Hi everyone. Welcome to Becoming the People.

So I've been in a lot of reflection about vision.

Who gets to have vision? Who doesn't get to have vision?

Whose visions are we living inside of? These questions feel

critical to me for understanding what's going on in the world and how we navigate our way through

these rough terrains. One of the things that's been sitting with me a lot is the vision that I think,

particularly the right has for our lives and our relationships and our societies, and that it's

one that is unfortunately a derivative of visions I think we've lived inside of for a long time. The attempt to

roll back time is to recover those same social relationships and ways of constructing the world

that we've lived in for hundreds of years at this point. The harder work, it seems, is

creating or conjuring a vision of something we haven't yet

seen. And I say we haven't yet seen it in part because all of us come from visionary people

and people that were able to conjure worlds that our ancestors lived in and flourished in.

And yet we face a particular set of circumstances that few of our ancestors, if any, ever had to

face. Not only are we facing compounding crises in this time, but we're doing it

with people that are different than us, perhaps unfamiliar to us, and these questions of how we vision

for ourselves and our people, and what our visions for our liberation has to do with each other's

liberations are complicated. I don't have any answers here, just a lot of questions.

And when I thought about exploring, visioning, organizing, how we do it, how we build

connections and dream and move towards the worlds that we dream.

I thought of Maurice Mitchell as a really exciting conversation partner.

He's one of these people that I see in movement spaces that I've seen for years

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