Currently using the Zoom platform
Our next meeting date is scheduled for Sunday, December 6, 2020
We will be discussing Mutual Aid subtitled Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next) by Dean Spade. You do not need to have read the book to attend, and alternative resources are listed below:
Read more about the book here: http://www.deanspade.net/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next/
Recent written interviews with Dean Spade: http://www.deanspade.net/updates/
Two recent video interviews with Dean Spade: http://www.deanspade.net/category/video/
7:–8:15 p.m. on the Zoom meeting platform:
Zoom Link for Social Justice Book Group
Our first meeting of 2021 will be held on Thursday, January 28. The selection is The Purpose of Power subtitled How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, by Alicia Garcia.
From the Publisher:
“ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF POWER
An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter”
Please note the following article has been updated as of June 2, 2020
10 Books About Race To Read Instead Of Asking A Person Of Color To Explain Things To You: Link to Book Titles
Other titles we have read:
Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
Amateur, by Thomas Page McBee
A Quick & Easy Guide to THEY/THEM Pronouns, by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson
There, There, by Tommy James
Dear America, by Jose Antonio Vargas
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Of Orcas and Men by David Neiwert
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula by the Olympic Peninsula Intertribal Cultural Advisory Committee, edited by Jacilee Wray
So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
Join us!
Updated 29 November 2020
