Lost valley & meadowsong Community JEDI Statement of Intent

The members, residents, and staff of Lost Valley Educational Center and Meadowsong Ecovillage acknowledge: 

That we currently occupy a territory from which the Kalapuya people were actively and intentionally displaced through force and deception by colonial systems for the benefit of many of our ancestors and to our own benefit today;

That we as individuals and as a community have consciously and unconsciously treated people with disrespect, judgement, and invalidation because of their expression of marginalized identity, whether through skin color, sexual orientation, gender, class, religion, ability, body size, family status, age, or other individual and cultural differences. We also acknowledge that there are individuals who have not felt safe within our community and there are some among us who continue to live feeling the impact of harm caused by past and current residents;

That we as human beings cannot separate the gift of our own existence from the violence being done to our planet and all other beings with whom we share it through short-sightedness, greed, and a disproportionate sense of self-importance. 

Therefore, we as individuals, as a community and as an Education Center, on behalf of all who came before us and those who will come after, acknowledge our complicity within the entrenched systems of oppression that are woven throughout every aspect of our society. We seek to atone for all systems that perpetuate violence, greed, disrespect, and other forms of harm. We pledge ourselves to challenge and dismantle these forces within ourselves and the world we inhabit for the benefit of all sentient beings. 

We seek to be accountable through compassionate listening to the stories of those who have experienced harm, through personal and community reflection and study, through dialogue, classes, workshops and through an ongoing examination of our institutional systems of self-governance.  We pledge to continue to examine and adapt both our behaviors and our systems to support our collective efforts toward greater Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion as long as such aforementioned systems of oppression continue to exist.  

In solidarity with all who have experienced harm we offer this pledge of action. 

-The Members and Residents and Staff of Lost Valley Educational Center & Meadowsong Ecovillage