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>Samantha Miller

>Samantha MillerSamantha Miller is a freelance organizer and trainer based in Washington DC. Since her time as a student at UCLA, Sam has been involved in social justice work as a staff member and volunteer organizer for groups like United for Peace & Justice, Military Families Speak Out, and the new Students for a Democratic Society.She has worked extensively with the Alliance of Community Trainers on direct actions, mobilizations and trainings in DC, Texas, and around the country.

>https://www.trainersalliance.org/about/

Who we are

Starhawk, Lisa, JuniperThe Alliance of Community Trainers (previously known as RANT) is made up of a small core collective that has been working together for almost ten years. Over these years we’ve trained and supported numerous generations of newer organizers and trainers who have been informally working together. In 2011, ACT began a process of formalizing those relationships into a trainers network.

Core Collective:

Starhawk is a lifelong activist and feminist, an author, lecturer, teacher, ritual maker, permaculturalist, andnonviolent direct action trainer. A leading voice of the ecofeminist and earth based spirituality movements, she is the author or coauthor of eight books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, The Twelve Wild Swans: a Journey into the Realm of Magic, Healing and Action, and her latest, Webs of Power, notes from the Global Uprising.

Lisa Fithian has been working for social change since the mid 1970‚Äôs. She has been a student, labor and community organizer on a broad range of issues from the environment and worker rights to peace and global justice. She has spent her life working with people to understand the dynamics of power and has help thousands gain the experience and skills they need to fight for justice‚ no matter how great or small the cause.

Juniper is an activist, community trainer, facilitator, consensus process teacher, and environmental engineer. She teaches classes in spiritual activism, in consensus decision-making, and sustainable living.

>https://starhawk.org/about/biography/

Biography

About Starhawk

Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, and its sequel City of Refuge.

Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications.

Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally, lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism.

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Pagan & Goddess

Starhawk is one of the prominent leaders in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. She is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming Community. Her archives are maintained at the Graduate Theological Union library in Berkeley, California.

Starhawk’s tapes and CDs include “Wicca for Beginners” (2002), “Wiccan Rituals and Blessings” (2003), and a four-CD set “Earth Magic” (2006), all produced by Sounds True.

Early Life & Career

Starhawk was born on June 17, 1951. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from U.C.L.A. In 1973, as a graduate student in Film at U.C.L.A, Starhawk won the prestigious Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Award. She received an M.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Feminist Therapy from Antioch University West in 1982. She has taught in many Bay Area colleges and universities, including John F. Kennedy University, Antioch West, the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College, and Wisdom University.She is presently adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and writer.[1] She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism.[2] In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.[3]

Early life

Starhawk was born in 1951 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her father, Jack Simos, died when she was five. Her mother, Bertha Claire Goldfarb Simos, was a professor of social work at UCLA.Both of her parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.

During high school, she and feminist Christina Hoff Sommers were best friends.[4] Starhawk received a BA in Fine Arts from UCLA. In 1973, whilst a graduate student in film there, she won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for her novel, A Weight of Gold, a story about Venice, California, where she then lived. She received an MA in Psychology, with a concentration in feminist therapy, from Antioch University West in 1982.

The Spiral Dance

Main article: The Spiral Dance

Following her years at UCLA, after a failed attempt to become a fiction writer in New York City, Starhawk returned to California. She became active in the Neopagan community in the San Francisco Bay Area, and trained with Victor Anderson, founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with Zsuzsanna Budapest, a feminist separatist involved in Dianic Wicca.

She wrote a book, The Spiral Dance, on Goddess religion, which she finished in 1977 but was unable to publish at first. Feminist religious scholar Carol P. Christ included an article on witchcraft and the Goddess movement in the anthology Womanspirit Rising (1979). Christ put Starhawk in touch with an editor at Harper & Row, who eventually published the book.

First published in 1979, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess became a best-selling book about neopagan belief and practice. A 10th-anniversary edition was published in 1989, followed by a 20th-anniversary edition in 1999. The original text of The Spiral Dance was left largely intact for these editions, expanded primarily by introductions and commentaries reflecting on the book's origins, the rituals described, and the evolution of the author's beliefs and practices. Since its publication, The Spiral Dance has become a classic resource on Wicca and modern witchcraft, spiritual feminism, the Goddess movement, and ecofeminism. The work is distinguished by its visionary mysticism, "broad philosophy of harmony with nature," and ecstatic consciousness.

Beliefs

Starhawk believes that the Earth is a living entity, and that faith-based activism can reconnect oneself to basic human needs. She posits core religious values of community and self-sacrifice as important to eco-pagan movements, as well as the broader environmental justice movement.

She advocates combining social justice issues with a nature-based spirituality that begins with spending time in the natural world, saying that doing so "…can open up your understanding on deeper and more subtle levels where the natural world will speak to you."[5]

Starhawk's activism is deeply rooted in an anti-war philosophy, as she believes that war teaches one to see people culturally different than themselves as inhuman and dangerous.[6] She has written extensively on activism, including advice for activist organizers, examinations of white privilege within radical communities, and calls for an intersectionality of fighting oppression that includes spirituality, eco-consciousness, and sexual and gender liberation

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Empowered Learning

We call our philosophy of training “empowered learning”, which comes from Paolo Freire¬πs work in popular education. Empowered learning embodies respect for all participants. We share what we know in a spirit of mutual exchange and equality and we expect to learn from the skills and life experiences of participants.

We believe that people learn not from being told what to think or do, but from reflecting on their experiences. We facilitate processes in which

participants gain tools, skills, and confidence. And we realize that

anything we share will be adapted by participants to fit their own culture,

political philosophy, and needs. Our trainings are active, involving little

lecturing and many exercises, role plays, and much discussion.

==Although we are deeply rooted in the practice of strategic nonviolence, we

have worked with groups practicing a wide diversity of tactics.== We are

skilled at bridging different political cultures and styles and in helping

mediate between groups with diverse ideologies and needs, from respectable

members of NGOs to anarcho-punks to indigenous communities.

We offer trainings and preparations in all aspects of organizing and mass

direct action: strategic planning, campaign building, effective action

planning, tactics for actions, street health and safety, nonviolence, civil

disobedience, directly democratic decision making, meeting facilitation,

anti-racism and cultural sensitivity, nuts and bolts organizing, conflict

resolution and training for trainers and organizers. We see ourselves as

supporting the goals of the organizers and participants in an action, and we

prefer to work with the organizing team to craft trainings that can meet the

specific needs of each community and situation.

What training and preparation can do:

. Increase the safety of participants.

. Build confidence in participants facing dangerous situations.

. Teach the theory and practical tools of strategic nonviolence.

. Help people remain calm and centered in tense situations, and able to make conscious, thoughtful choices about what to do.

. Allow participants to employ sophisticated and coordinated tactics in actions.

. Teach the skills of organizing, campaign building, and effective action planning

. Conserve the learning that has grown from previous mobilizations.

. Increase sensitivity and communication around diversity issues.

. Build skills and capacity in the local community, and train trainers.

. Help ensure that our actions and mobilizations are successful

> https://www.trainersalliance.org/alliance-of-community-trainers-our-mission/

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>Although we are deeply rooted in the practice of strategic nonviolence, we

>have worked with groups practicing a wide diversity of tactics