Unit 4 (27th Mar - 7th Apr): What makes a practice anti-oppressive and/or liberating?
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Introduction to Unit 4: What makes a practice anti-oppressive and/or liberating?
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Resource 1: 4 Dimensions of Systemic Oppression Worksheet
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Resource 2: QGuide -- Anti-Oppressive-Practice
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Video Clip 1: Let's discuss anti-oppression (3 mins 56 secs)
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Article 1: Being-in-the-room privilege: Elite capture and epistemic deference -- Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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Article 2: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò: “Oppression Is Not a Prep School”
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Video Clip 2: Multicultural essentials: Tokenism (6 mins 33 secs)
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Video Clip 3: Tokenism (1 min 15 secs)
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Video Clip 4: On Diversity: Access Ain’t Inclusion (12 mins 42 secs)
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Recap of Unit 4
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Assignment: Reflective Journal Entry for Unit 4 -- Due Sunday 7th April 2024
Unit 5: Non-violent resistance movements, strategies, and techniques
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Introduction to Unit 5: Non-violent resistance movements, strategies, and techniques
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Wed 17th April Live Session: Run sheet in OpenDyslexic (Word format)
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Wed 17th April Live Session: Run sheet (PDF format)
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Tool 1: Gene Sharp's (1973) List of 198 methods of non-violent resistance action
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Video Clip 1: The secret to effective nonviolent resistance (8 mins 57 secs)
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Video Clip 2: Non-violence and peace movements: Crash Course World History 228 (12 mins 48 secs)
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Video Clip 3: Nonviolence is the most powerful weapon (8 mins 12 secs)
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Video Clip 4: Do violent protests actually work? Research findings (3 mins 56 secs)
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Video Clip 5: Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Is a non-violent approach possible? (11 mins 59 secs)
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Journal Article 1: "Sitting on a Man": Colonialism and the lost political institutions of Igbo Women
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Web Article 1: Non-violent resistance - The-Need-for-New-Tactics_Article_2004
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Full Film: Niger Delta woman occupy Chevron and Shell oil factory in Nigeria 2002 (1 hr 4 mins 56 secs)
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Recap of Unit 5
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Assignment: Reflective Journal Entry for Unit 5 -- REVISED Due Date 6th May 2024
Unit 6: Deepening our understanding of anti-oppressive resistance strategies and practices
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Introduction to Unit 6: Deepening our understanding of non-violent resistance strategies, skills, and practices
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Video Clip 1: How to start a revolution -- Documentary about the work of Gene Sharp (Duration: 1 hr 22 mins 20 secs)
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Blog Post 1: Getting Gene Sharp wrong
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Tool 1: Civil resistance 2.0: Digital enhancements to the 198 nonviolent methods (minimum 10 mins)
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Video Clip 2: The power of laughtivism (13 mins 12 secs)
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Blog Post 2: Dilemma actions: The power of putting your opponent in a bind (about 3 pages)
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Web article 1: A short history of the Aboriginal tent embassy (about 2.5 pages)
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Video Clip 3: 'It was dynamite': Aboriginal Tent Embassy co-founder Michael Anderson reflects on legacy (1 min 10 secs)
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Video Clip 4: NITV on Canberra's Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Where to from here? (2 mins 10 secs)
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Video Clip 5: Proud Gomeroi woman Gwenda Stanley on the 50th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy (11 mins 29 secs)
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Video Clip 6: Zichen Tsui on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (10 mins 40 secs)
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Video Clip 7: Activist and artist Rose Tang shares painful memories of Tiananmen Square protests (3 mins 28 secs)
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Video Clip 8: Former soldier Xiaoming Li remembers the Tiananmen Square massacre (6 mins 35 secs)
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Video Clip 9: Former solider Chen Guang paints to remember Tiananmen Square crackdown (3 mins 1 sec)
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Journal Article 1: McClennan, Popovich, & Wright (2023) How to sharpen a nonviolence movement (about 10 single-column book pages)
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Recap of Unit 6
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Unit 6 Assignment: Reflective Journal Entry -- Due Date Sunday 19th May 2024
Unit 7: Interpersonal and collective strategies for everyday resistance
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Introduction to Unit 7: Interpersonal and collective strategies for everyday resistance
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Written Source 1: Defining the concept of peace: Positive and negative peace
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Written Source 2: Friendship as anti-capitalism
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Written Source 3: Building an alternative to capitalism from the ground up
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Written Source 4: News article exploring Mexico's anticapitalist marketplace
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Video Clip 1: What is accountability? (5 mins 1 sec)
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Video Clip 2: Everyday practices of accountability (14 mins 23 secs)
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Written Source 5: Mutual aid (~3 single-column web pages)
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Video Clip 3: Trans mourning: The power of collective care (1 min 45 sec)
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Multimedia Sources: Learning about restorative justice and accountability pods and practices
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Video Clip 4: Avoiding hierarchy in mutual aid groups where members take on different kinds of work (3 mins 58 secs)
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Video Clip 5: How mutual aid groups can address charity models or savior mindsets (4 mins 7 secs)
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Video Clip 6: Burnout in mutual aid groups (6 mins 57 secs)
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Video Clip 7: Facilitating conversations about capacity in mutual aid groups (1 min 53 secs)
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Recap of Unit 7
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Assignment: Reflective Journal Entry for Unit 7 -- Due Date Tuesday 28th May 2024
Unit 8: Cultivating your anti-oppressive, liberating life
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Introduction to Unit 8: Curating and cultivating your anti-oppressive, liberating life
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Run sheet for Live Session: Monday 3rd June 9-11 am AEST
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Video Clip 1: How collective care can change society (12 mins 6 secs)
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Article 1: 14 actions you can take to start building an anti-capitalist business
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Tool 1: Create your own transformative mutual aid practices (T-MAPs)
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Tool 2: Interrogating a Modern Anglocentric Relationship Escalator
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Resource Compendium 1: How Relationship Anarchy can be part of anti-coercive, anti-capitalist practice
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Tool 3: Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbord
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Resource Compendium 2: Supporting human rights and autonomy for people with cognitive disability needs
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Tool 4: How to become anti-racist
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Article 2: Virtually racist: Anti-racist work in the time of Zoom
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Tool 5: Responding to online harassment on social media
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Tool 6: How to call someone in
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Tool 7: VITALS of responding to microaggressions
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Tool 8: Create your accountability pod and pod mapping
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Tool 9: Five types of social change work
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Tool 10: Find your role(s) in social change
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Recap of Unit 8
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Assignment 1: Reflective Journal Entry for Unit 8 -- Due Date Sunday 9th June 2024
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Capstone Project Helpsheet (Sent by email on 22nd May)
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Assignment 2: Capstone Project -- Live share: Mon 3rd June, Upload: Sun 9th June
