A lot of the problems that any community faces are a result of social inequalities and breakdowns in the things that make our lives work well (ie. resiliently!)
We have quite a few organisations and individuals locally interested in social justice. Often their focus is strongly externally focussed. Sometimes it has a more general less strategic slant.
If we joined forces locally to systematically identify all the main issues that might be called ‘social justice issues’ could we then work together to strategically address them?
At a purely local level our social justice issues are finite. They come down to particular individuals in need for some reason or other.
Surely this is something we can put our thinking to cooperatively make a real difference locally and our whole community would be stronger for it.
It would be our community owning its own problems and needs and working to overcome them together.