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WHAT IS COLLECTIVE LIBERATION?<br />
Wh<strong>at</strong> Is Collective Liber<strong>at</strong>ion?<br />
JT Taylor, United Students Against Swe<strong>at</strong>shops, Local 86<br />
Collective Liber<strong>at</strong>ion is principle and practice, it is personal and political.<br />
It’s the collective, horizontal, reciprocal, inclusive, and non-hierarchical<br />
organiz<strong>at</strong>ion of people. All marginalized identities’ fights and struggles<br />
are to be given equal concern and equal respect. There is no power from<br />
people unless it is collective. Liber<strong>at</strong>ion, a gre<strong>at</strong>er weight than simple<br />
freedom. When we liber<strong>at</strong>e ourselves, it is from chains of oppression,<br />
liber<strong>at</strong>ing silence, liber<strong>at</strong>ing shame so th<strong>at</strong> it becomes fiery<br />
empowerment and reclam<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Collective Liber<strong>at</strong>ion is kept alive in United Students Against Swe<strong>at</strong>shops<br />
through our Collective Liber<strong>at</strong>ion workshops. Everyone is required to<br />
<strong>at</strong>tend introductory workshops on marginalized identities, types of
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