(December 1st, 8th, and 15th) at 11:11 am EST

White Supremacy & Revolutionary Resistance with Professor Butch Ware

"Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research." ~ Al-Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X)

In this intensive practicum we will focus on applied revolutionary theory, drawing concrete lessons from past experience to shape contemporary resistance and deepen revolutionary resolve. We will cover the origins of early capitalism, the slave trade, American genocide, and the resistance of African, Islamic, and Indigenous peoples. We will attend to slave rebels, maroon communities, and modern revolutionaries with particular focus on victorious liberation efforts – especially successful revolutionary movements in West Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. 

The course will unfold chronologically moving from birth of the current white supremacist, imperial, capitalist order right down to its current death rattle. In this historical examination we will pay particular attention to the following themes:

Spirituality, Healing, & Resistance

Anti-Capitalist Economics & Communal Self Sufficiency

Armed Struggle, Self Defense, and ‘non-violence’

Slavery, Abolition, and resistance to the Carceral State

This course is taught by Professor Butch Ware, a historian of African and Islamic revolutionary and abolitionist movements. Thus the focus will be primarily on examples drawn from the histories of Black struggle over the past five centuries. However, the course is meant to draw on knowledge of practical examples to aid contemporary freedom struggles for peoples of all backgrounds.

Class Will meet online, the first three Sundays in December. Live sessions will also be conducted on December 1st - streamed live from @lighthousemosque in Oakland and the 15th (location TBD)

Sign Up Here - Cost $99 (Livestreams presumably free) - White Supremacy and Revolutionary Resistance – The Ink of The Scholars

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