NASCO's Reading List for the Revolution is a compilation of articles, essays, toolkits, books, and other resources. The Reading List features contributions from member co-ops, Board Directors, partner organizations, and NASCO Staff. The Reading List is updated monthly with new contributions, which are highlighted in NASCO's monthly newsletter.
Recommendation of the Month: #UnlearningWithCoFED -- Decolonization
Essays, Podcasts, and Videos:
[Recommendation: Start a reading or listening group at your co-op. Pick one article or essay to read weekly or monthly and schedule recurring meetings to discuss.]
- Video: Building the Solidarity Economy in the context of COVID and Black Lives Matter panel hosted by US Solidarity Economy Network
- Article: The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture from Showing Up for Racial Justice
- Paper: We Shall Not Be Moved: Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers by By Audrea Lim
- Article: Now Is the Time to Take Radical Steps Toward Housing Equity by Chris Tittle in Yes Magazine
- Podcast: Police Abolition with Mariame Kaba on Call Your Girlfriend
- Paper: What must we do to be free? On the building of Liberated Zones by Ed Whitfield
Toolkits & Guides:
[Recommendation: Toolkits provide direct action steps. Share toolkits with members and start a direct action group or committee to work towards the steps provided.]
- Campus Organizing Toolkit for Divesting from Police from UnKoch My Campus
- Equity, Inclusion & Diversity Hiring Toolkit from The Avarna Group
- Land Acknowledgement Guide from Meztli Projects
- KC Tenants COVID Organizing Toolkit
Books:
[Recommendation: Start a book club or book exchange at your co-op. Pick a standing meeting time and allow book club members to suggest discussion topics. We recommend purchasing books from your local independent book store or online through AK Press, PM Press, or Haymarket Books]
- Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard | A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
- Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown | Radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live
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Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
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Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi Edited by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya
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Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
Upcoming Events:
- Learning Together (While Staying Apart) Events hosted by Haymarket Books
Social Media:
[Recommendation: Follow these accounts on your personal and co-op social media pages to stay involved with the work that they're doing.]
- New Economy Coalition | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook | Coalition of 200+ organizations involved in solidarity economy work
- Adrienne Maree Brown | Twitter, Instagram | Author, doula, women's rights activist and black feminist
- CoFED | Instagram, Facebook | Building a cooperative food economy, powered by the leadership of young folx of color
- East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative | Twitter | Creating visible pathways to collective ownership and transformation in Oakland
- TESA Collective | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook | Cause-oriented games and tools
- Right to the City | Twitter | Fighting neoliberal urban development for the rights of working-class & communities of color to Remain in, Reclaim & Rebuild our cities
- UnKoch My Campus | Twitter | Help preserve academic integrity and transparency!
- Power Shift Network | Twitter, Instagram | Network of 90+ organizations fighting the climate crisis and social justice
[Image from Phoenix House at MSU Student Housing Cooperatives]