Challenges

The Challenges We Face (What are the big pieces of this?)

A brainstorm about the large challenges we face.  The numbers is parenthesis represent the results of a straw poll:  "Which of these things do you consider a priority to work on, something you are willing to put energy into, and potentially has attainable results?"

• accountability (14)
• education (13)
• crisis response (13)
• Hierarchy (12)
• Police (11)
• community defense/defense of communities (11)
• violence (specifically domestic and/or sexual) (11)
• a sense of isolation (9)
• need to heal (9)
• environmental justice (8)
• spaces (places to do the things you do) (8)
• larger sense of trust (7)
• unequal dist. of wealth (6)
• mental health (6)
• personal identity (who we identify with, on what level, how that holds us back) (6)
• lack of constancy of commitment (6)
• Culture of violence (media, television, worship of aggressive competition) (5)
• Physical health (3)
• whether we share common values, or even language (3)