Ideas

Ideas:

Understanding Nationalism vs. Race today

Civil Rights: Audre Lorde in dialogue with MLK Jr.

Understanding the Politics of Intersectional Oppression (This line of thinking is 30 years old now, what is new?)

War: Examining Public Policy Legislation towards Perpetual Warfare

Why racism is still the issue (New race consciousness narratives)

Alternative Justice – Current International Law practice & why it’s still important (maybe something about conspiracy law, and what happened to Sami Al-Arian, the Palestinian USF Prof. who is a political prisoner in US.)

War and Representation –

Asking New Questions: Problematizing the Terms

Divestment Activism on Campus: Responsible Endowments

the Political Spectrum – okay vote Obama, but don’t stop there!

Recovering from Liberalism: Challenges of “Developing” World People’s Movements

Why the “masters tools will never dismantle the masters house.” (This is my favorite. I want to talk about intersection of racism and class, why “brown/black” organizing is also missing the mark, and why there is a difference organizing between “workers” rights and “ownership”)

Liberating Theology (Egalitarian vs. Hierarchical, Fox and Hedgehog etc)

BOOKS:

Letters from Young Activists (GREAT book, loved it!)

The Re-Imagining Marx Today

The Race Contract: The Political System of Racism (Amazing, but a little dense)

Articles:
April 4, 2007, A Time to Break the Silence—Again: A Reflection on the 40th Anniversary of King’s Riverside Speech by Ched Myers