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Black Lives Matter: Recurse Disucssion Series

Part I: Activism (Monday, June 8, 2020)

National Resource List

Protests/Marches:

• NYC: @justiceforgeorgenyc

• Police Scanner Map NYC

• Signal for end-to-end, open-sourced encrypted messaging

Petitions

• https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#petitions

Donations

• https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#donate

• Organizations that will match donations

• Where to Donate (Source: NY Mag)

Bail Funds

• https://nationalbailout.org

• https://bailfunds.github.io/

• Cash bail funds list that's been updated daily

Holding Communities that you are part of accountable

• Social accountability scores

• Have hard conversations with family members and former/current classmates, coworkers

• If relevant, looking up the record of your area's police here

Self Care

• Go to yoga (for a hike/smell some flowers/?)
• Hang out with your pets (/plants/pillows/?)
• Tell your friends you love them (/yourself/the universe/?)
• Take care of yourself so you can take care of others <3

Global Solidarity

• Black Lives Matter Toronto https://blacklivesmatter.ca/

Notes/Ideas from Discussion

• Supply chains, mobile devices + connectivity, communication networks + decentralized social networking

Part II: Allyship (Wednesday, June 10, 2020)

How to be an ally as a non-Black person//someone outside of the US)

Resources

Readings:

• The Abolitionist Toolkit

• The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

• White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo (Original essay - very good and only 17 pages! : https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116)

• Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates

• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

• Black Against Empire - Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

• Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? - Martin Luther King Jr.

• They Can’t Kill Us All - Wesley Lowery

• White Rage - Carol Anderson

• Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X

• A Colony in a Nation - Chris Hayes

• Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America - Jill Leovy

• The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein

• So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You - Jason Reynolds

• Black History Month Library (Free downloads of many of these books available here)

• Seeing Like a State

• The History of White People - Nell Irvin Painter

• The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, healing, and US Social Transformation - Fania E. Davis

• The Inner Work of Racial Justice - Rhonda V. Magee

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire

• A Library of Black Revolutionary Texts

Fiction:

• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
• The Sellout - Paul Beatty
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurtson
• On Beauty - Zadie Smith
• Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

Poetry:

• https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again

Articles:

• How Do We Change America
• Prison Labor is Modern Slavery
• The Origins of the Police
• Why Minnaepolis Was the Breaking Point

Podcasts:

• 1619 (New York Times)
• About Race
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Intersectionality Matters!
• Momentum: A Race Forward
• Still Processing
• Pod Save the People
• We Live Here
• The Stoop
• The Diversity Gap
• Yo, Is This Racist?

Film/Documentary:

• 13TH

• I Am Not Your Negro

• Eyes on the Prize (Civil Rights and Black Power Movements History)

• Selma

• Do the right thing

• Black Like Me

• When They See Us

• Fruitvale Station

• Moonlight

• In the Heat of the Night

• 12 Movies to Watch to Educate Yourself About Racism and Protest History, Recommended by Experts

Videos:

• Dr. Elizabeth Hinton- “Policing, Warfare, Incarceration, A History of Urban Violence”
• Dr. Courtney Cogburn - “Culture, Race, and Health”
• Dr Dorothy E. Roberts - “Killing the Black Body: A Twenty-Year Retrospective”
• In Conversation with Mutale Nkonde

Notes/Ideas/Resources from Discussion

• How can you be in ally in the systems you are a part of?
• Ready Set - Ally Workshop
• How to dissolve racist institutions?
• Local politics - election of prosectors
• Optics and the white savior complex
• What racist institutions am I embedded in?
• How can I work inside of that institution to dissolve it?

Part III Technology Now (Friday, June 12, 2020)

Discussion Topics

• The history of technology and tech institutions’s role in systemic racism

• Our role as technologists in this moment

• Technology companies and policing

• Github / Palantir and ICE

• IBM and the Holocaust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

• Facial recognition (IBM, Microsoft, Amazon) and the police:

• • https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/we-are-implementing-a-one-year-moratorium-on-police-use-of-rekognition
• • Master/slave, whitelist/blacklist terminology
• • https://twitter.com/twostraws/status/1270736467204194309
• • https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1270290278029631489
• • https://www.cnet.com/news/master-and-slave-tech-terms-face-scrutiny-amid-anti-racism-efforts/
• • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8x7akv/masterslave-terminology-was-removed-from-python-programming-language
• • The Digital Divide
• • Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

• Ed-Tech

• • https://www.edquity.co/

• VR

• • Courtney Cogburn: https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/full-time/courtney-d-cogburn/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kNfLe81dfQ

• Cosmotechnics as cosmopolitics

• Algorithmic Bias

• • https://www.ajlunited.org/ (Joy Adowaa Buolamwini)

Resources: https://riseup.net/ -- see under collaboration for secure resource-sharing docs

Decentralized Communication

• https://scuttlebutt.nz/
• 
https://www.joincircles.net/

Self-funding methods

Large funding methods https://seedfund.nsf.gov/

Notes/Ideas

• Data visualization
• Spatial audio