Radical Practice by https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd What are the pathways that led you to your interest in radical practice? en-us 2021-04-20 23:25:26 UTC 2021-04-21 01:05:11 UTC hello@padlet.com barbera9 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440382994 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd

]]> 2021-04-21 00:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440382994 Social media - it exposed me to more voices https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393118 2021-04-21 00:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393118 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393120 Working as a policy director makes you realize there are some parts of the system that can't be reformed. 

]]> 2021-04-21 00:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393120 union organizing https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393206 2021-04-21 00:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393206 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393369 Community organizing ]]> 2021-04-21 00:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393369 Being taught by radical social workers/professors in my BSW program. https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393427 2021-04-21 00:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393427 anti war work and health equity work then social work school https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393656 2021-04-21 00:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393656 School https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393713 2021-04-21 00:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440393713 As an undergraduate social work student, we were about to go to war in Iraq and there were many other societal issues, including poverty, that I was questioning and not finding the answer to. I then met Mary, Rosi, Joanne and so many other amazing people in my MSW program within a year who taught me about radical social work and introduced me to SWAA. https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440394057 2021-04-21 00:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440394057 The summer of Freedom https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440394187 2021-04-21 00:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440394187 Marxist Theory dhornung919 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440394211 2021-04-21 00:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440394211 From Erin smsacco https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440395265 I cut my teeth in community organizing and came to social work from that perspective]]> 2021-04-21 00:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440395265 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440395960 My area of social work is just filled with policing and social control. It’s humiliating and oppressive and id like to change that]]> 2021-04-21 00:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440395960 Organizing and participating in anarchist and mutual aid community projects. Working with refugee and immigrant-led community organizations, and service delivery systems that operated outside of the state. https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440396554 2021-04-21 00:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440396554 From Abby M smsacco https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440396669 University professors that were in SWAA who radicalized me

]]> 2021-04-21 00:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440396669 Working in child welfare as a social worker https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440396750 2021-04-21 00:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440396750 from Jonathan H smsacco https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440397851 older friends!]]> 2021-04-21 00:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440397851 from Enid smsacco https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440398436 Born this way!]]> 2021-04-21 00:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440398436 From Jesse M. smsacco https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440399158 from being raised by a Communist mother to as an adult studying radical counselling]]> 2021-04-21 00:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440399158 Entree https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440400054 My earliest memories are of my grandfather trying to breathe- black lung disease.  My father was a machinist and was a union steward. That was my entree.]]> 2021-04-21 00:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440400054 LIVED EXPERIENCE oletha96 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440400417 2021-04-21 00:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440400417 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440400720 Realizing that many of the systems I wanted to protect my clients from were some of the same systems I would be working for ]]> 2021-04-21 00:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440400720 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440402979 Social work in Singapore is designed in such a way to produce workers that reinforce neoliberalism and the idea of “self-reliance” that only applies to poor people - while the rich continue to profit from the tax haven that is this country]]> 2021-04-21 00:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440402979 barbera9 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440405959 I cut my teeth in community organizing and came to social work from that perspective]]> 2021-04-21 00:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440405959 barbera9 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440406564 Marxist Theory]]> 2021-04-21 00:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440406564 barbera9 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440407189 from being raised by a Communist mother to as an adult studying radical counselling]]> 2021-04-21 00:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440407189 From Joanne smsacco https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440409413 My earliest memories are of my grandfather trying to breathe- black lung disease.  My father was a machinist and was a union steward. That was my entree.]]> 2021-04-21 00:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440409413 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440409519 When I found out that social workers in my country were enforcing eugenicist policies (forced sterilization of poor women for welfare benefits), I began to look the other way and understood that just social work is insufficient - you need a radical understanding of the profession and society]]> 2021-04-21 00:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440409519 When I worked in the welfare department I first became aware of the need for radical social work! https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440501605 After being asked to check under beds for evidence of men's shoes, give people funds that only met 70% of basic needs calculate on a poverty line,  requiring three  estimates to repair a refrigerator that stopped working (and not exactly a modern sub zero refrigerator to begin with!) 

]]> 2021-04-21 00:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440501605 zak361 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440507444 I was always inclined towards critical analysis and socialism, but studying with David Gil in my doctoral program was probably most influential in  my development as  a radical social worker.  He was also the person who originally exposed me to SWAA.

]]> 2021-04-21 00:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440507444 4 the 👶 https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440517216 Milk cartons and news of police stings with trafficking.]]> 2021-04-21 01:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440517216 Sitting in on coursework taught by social workers who lef https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440522659 2021-04-21 01:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/barbera9/bqdzomlr4limifkd/wish/1440522659