Global Vision Initiative
Statement of Purpose
The Foundation for Liberating Minds believes that unless we are all free, none of us will ever be free. The Global Vision Initiative is a direct product of this conviction. We hold true that our communities are deeply interconnected, and that international solidarity, achieved through the mutual sharing of global experiences, is key to our liberation. We center voices from the world beyond any of our individual scopes to create a mosaic of intercommunal bonds through a variety of mediums, from articles, to panels, to videos.
Our written series on Medium brings FLM members and guest authors to share critical analysis and perspective on the biggest issues concerning our global society. In these pieces authors address issues ranging from immigration and borders, global solidarity, neocolonialism, to creating a more just world.
Medium Series Cycle Three: “Lost in Translation”
Medium Series Cycle Two: “Every Dish, A Struggle”
Food and Diasporas Webinar
Food connects us to home, despite distance, violence, or intentional processes of disconnecting a people from their home, food has been a source for many communities to re-build those broken or temporarily shattered roots. This webinar unearth these divides that food bridges through the experiences of panelists apart of varying global diasporas.
Featuring: Stephanie Eyocko, Mixed Mag Food Editor; Kierra Miles, Uprooted & Rising Indian Territory Organizer; Neira Kadic, UWC Advisor; Norma Ruiz Cruz, Playwright; and moderated by our own Monique Walker.
Animation & Narration by Dana Mahmoud
Complicating Global Citizenship Webinar
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This incredibly insightful webinar saw panelists offer unique perspectives on the harms that come with the label global citizenship, and a move to a transformative vision of global solidarity across borders and nationalities. Topics include growing an internationalist politic, neocolonialism, US imperialism, immigrant justice, and much more.
Featuring Dr. Alyson Greiner, Professor of Global Studies at Oklahoma State University, Estefanía Narárez, Organizing Director of Uprooted & Rising, Cynthia Garcia, United We Dream's National Campaign Manager for Community Protection, and moderated by Monique Walker of Foundation for Liberating Minds.
Medium Series Cycle One: “How To Be A Global Citizen”
Check out the first article written by our director, Youssef Kamel who complicates the term global citizen, titled “Global Citizen? Really”
Our second article comes authored by Neira Kadic who writes “Does Your Empathy Stop at Borders?”
The third piece of this series comes written by FLM’s own Dana Mahmoud titled “White Comfort Is Not the Priority Over My Experience” and the series wraps up with a piece by Monique Walker who writes on “The Importance of International Apprehension”.
Faith & Justice Panel
Moderated by Youssef Kamel, Rabbi Jacobson, Imam Dr. Enchassi, and Rev. Dr. Gill came together for this interfaith panel to contemplate the responsibility for people of faiths to work for justice and freedom for the least among us.
The Global Vision team examines deeply the roots of religious discrimination and violence in order to educate people to better understand those of different faiths and the work that we all must do to be better by one another.
Request a workshop from members of the Global Vision team today!
“Religion and Supremacy: Culture, Identity, and a Move to a Just Religious Practice” presented at TheoPraxis at Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City.