Unpacking Oppression
The origins of this institution were slave patrols, where armed groups of white men hunted down Black folks escaping from slavery. After the end of slavery, this institution oppressed freed Black folks so they would be forced to work slave labor as prisoners on the very plantations they just escaped.
Policing (and prison)
This type of organizing work focuses on people within a community sharing resources, services, and other types of aid with each other. It is based on the principle that if the government and other institutions won't create livable conditions for us, we must do so for each other.
Mutual aid
This music artist's real name is Benito Antonio MartÃnez Ocasio, but his stage name features a fluffy creature.
Bad Bunny
Patriarchy values men and masculinity more than women, femininity, and LGBTQ+ people. Give two examples of the real life, harmful way patriarchy impacts people.
There's many, many ways, but here are some examples: women and girls are expected to do household chores while boys and men are exempt; LGBTQ+ are treated poorly for being seen as "not normal"; things that are typically associated with women are seen as bad (domestic work, shopping and make up, etc.).
This movement focuses on the importance of indigenous peoples around the world having self-determination and being liberated from their colonial oppressors.
Indigenous Sovereignty
This famous nineties rapper was the son of a former Black Panther.
Tupac Shakur.
This exploitative system serves as the foundation for many forms of oppression, including white supremacy, racism, anti-Blackness patriarchy, sexism, homophobia, and ableism.
Capitalism
The Black Panther Party created several survival programs, designed to provide necessary services, care and protection to their communities. What are three of these survival programs?
Breakfast program, cop watches, free health clinics, grocery programs, community schools, medical training (acupuncture).
Billie Eilish was this age when she released her first hit single "Ocean Eyes" on SoundCloud.
13 years old!