Readings, podcasts, and videos
Readings[edit]
- Some provocative thoughts about militancy, riots, change, politics and their historical antecedents in the US by my friend, Nathan Tankus, writing in the American Prospect.
https://prospect.org/civil-rights/when-americans-dont-riot-politicians-feel-unrestrained/
- Hilary Wainwright is a longtime British activist/theoretician and editor of the journal, Red Pepper. In this interview she touches upon many of the themes that have arisen in our discussions.
‘What if we thought about and imagined a politics which starts from the idea that people have got real capacity and knowledge, particularly when they share a lot of their hunches, intuitions, what has been called ‘tacit knowledge’ – which implies knowledge that hasn’t been codified, isn’t seen as scientific or official. You know, like amongst women, what’s often dismissed as gossip actually is full of insights and ideas, which certainly from my experience in the women’s movement became the basis of new institutions around health, around violence, domestic violence, around education, all these different experiences that came out of a recognition of this practical knowledge."
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oMpFH2u200MVTcj09C2dN4MfyCvQn7CY/view?usp=sharing
- Robin D.G. Kelly describes himself as a "Marxist surrealist feminist who is not just anti something but pro-emancipation, pro-liberation." In this interview he challenges us to look at the current Abolitionist Movement as a transitional way forward toward a more equitable, egalitarian society.
- Two different approaches to community organising: the first is an article by Amanda Tattersall from our Week 5 readings that details how Alinsky style organising was adapted to the Sydney Alliance; the second is a friendly critique (as in our 'critical friend') of Alinsky's approach as too hierarchical and insufficiently ideological.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c1XjdBUUwzr9mCe69XgRunSklF--yA2E/view?usp=sharing
https://theecologist.org/2018/jul/10/rethinking-alinsky-community-organising
Podcasts[edit]
- Not exactly a podcast, but a poem that relates to our first readings about first nation peoples and climate justice. It's a bone chilling cri de coeur about the personal effects of settler colonization written by one of the sons of the Viejas kumeyaay tribal nation.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B38sfhhrzSf0Nmg2OVZPandydTZYYWJONDhSWHRMdE9Wb1F3/view?usp=sharing
- A two-part interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore that explains the genesis of and justifications for the Abolitionist movement, which has gained traction in the US after the murder of George Floyd and subsequent world-wide protests.
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ruth-wilson-gilmore-makes-the-case-for-abolition/
Videos[edit]
- Excellent conversation between Naomi Klein and Arundhati Roy on how we move from crisis to justice and build a Global Green New Deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0NY1_73mHY
- This is a fascinating 12 minute instagram video post by the Nigerian chef, Tunde Wey, who discusses the viability of the restaurant industry and the possibility of change through food in the time of Covid-19 and beyond with the Bay Area Syrian-Palestinian restauranteur, Reem Assil. It's really, though, a thoughtful and very challenging conversation between two radical actors and how best – within or from the outside – to confront a system they both find oppressive.