February: Palestine
This curriculum is for readers interested in learning more about Palestinian Liberation. Readings cover both current and historical events of Israeli Occupation and Palestinian resistance. Themes include: Decolonization, Apartheid, and Self determination.
Readings:
Sumaya Awad & Brian Bean (eds.), Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Rawan Masri, “Operation Al Aqsa Flood Was an Act of Decolonization”
News Articles:
Jonah ben Avraham, “Support Palestinians when They Fight”
Arielle Angel, “We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
Noura Erakat and John Reynolds, “Understanding Apartheid”
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March: Politicization and Community
Readings:
Susie Day, The Brother You Choose
Lorgia García Peña, Community as Rebellion
Build Those Collectives (zine)
Kwaneta Harris, Book Review of Abolition. Feminism. Now.
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April: Revolutionary Love
“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”
- Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Readings:
Joy James, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love
June Jordan, “Intifada Incantation”
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MAY: Practicing new worlds
“It became clear to me that how we live, how we organize, how we engage the world— the process— not only frames the outcome, it is the transformation. How molds and then gives birth to the present. The how changes us. How is the theoretical intervention.”
-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,
Readings:
Andrea J. Ritchie, Practicing New Worlds Abolition and Emergent Strategies
Rachel Kuo & Lorelei Lee, Dis/Organizing: How We Build Collectives Beyond Institutions
“Where Are the US College Campus Protests and What is Happening?” Guardian
The Palestinian Youth Movement, “Free Palestine, Stop Cop City”
“You Cannot Profit Off Our People’s Blood,” Hammer and Hope
“It wasn’t equal:’ Counter-protesters overwhelm pro-Palestinian students at the
University of Mississippi” Mississippi Today
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JUNe: The Dispossessed
Readings:
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (book)
Ursula Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away” and “The Day Before” (zine)
“Mississippi Sat on Federal Funds,” Truthout (movement news)
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JULY: Saving Our Own Lives
“Harm reduction puts into everyday practice the idea that we are not our worst behaviors. It gives us permission to be accountable, grow, and change, and acknowledges that all survivors and all human beings are complex.”
- Shira Hassan
Readings:
Shira Hassan, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction(book)
Sick Of It? Special Edition. A Disability Inside/Outside Project (zine)
Sick Of It? Special Edition. A Disability Inside/Outside Project, Issue 3 (zine)
Larabee and Rosenfeld, “The Criminalization of Solidarity,” Dissent, Spring 2024