who helped sustain the Libyan health system in Benghazi following the revolution. The first woman to become a vascular surgeon in Jordan. Member of our Locally Led family + advisory collective collaborating with us on our work in Benghazi...
Seattle. December 7th. Join the @locallyled.bsky.social PNW family as we come out to support our friends,The Nile Collective, as they celebrate Sudan and raise money for Sudanese in need in Sudan...and in refuge around world. Not in Seattle? You can still help by donating, using the QR code.
December 3, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Seattle. December 7th. Join the @locallyled.bsky.social PNW family as we come out to support our friends,The Nile Collective, as they celebrate Sudan and raise money for Sudanese in need in Sudan...and in refuge around world. Not in Seattle? You can still help by donating, using the QR code.
Is there an organization, volunteer group, or activist coalition in your community you think we should meet, ‘listen to’, or get to know? Or would you like to share about your own experience? If so, drop us a message. We’d love to connect and hear your story.
February 21, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Is there an organization, volunteer group, or activist coalition in your community you think we should meet, ‘listen to’, or get to know? Or would you like to share about your own experience? If so, drop us a message. We’d love to connect and hear your story.
A leader of a transnational feminist collective recently shared with Locally Led about some of the challenges her group has faced while organizing in concentric, anarchist, or collectively-led structure...
February 21, 2024 at 6:55 PM
A leader of a transnational feminist collective recently shared with Locally Led about some of the challenges her group has faced while organizing in concentric, anarchist, or collectively-led structure...
A Seattle-based activist shared with @locallyled.bsky.social about why those leading/supporting movement building/community-based organizing should allow the space for members to lead from, express the full spectrum of emotions that activism and serving your community brings out.
February 21, 2024 at 6:54 PM
A Seattle-based activist shared with @locallyled.bsky.social about why those leading/supporting movement building/community-based organizing should allow the space for members to lead from, express the full spectrum of emotions that activism and serving your community brings out.
A couple pull-quotes from a recent 'listening session' we had with a leader of a Palestinian activist collective. This conversation covered a lot of ground and revealed so much. We’re so grateful for the vulnerability and trust we’re experiencing throughout this initiative...
February 21, 2024 at 6:53 PM
A couple pull-quotes from a recent 'listening session' we had with a leader of a Palestinian activist collective. This conversation covered a lot of ground and revealed so much. We’re so grateful for the vulnerability and trust we’re experiencing throughout this initiative...
Our editorial on the shameful, moral apathy shown by the 'progressive' Global North in the face of atrocities in Sudan/apartheid in Palestine, what this shows us about the life they value, and how we must make them pay the cost of their complicity. tinyurl.com/munvkny2
February 21, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Our editorial on the shameful, moral apathy shown by the 'progressive' Global North in the face of atrocities in Sudan/apartheid in Palestine, what this shows us about the life they value, and how we must make them pay the cost of their complicity. tinyurl.com/munvkny2
Want to learn more about the current situation in Palestine, Gaza Strip? Or learn more on the Nakba, Israeli colonialism, Palestinian resistance? Our friend Matt and his colleague Diana have put together a great compilation of resources at the link below...
tinyurl.com/44vjfm8n
tinyurl.com/44vjfm8n
October 16, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Want to learn more about the current situation in Palestine, Gaza Strip? Or learn more on the Nakba, Israeli colonialism, Palestinian resistance? Our friend Matt and his colleague Diana have put together a great compilation of resources at the link below...
tinyurl.com/44vjfm8n
tinyurl.com/44vjfm8n
Are you looking for a trusted place to donate to, that is on the ground in Gaza? A trusted member of our network, who with the Palestinian Feminist Collective, has strongly recommended this campaign fundraising for the Middle East Children's Alliance. Donate at the link.
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October 15, 2023 at 5:17 PM
Are you looking for a trusted place to donate to, that is on the ground in Gaza? A trusted member of our network, who with the Palestinian Feminist Collective, has strongly recommended this campaign fundraising for the Middle East Children's Alliance. Donate at the link.
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"Fortunately, I’m lucky to have others, who are doing similar work, I can turn to, who understand what it gives, takes from you. Who understand the layers to it all, the sacrifice it takes, the roles you’re expected to play and be in peoples lives..."
October 13, 2023 at 8:38 PM
"Fortunately, I’m lucky to have others, who are doing similar work, I can turn to, who understand what it gives, takes from you. Who understand the layers to it all, the sacrifice it takes, the roles you’re expected to play and be in peoples lives..."
"The ideology that killed Ghandi is in power in India...and is now alive and well here in The U.S. It’s a transnational ideology that has gone international….that is now funding politicians in the U.S., particularly politicians in our city…"
October 13, 2023 at 8:34 PM
"The ideology that killed Ghandi is in power in India...and is now alive and well here in The U.S. It’s a transnational ideology that has gone international….that is now funding politicians in the U.S., particularly politicians in our city…"
“In the end I left bc I had become so emotionally, relationally unhealthy and drained. I cared for our people so much but I felt I had no group, people around me, to turn to in order to sustain my own personal, emotional needs. I knew I couldn’t carry on if I sustained this way.”
October 13, 2023 at 8:32 PM
“In the end I left bc I had become so emotionally, relationally unhealthy and drained. I cared for our people so much but I felt I had no group, people around me, to turn to in order to sustain my own personal, emotional needs. I knew I couldn’t carry on if I sustained this way.”
“The services for mental health support/care are completely maxed out here. The need is completely overwhelming. My old colleagues and the services they've provided over the years are at loss at what to do..."
October 13, 2023 at 8:28 PM
“The services for mental health support/care are completely maxed out here. The need is completely overwhelming. My old colleagues and the services they've provided over the years are at loss at what to do..."
We put a lot of time into the process of 'listening' and doing constructive + meaningful research within our communities. Here are five tips on curating strong, yet respectful questions for participatory research and 'listening drives' via our Listener's Guidebook...
October 13, 2023 at 8:19 PM
We put a lot of time into the process of 'listening' and doing constructive + meaningful research within our communities. Here are five tips on curating strong, yet respectful questions for participatory research and 'listening drives' via our Listener's Guidebook...
“It has to come from us, here. You can’t take what worked in Africa, the Middle East, or NYC, Houston, Chicago, or even our friendly neighbor Portland and copy and paste it to Federal Way, replicate it in Beacon Hill here in Seattle, or do the same thing over in north Seattle..."
October 13, 2023 at 8:16 PM
“It has to come from us, here. You can’t take what worked in Africa, the Middle East, or NYC, Houston, Chicago, or even our friendly neighbor Portland and copy and paste it to Federal Way, replicate it in Beacon Hill here in Seattle, or do the same thing over in north Seattle..."
"They want to make things equal, locally owned? Give us the same resources our international colleagues receive. I'm not just saying the money but access to the same tiers of education, ‘certified’ trainings, access to social capital, position to truly ‘lead', and space to fail..."
October 13, 2023 at 8:11 PM
"They want to make things equal, locally owned? Give us the same resources our international colleagues receive. I'm not just saying the money but access to the same tiers of education, ‘certified’ trainings, access to social capital, position to truly ‘lead', and space to fail..."