Category: Toykit

“You can either talk about it as having a kind of toolbox or also talk about it as having a kind of toy- box. With my kids, most of what they do with toys is turn them into props. They are constantly involved in this massive project of pretending. And the toys that they have are props for their pretending. They don’t play with them the right way – a sword is what you hit a ball with and a bat is what you make music with. I feel that way about [conceptual and theoretical] terms. In the end what’s most important is that the thing is put in play. What’s most important about play is the interaction… If you pick them up you can move into some new thinking and into a new set of relations, a new way of being together, thinking together. In the end, it’s the new way of being together and thinking together that’s important, and not the tool, not the prop. Or, the prop is important only insofar as it allows you to enter; but once you’re there, it’s the relation and the activity that’s really what you want to emphasize.” – Fred Moten

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Do-It-Yourself Strategies for Revolutionary Study Groups (Black Orchid Collective)

Download the PDF original at: https://blackorchidcollective.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/diy-study-strategies-reading-for-revolution-part-3-final-version-to-share.pdf Part of a three part series “Reading for Revolution,” available here: https://blackorchidcollective.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/reading-for-revolution-part-3-diy-strategies-for-study-groups/ Do-It-Yourself Strategies for Revolutionary Study Groups by Mamos Rotnelli (Black Orchid Collective) Before a new revolutionary strategy becomes a lived reality, it begins as an idea. Of course, ideas are not the driving force of history – human beings struggling for liberation make history… Read more →

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Radical Education Workbook

Download here: http://undercommoning.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ref-workbook.pdf http://radicaleducationforum.tumblr.com/post/34563386245/published-radical-education-workbook Read more →

Living is Resisting: Street Dance Activism in Black Lives Matter

From Shamell Bell, Co-Founder, Black Infinity Complex, Organizer, Black Lives Matter- Los Angeles, and PhD student, Culture and Performance- UCLA.

The first scenes of this documentary feature well-known Krump dancer, Krucial “The Liberator,” paying tribute to Trayvon Martin and dancing to liberate herself from the haunting effects of the history of state-stanctioned violence. This was shot nearly a year before the second half of the video in response to the release of Ezell Ford’s autosopy report.

Immediately following the release of Ezell Ford’s autopsy report on Dec 29, 2015 that revealed a muzzle imprint in his back at close range, for 18 days, a group of Black and Brown activists, community members and White allies took up space in front of the Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters. Together they slept in 30-degree weather, some of the coldest weather Los Angeles has seen in its history.

In the late-afternoon, after kids got out of school and parents that occupied in shifts got off work, kick-balls and soccer balls were kicked around, and occupiers enlivened their morale and the space with jump rope competitions. Instead of simply occupying LAPD in protest of the death of unarmed black bodies, we brought the space to life with physical activities and dance to assert that “Living is Resisting”. Well-known street dancer Day Day and I taught dance classes to protesters, community members, and whoever walked by. We called this activity, “Street Dance Activism.”

Hear Bell speak about organizing, dance and community power in this interview: http://fsrn.org/2015/03/black-lives-matter-activists-move-forward-while-looking-back/

Freedom Dreams Mixtape – DJ Marginal Noise

A three-part mixtape by DJ Marginal Noise inspired by Robin D. G. Kelley’s inspiring Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.

Part 1: “It’s Nation Time

Part 2: “Nightmares and Daydreams

Part 3: “Space is the Place

This is the map side of a disorientation game & map that the Counter\mapping collective at Queen Mary University in London produced along with 3Cs.

Radically Remapping the Crisis University

http://www.countercartographies.org/ The Counter Cartography Collective (CCC) has developed methods for counter-mapping the university in crisis. Based in intensive inquiry, study and research, their maps and materials chart the power and money as they flow through academic institutions. Read in interview with Tim Stallmann of CCC from our archives: http://undercommoning.org/mapping-shared-imaginaries-for-anti-capitalist-movements/ ds Read more →

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“How to Start a Free University” booklet from the Melbourne Free University

From http://melbournefreeuniversity.org/ Download the booklet here. Since the MFU’s inception, we have been getting lots of feedback and requests to start free universities elsewhere in Australia and overseas. To allow more people to share in our endeavour we podcast most of our lectures, but want to do more. We want to support other communities to set up their own free universities.… Read more →

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