Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War

As an actionable extension of this work, I acknowledge that by doing community-based art or creating in/of/inspired by a community I owe my neighbours. Beyond artists and learners, in being part of community, living, fighting playing, creating on stolen Land and Waters, we must combat the systems of colonial-capitalist violence beyond just thinking and talking about it-- decolonizing, fighting oppression, acknowledging pluralistic understandings requires action. Praxis. ​ Fundamentally, cultural work and world-building and space-making/holding and helping your neighbours is creative praxis. Simultaneously while re-appropriating our extractive role as students/researchers/artists by bringing community work into the classroom, we also expand or perhaps decolonize by re-conceptualizing the container of a classroom as not a container at all but rather a place where you learn. A wonderful Nishnaabeg articulation of this is from Leanne Simpson in the text: Land as Pedagogy. ​ Further updates and inspirations/references will be uploaded on an ongoing basis, including a Manifesto on Neighbourliness reporting what I've learned and critical discussions encountered on doing community work while "in but not of the University" (Moten and Harney, The University: Last Words).