CDI centers our work in collective liberation. Collective liberation recognizes that we all suffer under systems of oppression and systemic racism, and only by working together can we create safe communities where everyone is treated with respect and dignity. Historically,
Learning is a Matter of Life and Death
Written By Executive Director, Noemi Giszpenc The fifth cooperative principle is Education, Training, and Information. This may seem like a milquetoast, quiet principle, but it’s not. Would slaves have risked their lives to learn to read if education was optional?
Enough is enough is enough already
Written by Noemi Giszpenc, Executive Director As I’m writing this, it’s June 1, 2020 — the first day of hurricane season — and I’m wondering, what’s it going to take? The Amazon burned, Australia burned, Paradise burned. Minneapolis and L.A.