Sharif Abdullah: Creating a World that Works for All

In Part 1, Sharif talks about growing up in public housing, on welfare, in Camden, New Jersey and his early sense that human beings were not meant to live that way, that there had to be a better way.

His epiphany at age 12, that the cause of oppression had to do with white power, led him to Black Liberation. Later, he realized that the world wasn't working for white people either. By the time he got to law school at Boston University, he realized that the world we'd created wasn't working even for the people it purports to work for. He talks about developing his belief that we all have a responsibility to create a world that works for all. He began studying how to move in a different direction.

He talks about his work in Commonway Institute and his study of the three aspects of Power and how our lives are inextricably linked on the planet.