Excuse Me While I Organize: Recent Episodes
Indira Washington and Hayes Taylor
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: @alagainstprison
How 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: dablackacademic
Musa 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 movement
IG: JonelleChristopher
Jama Mohamed is a youth program coordinator at Disabilities Coalition, a freelance filmmaker and Nashville activist
IG: yung__tv
Emily Radigan vanderbilt grad student and organizer