Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?21l3r9e1svl8h9v

Description:

Privilege, Power, and Difference… is a tool for people alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways hat enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This… book was been used across the country.. to shed light on issues of power and privilege. 

Note: 1) Digital Read 2) this book is more like an academic look at the movements around the world in the 60s & 70s. It’s kind of (really) dry, but interesting to see a different view of what was happening through someone outside of the movements. 

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“It is the Italian students who have characterized the student revolution as a total or global confrontation. They see it as a global in two aspects: geographically and ideologically, a worldwide attack on the moral values of modern society and on the corrupt and nonresponsive institutions of the establishment”

So writes Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s top assistant for domestic affairs. In early 1969 Mr. Califano traveled to London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Rome, Israel, Kenya, Tanzania, India, and Japan to look at the problem of student unrest abroad. This book is not only a report on those problems and an analysis of the common elements of that unrest- it also reflects on the lessons of the author’s experience for the United States.

Mr. Califano proposes a greater role for the young in matters that affect them. He makes specific proposals about our draft boards, our educational systems, our political process. And he asks our students to “remember that it is one thing to fight for freedom where it does not exist, and quite another to abuse it where it does.”  

The book is a thoughtful exploration of the worldwide and profound nature of the crisis that besets those who are interested in on of the most perplexing universal problems of our age. 

Note: 1) Digital Read 2) while not out rightly radical literature, from reading this I was able to gain deeper understanding of things and strengthened ideals that I already held. Books often give you unexpected gifts, and I think this one does as well. I think it’s worth the read (other wise I probably wouldn’t put it up here after reading it).

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Rich with storytelling, history, folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and imparts the path to fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicangu Lakota Sioux and has dedicated his entire life to practicing and teaching the wisdom he learned from his elders. Here he focuses on the twelve core qualities that are crucial to the Lakota way of living- bravery, fortitude, generosity, wisdom, respect, honor, perseverance, love, humility, sacrifice, truth, and compassion- and illustrates them with personal stories and archetypal Lakota tales. Whether teaching a lesson on respect imparted by the mythical Deer Woman or the humility embodied by the legendary Lakota leader Crazy Horse, The Lakota Way is a compelling and profound work that offers a fresh outlook on spirituality and ethical living. 

Note: 1) Digital Read 2) This book covers the history of SDS as it was through the 1969 (and briefly about the Weather Underground in the 70s). It does not cover the history of the organization from 2006-present.

URL:

Pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?l8y7sfdi0rlf2ld

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By the late 1960s, America seemed to be teetering on the edge of a vast transformation. Helping to push it over that edge was a brigade of young radicals, the Students for a Democratic Society, who were fighting the establishment for peace abroad and equality at home. In Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History, famed graphic novelist Harvey Pekar, gifted Gary Dumm, renowned historian Paul Buhle, and marvelous cast of they-were-there contributors illustrate their struggle, bringing to life the tumultuous decade that first defined and then was defined by the men and women who gathered under the SDS banner.

 With brilliant art and memorable dialogue, this collection follows the organization’s rocketing rise and fall, from the famous Port Huron Statement to the last SDS convention in 1969, which ultimately signaled the group’s dissolution. The individual stories from those on the front lines go beyond the general history, showing the revolution as it was: deeply national as well as deeply personal. Students for a Democratic Society captures the idealism and activism that drove a generation of young Americans to believe that even one person’s actions could help transform the world.

Note: Digital Read.

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“Chomsky and Macedo provide a brilliant analysis of schooling that draws upon a language of critique and possibility that reclaims the notion of schooling as a public good and a democratic force. At a time when teachers, students, and public life in general are under assault by the juggernaut of commodification and capital accumulation, it is crucial that educators, parents, youth, and others be offered a language in which politics, power, justice, and social change become central to any notion of educational reform. Chomsky and Macedo’s book fulfills this task with great courage and penetrating wisdom. This is a book that should be read by everyone interested in education and the crisis of democracy” -Henry A. Giroux, Pennsylvania State University

by Peter Gelderloos

note: Printer 

URL: http://zinelibrary.info/files/How%20Nonviolence%20Protects%20The%20State.pdf

Introduction:

In August 2004, at the North American Anarchist Convergence in Athens, Ohio, I participated in a panel discussing the topic of nonviolence versus violence. Predictably, the discussion turned into an unproductive and competitive debate. I had hoped that each panelist would be given a substantial amount of time to speak in order to present our ideas in depth and to limit the likely alternative of a back-and-forth volley of cliched arguments. But the facilitator, who was alos a conference organicer, and on top of that a panelist, decided against this approach.

Because of the hegemony advocates of the nonviolence exert, criticisms of nonviolence are excluded from the major periodicals, alternative media, and other forums accessed by anti-authoritarians. ‘Nonviolence is maintained as an article of faith, and as a key to full inclusion within the movement. Anti-authoritarians and anti-capitalists who suggest or practice militancy suddenly find themselves abandoned by the same pacifists they’ve just marched with at the last protest. Once isolated, militants loose access to resources, and they lose protection from being scapegoated by the media or criminalized by the government. Within these dynamics caused by the knee-jerk isolation of those who do not conform to nonviolence, there is no possibility for a healthy or critical discourse to evaluate our chosen strategies. 

In my experience, most people who are becoming involved with radical movements have never heard good arguments, or even bad ones, against nonviolence. This is true even when they already know a great deal about other movement issues. Instead, they tend to be acquainted with the aura of taboo that shrouds militants; to have internalized the fear and disdain the corporate media reserve for people willing to actually fight against capitalism and the state; and to have confused the isolation imposed on militants with some self-imposed isolation that must be inherent in militancy. Most proponents of nonviolence with whom I have discussed these issues, and these have been many, approached the conversation like it was a foregone conclusion that the use of violence in social movements was both wrong and self-defeating (at least if it occurred anywhere within 1,000 miles of them)> On the contrary, there are a great many solid arguments against nonviolence that pacifists have simply failed to answer in their literature.

This book will show that nonviolence, in its current manifestations, is based on falsified histories of struggle. It has implicit and explicit connections to white people’s manipulations of struggles of people of color. Its methods are wrapped in authoritarian dynamics, and its results are harnessed to meet government objectives over popular objectives. It makes and even encourages patriarchal assumptions and power dynamics. Its strategic options invariably lead to dead ends. And its practitioners delude themselves on a number of key points.

Given these conclusions, if our movements are to have any possibility of destroying oppressive systems such as capitalism and white supremacy and building a free and healthy world, we must spread these criticisms and end the stranglehold of nonviolence over discourse while developing more effective forms of struggle….

(read on; I got half way through the intro…)