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Resources
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Listening Guide coming soon!
Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War by Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way, Cambridge University Press
The Philippines Reader: A History of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Dictatorship, and Resistanceby Daniel Schirmer, South End Press
“Fascist Emergency Playbook” by Ejeris Dixon, Fascism Barometer
“Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender girls and women from school athletic teams” by Mark Sherman, Lindsay Whitehurst, AP News
“The Authoritarian Checklist” by Don Moynihan, Can We Still Govern?
“Transcript: Trump’s Authoritarianism Has Failed in a Critical Way” by Perry Bacon, Yahoo
“Trump Administration’s $1.7 Billion National Guard Deployments Fail To Reduce Violent Crime, Squandering Taxpayer Funds on Authoritarian Tactics” by Gabby Blanco, Rafael Medina, Center for American Progress
“Two Facts, One Weekend” by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Medium
“Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her” by Jessica Piper, Adam Wren, Politico
“Why the Sunrise Movement reorganized to fight authoritarianism” by Kim Kelly, Yale Climate Connections
“The deeper meaning behind trump’s raid in Ohio” by Scot Nakagawa, Convergence
“House Republicans resurrect Save America Act by adding it to spending bill” by Chris Stein, The Guardian
“What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab” by Jungmin Choi, Waging Nonviolence
“Origins of the United Democratic Front” by South African History Archive
“The Freedom Charter” by Congress of the People, South African History Online
“What we can learn from the playbook that defeated Orbán” by Daniel Hunter, Waging Nonviolence
Sources and definitions pages to come soon!
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The danger of a single story by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Ted
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Join the “End of ICE Age” campaign launch call on Wednesday, July 22nd by Detention Watch Network, Immigrant Defense Project and Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Tell Congress: Stop the SAVE ACT by Women’s March
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