Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca.
In this activity, students take on the role of activist-experts to improve upon a Congressional bill for reparations for Black people. They talk back to Congress’ flimsy legislation and design a more robust alternative.
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Jesse Hagopian led a conversation with Garrett Felber, Safear Ness, and Stevie Wilson about the prison industrial complex, incarceration, and the history of resistance against that system.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Michelle Alexander. Introduction by Cornel West. 2010, updated 10th-anniversary edition released in 2020. 336 pages.
A critical analysis of the role the justice system plays in the oppression of African Americans in the United States.
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Activist Mike Africa Jr. and scholar Dr. Krystal Strong joined Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian to discuss the story of the MOVE organization, repairing histories of state violence, and the “On a MOVE” curriculum project in Philadelphia. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Signed into law by President George Washington, the first Fugitive Slave Act in the United States gave owners of the enslaved the right to reclaim those who escaped.
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Environmental and animal rights political prisoner Marius Mason was released from federal prison after serving seventeen years for acts of property damage carried out in defense of the planet.
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Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with Gary Tyler about his book Stitching Freedom: A True Story Injustice, Defiance, and Hope in Angola Prison. This class is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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With the help of dedicated comrades, Assata Shakur escaped from prison and her liberation continues to be an inspiration for people and movements around the world.
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George Jackson’s killing at San Quentin State Prison was a galvanizing moment for organizers inside and outside of prisons, from the Attica Uprising that began just weeks later to the commemoration of Black August to honor his resistance along with that of other Black freedom fighters and political prisoners.
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The brutal white supremacist murder of 28-year-old Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw in Portland was a galvonizing moment, highlighting Oregon’s long history of racism and exclusion and sowing fear of continued white supremacist violence amongst marginalized communities.
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To protest nuclear warfare, a group of eight Catholic and anti-nuclear weapons activists, including two priests and a nun, broke into a General Electric facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, poured blood on nuclear weapons, hammered at them with household tools, and gathered in prayer until they were arrested.
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