1. Limited solutions/response to housing/homelessness
1.1. Federal and local government appease landlords/development
1.2. Public recognition that capitalist ways of housing doesn't work
1.3. Fracturing of housing movement
2. Cyclical nature of trends in the media (different topics getting centered and then forgotten and fast cycle)
2.1. Police violence
2.2. Immigration detention camps
2.3. Fast/urgent cycle
2.4. Challenges to sustained energy around a cause
3. Increased sense of uncertainty/crisis
3.1. uncertainty, pandemic crisis, unsure about what was going to happen or life will look like
4. Anti-Democracy
4.1. Increasing anti-democracy narrative
4.2. roll-back of civil rights: right to peaceful assembly, voting rights, right to privacy/surveillance, right to body choices
4.2.1. Tech monopolies
4.2.1.1. Less popular control of messages in media with extreme concentration of media ownership
4.2.1.2. Concentration of who owns chat
4.2.2. Individual freedoms
4.3. Basic democratic systems being misused (2020 election and recall)
4.4. Having to defend election system that never worked for us in the first place
5. Elections
5.1. Record amounts of money of corporations/entities into elections
5.2. People's comfortability with Biden
5.3. Our people/ progressive WOC running for office
6. Culture of Care
6.1. More support needed for care and more awareness in COVID
7. War on Terror
7.1. Muslim folx/surveillance
8. Climate Disaster
8.1. Continued well-organized, well-funded resistance to meaningful climate action
8.2. Intensifying weather events because of climate change
8.3. Growing realization of impending climate disaster
9. Strike wave
9.1. Increase popularity of unions
9.2. Lack of capacity of institutions to support self-organizing
10. More language around race/framework
11. Accountability measure is very individual based and some effort to expand from that/learn how to hold people to account
12. Rise of individual activism & visibility
12.1. Rise of individual activism and visibility which impacts how people see themselves in collective organizing
12.1.1. Social media makes it easier for citizen reporting
12.1.2. Increase in violence
12.1.2.1. Guns, ammo flying off shelves, fights on planes, with masked people
12.1.2.2. Increase in violence and war on women and women's bodies
12.2. Rise in individualism and consumerism
12.2.1. Privatization of everything
12.2.2. Cooptation from corporations
13. Complicated relationship to truth
13.1. organizations committment to truth and focus on data, non-profit journalism
13.2. mistrust of govt, each other, we need to trust each other to take care of each other, mistrust amongst public
13.3. distrust of science
13.4. increase/popularity of conspiracy theories
14. Burnout
14.1. Pandemic-exacerbated
14.2. Unresolved grief, exhaustion, ptsd
14.2.1. Rooted in capitalism work cultures
14.3. Attend to healing/centered practices
14.3.1. All resources created conditions for people working for it
14.4. Healing turned into individual/capitalist pursuits
15. Questioning Traditional Work
15.1. Rootedness in capitalist values
15.2. Turning towards POC/Indigenous-led values
15.2.1. Tension it generates as a basis of fighting/taking power: how are we having that fight in a new way?
15.3. Organizations Convening
15.3.1. Transactional convening
15.4. Balance inside organization conditions and outside mission impact
15.4.1. Movement question: how we are vs. mission of organization and work
15.5. To build long-term power need to think in long-term horizons
15.6. More long-term thinking
16. Philanthropy
16.1. Parts of philanthropy coming to be more progressive and aligned
17. Rise of incarceration
17.1. Rikers Island
17.2. Agency of folx incarcerated: wave of brave and militant action
18. Conversations on Race
18.1. Conflict/tension
18.2. Cooptation of racial justice language by corporations and organized opponents
19. Prioritizing politics/greed
19.1. lack of attention to public health
19.1.1. People profiting off of greed