Power Station

I like to think that I choose my words carefully on Power Station. I use terms like community organizing and movement building to reflect a theory of change and a process some organizations view as foundational to making policy and social change possible. But I realize that language that speaks to my own experience may ring hollow for others. Enter Mark Winston Griffith, who embraces the language and the hard, nuanced and unrelenting work of organizing and movement building in Central Brooklyn. He formed the Brooklyn Movement Center 10 years ago to reinvigorate what had become a calcified environment for change-making. And he committed to engaging a talented staff and community members in the work needed to dismantle systemic inequities, including policing, housing, food and the environment, and influencing the creation of new and more just systems. This is what community organizing and movement building really means. It is not easy to generate, sustain or fund but it is essential to the world we say we want