Towards Black Futures: A CBFC Study Group, 2020 Curriculum

FOOD RACE & CRIMINALIZATION

WATCH:

Jalal Sabur and Raymond Figueroa Jr. on Food, Land and Freedom

Jalal Sabur on Farms not  Prisons 

Victory Bus Project and Freedom Farm Alliance

READ:

Critical Resistance Demands

#Freethemallcampaign

FOLLOW:

RAPP, Survived & Punished,  Audre Lorde Project, Southerners on New Ground, Transformative Justice Hub, and The People’s Bail Out

BLACK LABOR

WATCH:

Black People and Their Labor are “Disposable”?

Movement Generation’s Translocal Strategies for a Just Recovery: A Black-Led Session on Restoring Land, Labor, and Capital to Self-Determined Communities (from 44:00-1:00)

READ:

OnlyFans is on the RISE, but Sex Work is still despised!

Anarkata: A Statement (pages 5-14)

Treva Ellison: Black Trans Reproductive Labor

Black Women Pushed Down By Long History of Bias

Unpacking The Super Exploitation of Black Women

Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era by Kali Akuno

The Jackson Kush Plan

LISTEN:

Marsha’s Plate: Black Trans Talk, #139 Winning and Losing (first 15 mins)

BLACK RADICAL TRADITION

WATCH:

Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi

Southeast African American Farmers Organic Network “With These Hands” 

Hattie Carthan Oral history Project

Anatomy of a Failed Co-op Lessons from Greensboro’s Community Cooperative

READ:

5 Decades Later, New Communities Land Trust Still Helps Black Farmers 

1969 Fannie Lou Hamer Founds the Freedom Farm Cooperative

Federation of Southern Cooperatives Historical Timeline

Why Have So Many People Never Heard Of The MOVE Bombing?

The Cowpea: A Recipe for Resilience

The Ballad of the RCC or “Nice Try. Now Try Again.”

Blackpast.org: Move

Black Panther Party Ten Point Program 

Black Panther Party Survival Programs 

Detroit Black Community Food Security Network

‘If You Want to Experience Liberation, Black Women Must Be at the Table’

‘When We Needed It to Be, Food Was a Weapon’

LISTEN:

I’m From Philly. 30 Years Later, I’m Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing

Other Recommended Reading:

Co-Op Values & Principles

Collective Courage

Resources:

Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC

National Black Food & Justice Alliance

NYC Food Coops:

Park Slope

Greene Hill

Bushwick

Windsor Terrace

Lefferts Gardens

Fourth Street