Category: Activism
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Prison Abolishment and Finishing the New Jim Crow
Recommended next readings: Oluo’s “So We Talk About Race,” Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth,” Or short week next – Baldwin’s “Fire Next Time Chapter 4 Discussion Point In an effort to address the rampant joblessness among black men labeled criminals, a growing number of advocates in recent years have launched Ban the Box campaigns. These…
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Introduction to Prison Industrial Complex and The New Jim Crow
Ch. 1 Notables “With the protection of federal troops, African Americans began to vote in large numbers and seize control, in some areas, of the local political apparatus. Literacy rates climbed, and educated blacks began to populate legislatures, open schools, and initiate successful businesses. In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black…
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Early Activist Enablement: A Reading Group and Beginning to Involvement
As more and more people become enraged, eager, enlightened, and empowered to care about issues of social justice, racial politics and anti-racism, class consciousness, and other matters of political unrest, resources become made abundantly available. The difficult part with an excess of resources are the lack of locally involved community to digest these resources, and…