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dcjacobin · 7 years ago
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December Meeting
It Takes Organizers to Make a Revolution by Rodrigo Nunes The Long Ecological Revolution by John Bellamy Foster Contradictions of Capitalism and Care by Nancy Fraser (pdf) Meeting Details: Library: Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library Room: MTP Large Meeting Room Date: Saturday, December 30, 2017 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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dcjacobin · 6 years ago
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May Meeting
Forget Your Middle-Class Dreams by Alex N. Press
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis by Donna Murch
How To Organize for Power with Jane McAlevey
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM If you have questions or need the meeting location, email: dcjacobin AT gmail.com
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dcjacobin · 7 years ago
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February Meeting & Readings
The Graveyard of Progressive Social Movements by August H. Nimtz Capitalism and Disability (PDF) by Marta Russell and Ravi Malhotra Black American Women and the Russian Revolution by Shana A. Russell Library: Northeast Neighborhood Library Room: NOE Meeting Room Date: Saturday, February 24 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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dcjacobin · 5 years ago
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November Meeting: Locomotion and Logistics
Studying Logistics by Joe Allen The Subway Belongs to Us by Andy Battle Logistics, Capitalist Circulation, Chokepoints by Charmaine Chua Meeting details: Library: Northeast Neighborhood Library (330 7th St NE) Room: NOE Conference Room Mezzanine (upstairs) Date: Saturday, November 9, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Questions? Email dcjacobin AT gmail.
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August Readings: Housing For All
Universal Rent Control Now by Amee Chew and Katie Goldstein
We Need a Green New Deal for Housing by Daniel Aldana Cohen
The Cooperative Option by Jerónimo A. Díaz Marielle and Diana X. Bell Sancho
If you are planning on coming but are having trouble accessing any of the readings, email dcjacobin AT gmail.
Meeting Details
Library: Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library Address:1630 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001 Room: WTD Meeting Room Date: Saturday, August 31, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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dcjacobin · 8 years ago
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April Meeting - Healthcare in the US
"Obamacare: The Neoliberal Model Comes Home to Roost in the United States—If We Let It" by Howard Waitzkin and Ida Hellander (2016), from Monthly Review "Obamacare’s Original Sin" and "Five Lessons From Trumpcare’s Collapse" by Adam Gaffney, from Jacobin "Telling Stronger Stories: Fighting for Humane Health Care in a Republican-Led State" by Sarah Jaffe, from Truthout Library: Northeast Library Room: NOE Meeting Room Date: Sunday, April 30, 2017 Time: 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM If you are joining us for the first time, let us know at dcjacobin AT gmail.
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dcjacobin · 6 years ago
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January Meeting
Against National Security Citizenship by Aziz Rana   Notes for a Feminist Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya & Nancy Fraser Caring Enough to Strike: US Teachers’ Strikes in Perspective by Tithi Bhattacharya Meeting details: Library: Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library (3310 Connecticut Ave. NW) Room: CPK Lower Level Meeting Room 4 Date: Saturday, January 26, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Questions? Problems accessing the readings? Email: [email protected]
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dcjacobin · 6 years ago
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Spooky October Meeting
Readings:
A Union at Amazon? by  Marvin Harvey They Are Afraid of Us by Verónica Gago The Necessity Organization: The League of Revolutionary Struggle and the Watsonville Canning Strike by Peter Shapiro
Meeting Details: Library: Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library (3310 Connecticut Ave NW) Room: CPK Conference Room Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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September Meeting
The Latest Incarnation of Capitalism by Grace Blakeley A Blueprint for Universal Childhood by Megan Erickson Morbid Capitalism and its racial symptoms by Thuy Linh Tu and Nikhil Pal Singh
Meeting Details: Library: Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library Room: MTP Large Meeting Room Date: Saturday, September 29, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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dcjacobin · 7 years ago
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May Meeting: Border Imperialism
Ice Age:  Society as checkpoint | Greg Afinogenov Possessive Nationalism: Race, Class, and the Lifeworlds of Property | Brenna Bhandar White Supremacy and Capitalism Are Deeply Entangled With the Colonial Slave Trade |  Gerald Horne Meeting Details: Library: Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library Room: WTD Meeting Room Date: Saturday, May 26, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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dcjacobin · 8 years ago
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February Meeting: Organizing and Resistance in Washington, D.C.
The Evolution of Democracy in the District of Columbia: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vzpr1ixr7ndnnrv/14%20fauntroy%202003.pdf?dl=0 Creating a Commons in the Capital: The Emergence of Limited-Equity Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vp4w0zdkka220pk/16%20huron_2014.pdf?dl=0 Fight for $15, Minus the Fight: http://www.orchestratedpulse.com/2016/07/fight-for-15/
Location: University of the District of Columbia  (4200 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008) Room: UDC Student Center Date: Saturday, February  25, 2017 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM 
Note: This meeting is taking place in the ballroom of the UDC Student Center. Enter the Student Center from the main entrance on Connecticut Ave., near the corner of Van Ness St. (the main entrance to the Student Center is directly across from the Metro elevator on Connecticut Ave.; since it's Saturday, other doors to the building may be locked). Take the elevators up to the top floor (level 1), and take a left out of the elevators: the ballroom is at the end of the hall.
This meeting is co-sponsored by D.C. Jacobin, the UDC D.C. History Club, and the UDC Political Science Program.
First time? Let us know at dcjacobin AT gmail.
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dcjacobin · 6 years ago
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June Readings: N+1 Month
Spadework by Alyssa Battistoni Base Culture by Lyle Jeremy Rubin Goodbye, Cold War by Aziz Rana Date: Saturday, June 29, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM If you have questions or need the meeting location, email: dcjacobin AT gmail.com
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March Meeting: Follow Ups
Down from the Mountain: What happened to Venezuela by Greg Grandin How Prisons Serve Capitalism by Dan Berger The Christchurch Massacre and the White Power Movement by Kathleen Belew
Meeting Details:
Library: Northeast Neighborhood Library (330 7th St NE) Room: NOE Conference Room Mezzanine (Second floor, NOT the basement) Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Questions? Email: dcjacobin AT gmail.com
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February Meeting: The 2008 Financial Crisis
All That Was Solid with Adam Tooze Why Shadow Banking Is Bigger Than Ever by Daniela Gabor Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang 
Meeting Details: Library: Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library  (3310 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008) Room: CPK Lower Level Meeting Room 3 Date: Saturday, February 23, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Questions? Email: [email protected]
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August Meeting
Crossroads and Country Roads: Wildcat West Virginia and the Possibilities of a Working Class Offensive by Kate Doyle Griffiths How Medicare Was Won by Natalie Shure Dispossessed in the Midwest by Noah Alexander Flora Meeting Details: Library: Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library (1630 7th St. NW) Room: WTD Meeting Room Date: Saturday, August 25, 2018 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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dcjacobin · 7 years ago
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March Meeting & Readings: Gun Violence
A Better Gun Control by Daniel Denvir https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/gun-control-mass-incarceration-drug-war-nra-shooters The Problem With Gun Control by Eman Abdelhadi and Edna Bonhomme https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/gun-control-orlando-homophobia-discrimination-mass-shootings How do socialists take on gun fundamentalism? by Danny Katch https://socialistworker.org/2018/02/27/how-do-socialists-take-on-gun-fundamentalism Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz https://monthlyreview.org/2018/01/01/settler-colonialism-and-the-second-amendment/
Library: Southwest Neighborhood Library Room: SOW Meeting Room Date: Saturday, March 24 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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