TTT#440 Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 06/05/2015

Want to talk about Baltimore? How are you teaching this in your classroom? Want to join a group of educators committed to teaching racial justice issues in our schools?

Join us RIGHT HERE on Wednesday, April 29 at 9PM Eastern/6PM Pacific. If you want to listen to the conversation and chat, you can do that there. Let us know below if you would like to join the conversation in the Hangout On Air.

Here's what we've been thinking:

If you have already read Jay Gillen's "Educating for Insurgency" http://www.jaygillen.net/ then you will know why, on Monday night, I was thinking that he would be one of the first people I would call to be on cable news if I were in charge.

So I called him, and invited him to come talk with us on Teachers Teaching Teachers this Wednesday at 9PM Eastern/6PM Pacific via Hangout On Air.

Before the Baltimore uprising ("A Cry from the Youth," as one sympathetic Baltimore legislator put it), I have felt like it was time to rekindle our conversations on TTT around the issues of teaching racial justice in our classrooms and schools. To learn more about our recent webcasts, see "Teaching In a Movement for Justice"  http://digitalis.nwp.org/collection/ferguson and note the resources, especially "Black Lives Matter on TTT" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY9e9zEmLwtPnN74JE8Z4RH_XtkbO67mG.

We will continue our conversation about racial justice and a curriculum that makes taking about Baltimore a normal part of our work together.

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Educating for Insurgency - http://www.jaygillen.net/

Killing Trayvons -http://store.counterpunch.org/product/killing-trayvons/
Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence tracks the case  and explores why Trayvon’s name and George Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict symbolized all the grieving, the injustice, the profiling and free passes based on white privilege and police power: the long list of  Trayvons known and unknown. With contributions from Robin D.G. Kelley,  Rita Dove, Cornel West and Amy Goodman, Thandisizwe Chimurenga,  Alexander Cockburn, Etan Thomas, Tara Skurtu, bell hooks and Quassan  Castro, June Jordan, Jesse Jackson, Tim Wise, Patricia Williams, Alexis  Pauline Gumbs, Vijay Prashad, Jesmyn Ward, Jordan Flaherty and more,  Killing Trayvons is an essential addition to the literature on race, violence and resistance. Published by CounterPunch, 2014. 361 Pages.

Another Politics, Chris Dixon: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520279025
Amidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a “new spirit of  radicalism is blooming” from New York to Cairo, according to Chris  Dixon. In Another Politics, he examines the trajectory of efforts that  contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent  movement upsurges. Drawing on voices of leading organizers across the  United States and Canada, he delivers an engaging presentation of the  histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.

 Dixon outlines the work of activists aligned with anti-authoritarian,  anti-capitalist, and anti-oppression politics and discusses the lessons  they are learning in their efforts to create social transformation. The  book explores solutions to the key challenge for today’s activists,  organizers, fighters, and dreamers: building a substantive link between  the work of “against,” which fights ruling institutions, and the work of  “beyond,” which develops liberatory alternatives.