Just Compassion (JC) is a way of achieving human rights and justice goals using an ethos of love, fairness and forgiveness to get us there. In our last Anima Cafe in April, there was a great deal of excitement generated by the need for the JC framework as well as its 10 principles. Click here if you missed this fabulous gathering!]
JC is a response to how progressive can build mass movements required to challenge this moment of democratic destruction by the forces underlying Trump and other authoritarians—hyper-capitalism, white supremacy, misogyny, climate denial and other interlinking social injustices. It also provides an honest look at the self-created roadblocks by the Left that have pushed many people away, limiting our ability to “expand the tent” including cultures of callouts, cancelling, purity politics and perfectionism.
In this follow-up cafe, both co-hosts of the Just Compassion project, Anima’s Shakil Choudhury and Dr. Loretta Ross, author of Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel, go deeper into this unique framework for social change-makers. We explore a design and assessment tool based on JC principles as well as related behaviours and practices.
