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January Meeting 2020
Falling Without a Net by Alex N. Press
We Need an Insurgent Mass Movement, Aziz Rana interviewed by Jedediah Britton-Purdy
Predatory Inclusion by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Meeting Details Location: Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library ( 3310 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008 ) Room: CPK First Floor Meeting Room 1 Date: Saturday, January 25, 2020 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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November Meeting: Locomotion and Logistics
Studying Logistics by Joe Allen The Subway Belongs to Us by Andy Battle Logistics, Capitalist Circulation, Chokepoints by Charmaine Chua Meeting details: Library: Northeast Neighborhood Library (330 7th St NE) Room: NOE Conference Room Mezzanine (upstairs) Date: Saturday, November 9, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Questions? Email dcjacobin AT gmail.
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August Readings: Housing For All
Universal Rent Control Now by Amee Chew and Katie Goldstein
We Need a Green New Deal for Housing by Daniel Aldana Cohen
The Cooperative Option by Jerónimo A. Díaz Marielle and Diana X. Bell Sancho
If you are planning on coming but are having trouble accessing any of the readings, email dcjacobin AT gmail.
Meeting Details
Library: Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library Address:1630 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001 Room: WTD Meeting Room Date: Saturday, August 31, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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June Readings: N+1 Month
Spadework by Alyssa Battistoni Base Culture by Lyle Jeremy Rubin Goodbye, Cold War by Aziz Rana Date: Saturday, June 29, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM If you have questions or need the meeting location, email: dcjacobin AT gmail.com
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May Meeting
Forget Your Middle-Class Dreams by Alex N. Press
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis by Donna Murch
How To Organize for Power with Jane McAlevey
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM If you have questions or need the meeting location, email: dcjacobin AT gmail.com
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March Meeting: Follow Ups
Down from the Mountain: What happened to Venezuela by Greg Grandin How Prisons Serve Capitalism by Dan Berger The Christchurch Massacre and the White Power Movement by Kathleen Belew
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Library: Northeast Neighborhood Library (330 7th St NE) Room: NOE Conference Room Mezzanine (Second floor, NOT the basement) Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Questions? Email: dcjacobin AT gmail.com
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February Meeting: The 2008 Financial Crisis
All That Was Solid with Adam Tooze Why Shadow Banking Is Bigger Than Ever by Daniela Gabor Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Meeting Details: Library: Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library (3310 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008) Room: CPK Lower Level Meeting Room 3 Date: Saturday, February 23, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Questions? Email: [email protected]
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January Meeting
Against National Security Citizenship by Aziz Rana Notes for a Feminist Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya & Nancy Fraser Caring Enough to Strike: US Teachers’ Strikes in Perspective by Tithi Bhattacharya Meeting details: Library: Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library (3310 Connecticut Ave. NW) Room: CPK Lower Level Meeting Room 4 Date: Saturday, January 26, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Questions? Problems accessing the readings? Email: [email protected]
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December Readings
Does the FN [National Front] have an economic strategy? Renaud Lambert, Le Monde Diplomatique Specter of a White Minority, Robert Tsai, LA Review of Books
Privilege Versus Democracy in Brazil, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Jacobin
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Spooky October Meeting
Readings:
A Union at Amazon? by Marvin Harvey They Are Afraid of Us by Verónica Gago The Necessity Organization: The League of Revolutionary Struggle and the Watsonville Canning Strike by Peter Shapiro
Meeting Details: Library: Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library (3310 Connecticut Ave NW) Room: CPK Conference Room Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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September Meeting
The Latest Incarnation of Capitalism by Grace Blakeley A Blueprint for Universal Childhood by Megan Erickson Morbid Capitalism and its racial symptoms by Thuy Linh Tu and Nikhil Pal Singh
Meeting Details: Library: Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library Room: MTP Large Meeting Room Date: Saturday, September 29, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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August Meeting
Crossroads and Country Roads: Wildcat West Virginia and the Possibilities of a Working Class Offensive by Kate Doyle Griffiths How Medicare Was Won by Natalie Shure Dispossessed in the Midwest by Noah Alexander Flora Meeting Details: Library: Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library (1630 7th St. NW) Room: WTD Meeting Room Date: Saturday, August 25, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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July Meeting: ICE, Refugees and Immigration
Readings:
The Roots of Trump’s Immigration Barbarity by Daniel Denvir https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/trump-immigration-child-family-separation-policy What Does It Mean to Abolish ICE? by Julianne Hing https://www.thenation.com/article/mean-abolish-ice/ The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A. by Alexander Main https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-central-american-child-refugee-crisis-made-in-u-s-a
Meeting Details: Library: Northeast Neighborhood Library (330 7th St NE) Room: NOE Conference Room Mezzanine Date: Saturday, July 28, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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June Meeting: 1968
Why We Fought By Luciana Castellina By https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/why-we-fought Out of the Closet, Into the Streets By Cole Stangler https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/may-1968-lgbt-rights-france Half the Way with Mao Zedong By Paul Heideman https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/05/half-the-way-with-mao-zedong
Library: Northeast Neighborhood Library (330 7th St NE) Room: NOE Conference Room Mezzanine Date: Saturday, June 30, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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May Meeting: Border Imperialism
Ice Age: Society as checkpoint | Greg Afinogenov Possessive Nationalism: Race, Class, and the Lifeworlds of Property | Brenna Bhandar White Supremacy and Capitalism Are Deeply Entangled With the Colonial Slave Trade | Gerald Horne Meeting Details: Library: Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library Room: WTD Meeting Room Date: Saturday, May 26, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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April Meeting
Women Strike in Latin America and Beyond by Claire Branigan and Cecilia Palmeiro The Left’s Embrace of Empire by Lyle Jeremy Rubin No, Israel Is Not a Democracy by Ilan Pappe
Library: Northeast Neighborhood Library Room: NOE Conference Room Mezzanine Date: Saturday, April 28 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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March Meeting & Readings: Gun Violence
A Better Gun Control by Daniel Denvir https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/gun-control-mass-incarceration-drug-war-nra-shooters The Problem With Gun Control by Eman Abdelhadi and Edna Bonhomme https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/gun-control-orlando-homophobia-discrimination-mass-shootings How do socialists take on gun fundamentalism? by Danny Katch https://socialistworker.org/2018/02/27/how-do-socialists-take-on-gun-fundamentalism Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz https://monthlyreview.org/2018/01/01/settler-colonialism-and-the-second-amendment/
Library: Southwest Neighborhood Library Room: SOW Meeting Room Date: Saturday, March 24 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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