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Excited to participate in Get to Work Wednesday/From Books to Action with
Sarah at Hardcover Hearts: youtube.com/watch?v=zTCAjP8CaoE&t=45s
PLEASE feel free to add resources and suggestions.



SUGGESTIONS:
1 - Focus/identify the area of racial inequity that calls to you:
Health, education, housing, policing, mass incarceration, art, environmental justice, voting,

gender, tech, etc.

2. Start small: sign petitions, donate, show up at local meetings
3. Find established, trusted organizations in your area. EXAMPLE:

The Harrisburg First Church of the Brethren hosted an intergenerational zoom study of

Jemar Tisby's "The Color of Compromise", examining American Christianity’s racial past
youtube.com/channel/UCJLqWlboDjnQDcJICzobmRA/videos



BOOKS MENTIONED:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Davis
Building Powerful Community Organizations, by Michael Jacoby Brown
(One of his videos: youtube.com/watch?v=Ws58VrYAVuY)


VIDEOS MENTIONED:
"Eyes on the Prize" Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Interview (1986):
youtube.com/watch?v=77-3R_Qd9gA&list=PLz7WWEJz5NH38rHCOHrq_5RjLW65_prn4&index=47&t=0s
Britta Bohler mentioned two excellent articles on performative and non-performative actions in her video on allyship: youtube.com/watch?v=d3Q_x_21gps
The articles:

forge.medium.com/performative-allyship-is-deadly-c900645d9f1f
bustle.com/p/what-is-optical-allyship-3-ways-to-be-actively-anti-racist-22956518
PODCAST: Boston Public Radio interview with Professor Saidy Grundy:
wgbh.org/news/national-news/2020/07/29/sadia-grundy-you-cant-read-your-way-into-antiracism
The gas explosion in Baltimore last week: democracynow.org/2020/8/11/headlines/baltimore_gas_blast_kills_one_person_injures_seven


OTHER ACTIONS:
BLM parent site: blacklivesmatter.com
BLM resource links list: blacklivesmatter.carrd.co
Support the fight against police brutality against Black bodies:aclu.org/other/fighting-p
NAACP Legal Defense Fund: naacpldf.org
Breonna Taylor petition: act.colorofchange.org/sign/justiceforbre-breonna-taylor-officers-fired?source=coc_main_website

Iowa derecho:
cbs2iowa.com/news/local/how-to-help-those-affected-by-the-iowa-derecho
Lebanon:
nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/how-to-help-lebanon-beirut.html





















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