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Category Archives: Education struggles
Zine version of Reading For Revolution
Reading for Revolution is a three-part series of short articles that I wrote on collective learning and the struggle for a new society. The first article, “Steal the the Ability to Read this Book,” makes a case for seizing the reading skills … Continue reading
Reading for Revolution Part 3: DIY Strategies for Study Groups
I recently published an article in the journal Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, sharing some suggestions for how to form revolutionary study groups. It is available for free download here: DIY study strategies. Feel free to distribute it if you find it useful. … Continue reading
Posted in Education struggles, Organizational Practice, Strategy and Tactics, Study Group, Theory, What's up in Seattle
Tagged AK Press, Commons, Creativity Not Control, Discussion, DIY, free download, Institute for Anarchist Studies, Learning, Literacy, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Reading, Reading for Revolution, revolutionary study groups, study group, Study Groups
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Event: More 4 Mann – Seattle Public Schools’ Board Meeting
We are reposting a call out for solidarity. Members of the Black community in Seattle have been holding space in the abandoned Horace Mann School building (owned by the Seattle Public Schools). Free classes for youth and childcare have been … Continue reading
Summer update: Youth Rally, Prison Strike Solidarity, Creativity Not Control
Folks in BOC have been busy recently, and we haven’t gotten a chance to update this blog for a while. I’m gonna post links to a few activities that some of us have been involved with or have been supporting here … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Education struggles, Immigration, Labor, Organizational Practice, Race, What's up in Seattle, Youth
Tagged Creativity Not Control, Education, hunger strike, ICE holds, people of color, prison strike, race, Seattle, strike, teachers, Trayvon Martin, Youth, Zimmerman
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Reading for Revolution (Parts 1 and 2)
This is a three- part series of short articles on collective learning and the struggle for a new society. The first two parts are included in this post, and the third will be published later. The first article is called … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Education struggles, Gender, Labor, Organizational Practice, Race, Study Group, Theory, What's up in Seattle, Youth
Tagged Black liberation, Capitalism, Class struggle, Emancipation, gender, History, Labor, Occupy Seattle, Organization, race, recognize and record, reproductive labor, Revolution, Seattle, slavery, tendency-building, Youth
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Teacher organizing, unions, and lessons from the Decolonize/ Occupy Port Shutdown
A few weeks ago, I wrote a document called “In the wake of the testing boycott: a 10-point proposal for teacher self-organization” for the Creativity Not Control blog. Creativity Not Control is an embryonic organizing project that I’m helping build … Continue reading
Healing Not Control: Confronting Rape Culture in the Classroom
I just wrote this post for the Creativity Not Control blog, attempting to link emerging struggles against standardized testing with emerging struggles against sexual assault. This builds off of previous conversations that Kloncke and I had here on the Black Orchid … Continue reading
Posted in Education struggles, Gender, Labor, Youth
Tagged Class struggle, Education, feminism, gender, Labor, rape culture, reproductive labor, women, Youth
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Spreading the Testing Boycott: Creativity Not Control
The boycott of standardized testing in Seattle is spreading to more and more schools. If you are outside Seattle and would like to support it, here are some suggestions for how you can. Several teachers, parents, and students who had … Continue reading
Posted in Education struggles, Labor, Organizational Practice, Race, Strategy and Tactics, What's up in Seattle, Youth
Tagged Class struggle, Labor, race, Seattle
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