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The perils of fascism are a danger to our ability to reach the North Star of liberation. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship” in In These Times, which features an introduction by Sherell Barbee. This piece features reprints of Toni Morrison’s essays “Peril” (2008) and “Racism and Fascism” (1995), which highlight the dangers of fascism to all of us and the censorship of dissent, and what we learn and take away from these essays in our continued learning and unlearning work and our fight for collective liberation.
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Abolition and community-based responses to harm are critical to our collective liberation. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the resource “Transformative Justice Knows No Borders: Learning from Community-Based Responses to Harm Around the World” by Melanie Brazzell and published by Interrupting Criminalization, which shares lessons learned from the May 2023 “Practicing for an Abolitionist World” virtual conference about the power of transformative justice practices and transnational networks of care, as well as case studies of community-based responses to harm from around the world, and what we learn and take away from this powerful resource in our continued work for collective liberation.
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The 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia was a stunning and tragic incident and violation of civil and human rights. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the documentary Let the Fire Burn: Tragedy in Philadelphia (directed and produced by Jason Osder), which is a found-footage film that chronicles the longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and the Black liberation organization MOVE which culminated in a military-style mission that resulted in the tragic deaths of 11 people and destruction of 61 homes, and what we learn and take away from this incredible film and history in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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Abolition, #defund, and the work and fight for collective liberation are necessary in order to build a better world for all of us. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Defund: Conversations toward Abolition by Calvin John Smiley, which is a collection of conversations between Smiley and several abolitionist organizers and leaders reflecting on various aspects of the defund movement and how it has influenced abolition from their respective perspectives, communities, and work, as well as their hopes and vision for the future of the movement, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued work for collective liberation.
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As the general election approaches, what’s happening in Louisiana is a testing ground for repressive, fascist legislation and oppression. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “Louisiana is the blueprint for further fascist repression” by Gabrielle A. Perry in Scalawag, which outlines and analyzes the impact of some of the alarming fascist legislation in the state and the far-right political leaders from Louisiana who have risen into positions of federal power, and what we learn and take away from this piece in our continued work and fight for collective liberation.
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The Uncommitted Movement is strong, committed, and not going anywhere. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “Spurned by the DNC, the Uncommitted Movement Staged a Sit-in” by Eman Abdelhadi in In These Times, which analyzes the Democratic National Convention’s decision to refuse to allow a vetted speech by a Palestinian to be given on the DNC stage, and outlines what the Uncommitted Movement is fighting for in the context of this election, Israel and Palestine, and beyond, and what we learn and take away from this piece in our continued work for collective liberation.
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Protests are often an effective tool as part of any strategy for social movements. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the pieces “Why protests work, even when not everybody likes them” and “How to make sure your disruptive protest helps your cause” by Mark Engler and Paul Engler in Waging Nonviolence, which outline how movements can understand and harness the polarizing effects of protest and use them as a powerful tool in any social movement strategy, and what we learn and take away from these pieces in our continued work for collective liberation.
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There are many similarities between student organizing and protests against South African apartheid in the 1980s and the student organizing and protests against the genocide in Palestine today. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss a piece in Hammer & Hope titled “My Time Organizing on Campus Against Apartheid in South Africa” by Barbara Ransby, which details her experience as a young college organizer working towards transnational solidarity and fighting racism, settler colonialism, and South African apartheid in the 1980s, as well as the connections to organizing work and protests taking place on college campuses today, and what we learn and take away from Ransby’s incredible insights and reflections in our continued work for collective liberation.
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Palestinian resistance is connected to all struggles for peace and liberation around the world. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine, edited by Mahdi Sabbagh, which is a collection of essays that connect Palestinian resistance with global freedom struggles against settler colonialism and advances the power of the practice of solidarity as a path forward, and what we learn and take away from this great book in our continued education around Palestine and our work and fight for collective liberation.
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“Building skilled, coordinated, expansive, and robust ecosystems of collective care is only becoming more and more essential to our collective survival.” Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss “Mapping Community Ecosystems of Collective Care”, an Interrupting Criminalization toolkit written by Shannon Perez-Darby and Andrea J. Ritchie, which provides resources, activities, strategies, and best practices to support organizers and organizations engaged in work to map and create ecosystems of collective and community care at the neighborhood and city-wide levels, and what we learn and take away from this incredible resource in our continued work for collective liberation.
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