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S.9.E.4: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder bookclub

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In this podcast Miranda tells listeners about Henry Brown, Acacia tells listeners about how to get involved in your local community and mutual aid groups, and Miranda and Acacia discuss Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. 

Book Recommendations:

  • How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
  • Mutual aid : building solidarity during this crisis (and the next) by Dean Spade
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Strongmen : Mussolini to the present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

    • Ways to get involved in your community:

    • United Way of Greater Charlottesville
    • Mutual Aid Cville Facebook Group
    • How to participate in local government.

      • Mutual aid links:

      • JABA: Jefferson Area Board of Aging
        • 24-hour Adult Protective Services Hotline at 1-888-832-3858
        • Phone: 434-817-5244 OR TOLL-FREE 833-559-2428
        • Email: [email protected] 
        • Cville ID Team
          • Phone: 804-552-1663 
          • Email: [email protected]
          • Drop in at the Jefferson School Monday-Friday 10-12
          • Food pantries
            • Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
              • Phone: 434-296-3663 and 540-213-8400
              • Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry
                • Phone: 434-996-7868
                • Emergency Food Network
                  • Email: [email protected]
                  • Phone: 434-979-9180
                  • Food Sharing is Caring
                    • Email: [email protected]
                    • Community Centers such as the Yancy School Community Center
                    • One Stop Shop
                    • Blue Ridge Community Bail Fund
                      • Middle River Regional Jail in Staunton VA,
                      • Rockingham Jail, in Harrisonburg,
                      • Page County Jail
                      • Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail
                      • Email: [email protected]
                      • Phone: 540-300-2796
                      • Local SPCA
                      • Cville Tool Library

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