Local Groups
L.E.A.D. (Learning & Exploring Anti-Racist Dialogue): This is a group created for folks who want to take part in the dismantlement of all interlocking systems of oppression by way of acknowledging, analyzing and retooling their privilege. We will be reading and discussing one piece per week. There are only two reading pre-requisites:
Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
And The People’s Institute’s “Group Agreements”
leadatx@gmail.com “L.E.A.D. Community Agreements”
ALLGO
AWARE – white anti-racists allies group
First Saturday – Building Bridges @ St. James Episcopal Church Founder’s Hall; 1941 Webberville Road, Austin, Texas 78721; 512.926.6339
National Groups
- Applied Resource Center – provides research, analysis and training
- AORTA Collective – devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy, based in Philadelphia
- Catalyst Project – provides political education and movement building in the Bay Area
- People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond – long time training group focuses on Un-Doing Racism based in New Orleans
- The Highlander Center – long time social justice political education and cultural center
- Movement Strategy Center – provides an array of resources, education and training
- Project South – grassroots organization developing people of color leadership for social justice and liberation.
- Western States Center – provides trainings and resources in the Pacific Northwest
- Colours of Resistance – lots of good tools and resources
- Racial Equity Tools – numerous resources
- ColorLines, a national news magazine about race and politics
- List of Anti-Racism Resources, from the UN “Let’s Fight Racism”
- Critical Resistance, organizing against the prison-industrial complex
- Anti-Oppression Resources, from the School of the Americas Watch
- Class Matters
- Race: The Power of Illusion, from PBS