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“let this radicalize you, rather than lead you to despair”

- seconding the recommendation to grieve! ❤️‍🩹 i think it in someways can be worsened being in a society that is largely undergoing mass denial around things like rising authoritarianism, that the pandemic is still happening, militarized police, economic/social inequality, etc… so i think taking a moment to feel and acknowledge the validity of your feelings is valuable because society at large is just avoiding acknowledging any of this stuff, partly bc the government doesn’t want us to my other recommendations are: - don’t doomscroll! ❌ idk if i think tuning out completely can be entirely helpful because it might reverse psychology into worrying about what news you’re missing out on. so i recommend being more mindful of when/where you‘re viewing news. for example, i try not to scroll twitter past 9/10 at night and set my phone settings to not let me lol. so before bed and when i first wake up i’m not immediately looking at the news! i recommend this - readddd! 📖 i saw some other ppl recommend it and honestly it has helped me a lot. maybe look into things like speculative fiction too, but a book i will recommend is let this radicalize you by kelly hayes and mariame kaba. the book is intended for new organizers but i think it can apply to anyone just curious about organizing or people who organize. personally i have been more serious about organizing for a year and a half, and reading the book this year really helped me feel less hopeless. the idea that we keep us safe (which sucks but also empowers us to think outside of govt structures that fail us) and that we always have the freedom of our imagination to envision a new world… ✨ the book is really good. i also recommend adrienne maree brown’s work, specifically her book emergent strategy and also her podcast and instagram. she’s really great.

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The *citations needed* podcast

Critical commentary on institutional power. Have any recs in similar vein?

@sharon

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essays and books of some of my favorite geographers and urbanists

Take off the training wheels that is third space theory and dive into the big leagues
Henri Levebfre The right to the City and The Production of Space - If I could keep one white french man... David Harvey Rebel Cities:From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution - This is the effort of Harvey to document and argue for urban revolution and heavily dialogues with Levebfre theory of the city being a place of social organizing and revolution. David Harvey Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason - This is a post occupy Wall-Street David Hervey, reviewing a lot of his own work and the work f leftist activism. It's much more interest in the aspects of circulation of capital rather than production, in face of an increasingly financialized economy so his dialogue is much stronger with the Third Volume of Marx's capital Sérgio Ferro Design and the Building Site - My ride or die, Ferro dives into the politics of work in the construction site and how it's tied to the control of knowledge and who can build. Ruth Gilmore Abolition Geography:Essays Towards Liberation - The one author in this list that doesn't work in a Marxist Frame work. Her work is more focused on power and control through incarceration and the racial relations present in it. I recommend reading Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics along side her. F.T.C Manning Geographies of ground rent: Periodizing ground rent theory, spatializing ground rent refusal - This is a short article by Francesca Manning arguing on the importance of the theory of Ground Rent to understand the control and power over land. I questioned this as a rec because is so theory dense, but I really like her work and simply didn't want to leave her out.

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being a nerd about stuff

being traditionally cool is really quite boring and iterative, and it’s actually very cool and sexy to geek out about something you like or share bits of knowledge on a topic you’re passionate about

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MAY DAY

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKER’S DAY!!!! i love having a union, i love being a union steward and getting to support my unit. when my union won its contract, i got a pay bump, better benefits, and increased protection as a worker. 🥳 unions help address racial and gender pay gaps, issues workplaces impose on families and those having kids, addressing unsafe conditions, plus things like better health insurance, wages and overtime, weingarten rights to representation, and more!!! if you don’t have a union but are thinking about forming one, check out AFL-CIO’s page (linked) or Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. there’s always more power in a union!! ✊🥖🌹

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BOOKSHOP.ORG

they have FREE SHIPPING through Friday (7/8-7/11) if you are thinking about buying a book online this week, please buy a book there instead of evil amazon dot com. bookshop benefits local indie bookstores! you also can pick which specific bookstore to support and they have many lgbt-, women-, and bipoc-owned shops listed :) also they now have ebooks and many are on sale, such as Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower + Talents, Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, or Talia Lavin’s Wild Faith for under $3 (!) each

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