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Update on All-P.R. July and my take (with informational links below) on the protests in Puerto Rico.
🎞Jason @ Old Blue's Chapter and Verse's announcement video for Mortality in Literature and Film: youtube.com/watch?v=zpDj0MdLkZI&t=1s
🎞VIDEOS about the protests in Puerto Rico:
☆Aerial view of the July 17 protest
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158737103122891&id=263053952890
***NYT video (very good, very concise):
nytimes.com/video/us/100000006614155/puerto-rico-governor-protest.html
☆ARTICLES:
nacla.org/news/2019/07/18/protests-puerto-rico-are-about-life-and-death
jacobinmag.com/2019/07/julia-keleher-puerto-rico-schools?fbclid=IwAR0enw9ZfAkposKmIT3R3BbTKMXomVi-OCFbmLcsqNdxDAjyKSBr9ew20oM
🎞DAVID BEGNAUD:
youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-xvkaZIBc
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156405514387393&id=622422392
🎞NYC protest:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3109952849044828&id=100000904309408
#PuertoRico #RickyRENUNCIA
Update on All-P.R. July and my take (with informational links below) on the protests in Puerto Rico.
🎞Jason @ Old Blue's Chapter and Verse's announcement video for Mortality in Literature and Film: youtube.com/watch?v=zpDj0MdLkZI&t=1s
🎞VIDEOS about the protests in Puerto Rico:
☆Aerial view of the July 17 protest
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158737103122891&id=263053952890
***NYT video (very good, very concise):
nytimes.com/video/us/100000006614155/puerto-rico-governor-protest.html
☆ARTICLES:
nacla.org/news/2019/07/18/protests-puerto-rico-are-about-life-and-death
jacobinmag.com/2019/07/julia-keleher-puerto-rico-schools?fbclid=IwAR0enw9ZfAkposKmIT3R3BbTKMXomVi-OCFbmLcsqNdxDAjyKSBr9ew20oM
🎞DAVID BEGNAUD:
youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-xvkaZIBc
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156405514387393&id=622422392
🎞NYC protest:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3109952849044828&id=100000904309408
#PuertoRico #RickyRENUNCIA
![[CC] From Books to Action/Get to Work Wednesday](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qIQFdAt6PMc/hqdefault.jpg "[CC] From Books to Action/Get to Work Wednesday
Bonus: Storytime
Excited to participate in Get to Work Wednesday/From Books to Action with
Sarah at Hardcover Hearts: https://www.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 Tisbys The Color of Compromise, examining American Christianity’s racial past
https://www.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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws58VrYAVuY)
VIDEOS MENTIONED:
Eyes on the Prize Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Interview (1986):
https://www.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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Q_x_21gps
The articles:
https://forge.medium.com/performative-allyship-is-deadly-c900645d9f1f
https://www.bustle.com/p/what-is-optical-allyship-3-ways-to-be-actively-anti-racist-22956518
PODCAST: Boston Public Radio interview with Professor Saidy Grundy:
https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2020/07/29/sadia-grundy-you-cant-read-your-way-into-antiracism
The gas explosion in Baltimore last week: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/11/headlines/baltimore_gas_blast_kills_one_person_injures_seven
OTHER ACTIONS:
BLM parent site: https://blacklivesmatter.com
BLM resource links list: https://blacklivesmatter.carrd.co/
Support the fight against police brutality against Black bodies:https://www.aclu.org/other/fighting-p
NAACP Legal Defense Fund: https://www.naacpldf.org/
Breonna Taylor petition: https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justiceforbre-breonna-taylor-officers-fired?source=coc_main_website
Iowa derecho:
https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/how-to-help-those-affected-by-the-iowa-derecho
Lebanon:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/how-to-help-lebanon-beirut.html
#FromBookstoAction #PuertoRico")
![2020 Boomer Stats+ PSA+Mini-vlog/13Jan2021 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qmq0Z0FNamY/hqdefault.jpg "2020 Boomer Stats+ PSA+Mini-vlog/13Jan2021 [CC]
Suggested action, plus OG stats and miscellany.
PSA: @jesscraven101 on tiktok models scripts for calling, emailing, etc. your elected officials - AND corporate donors!
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Sonya at an enthusiastic reader:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3250HMLBuTSIveMXVJxI2w
Shawn the Book Maniac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ZQaPw8qv4&t=9s
Hannah at Hannahs Books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKTP-eigg9s
Justin at Ghost Reader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYNFkR0ZCw8
Ros at Scallydandling about the books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbDD_YGuYao
Brian at Bookish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxbnvXTJVDU&t=183s
For her 2021 spreadsheet, Sophie at Portal in the Pages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJYGnGjD7Q&t=884s
BOOKS MENTIONED:
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner
Wilmingtons Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
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Black lives matter more than ever in 2021 and will always matter.
Links here for information and resources:
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
#FromBookstoAction #PuertoRico")
![#Cromwellathon Weeks 1 & 2 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sttqAfaPonc/hqdefault.jpg "#Cromwellathon Weeks 1 & 2 [CC]
My reaction to the biography by Diarmaid MacCulloch
and up to p.162 of Wolf Hall.
Puerto Rico Seismic Network (If youre interested...):
http://redsismica.uprm.edu/english/
Jason includes all the videos on Wolf Hall in the
#Cromwellathon PLAYLIST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDFFsOs0n18&list=PLQR7MV0gwHp2iqdiziYbK2JtwbGqOujlj")
![[CC]Weekly Reads 24Oct20](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v6DDjouM0Tc/hqdefault.jpg "[CC]Weekly Reads 24Oct20
Guess what happens at the end? Youre right! 🤣
Stay tuned for Part 2 during the week.
Links at the bottom for #endsars
BOOKS MENTIONED:
El amante turco (The Turkish Lover) by Esmeralda Santiago
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Heidi @ My Reading Life:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftcdJ7T0cQaz2DIV9abD6w
Doris @ all D books:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUd11Ux5dXkADUynY-4MCA
Karen Evans:
https://www.youtube.com/user/k4evans1
Belinda @ Belindas Book Nook:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGuVegYkRaV3VP2cZkI-iw
Kim @ MIDDLE of the Book MARCH:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFUmSRDQPqf56PXNO5Q6lqA
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Black lives continue to matter in October and will always matter.
Links here for information and resources:
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
#endsars:
Nigerian Booktuber, Noria @ Chronicles of Noria, has this message on IG:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGt8BlZAOnF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Njeri addresses the #endsars protests in Nigeria in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpy5yEjhgQ
#PuertoRico #endsars")
