Community
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It reunited the
community.
The local
community
were really intrigued by what I was doing, but as soon as I gave them the meaning of the calligraphy, they thanked me, as they felt connected to the piece.
In South Africa, in Cape Town, the local
community
of Philippi offered me the only concrete wall of the slum.
And I became a learner, because I found myself in a
community
of learners.
So, I had one learning
community
in high school, then I went to another for college, and then I went to another, when I started working at a magazine called "Booklist," where I was an assistant, surrounded by astonishingly well-read people.
And for the first time since high school, I found myself without a learning community, and it was miserable.
I read books about Stalin, and books about how the Uzbek people came to identify as Muslims, and I read books about how to make atomic bombs, but it just felt like I was creating my own hurdles, and then jumping over them myself, instead of feeling the excitement of being part of a
community
of learners, a
community
of people who are engaged together in the cartographic enterprise of trying to better understand and map the world around us.
Ze Frank was running, at the time, a show called "The Show with Ze Frank," and I discovered the show, and that was my way back into being a
community
learner again.
Ze isn't just a great public intellectual, he's also a brilliant
community
builder, and the
community
of people that built up around these videos was in many ways a
community
of learners.
And as an adult, re-finding these communities has re-introduced me to a
community
of learners, and has encouraged me to continue to be a learner even in my adulthood, so that I no longer feel like learning is something reserved for the young.
In 1993, around 11,000 families and cops fled Los Angeles after the L.A. racial unrest, for North Idaho, and they've built an expatriated
community.
What I learned from North Idaho is the peculiar brand of paranoia that can permeate a
community
when so many cops and guns are around.
And I think the business
community
is in the perfect position to do just that.
Fortunately, the business
community
is uniquely positioned to help train their employees, to enforce policies and to help use their special resources to fight human trafficking.
But in that very same clinic, I met Theresa, a shy young woman who couldn't look me in the eyes, not because she couldn't see, but the appearance of the growth on her eyes called pterygium meant she'd lost her confidence, and with it, her place in her
community.
We founded a new organization called Peek Vision, a social enterprise where we built smartphone technology that makes it possible for people in the
community
to find people in their homes, the most vulnerable groups who are being missed, and created new tools that made it easier to diagnose them and connect them to services.
In Pune, India, a youth advocate organized an innovative bicycle rally, mobilizing 700 cyclists to share the HeForShe messages within their own
community.
In another impact story, a man sent a very personal note of something that had happened in his own
community.
But I didn't realize that that simple experience, though brief, was a privileged one in our
community.
We're connecting neighborhoods to
community
solar and spearheading community-led smart home research and installation programs to help families bring down their energy bills.
I think back to my great-grandmother and her neighbors, the impossible choices that they had to make and the effect it had on our whole
community.
But even as I learned about public safety, I wondered if what I was doing on the street was hurting or harming the
community.
The relationship between the African American
community
and the police is a painful one.
And it really didn't allow the officers the opportunity to get to know the
community
in which they serve.
And once you go to that meeting, there, of course, will be NYPD, along with officers and other
community
members.
At a
community
meeting, there was a bar, up in Washington Heights, and the neighbors were complaining about outcry and noises.
We also know how officers are treated inside the organization impacts how they're going to behave with the
community
at large.
We also have to recognize that the
community
may not be willing or ready to come to the table to have the conversation.
By acknowledging it, it also means that we care for the
community'
s health and for their resiliency as well.
We also have to recognize that we have
community
members who did not get the benefits of a long-ago dream.
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