Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?d98s24jd2t09b2y

Quotes from book:

“The Indian Wars have never ended in the Americas.” -Leslie Marmon Siko, Almanac of the Dead

“Indians, the original possessors of the land, seem to haunt the collective unconscious of the white man and to the degree that one can identify the conflicting images of the Indian which stalk the white man’s walking perceptions of the world one can outline the deeper problems of identity and alienation that trouble him… Underneath all the conflicting images of the Indian one fundamental truth emerges- the white man knows that he is an alien and he knows that North America is Indian- and he will never let go of the Indian image because he thinks that by some clever manipulation he can achieve an authenticity that cannot ever be his.” - Vine Deloria, Jr., “American Fantasy”

“While those who go native frequently claim benevolence toward Native peoples, they reaffirm white dominance by making some (usually distorted) vision of Native life subservient to the needs of the colonizing culture.” -pg. 5

This book is a highly recommended read for anyone wishing to learn about the origins of cultural appropriation of Native American culture, spiritualities’, and identities. It traces back the history of ‘Going Native’ and the stereotyping of Native peoples here in North America. It also aids in the understanding of America’s imperialistic tendencies, both at home and abroad, and the evolution of patriarchy. “Going Native is a major contribution to the debate surrounding authenticity, identity, and cultural exchange. Shari Huhndorf’s approaches to these now-familiar topics are distinctly original, courageous, and solidly grounded in her work in film, literature, and culture more generally.”- Timothy Jr. Reiss, New York University.

I encourage everyone to download and read this book (buy it if you’re able to as well).   

Note: 1) Digital Read 2) If you are experiencing difficulty understanding concepts and discourse  which are often enough brought up in radical literature and on the multitudes of radical tumblrs, this is a good book to read to further your understanding.

URL:

Chapters 1-6: http://www.mediafire.com/?uhsvtquo8beaqkh

Chapters: 7-11: http://www.mediafire.com/?a54yskrzuu7zv3o

Description:

This text involves students in understanding and using the tools of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives. Nealon and Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and deeper questions. Written in students’ own idiom, and drawing its examples from the social world, literature, popular culture, and advertising, The Theory Toolbox offers students the language and opportunity to theorize rather than positioning them to respond to theory as a reified history of various schools of thought. Clear and engaging, it avoids facile description, inviting students to struggle with ideas and the world by virtue of the book’s relentless challenge to common assumptions and its appeal to common sense

Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?phumsr44na99cpr

Excerpt:

“Either you respect people’s capacities to think for themselves, to govern themselves, to creatively devise their own best ways to make decisions, to be accountable, to relate, problem solve, break-down isolation and commune in a thousand different ways… OR: you-disrespect them. You dis-respect ALL of us.” - Ashanti Alston

Many classical anarchist regard anarchism as a body of elemental truths that merely needed to be revealed to the world and believe people would become anarchists once exposed to the irresistible logic of the idea. This is one of the reasons they tended to be didactic.

Fortunately the lived practice of the anarchist movement is much richer than that. Few “convert” in such a way: it is much more common for people to embrace anarchism slowly, as they discover that it is relevant to their lived experience and amendable to their own insights and concerns. 

The richness of the anarchist tradition lay precisely in the long history of encounters between non-anarchist dissidents and the anarchist framework that we inherited from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Anarchism has grown through such encounters and now confronts social contradictions that were previously marginal to the movement. For example, a century ago the struggle against patriarchy was a relatively minor concern for most anarchists and yet it is now widely accepted as an integral part of our struggle against domination.

It is only within the last 10 or 15 years that anarchists in North America have begun to seriously explore what it means to develop an anarchism that can both fight white supremacy and articulate a positive vision of cultural diversity and cultural exchange. Comrades are working hard to identify the historical referents of such a task, how our movement must change to embrace it, and what a truly anti-racist anarchism might look like. 

The following piece by IAS board member Ashanti Alston explores some of these questions. Alston, who was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, describes his encounter(s) with anarchism (which began while he was incarcerated for activities related to the Black Liberation Army). He touches upon some of the limitations of older visions of anarchism, the contemporary relevance of anarchism to black people, and some of the principles necessary to build a new revolutionary movement. 

Note: Printed Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?qrmvhbgapi0p2aw

Excerpt/Opening:

Note: 1) Printed Read 2) The title of this .pdf got mistitled so please note that the pdf to this file is ZINE_Lookingatthewhiteworkingclasshistorically.pdf not Zine_DeaconsforDefense.pdf

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?6dkjtjmtsb5k5m0

Opening:

Paul Farmer has brought his pistol. The president of the Washington Parish White Citizens Council was standing in the middle of the street along with several other members of the council and the Ku Klux Klan. It was the autumn of 1966 in the small paper mill town of Bogalusa, Louisiana.

Royan Burris, a black barber and civil rights leader, knew why the Klansmen were there. They were there waiting for the doors to open at Bogalusa Junior High. The school had recently been integrated, and white students had been harassing and brutalizing black students with impunity. “They were just stepping on them, and spitting on them and hitting them,” recalled Burris, and the black students “wasn’t doing anything back.” In the past Burris had counseled the black students to remain nonviolent. Now he advised a new approach. “I said, anybody hit you, you hit back. Anybody step on your feet, step back. Anybody spit on you, spit back.”

The young black students heeded Burris’s advice. Fights between black and white students erupted at the school throughout the day. Now Paul Farmer and his band of Klansmen had arrived with guns, prepared to intervene. Their presence was no idle threat; whites had murdered two black men in the mill town in the past two years, including a sheriff’s deputy.

But Farmer had a problem. Standing in the street only a few feet from the Klan, was a line of grim, unyielding black men. They were members of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, a black self-defense organization that had already engaged the Klan in several shooting skirmishes. The two groups faced off: The Klansmen on one side and the Deacons on the other. 

Note: Digital/Internet Read Only.

URL: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/indextrue.html

About:

So I was just informed about this site and poked around it a bit. It’s fucking awesome. You won’t be able to download articles/excerpts/books/whatever like you can here, however, worth checking out and going to to get “your read on.”

Includes:

A People’s History by Howard Zinn, The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker’s Notebook by James Boggs, Die Nigger Die: A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown, (excerpt) The Narrative Of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson, (Excerpt) Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky, (excerpt) The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Black History by Gil Scott-Heron, Malcolm X on Afro-American History, and a whole lot more.

Check it out!

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).

pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?55rc52pc8hqc4jp

pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?ojuui0cqh1xgcq7

Description:

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

Pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?9gf86ckwznkxv0x

Description:

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: 1) A Digital Read 2) the last chapter is kinda messed up.. I need to rescan it. That’ll be updated later. 3) I’ve been reading this book for the last week or so and it’s incredible. Very inspiring, and thought provoking. I HIGHLY recommend this book.  

URL:

pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?65nkok5mrzu1y6a

Pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?081pxneofbu7v6n

Description:

December 19th and 20th, 2001 marked the beginning of a popular rebellion in Argentina. After IMF policies led to economic meltdown and massive capital flight, millions of Argentinians  poured into the streets to protests the freezing of their bank accounts, the devaluing of their currency, unemployed, of the middle class and the recently declassed- erupted without leadership or hierarchy. Political parties and newly emerged elites had no role in the movement that toppled five consecutive national governments in just two weeks. People created hundreds of neighborhood assemblies involving tens of thousands of active participants. The dozens of occupied factories that existed at the start of the rebellion grew to hundreds, taken over and run directly by workers.

The social movements that exploded in Argentina that December not only transformed the fabric of Argentine society but also highlighted teh possibility of a genuinely democratic alternative to global capital. Horzontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina is the story of those movements, as told by the men and women who are building them.

Note: Digital Read

URL:

pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?d0vnbw6qql1yxje

pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?7w7mp5oto5okx0f

pt 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?ae4blle45bcag3o

Description: 

In this interdisciplinary study of gender, cross-cultural encounters, and federal Indian policy, Margaret D. Jacobs explores the changing relationship between Anglo-American women and the Pueblo Indians before and after the turn of the century. During the 19th century, the Pueblos were characterized by women reformers as barbaric and needing to be “uplifted” into civilization. By the 1920s, however, the Pueblos were widely admired by activists Anglo-American women, who challenged assimilation policies and worked hard to protect the Pueblos’ “traditional” way of life.

Deftly weaving together an analysis of the changes in gender roles, attitudes towards sexuality, public conceptions of Native peoples, and federal Indian policy, Jacobs argues that the impetus for this transformation in perception rests less with a progressively tolerant view of Native peoples and more with fundamental shifts shifts in the ways of Anglo-American women saw their own sexuality and social responsibilities.