Week 10

10.1 Webinar video

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis (and the Next)

This video is a webinar discussing Dean Spade's new book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis (and the Next), which was released October 2020. The webinar was sponsored by the Department of Geography at the University of Washington and featured scholar-activists Angélica Cházaro and Chandan Reddy, who reflect along with Spade on movements for migrant justice, police and prison abolition, and climate justice. Spade covers many of the key points from the assigned reading in his initial short presentation of the book and so the beginning of the video offers a good review of the material for this week. The rest of the video is optional but also highly recommended for those of you interested in learning more about their work and how it connects to liberation struggles unfolding in a variety of contexts today. The webinar discussion might also provide ideas for your short "written presentation" for the final class assignment (see also extra credit opportunity related to the webinar on the Extra Credit Discussion Board).

A .PDF of covering the main points from the reading will also serve as a useful guide. I recommend you look over the slides before watching the webinar:

LATI 10_Week 10_Solidarity not Charity_READING GUIDE_Key Terms and Concepts .pdf

Watch the full webinar here: https://youtu.be/H2XwgvUqCp0