Webinar Part One

Narratives and Strategies for Resisting Divide and Conquer Tactics

In Part One of our Webinar Series, we break down Divide & Conquer tactics and outline resistance strategies, utilizing storytelling as a way of better understanding how these tactics can impact our communities.

Download the slide deck of this presentation.

Here are some supplementary resources for additional learning and reflection:

• AORTA’s Handout on Divide and Conquer
• “No Plans to Abandon Our Freedom Dreams,” by Linda Burnham
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• “How Racism Explains America’s Class Divide,” by Tim Wise
• “Hetero-patriarchy and the the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Re-thinking Women of Color Organizing,” by Andrea Smith
• “V’ahavta,” a prayer/poem by Aurora Levins Morales

Bacon’s Rebellion:

• “A People’s History of the United States,” by Howard Zinn: Includes a section on Bacon’s Rebellion, which Toussaint Losier talks about during the webinar.

Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance:

• “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States,” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Includes more about the Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance, which Coya White Hat-Artichoker discusses during the webinar.
• “How to Talk About #NoDAPL: A Native Perspective,” by Kelly Hayes
• “How to support Standing Rock and confront what it means to live on stolen land,” by Berkley Carnine and Liza Minno Bloom

Prison Abolition:

• “Are Prisons Obsolete?“ by Angela Davis
• “Organizing the Prisons in the 1960s and 1970s,” a three-part roundtable discussion with Dan Berger, Alan Eladio Gómez, Garrett Felber, Toussaint Losier, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tony Platt, and Heather Ann Thompson. Editor: Jessie Kindig.
• “Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion,“ by Judah Schept