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AGREEMENTS
Community Scholars 1/18/17
1. Solution-oriented
2. Listening, valuing silence
3. Value [learning in the] process; not just about solutions
4. Acknowledge questions
5. Be OK with being uncomfortable and wrong
6. Take responsibility for your own learning
7. Produce tangible, practical products
8. Re-envision the practical [we can be practical visionaries]
9. Listen to the community
10. Gain more experience with the Black Radical Tradition
11. Commit to building community
12. Non-judgmental [seek to understand]
13. Accountability
14. Address need for love and community
15. Patience-space to listen
16. Leveraging grounded knowledge
17. To feel useful to the space
18. Process to make growth and labor equitable
19. Gain greater knowledge about the L.A. context
20. Ensuring our work builds on existing work
21. Concrete solutions for black liberation
22. Language access [more than 3 syllables dont use it]
23. Acknowledgement of different roles and knowing roles
24. Mindfulness
25. No white tears
26. Respond to concepts/ideas not people
27. Experience is just as valid as academic terms
28. Speak from your own experience be an expert of our own experience
29. No censorship
30. Address races and people as they are
31. Openess and honesty dont censor self
32. Stay alert and active
33. Bring your best self engage
34. Black spaces for planning and in class sessions too
35. Cant be afraid of conflict and uncomfortable-ness
36. Bending, not breaking
37. Feel comfortable to ask what something means
38. Advance Black progression (a focus on this on jobs, policy, a roadmap)
39. Conversations that can be had anywhere
a. Not losing the connection to stories of people; not privileged to be here

40. Elevating personal experience and situated knowledge

41. A focus on true community ownership
42. Being change agents
a. Where do we go next, how do we direct change agents in helping us get there?
43. A focus on freedom, our beliefs about our existence
a. Understanding freedom from within is also important