We have been listening to a lot of podcasts and panels over the past few months. Below are some panels that we listened that were hosted by Hollyhock and the resources that were referenced throughout the panels.
Bass Coast organizers will continue to add resources to this page
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JULY 2: Unpacking Systemic Racism: Resilience and Capacity Building
Featuring Khari Wendell McClelland (pre-recorded), Laura June Albert, Rebekka Goldsmith
Session Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO2bkBj_-PI&feature=youtu.be
Proceeds from registration donations to this session went to AfroVanConnect for their Black Spaces Symposium taking place July 23-25, and to the Klahoose First Nation for their participation in Tribal Journeys.
SESSION SPEAKERS:
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Laura June Albert is an educator, researcher, cultural organizer, and artist. Her research investigates the experiential body as a liberatory landscape for anticolonial and anticapitalist self-determination and liveness. (learn more)
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Khari Wendell McClelland (pre-recorded session) is an award-winning musician and sought-after facilitator who uses the arts and experiential activities for transformational learning. (learn more)
- Rebekka Goldsmith is a professional singer, group facilitator and coach who believes that when we have full access to our voices, we unlock our creativity, awaken to our full capacity and catalyze deep and lasting change in our communities. (learn more)
RESOURCES SHARED BY PRESENTERS & PARTICIPANTS DURING THE SESSION:
- Find the territory you are joining from at www.native-land.ca
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Recording of the June 18th panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeylw83ov2k
- The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture (From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun) https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html
- Michelle Nahanee’s work on 5 Stages of Grieving Your Complicity in Settler-Colonialism: https://www.decolonizingpractices.org/decolonizing-memes
- Su-feh lee - Battery Opera: www.batteryopera.com
- Song: She is On Her Way (words: Arundhati Roy, music: Aly Halpert)
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JUNE 18: Unpacking Systemic Racism: Making Meaning of this Moment
Featuring Kim Haxton, Parker Johnson, Sofia Robledo Rower, Rup Sidhu, Karen Mahon Carrington
Session Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeylw83ov2k&feature=youtu.be
Proceeds from registration donations to this session went to Black Lives Matter Vancouver.
SESSION SPEAKERS:
- Kim Haxton, a Potowatomi First Nations woman, is a co-founder of Indigeneyez and a multifaceted, multidimensional land-based educator.
- Parker Johnson, a black man, has been working in the field of harassment and discrimination prevention, workplace equity and inclusion, conflict resolution and organizational change for over 15 years in Canada.
- Sofia Robledo Rower, a queer, white Latina from New York City, is a community herbalist, an organizer, an abolitionist and facilitator. She is committed to the work of recognizing and destroying white supremacy and racial capitalism.
- Rup Sidhu, a first generation punjabi man, is an interdisciplinary artist and facilitator whose work meets at the intersection of social justice and the arts. For the past 25 years he has been growing his understanding of anti-oppression and liberation based practices.
- Karen Mahon Carrington, a white woman, is Hollyhock Board Vice Chair, lifelong environmentalist, trainer, and creator of Climate Hope.
PLACES YOU CAN DONATE TO SUPPORT ANTI-RACISM:
- Indigenous Organizations
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UNIST'OT'EN
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Raven Trust
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Back 2 The Land: 2Land 2Furious
- Local Friendship Centres in your neighbourhood
- The Circle: They engage settler created philanthropy to redistribute funds to Inidgenous organizations and communities.
WATCH:
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10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Colour To Explain Things For You
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Pamela Palmater: Yes, Canada is Racist
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Talks — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Ta-Nehisi Coates on words that don't belong to everyone | We Were Eight Years In Power Book Tour
LISTEN
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An extended interview with Desmond Cole, journalist, best-selling author and social justice warrior advocating against anti-Black racism and violence by police and society
- George Floyd's Death At The Hands Of Police Is A Terrible Echo Of The Past : Code Switch
READ:
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25 Books About Being Black in Canad
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An Essential Anti-Racist Reading List
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Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
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What a World Without Cops Would Look Like
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The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
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How to respond to “riots never solve anything!”
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Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness
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Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment - Micah Herskind
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Critical Resistance Resources
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The Abolitionist Toolkit – Critical Resistance
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Prison Abolition Syllabus – AAIHS
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#8toAbolition
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Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing
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Robin Wall Kimmerer: 'People can’t understand the world as a gift unless someone shows them how'
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The Culture of Make Believe
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Yes, Canada Has a Racism Crisis and It’s Killing Black and Indigenous Peoples
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Don't forget the racist Canadians behind the racist systems
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Desmond Cole's "The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power" published by Double Day Canada
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Robyn Maynard's "Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada: From Slavery to the Present" published by Fernwood Publishing
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Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan’s "Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State" published by Fernwood Publishing
RESOURCES SHARED BY PRESENTERS & PARTICIPANTS DURING THE SESSION:
US historian Heather Cox Richardson has a great series of videos that guides us through how the US was absolutely set up to protect property.
- The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (Harvard University Press, 1997) ISBN 9780674362130
- The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (Harvard University Press, 2001) ISBN 9780674013667
- West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War (Yale University Press, 2007) ISBN 9780300136302
- Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre (Basic Books, 2010) ISBN 9781458760142
- To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (Basic Books, 2014) ISBN 9780465024315
- How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (Oxford University Press, 2020) ISBN 9780190900915
On the Media podcast the latest episode is partially about the history of law enforcement with Elizabeth Hinton. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-2020-06-05
Aboriginal Worldviews and Education
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
In Icelandic prisons, the cells are open and inmates do the weekly food shop
Defund VPD: https://linktr.ee/defundvpd
Helpful resource in understanding systemic racism: the groundwater approach: The Groundwater Approach
How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem
So You Want to Talk About Race
