Build For Belonging
We advocate for equitable development and the creation of inclusive cross-cultural spaces.
Let's Build for Belonging in East King County for all of us and future generations.
CONNECT IN COMMUNITY
Meet neighbors, exchange ideas, build relationships, and support one another.
Eastside For All believes real change and the ability to build for belonging begins with the small, sincere conversations that happen in informal settings when we come together as community members, connecting around our hopes and dreams.
Cross-Cultural community spaces allow us to do just that.
Community spaces are critical. They make real transformations in equity and social justice possible. Cross-cultural spaces bring people together with the intent to connect people from different races, cultures, occupations, social economic standings and viewpoints.
In these spaces, we do more than talk. We work together on events, community art, advocacy issues, and shared visions.
EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT
for Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Prevent residential, commercial, and cultural displacement by centering ownership in communities.
Develop projects that are permanently affordable and that meet many needs at once.
Communicate the critical need for community spaces (indoor and outdoor) to support well-being, belonging, and equity.
Advance decision-making and leadership within our BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities.
Foster people-centered approaches that produce broadly shared economic prosperity, racial equity, and ecological sustainability.
Invest in collaborative and inclusive community "hubs" co-designed, managed, and led by BIPOC communities.
Inspiration and Tools
Placemaking | Build for Belonging Padlet | Inclusive Economy
Build for Belonging is dedicated to the memory of Sarah Johnson, our friend, supporter, and social justice ally, who believed in the power of community.
Accessibility isn’t the end goal. Belonging is.
This notion of giving voice to the voiceless – that’s, to me, very flawed. They’ve always been talking. No one’s been listening.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
We will prevail because we have proven to the world and to ourselves that we are not ‘fringe elements’ or ‘special interest groups’ or so called ‘minorities’. Without us there is no legitimate majority. We are the mainstream.
If you give me a fish, you have fed me for a day.
If you teach me to fish, you have fed me until the river is contaminated or the shoreline seized for development.
But if you teach me to organize, then whatever the challenge, I can join together with my peers and we will fashion our own solution.
Our calling is not to cross boundaries, defy restrictions or escape compartments. It is to embrace a universe that does not admit their existence.
Power comes from below / from the hidden places where it gathers / until, discovering itself, it blazes into view, lighting the sky and reshaping the landscape / sweeping away barriers it seems would stand forever.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.