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Popular education is at the core of Righting Relations. It is the process of facilitating collective reflection and action towards societal change in which everyone is a teacher and a learner, and we meet people where they’re at based on their own experiences. We’re always looking to connect with others facilitating conversations based on popular education principles.

We seek to decolonize our work, our organizational structures, and ourselves. We strive to recognize, challenge, and uproot all ways in which colonization inflicts violence in the world, from anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, to sexism and gender binarism, to environmental destruction.

We aim to encourage and support folks who are advocating for social change, through local, provincial, and federal democratic processes, or through grassroots community movements.

In addition to the teachings of Indigenous peoples of this land, such as the 7 Grandfather teachings, Righting Relations works to spread and amplify the songs, stories, and teachings from different lands and cultures, broadening our concepts of the traditional teachings beneath colonial systems around the world.

Internal work is a core part of Righting Relations. Whether it is healing from the impacts of intersecting oppressions, recovering from burn-out, or striving to challenge our own internalised biases, we seek to support all of our members in righting relations with themselves.

A crucial part of our work focuses on economic justice, such as promoting food security and sovereignty, challenging the systemic racism and classism underpinning poverty, examining the history and impact of Treaties, or tackling the forced impoverishment of folks with disabilities, we seek to create and share alternatives to oppressive structures.

Restoring a society in which folks of all genders are granted equality, equity, and genders is one of the core pillars of Righting Relations. This includes anti-gender-based violence advocacy, justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2 Spirit Folks, and working towards an end to the targeting of women and gender-diverse folks for violence and oppression.