MC4P ep 20: 1st season 21 episodes recap, MC4P womanifesto, Jane McAlevey and peacemaking

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Hey. Hello. I'm Wren Ribeiro, and I want to connect with you about peace and justice. We are interviewing women who labor for peace as we have forever and always will. Until we all feel peace in our homes, our workplaces, our communities, and especially our bodies and minds.

This initiative is named Mujeres Co-Labor for Peace. It's a show of intimate conversations with justice workers who are healing their self and communities from the effects of misogyny, capitalism and climate change.

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Welcome to Mujéres Co labor for Peace. I am Wren Ribeiro and I wish you complete wellness and lasting peace.

I'm going to jump right into our every episode. Heart check in. In this moment. Oh, what am I feeling? I'm feeling like a little verklempt, I guess.
My heart seems physically calm and content, but psychically I'm like, in this in-between space. Maybe , maybe a bit trippy.
How is your heart? Let's breathe into this great moment together.

Over the past 20 episodes. Remember episode 1.5, making this technically our 21st. We've had a number of amazing show guests who have reflected on their co labors, their collaborations for peace, including direct action like Mary McClintock’s weekly, ongoing peace vigils in Greenfield since 2002, and Reneé Toll DuBois's Mindful Farming and her seasonal ceremonies. We've heard from Emily Kawano, Sarah Assefa and Darnell Adams about their work in the solidarity economy focused on worker owned cooperatives, power building, housing equity and food sovereignty.

Allison Luke shared personal experience with frameworks of understanding psychological safety. And Bitsy Joy Bentley spoke to her efforts in Clay arts and cultural harm reduction. Professor Cassidy Sugimoto spoke to her incredible research to build equity for women in all sciences. And Susan Raffo spoke to her life's work as a healing practitioner on the individual, the communal, the historical and the ancestral levels.

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While it feels like I'm now beginning to sprout as a seedling host of this MC4P podcast and put roots down toward the healing of the effects of misogyny, capitalism and climate change, it also feels like it is time for me to pause to do some reflection vis-a-vis my own InnerFortune journaling practice. So I intend to bring excerpts or whole episodes into public spaces like schools and libraries, where we can view and discuss together some or all of the themes in these season one episodes. And I have a lot of work to do to begin promoting the show. Having owned a marketing business years ago, one might think I would have done this concurrently with the release of each episode. Particularly timely ones like the climate episode Around Earth Day. But I'm listening and following my heart's intuition.

I'd like to do three things with this final season one episode one.

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Offer up a brief recap of each episode of Mujéres Co labor for Peace, which I may or may not cut out for time, to share a few meaningful excerpts of the very big document I wrote that serves as the foundation of this show, and three, share a bit about a woman who has dedicated her life to the very end to healing some of the effects of capitalism through labor organizing, with great trials and celebrations for all of us to reflect on.

Here are the thumbnail images of each episode with title and short description.

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The first episode. What is misogyny? Featuring the work of Kate Manne, Melissa Emery Thompson, Andrea Dworkin, Gerda Lerner and more. 1.5 Grief and Misogyny featuring Madonna, Centering Sisters LLC, Claudine Gay and an InnerFortune journaling and self-reflection tool called Using Your Wits, which is in the thought section.

the second episode is Primal Healing of Misogyny, featuring matrilineal primate societies. Biomimicry. Audre Lorde, Angela Saini, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more. Episode three is calling on ancestors for emotional support, featuring dreams, incubate, internal family systems, the Legacy Burden and writings by Sophie Gilbert, Roxane Gay and more. Episode four Balance and Reproductive Labor: Roots and Insights, featuring Silvia Federici, Sonora Jha, Notable women in past waves of feminism, and others.

Episode five is Beyond Karen, featuring the book I wrote, subtitled: emerging from the depths of an epic epithet and a few lingering issues of racism in society. Episode six What is Your Capitalism Story? Featuring the works of Ellen Brown of the Public Banking Institute. Marjorie Kelley, author of Owning Our Future, and Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine.

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Episode seven is creative, cooperative power and rooting solidarity Ecosystems with Sarah Assefa and Emily Kawano, with episode eight. Solidarity economies the big picture of alliance building food cooperatives and housing. Also with Emily Kawano and Sarah Assefa. Episode nine What is Black Capitalism? Featuring the Greenwood Bank. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrice Khan Cullors banking lawyer Mehrsa Baradaran and Relationships Evolving Possibilities as well as the Poor People's Movement.

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Episode ten Reclaiming European Indigeneity and Ceremony with Reneé Toll du Bois and 11 is also with Reneé Toll DuBois, small steps over time understanding and responding to climate changes from a farmers perspective. Episodes 12 and 13 are parts one and two of a discussion with Allison Luke about the differences between cooperatives and corporations, as well as frameworks for inspiring courage and psychological safety.

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Episode 14 is cultivating Joy in Earth Day Actions, featuring a history of electric vehicles, some math relative to carbon dioxide, and featuring works of Linda Hogan, Elizabeth Kolbert, Extinction Rebellion, The music of Ma Muse, and more. Episode 15 is creating conditions for truth telling with worker owned cooperative consultant Darnell Adams. Episode 16 Hope Changes Everything with lifelong peace and justice activists, housing advocate, writer and intergenerational lesbian community builder Mary McClintock.

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Episode 17 Cultural Harm Reduction and the History of Clay arts and gatherings to address missing and murdered Indigenous Women and others, with Bitsy Joy Bentley. Episode 18 equity for Women in Science with Doctor Cassidy Sugimoto, featuring many examples of the systemic barriers along with the ways forward in dismantling them in academia and beyond. Episode 19 Healing Through Heart, body, Words, communities, histories, and Ancestral Relationships with Susan Raffo, who is journeying from the Atlantic to the Pacific on foot.

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Before I get into excerpts of my MC4P document, I would like to spotlight an incredible woman who has labored all her life for peace.

Jane McAlevey Jane McAlevey is an is a fourth generation labor organizer who has brought thousands of people to the streets to strike against unjust conditions like houselessness, unpaid and insufficiently paid laborers in care economies and for the past five years, she covered national strikes for The Nation magazine. She speaks to the historic win by 4000 Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voting to join the United Auto Workers as a beat down. That will be a massive change in the U.S. South. Jane is the author of four important books, including The Labor Organizing Bible Rules to Win by No Shortcuts, organizing for power, Raising Expectations and Raising Hell and a Collective Bargain Unions, Organizing, and the fight for democracy.

Here is Jane's website. She has just completed, or perhaps cut short, a media tour to speak to some of the inspiring, unionizing wins and fights across the United States. Due to a very hard battle with cancer.

Wishing you great peace, Jane.

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In the last stretch of 2023, I wrote a manifesto called Mujéres Co labor for Peace. Gaza was and still is under siege. Hate crimes were off the charts, and I had consumed so many statistics of injustice that I was entirely full up, only able to shake all the agitation off by attending and dancing my heart out at a concert by BCUC the voice of Soweto. I’ll play a bit of their magic at the end of this episode. First, here are six threads from my MC4P womanifesto that I would like to weave into the threads or co labors of other peace workers, including the sense of weaving alongside similar weavers as a sense of connection and collaboration, as a vibrational wavelength or perhaps weave-length.

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One -- when an individual journey resonates or ripples out like a natural body of water, it satisfies the soul.

Two -- when the effects of misogyny, intrinsic and adjacent to “the ignorance,” which perpetuates an experience of separation from spirit in many culturally muddled spaces, when the effects of misogyny are courageously faced, understood, and healed, the labors to address change at this level will create peace.

Three -- the pervasive messaging from media and certain religions and other power institutions propping up the culture of capitalism, insinuating that women are the weaker sex is only disproved through the out-rage-us emotional labors that give women the self-determination to vocalize truth in the pursuit of peace and justice.

Four -- asking ourselves questions, not just hard questions about capitalism, asking Why Is This So? Is a basic human process, one that undergirds our capacity for steady life skill development? Life skills are things like cooking meals and cleaning up after ourselves. Life skills are not developing algorithms to capitalize on people's behaviors.

Five -- if one study is capitalism or its equivalent privatization, it is not hard to get lost in deep theoretical comparisons between economic frameworks. But if one feels the way capitalism has and does affect their life, they may be able to embody an understanding that informs behaviors in the marketplace. For starters, we can ask ourselves questions like how does something private feel in comparison to something communal?

Six -- we literally vibrate at higher frequencies when we solve problems together. Our cells get excited, moving with ease and flowing in harmony. When we collaborate -- co labor -- in the service of shared needs. Ahhh, and here are a few ideas that also come from this Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace womanifesto. These ideas include ... joining me in a pledge to refuse to harm future generations with “the ignorance” through diligent practices of mindful speech and mindful listening, direct action and ally ship, popular education pedagogy, and heart centered witnessing.

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Here's another one. Let's together seek to lighten the hearts of those suffering “the ignorance”, knowing that power is so deeply enmeshed with wealth, and knowing that questing for healing on behalf of one another, including those of us whose perception of safety comes through questing for power, requires movement partners, movements of movement partners united in truth, in reconciliation, and for peace.

Let's give thanks to the healing labors of the most culturally resilient across the world. Through these co labors, the ways in which hurt people, hurt people are becoming clearer. Let's give thanks for justice workers able to hold space for healing, even the generationally resistant pain felt by perpetrators of injustice.

Justice workers are peacekeepers with hearts that radiate deep truth. Their labors help some who are overburdened by dominant racial and gender constructs, begin to explore psychological safety with hearts that radiate deep truth to co labor. For deep truth is to immerse oneself in the understanding
that colonizers were the first victims of colonization, that their hearts two must be healed.

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We are all held by the ancestors. They and all of spirit creation are fully at the helm of our peaceful interbeing. I really like that one.

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So the day after the BCUC concert, I participated in an online conference and afterwards, after an embodiment exercise, I stood and felt my grandmothers, my many grandmothers around me. I felt their support for MC4P, and in fact, I heard them name this show -- mujéres co-labor for peace -- as a whisper in my head, as a gift, as an invitation, or a blending of many efforts over the past 18 months and 18 years of my life.

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I am Wren Ribeiro, and I thank you so very much for joining in this season of Mujeres Co Labor for Peace.

I'll close this final episode of season one with a few words of Simone Weil and a rousing place based tribute to Soweto by BCUC. “Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no results, one day a light that is in the exact proportion to them will flood the soul.”

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This initiative is supported by InnerFortune, the full life self coaching journal that is now digital.

Join us for peace and thank you for your heart.