Readings from the 2015 Anne Braden
Anti Racist Organizing Training Program
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Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program 2015
Sessions 1–2: Orientation
Required Readings and Audio
1. Anne Braden, “A Time To Organize,” Address to Midwest Meeting of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism March 27, 2004, Louisville, Kentucky.
2. Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Martinez, “What Is White Supremacy?” from the Catalyzing Liberation Toolkit.
3. James Baldwin, “White Supremacy and the United States” (1963 speech)
4. bell hooks, “Love as the Practice of Freedom” from Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations.
5. Catalyst Project, “From A Place Of Love: Catalyst Project and the Strategy of Collective Liberation Leadership in White Communities” from Chris Crass, ed., Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis and Movement Building Strategy.
6. Catalyst Project, “Overview of Catalyst Project’s Feedback and Accountability Process in the Development of the Anne Braden Program.”
7. Vijay Prashad, “The World We Want is the World We Need,” 13 minute video from Riverside Church, NYC, May 20, 2011.
8. Joel Olson, “The Problem of the White Citizen,” Chapter 2 of The Abolition of White Democracy.
9. Barbara Smith, “Racism and Women’s Studies” “The Tip of the Iceberg” and “The Rodney King Verdict” from The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race Gender, and Freedom.
10. Catalyst Project, “Seeds and Sparks: 2013 Progress Report.”
11. 11. Corrina Gould, “Protecting and Preserving Sacred Sites,” 15 minute video from IntlForum, talk presented at Moana Nui II, Berkeley CA, June 1, 2013.
12. Micah Bazant, “Trans 101 Etiquette, Respect, and Support,”
13. Catalyst Project, Participant Zine from past participants about how to prepare for the Anne Braden Program, 2011.
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 3: White Supremacy, Capitalism, and White Privilege
Required Readings
1. Andrea Smith, “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy” from The Color of Violence: The INCITE Anthology.
2. Sharon Martinas, Excerpt from “Shinin’ the Light on White: Part One, White Privilege” from the Catalyzing Liberation Toolkit.
3. Cynthia Kaufman, “Capitalism and Class,” pages 64-74 from Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change.
4. Frederick Douglass, “No Progress Without Struggle”
5. Catalyst Project, “Tools for White Anti-Racist Organizing” from the Catalyzing Liberation Toolkit.
6. Eli Clare, “Yearning for Carrie Buck,” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 8.3 (2014) Eli Clare by Riva Lehrer
Recommended Readings
1. Paul Kivel, excerpts from Uprooting Racism.: “Costs of Racism to White People” and “White Benefits, Middle-class Privilege”
2. Tema Okun, “White Supremacy Culture” from dismantlingracism.org.
3. California Newsreel, “Amazing Facts about Health” from Unnatural Causes … is inequality making us sick?
4. Paul Kivel, “What Does the Economic Structure of the U.S. Look Like?” from You Call This A Democracy? Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Really Decides.
5. Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”.
6. Coloradans for Immigrant Rights, “Citizen Privilege and Ally Basics” from AFSC.org.
7. Robert Allen, “Organized Labor: From Underdog to Overseer” from Reluctant Reformers.
8. danni west, “Legacies of Resistance: White Anti-Racist Activism”.
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 4: Indigenous Resistance and the Colonization of North America
Required Readings and Video
1. Corrina Gould, “Protecting and Preserving Sacred Sites,” 15 minute video of a talk presented at Moana Nui II, Berkeley CA, June 1, 2013
2. Elizabeth Castle, “‘The Original Gangster': The Life and Times of Red Power Activist Madonna Thunder Hawk” in Dan Berger, ed., The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism.
3. Andrea Smith, “U. S. Empire and the War Against Native Sovereignty” from Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.
4. Andrea Smith, “Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide,” lecture at the CMC Media and Democracy Lectures, Wealthy Theatre, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2011.
5. Morning Star Gali, “Protecting Sacred Sites,” Snag Magazine no. 8, on Issuu.com.
6. Weather Underground Organization, Map from Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism: Political Statement of the Weather Underground.
7. Harsha Walia, 11 minute video interview recorded at PowerShift Canada, October 28, 2012 in Ottawa on unceded Algonquin territory, “On Anti-Oppression, Decolonization, and Responsible Allyship.”
8. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, blurb from Beacon Press on her An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
Recommended Reading
1. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians”
2. Winona LaDuke, “The Militarization of Indian Country”, interview on Democracy Now!
3. Lee Maracle, “Blind Justice,” www.ContextwithLorna.com, Apr 11, 2014 (poem).
Further Resources
1. Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Warrior, Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. (The New Press, 1997).
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 5: The Black Liberation Struggle
Required Readings and Audio
1. Vincent Harding, “American Bondage, American Freedom” from There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America.
2. Lydia Potts, “Map of Transatlantic Slave Trade” and “Illustration of Slave Ship”
3. Historical photographs of the slave trade and lynching in the U.S. (highly disturbing images).
4. Malcolm X and Assata Shakur on Black Liberation Audio: Part Two (audio at FreedomArchives.org
5. Alicia Garza, “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement,” The Feminist Wire, October 7, 2014.
6. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, excerpt from “Globalisation and US prison growth: From Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesian Militarism,” Race and Class, vol. 40 no. 2/3, 1998-99.
7. Sven Beckert, excerpt from “Slavery and Capitalism,” The Chronicle Review
8. Dan Berger, excerpt from “Introduction” to Captive Nation, ppages 1–7.
9. Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Ten Point Program 
Recommended Readings and Media
1. Andrea Smith, “The Colonialism That is Settled and the Colonialism That Never Happened,” decolonization.wordpress.com, June 20, 2014.
2. Catalyst Project and lucaswolfvideo, “Black Liberation & White Anti-Racism in the Time of Ferguson,” panel at Omni Commons, Oakland CA, December 14, 2014. (69 minute video). YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCB5jzY382n04QwOGO41U8XA.
3. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014.
4. Sweet Honey in the Rock, James Baldwin, and Freedom Songs on Black Liberation Audio Part One (audio at Freedom Archives)
5. Suheir Hammad, “Refugees” (Prod. by Beatnick & K-Salaam).
6. Dan Berger, excerpt from “Introduction” to Captive Nation, pages 8–11.
7. Angela Davis, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves” from Beverly Guy-Sheftall, ed., Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought.
8. Ewuare Osayande, “A Raging Flood of Tears” from South End Press Collective, ed., What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation.
Further Resources
1. Assata Shakur, “The Tradition”
2. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America at withoutsanctuary.org (highly disturbing images).
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 6: Introduction to Social Change Organizing
Required Readings
1. Marge Piercy, “The Low Road” from The Moon Is Always Female.
2. Charles Payne, “Slow and Respectful Work: Organizers and Organizing”, Chapter 8 of I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle.
3. Rinku Sen, “Community Organizing—Yesterday and Today” from Stir It Up.
Recommended Readings
1. Chris Day, “Dual Power in the Selva Lacandon”, Love and Rage Federation Bulletin, May 1998, reprinted from pp. 17–31 of Roy San Filippo, ed., A New World in Our Hearts: Eight Years of Writing from the Love and Rage Anarchist Federation.
2. Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, “‘Just in Time’ Guerrilla Warriors” from Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory.
3. Ruckus Society, Action Framework
4. Carol Mueller, “Ella Baker and the Origins of Participatory Democracy” from Vicki Crawford, Jacqueline Rouse and Barbara Woods, Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torch Bearers 1941–1965.

Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015: Session 7: Imperialism and Global Peoples’ Movements for Justice
Required Readings and Audio
1. Arundhati Roy, “Come September” from War Talk.
2. Mazen Masri, “No Backing Down on Palestinian Right of Return,” Left Turn April 2008.
3. David McNally, excerpt from Chapter 5 “Debt, Discipline and Disposession,” Global Slump.
4. POWER, Towards Land Work and Power: charting a path of resistance to u.s. led imperialism, excerpts on “Imperialism” and “Neoliberalism”.
5. Vijay Prashad, “Bread,” pages 9–14 of Arab Spring,
6. Jean Stewart and Marta Russell, excerpt from “Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation,” Monthly Review, 2001, Volume 53, Issue 03 (July-August)
Recommended Readings and Audio
1. Pat Sheehan, “The Irish Prisoner Hunger Strike: Interview with Pat Sheehan.” 20 minute video.
2. George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici, “A Brief History of Resistance to Structural Adjustment” from Democratizing the Global Economy.
3. Program Demand Group of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, excerpt from “Towards a Program of Resistance”.
4. Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to Mumia Abu Jamal, April 24, 1999 from Our Word is Our Weapon: The Selected Writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.
5. June Jordan, “Moving Toward Home” from Living Room: New Poems.
6. “Non-Aligned Movement” from Wikipedia.
7. “Global Resistance, Africa to Palestine”, audio of Amilcar Cabral, Nelson Mandela , Chris Hani, the South African national anthem, and June Jordan, from Freedom Archives, Roots of Resistance (CD)
Further Resources
1. Gopal Dayaneni speaking at Catalyst Project’s Global Resistance Panel, March 27, 2011.
2. Arundhati Roy interview, “War Talk” on CNN.
3. Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Martinez, ed., “Manifest Destiny or Imperialism?” from 500 Años del Pueblo Chicano / 500 Years of Chicano History.
4. Stephen Howe, “Some Clarity … And Its Limits” from Empire: A Very Short Introduction.
5. Notes from Nowhere Collective, “Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising” from We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism.
6. South African Congress Alliance, The South African Freedom Charter.
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015: Session 8: Deconstructing Class – Building Analysis and Power

Required Readings and Video
1. Paul Kivel, “Where Are You in the Class System?” from You Call This a Democracy?
2. Paul Kivel, “Class Chart” from You Call This a Democracy?
3. G. William Domhoff, “Table 1: Income, net worth, and financial worth in the U.S. by percentile, in 2010 dollars” from “Wealth, Income, and Power,” Who Rules America?
4. Betsy Leondar-Wright “Working Definitions” from Class Matters.
5. Molly Hein, [diagram of privilege x-rayed] from Karen Pittelman and Resource Generation, Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social Change.
6. bell hooks, “Feminism and Class Power” from Where We Stand: Class Matters.
7. David Gilbert, Looking at the White Working Class Historically. Pages 1 and 17 required, the rest recommended.
8. Gil Fagiani, “Community Organizing: White Working Class Communities – 1970s”
9. James Tracy, “The (Original) Rainbow Coalition – An Interview with Bobby Lee”.
10. Paul Kivel, “Introduction” to You Call This a Democracy?.
11. David Rothkopf, “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making,”
12. Karen Pittelman and Resource Generation, with illustrations by Molly Hein, Chapter 3 of Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It For Social Change. (
Recommended Readings
1. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “Red Diaper Baby?” from Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie.
2. Donna Langston, “Tired of Playing Monopoly” from Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, eds., Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology.
3. Michael James, “Getting Ready for the Firing Line: Organizing in Uptown in the 60s. Remembering JOIN Community Union”.
4. “Organizing Poor Whites in Chicago: A Chronology”.
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 9: Grassroots Fundraising as Organizing
Required Readings
1. Andrea Smith, “Introduction: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded” from INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, eds., The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.
2. Vicki Quatman, “Organizing and Fundraising: Sisters in the Struggle”.
3. Kim Klein, “The Ten Most Important Things You Can Know About Fundraising”.
4. Paula X. Rojas, “Are the Cops in Our Heads and Hearts?” from INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, eds., The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.
Recommended Readings
1. Kim Klein and Stephanie Roth, “8 ways to raise $2,500 (or more) in 10 days (or less, sometimes)”.
2. Kim Klein, “Prospect Identification: You Already Know All the People You Need to Know To Raise All the Money You Want to Raise”.
3. Kim Klein, “The Fine Art of Asking For the Gift”.
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 10: Developing Anti-Capitalist Feminist Analysis
Required Readings
1. Silvia Federici, excerpts from Caliban and the Witch.
2. Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class and Sex” from Sister Outsider.
Recommended Readings and Media
1. Clare Bayard for Catalyst, “Overview of Caliban and the Witch“.
2. Leslie Feinberg, “Holy War Against Trans People”, pp. 66-73 of Trans Gender Warriors.
3. Deon Haywood, “Deon Haywood Shares a Story” on sex worker organizing in NOLA.
4. Alicia Garza, “A Herstory of the BlackLivesMatter Movement,” blacklivesmatter.com/a-herstory-of-the-blacklivesmatter-movement.
5. INCITE/Critical Resistance, “Gender violence and the prison industrial complex”
6. Sunny Taylor, “The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability,” Monthly Review, March 2004, Volume 55, Issue 10.
7. The Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” from Beverly Guy-Sheftall, ed., Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought.
8. Leslie Feinberg, “Walking Our Talk” from Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue.
9. Chip Smith, “Patriarchy and Privilege” excerpt from The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy.

Woman with spinach (detail) from the medieval healing manual Tacuinum Sanitatis
Further Resources
1. Silvia Federici, interview on “Against the Grain,” KPFA July 11, 2006.
2. Set of images from Caliban and the Witch on Flickr.
3. Caliban and the Witch
4. Laura Whitehorn, “Inside Looking Out: Thoughts on the March on Washington” from Breakthrough.
5. June Jordan, “Poem about My Rights” from Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan. (Note: contains explicit descriptions of sexual violence).
6. Marlon Bailey, Priya Kandaswamy, and Mattie Udora Richardson, “Is Gay Marriage Racist?” from That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
7. Maria Mies, “Patriarchy and accumulation on a world scale – revisited”, International Journal of Green Economics, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, 2007.
8. Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America.

Member of the Combahee River Collective join a march to protest the murders of black women, Boston, 1979. [Photo: LOC]
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 11: Visionary Politics
Required Readings
1. Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan, “A Window to a New World” from Organizing Upgrade.
2. N’Tanya Lee, Cinthya Muñoz, Maria Poblet, Josh Warren-White, and Steve Williams on behalf of the LeftRoots Coordinating Committee, “Towards a Transformational Strategy” from LeftRoots.
3. bell hooks, “Love as the Practice of Freedom” in Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
4. Angela Y. Davis, “Abolitionist Alternatives” from Are Prisons Obsolete?
5. Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” in Cherrie L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa eds., This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
6. Kindred, Southern Healing Justice Collective, “Needs & Strategies”.
7. Mia Mingus, “On Collaboration: Starting With Each Other,” Excerpts from the 5th Annual Queer & Asian Conference, “Collide, Connect, Create,” keynote address, delivered on April 28, 2012, Berkeley, California. 
LeftRoots banner at a #BlackLivesMatter demonstration
Recommended Readings and Video
1. Ai-jen Poo, “Transformative Organizing Theory”, Transformative Organizing Panel at the U.S. Social Forum, 2010.
2. Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” in Cherrie L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa eds., This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
3. Gloria Anzaldúa, “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness” from Borderlands: La Frontera, The New Mestiza
4. Generation Five, Chapter 2 from Toward Transformative Justice: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse and other forms of Intimate and Community Violence, A Call to Action for the Left and the Sexual and Domestic Violence Sectors.
5. bell hooks, “Feminist Revolution: Development Through Struggle” from Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
6. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), “Charter.”
7. Harsha Walia, “Decolonizing together: Moving beyond a politics of solidarity toward a practice of decolonization,” Briarpatch Magazine, January/February 2012.
8. World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, “Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth,” Cochabamba, Bolivia April 22, 2010.
9. Lee Veeraraghavan, “Decolonizing Pipeline Resistance: An Interview with Freda Huson,”
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Further Resources
1. Cindy Wiesner speaking at the USSF 2010 Workshop on Transformative Organizing Theory, Part 2
2. Ricardo Levins Morales, “The Dystopia principle and the strategic basis for a just peace in Palestine” excerpts from Lihish’tah’weel.
3. Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 12: Making the Path – Exploring Our Family Histories
Required Readings
1. Toni Morrison, “On the Backs of Blacks”, Time, Fall 1993.
2. James Baldwin, “On Being White and Other Lies” from Black on White: Black Writers On What It Means to Be White.
3. Mab Segrest, “On Being White and Other Lies: A History of Racism in the United States” from Memoirs of a Race Traitor.
4. Mickey Ellinger, “Melting Pot”.
Recommended Readings
1. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “Patrimony” from Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie.
2. Juliet Ucelli, “Italian Americans Say Basta to Columbus” from Forward Motion: Exposing Columbus: Taking the Glory out of Racism and Genocide.
3. Karen Brodkin Sacks, “How Did Jews Become White?” from Race (Gregory and Sanjek, eds).
4. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, “Jews in the U.S.: The Rising Costs of Whiteness” from Becky Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi, eds., Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity.
5. Becky Thompson, “Time Traveling and Border Crossing: Reflections on White Identity” from Becky Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi, eds., Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity.
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 13: Personal Transformation for Collective Liberation
Required Readings and Video
1. Tema Okun, “From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: The Lifelong Journey”.
2. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk, excerpts from Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others.
3. Aurora Levins Morales, “False Memories” from her Medicine Stories.
4. Ng’ethe Maina and Staci Haines, “The Transformative Power Of Practice”.
5. Ng’ethe Maina‘s presentation at the Transformative Organizing Panel from the US Social Forum, 2010. Video (part 3 of 5). The first 10 min 45 seconds.
Recommended Readings
1. Catherine Jones, “Love Letter to Common Ground Clinic”
2. Dismantling Racism Works, “Giving Feedback” from their Handbook.
3. Whites Confronting Racism Workshop (Lorraine Marino and Antje Mattheus), “Guidelines for Receiving Feedback” from their workshop manual.
4. Whites Confronting Racism Workshop (Lorraine Marino and Antje Mattheus), “Tips for Addressing Conflict” from their workshop manual.
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 14: Anti-Racist Strategies
Required Readings
1. Anne Braden, “Black Power and White Organizing”.
2. Rural Organizing Project, “‘A Struggle for Our Lives': Anti-Racist Organizing in White Rural and Working-Class Communities: An Interview with the Rural Organizing Project in Oregon” from Chris Crass ed., Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy.
3. Catalyst Project, [Strategy Tools] “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats”.
4. “Open letter to 1Sky from the grassroots”, Grist, 24 Oct 2010.
5. Rachel Herzing, “‘Tweaking Armageddon’: The Potential and Limits of Conditions of Confinement Campaigns”, Social Justice, forthcoming 2015
6. Kali Akuno interviewed by Eric Ribellarsi, “Lessons and attempts: Kali Akuno speaks from Jackson”, Threshhold Magazine, 2015.
7. Maria Poblet, “Revolutionary Democracy, Class-Consciousness, and Cross-Class Movement Building: Lessons from Amílcar Cabral”, Organizing Upgrade, 19 February 2014.
8. Carlos Garcia, “#Not1More Means Not 1 More”, Puente Movement, November 22, 2014.
Recommended Readings
1. Ingrid Chapman, “Hearts on Fire: The Struggle for Justice in New Orleans” (Catalyst pamphlet).
2. Ai-jen Poo, “Lessons from the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights Campaign in New York”.
3. Zainab Amadahy, “A roundtable on relationship-building in indigenous solidarity work”
4. Eric Mann, “Transformative Organizing”.
5. Vermont Workers’ Center, “The People’s Recipe” in “Vermont People’s Convention for Human Rights”.
6. B Loewe, “White Anti-Racist Organizers in Working Class Communities of Color: an interview with B Loewe of the Latino Union of Chicago”, interview by Chris Crass.
7. Catherine Jones, “What I Wish I Knew: My Goals for Anti-Racist Practice”.
Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program
2015 Session 15: Leadership Development
Required Readings
1. Sista II Sista, “Sistas Makin’ Moves: Collective Leadership for Personal Transformation and Social Justice” from INCITE!: Women of Color Against Violence, eds., The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-profit Industrial Complex.
2. Chris Crass, “‘But We Don’t Have Leaders': Leadership Development and Anti-Authoritarian Organizing”, from Chris Crass ed., Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy.
3. Ella Baker on Leadership in the Movement from POWER.
4. Hilary Moore & Joshua Kahn Russell, “Taking Direction, Accountability” from Organizing Cools the Planet
5. Catalyst Project, “The 5 Gs: Tips for Leadership Development One on Ones”.
Recommended Readings
1. DataCenter, “Power Analysis: Types and Sources of Power and Leadership Styles”.
2. Myles Horton, “Ideas that Have Withstood the Test of Time: an interview with Myles Horton” from Dale Jacobs, ed., The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change.
3. SOUL (School of Unity and Liberation), “Organization Culture” from their Support and Accountability: SOUL’s Organizational Development and Supervision Model.
4. Berit Lakey, George Lakey, Rod Napier, and Janice Robinson, “Recognizing and Sharing Leadership” from Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide for Organizations in Changing Times.
5. Berit Lakey, George Lakey, Rod Napier, and Janice Robinson, “Paddling at our Best: Supervising Staff and Volunteers” from their Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide for Organizations in Changing Times.
6. People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), “Principles of Leadership Development” from SOUL’s Youth Organizing Manual.