Excuse Me While I Organize

Alabama Students Against Prisons (ASAP is a cross campus organization that opposes the prison industrial complex. Today we discuss some of their organizing strategies across college campuses and in Alabama.ASAP's twitter: @alagainstprisonHow to get involved: https://linktr.ee/AlabamaStudentsAgainstPrisons

This week we're discussing white supremacy in education. This episode serves as an introduction on the topic of white supremacy in education, which we will build upon in later episodes.Zachary Lundyn: Educator at Kulima Montessori in Atlanta, GA and UGA grad.Twitter: @DaBlackAcademic IG: dablackacademicMusa Subramaniam: Vanderbilt history student and DSA member.Twitter: @MusaSupermario

In the 2nd episode of Excuse Me While I Organize we discuss how to communicate with far right with Cas Mudde is a professor at the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs ,and the author of The Failure of the Populist Promise. (2017) and The Far Right Today (2019).

The People's Plaza Movement occupied Ida B. Wells Plaza 24 hours a day for 62 days, creating a multi-racial, multi-generational community organizing space in the process, with goals of 1) defunding the police, 2) demilitarizing the police, and 3) removing Confederate symbols across the state, including a bust of, KKK founder, Nathan Bedford Forest in the Capitol Building.The People's Plaza Movement: https://www.peoplesplazatn.com (IG: peoplesplazatn)Jonelle Christopher is a Fisk University political science graduate, a Nashville activist and one of the original organizers of the people's plaza movementIG: JonelleChristopherJama Mohamed is a youth program coordinator at Disabilities Coalition, a freelance filmmaker and Nashville activistIG: yung__tvEmily Radigan vanderbilt grad student and organizer