One day at a time, we’re playing the long-game. We’re moving at the speed of trust, finding the beauty of ourselves in one another, and recovering our humanity. We invite you to join us in taking off your mask, and breathing in the relief and joy that comes from exploring our imperfections, telling the truth, and living in community with integrity.
Who We Are
REPARATIVE ECONOMICS ORGANIZING COLLECTIVE is a budding multiracial mutual aid organization built on foundations of anti-racist education and standing inside a vision of full and complete reparations for Black and Indigenous communities everywhere. We are working to end the racialized wealth divide in the United States by organizing local, national, and global communities of people with redistributive wealth-building capacities and access to power–people who are together unlearning supremacy culture, contributing to economic repair, and taking full responsibility for ending ALL violent systems of oppression in service of our collective humanity.
Communities of practice
Community Anti-Racist Education Fund
EXCITING NEWS! We've just launched! Our community fund provides stipends to anyone facing a financial barrier who would like to attend a foundational anti-racism workshop offering a critical and historical race and class analysis. Anti-racist education builds muscle for undoing individualism and other nasty manifestations of white supremacy through a historical lens; it supports movement organizing and strengthens multiracial solidarity which is key in co-creating a world that centers the humanity of Black & Indigenous people, communities, and lives. Economic hardship shouldn’t be a reason that people don’t have access to life-saving education, the truth of our foundations as a racialized nation, and the possibility of freedom and collective liberation.
Reparations Study Hall
We offer educational cohorts for people racialized white to study and internalize Black and Indigenous American history, to connect the economic dots between our European ancestors' participation in the colonization of Turtle Island, and to witness the atrocities many of our families committed––atrocities rooted in death, enslavement, displacement, and genocide––truths we must face so we may fully grasp the depth of the depravity of our current state of racialization, begin to tell the truth, and participate in collective racial healing, living amends, and economic repair. We meet twice a month for 4 months, reflecting and learning through study prompts, research topics, and buddy connections that culminate in a public sharing event and involve collective fund-making / fund-releasing activities. Keep an eye out for our next cohort!
Original Source
LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE LOTS TO SAY. Talking heads are telling us what to think; sometimes it’s easier to parrot and regurgitate than to take time to study, listen, and learn material ourselves and get critical with each other in our lives. Original Source is a community gathering where we read out loud and collectively consume large swaths of historically relevant anti-racist texts, in community, with no commentary. These texts may be a full book, or a significant article, a story, speech, or treatise on/or related to American history, resistance movements, colonization, racialization, and/or the deconstruction of identity politics, class oppression, assimilation, socialization, and beyond. Original Source is a community interdisciplinary practice, a pedagogical protocol that can be applied anywhere––an intentional space, where we deepen our collective historical knowledge, widen our cultural-political analysis, and develop muscle for critical perspectives that cultivate mutual hope, trust, creativity, and imagination.Foundations & Visions
Our reparative economics engagements are the culmination of many years of on-the-ground organizing, historical study, and ongoing praxis that have been shape-shifting through a multitude of practitioners, relational connections, difficult conversations, and visionary ideas, imagining the formation of liberatory models and frameworks, and operationalizing through foundational organizing based in historical contexts and living through community initiatives that act as access points for magnificent and ever-expanding visions of racial repair and economic justice.
