Towards Black Futures: A CBFC Study Group, 2020 Curriculum
Food, Race & Criminalization
WATCH:
- Jalal Sabur and Raymond Figueroa Jr. on Food, Land and Freedom
- Jalal Sabur on Farms not Prisons
- Victory Bus Project and Freedom Farm Alliance
READ:
- Critical Resistance Demands
- #Freethemallcampaign
FOLLOW:
RAPP, Survived & Punished, Audre Lorde Project, Southerners on New Ground, Transformative Justice Hub, and The People’s Bail Out
Black Labor
WATCH:
- Black People and Their Labor are “Disposable”?
- Movement Generation’s Translocal Strategies for a Just Recovery: A Black-Led Session on Restoring Land, Labor, and Capital to Self-Determined Communities (from 44:00-1:00)
READ:
- OnlyFans is on the RISE, but Sex Work is still despised!
- Anarkata: A Statement (pages 5-14)
- Treva Ellison: Black Trans Reproductive Labor
- Black Women Pushed Down By Long History of Bias
- Unpacking The Super Exploitation of Black Women
- Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era by Kali Akuno
- The Jackson Kush Plan
LISTEN:
- Marsha’s Plate: Black Trans Talk, #139 Winning and Losing (first 15 mins)
Black Radical Tradition
WATCH:
- Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi
- Southeast African American Farmers Organic Network “With These Hands”
- Hattie Carthan Oral history Project
- Anatomy of a Failed Co-op Lessons from Greensboro’s Community Cooperative
READ:
- 5 Decades Later, New Communities Land Trust Still Helps Black Farmers
- 1969 Fannie Lou Hamer Founds the Freedom Farm Cooperative
- Federation of Southern Cooperatives Historical Timeline
- Why Have So Many People Never Heard Of The MOVE Bombing?
- The Cowpea: A Recipe for Resilience
- The Ballad of the RCC or “Nice Try. Now Try Again.”
- Blackpast.org: Move
- Black Panther Party Ten Point Program
- Black Panther Party Survival Programs
- Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
- ‘If You Want to Experience Liberation, Black Women Must Be at the Table’
- ‘When We Needed It to Be, Food Was a Weapon’
LISTEN:
Other Recommended Reading
- Co-Op Values & Principles
- Collective Courage
Resources
- Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC
- National Black Food & Justice Alliance
NYC Food Coops
- Park Slope
- Greene Hill
- Bushwick
- Windsor Terrace
- Lefferts Gardens
- Fourth Street
