Building Our Power

Topics discussed:

⁃ The Kelloggs Union workers ended their strike, but at what cost?

- How do you radicalize someone quickly just by driving around a neighborhood?

- Bell Hooks & Incels

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WORKS CITED

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/22/union-declares-victory-kelloggs-strike-ends-pay-raise-moratorium-plant-closures

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/wildcat-outside-and-against-the-unions#toc5

https://excoradfeminisms.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/bell_hooks-feminism_is_for_everybody.pdf

Topics discussed:

⁃ Labor Trafficking in America

- The hypocrisy of the United States

- The FreeHoover concert

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WORKS CITED

https://foodispower.org/human-labor-slavery/slavery-in-the-us/

https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/country-studies/united-states/#:~:text=NurPhoto%2FGetty%20Images-,Prevalence,every%20thousand%20in%20the%20country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLzFJPAcqW0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery_in_the_United_States

https://apnews.com/article/business-georgia-slavery-forced-labor-migrant-workers-0e0d7235e79a4e216307e007a7aa716b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage

Topics discussed:

⁃ Racism Masterclass? What.

- Capitalism will co-opt anything, anytime.

- Passivism isn't going to help us.

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WORKS CITED

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/derrick-jensen-pacifism-as-pathology-introduction

https://twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1466519686661783553?s=20

Topics discussed:


⁃ Who is the wolf? Who is the sheep?

- General Rant

- Black Power Media platforming T.I.

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Topics discussed:


⁃ What's the nuclear family?

- Does the nuclear family have origins in capitalism?

- How should the nuclear family should be abolished?

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Topics discussed:


⁃ What does it mean when the rich say "redevelopment?"

- What can we do to stop gentrification?

- General rant about Memphis neighborhood - "Smokey City"

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Works Cited

https://www.urbandisplacement.org/maps/memphis-gentrification-and-displacement/

https://studiogang.com/project/neighborhood-schools-reuse-concept

Article that made us mad:

https://mlk50.com/2021/07/15/development-team-presents-major-investment-in-klondike-residents-voice-concerns/

Memphis 3.0 "Redevelopment" Areas:

https://www.planning.org/awards/2020/excellence/memphis-3-0/

Topics discussed:


⁃ What is dialectical materialism?


⁃ Why did America end slavery?


- Why slogans fall short

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Topics discussed:

⁃ Capitalists ended segregation for their economic benefit.

⁃ How did the reconstruction era end in jim crow laws?

- Was it better for white southeners to accept integration for economic growth?

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Work Cited

Booker T Washington & his respectability politics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_the_American_Negro

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16sX62MK3If9zmFxOvxMvfUgxfBnoxABU/view?usp=sharing

Reconstruction Era Black-owned Businesses history (1865-1877):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-owned_businesses

Jim Crow Era Timeline(1877-1954):

https://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/timeline/jimcrow.htm

Civil Rights Era (1954-1965):

https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/civil-rights-movement-timeline

Brown Vs Board of Education:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education

Civil Rights Act (1964, 1968):

https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=592919&p=4172702

Topics discussed:

⁃ Kellogs going on strike?

⁃ Are labor unions helpful to workers long term?

- Brief history of labor unions featuring anarchist: Lucy Parsons

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Work Cited

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/08/kell-o08.html

GOFUNDME

https://www.gofundme.com/f/udp2r-support-striking-kelloggs-workers-local-252g

Unions: Capitalist or Workers' Organizations?

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/australia/unions-1.htm

Lucy Parsons

https://isreview.org/issue/89/pioneer-womens-rights/

Topics discussed:

⁃The horrors of public schools?

⁃ Do classes just need more money?

- Should public schools be abolished

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