68. Facilitation for Anti-Oppression Education w. Marine Total Liberation

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Marine is back, baby! She and Mexie have a wonderful discussion about her journey into facilitation work with high school students. We discuss how facilitation differs as an educational tool from conventional lecturing or teaching, how she began her own anti-oppression facilitation program, and everything she’s learned along the way. We cover a lot of ground and end by shouting out her upcoming facilitation workshops, which are open to all! Send us an email if you are interested in participating (July 5-7 2021). They’ll be of interest to any activist or educator wanting to help facilitate dialogue to advance liberatory politics.







Sources and Links







* Race Dialogues: A Facilitator’s Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43568628-race-dialogues* Learning For Justice: https://www.learningforjustice.org/







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Transcript







F1:  [MUSIC] How can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet?







F2:  There’s an us before the wound, there’s an us before oppression, and to me pleasure is the way that we tap down into that.







F3:  We live in capitalism.  Its power seems inescapable.  So did the divine right of kings.







MEXIE:  Hello, lovely people.  It is Mexie just jumping on pre-intro to the podcast to let you know that Marine and I don’t actually get to talking about the workshop that she is hosting next month until the end of the podcast, so if you are interested in that, stay tuned until then or send us an e-mail at veganvanguardpodcast@gmail.com if you are interested.  It’s going to be a facilitation for social justice workshop series, held July 5th through 7th.  It’s going to be fantastic.  Stay tuned to the rest of the episode to hear all about it, but we just realized that maybe not everyone’s gonna listen all the way to the end, and this is important to say upfront.  I also want to apologize because there is a very yappy dog in a apartment that is close to mine and so, you can hear this little dog for quite a bit of the episode, but luckily Marine is the one who was talking more in this episode.







So, there’s not too much of yappy dog and Mexie speaking.  Anyway, with that said, let us dive into the real intro to the podcast.  Hey everyone, welcome to the Vegan Vanguard.  It is Mexie and…







MARINE:  Marine.







MEXIE:  So excited to have Marine back on the show.  How are you doing?







MARINE:  I’m good.  I’m excited to be back.  As you know, I’m kinda nervous too ‘cause I have not recorded a podcast in many moons, but…







MEXIE:  A bit out of practice but I’m sure…







MARINE:  A bit unpracticed.







MEXIE:  …you’re gonna be super great.







MARINE:  Yes.







MEXIE:  Yeah, I’m sure it’s gonna be wonderful.  Our audience always asks about you in the sweetest way.  I know that all of you listening have been really interested to hear how Marine’s doing and what she’s been up to.  I guess out of respect for your privacy, I always kind of act like it’s something I can’t talk about, it’s super-serious, or — sorry, not super-serious.







MARINE:  What?  Super-serious?