Jesse Hagopian speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Rethinking Schools.
https://rethinkingschools.org
Today there is legislation in some 42 states that seeks to require teachers to lie to students about structural racism, sexism, and heterosexism. This neo-McCarthyist attack on education has led to hundreds of book banns, the firing of teachers around the country for discussing antiracist themes, and even physical attacks on educators. This coordinated assault on honest accounts of U.S. history that grapple with white supremacy and oppression is about more than a Republican Party reelection strategy; it is about discrediting public education in a bid to privatize, halting the gains in consciousness that were advanced during the 2020 uprising, and ultimately an attempt at epistemicide--the killing, silencing, or annihilation of entire systems of knowledge. Yet a growing movement of educators, students, and parents are building the Teach Truth movement—rooted in the long tradition of the fight for Black education—against the “violence of organized forgetting.”
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Dec 7, 2023
The Poetics of Social Movements with aja monet
aja monet and Robin D.G. Kelley speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Our ability to reenvision and transform our society is what radical social movements are made of. Just as the mechanics of our organizing have developed, every movement demands an evolution and transformation of the heart and mind. Join aja monet and Robin D.G. Kelley for a discussion of poetic vision, collective struggle, and how we build a world that can feed both our bellies and our imaginations.
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Dec 8, 2023
Fighting Fascism in Florida
Erik Wallenberg, AG, Chris Furino, and Yordanos Molla speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
From "Don't Say Gay" laws to attacks on Black history education to the destruction of higher education, Florida is at the forefront of a resurgent fascism in this country. Join activists involved in leading struggles against DeSantis and his goons for a discussion of the state of the battle in Florida and how organizers can defeat the looming fascist threat.
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Dec 8, 2023
Abolishing the Death Penalty: Lessons from Illinois
Renaldo Hudson, Alice Kim, and Damon Williams speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Abolition of the death penalty in Illinois in 2011 was the result of decades of organizing and mobilizing by grassroots groups, and most important, the intrepid work of Death Row activists themselves as well as their families. Join us to discuss how an abolitionist movement was built step by step as various campaigns and organizations came together to defeat a thoroughly racist system, judicial corruption, and police violence, even while the struggle continues to end “death by incarceration.”
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Dec 8, 2023
Organizing Tenants: Lessons from the Field
Zafiro Patino, Frances Amador, Cheryl Looney, Eric Kobesak, and René Christian Moya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Solidarity.
https://solidarity-us.org
In this workshop, City Life/Vida Urbana, KC Tenants and Los Angeles Tenants Union will provide hands-on experiences about what it takes to build tenant power. We will focus on two questions: First, how do tenant organizers form the deep relationships that sustain activism over the long haul? Second, how do we organize with poor and working class folks across the many divisions that keep working-class communities apart and undermine our power.
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Dec 9, 2023
The Conspiracy is Capitalism with Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Join renowned author Naomi Klein for an exploration of our surreal moment in history—with politics plagued by conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers, and demagogue hucksters—and what the right’s uncanny mirror world means for the left’s analysis and strategy.
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Dec 9, 2023
Building a Democratic Rank-and-file Caucus in the UAW
Andrew Bergman and Judy Wraight speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the rank-and-file caucus in the United Auto Workers (UAW), made history by challenging long-entrenched business unionists and winning the campaign for top UAW leadership. With a possible strike looming at the Big Three automakers (Ford, GM, Chrysler), UAWD members — newly elected leaders and rank and file — speak about their organizing for militant unionism and how building democratic caucuses can politicize union decision-making and advance socialist strategy.
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