Op-Ed: What we value is what we build

These are divisive times. Some people are questioning their long-held political beliefs. Others are experiencing a political awakening for the first time. Many are asking, “What can we actually do?” It is tempting to focus only on surface level strategies, policies, and quick wins. But every political campaign, every demand, and every new institution fundamentally rests on what we believe about whose lives matter, what kind of world is possible, and what we owe one another in Detroit. As institutions, organizations, and communities, we have to slow down long enough to name those beliefs, to treat values as the foundations of imagination and the blueprints for radical world-building. Continue reading on MetroTimes.com.