It’s been a fruitful three weeks working with Soulardarity and with the cities of Highland Park and Detroit, but I really feel like I’ve been here much longer. So far, what I’ve observed the most out of my organization is a sense of such genuine care and desire to help the community. Their goals are big, but their commitment to seeing them through gives me confidence that they can and will create lasting change in the ways of obtaining energy democracy. The desire to create real change in Highland Park is so deeply ingrained within my organization that I’m beginning to really develop a sense of real frustration with the bureaucracy of this country, state, region, and city. It makes me angry to see disarray in the city when so many parts of Detroit are “flourishing” i.e. becoming gentrified. The sense of frustration I feel right now about how much inequality and lack of moral obligation I see on the behalf of those in power, I think, will transform into a more driven desire to help communities everywhere even after my work here is “done.”<\/p>\n
Although we cannot upload photos at the moment, I was going to upload a photo of the Highland Park Community College. The college was shut down in 1996, but the building is still standing. It’s honestly an incredible\u00a0piece of architecture too, resembling more of a castle or a church than a modern school. It stands as another testament to the massive potential that Highland Park has (even just with its housing stock) and the frustration that I’m sure a lot of residents feel knowing such an incredible building cannot be harnessed for the good of the community, particularly on such a focus as education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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