Phase One Resources

Resources 

• Listening -Empathy in Action, New Conversations

• Listening is Radical, Chanel Lewis TEDx Talk

• Deep Listening Resources, Earl E Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing

• Classes, The Peoples Forum

• Curriculum Tools, Project South

• Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice, White Accomplice

• Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Resources, Mandala for Change

• Deep Democracy Rooted in Beloved Community Transition Lab, Movement Strategy Center

• Embodying Deep Democracy, Embody Deep Democracy

• The Fighter League, The Solutions Project, JCET Project, and Movement Strategy Center

• Writings, The James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership

• Come Hell or Highwater, Delfina Vannucci and Richard Singer

Tools 

• A Practice of Deep Listening, Fetzer Institute

• Facilitation menu to support authentic, accountable, and practice of deep listening, Liberating Structures

• Tools to understand how you may embody white supremacy or racialized trauma, Resmaa Menakem

• What is meditation? Mind the Gap, Universal Partnership

• Liberate, #1 (mostly free) meditation app for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities.

• The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership, Facilitating Power

• Conflict Management and Public Participation, International Association for Public Participation

• Building Leadership, Community Toolbox at Kansas University

• Model of Leadership Development, Put People First PA

Using a shared anti-racist political and economic analysis can help you and your community, frame up the challenges in order to identify the necessary solutions. There are numerous sources to consider. Here are some models and examples of intersectional, anti-racist and racial and class solidarity political education:

Books Articles, Sites, and More:

• Black Reconstruction by WEB Du Bois

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• Stamped from the Beginning by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

• American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise by Eduardo Porter

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby

• Wages of Whiteness by David Roediger

• Unapologetic by Charlene Carruthers
  

*For white folks, in addition to these resources, also review: Showing Up for Racial Justice or Training by the Catalyst Project

• Just Transition Zine, Movement Generation

• People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy, The United National Frontline Table

• Resources, Kairos Center

• Resources, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)

• Resources, Racial Equity Tools

• Resources, The Poor People’s Campaign

• Trainings, The Highlander Center

• Vision for Black Lives, M4BL