Other Past Political Education Sessions & Readings

02 Jan, 2025

2023

There were two other poli-ed sessions led by this member but the record of the exact subjects hasn't been found yet.

• November 26^th - Socialism and The Unhoused
  Materials: "Infrastructures of Community" - the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective, "On The Importance Of Education Prior To Action" - Fred Hampton, and "Revolutionary Works" - Seamus Costello

2022

In 2022 we met once a week to read together and discuss sections of Jane McAlevey's "No Shortcuts".

• Every Wednesday from February 9^th to April 12^th - No Shortcuts Reading Group
  Reading: "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in The New Guilded Age"

2021

In 2021 we continued the format we started in 2020 but capacity had started to fall off.

• January 4^th - Capitalism and Gay Identity
  Reading: "Capitalism and Gay Identity" - John D'Emilio for The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
• January 18^th - Combahee River Collective Statement
  Reading: "The Combahee River Collective Statement" - The Combahee River Collective
• February 1^st - Housing in Chicago
  Reading: "The Legalization of Affordable Housing" - Marco Rosaire Rossi
• March 15^th - Mutual Aid
  Reading: "Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)" - Dean Spade
• March 22^nd - Ecosocialism: A Vital Synthesis
  Reading: "Ecosocialism: A Vital Synthesis" - Michael Löwy
• April 5^th - Pedagogy of The Oppressed
  Reading: Excerpts of "Pedagogy of The Oppressed" - Paulo Freire
• April 14^th - Psychopolitics / technology
  Reading: Chapter 1 of "Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power" - Byung-Chul Han
• May 5^th - The Metro DC Socialist Mobilization Model
  Reading: "The Metro DC Socialist Mobilization Model" - Shane K and Ryan Mosgrove
• May 12^th - We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, & Possibility
  Reading: "We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility" - Marc Lamont Hill
• May 26^th - Allies vs Comrades
  Reading: "From Allies to Comrades" - Jodi Dean
• June 9^th - Tyranny of Structurelessness p1
  Reading: "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" - Jo Freeman up until the "Political Impotence" part
• June 30^th - Tyranny of Structurelessness p2
  Reading: The rest of "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" - Jo Freeman

2020

In 2020 we began having discussion sessions about articles and excerpts submitted by members to an open form. Some of the planned questions were recorded but we frequently took a more free form approach to these.

• November 9^th - The Left After Bernie
  Reading: "The Interregnum | Spectre Symposium on The Left After Bernie Sanders" - Tithi Bhattacharya
  Questions: "How should socialists relate to the Democratic Party?" and "What are some criticisms of a 'dirty break' strategy?"
• November 16^th -
  Reading: Racial Capitalism & Prison Abolition
• November 23^rd - Liberalism and Socialism
  Reading: "Socialists Don't Want to Destroy Liberalism. We Want to Go Beyond It." - Matt McManus
• November 30^th - Base-Building: Activist Networking vs. Organizing the Unorganized
  Reading: "Base-Building: Activist Networking or Organizing the Unorganized?" - Tim Horras
  
• December 7^th - Troubling Solidarity
  Reading: "Troubling Solidarity" - C.M. Lewis
  Questions: "How can capital appropriate leftist sentiment?", "How can socialists safeguard our slogans and principles?", "What is the meaning of solidarity?"
• December 14^th - Social Ecology
  Reading: "The Ecology of Freedom" - Murray Bookchin
  Questions: "how do we organize our society non-hierarchically?", "how can we all live more ecologically?"
• December 28^th - Capitalism & Disability
  Reading: "Rethinking The Social Security Policy Wasteland" - Marta Russell

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