TOWARD
SOLIDARITY
Subscribe to Toward Solidarity, David's newsletter that offers insights on building the powerful alliances our movements need to win.
Learn more about the newsletter
David Dean is an educator, writer, and speaker seeking to support the growth of transformative alliances in our social movements—solidarity that undoes the centuries-long project of reactionary elites to divide and rule.
He gives particular focus to helping white people engage in multiracial movements with political clarity and deep purpose. David teaches regular online courses and is the former Associate Director of White Awake (recently renamed Comrades Education), a national political education center where he worked with colleagues to uplift a renewed model of white anti-racism rooted in belonging, class solidarity, and ancestral recovery. Over the past decade he has taught courses for more than 7,500 people, training activists and organizers from all 50 states and around the world.
David's forthcoming book, Roots Deeper than Whiteness, is meant to help white Americans cultivate a rooted, anti-racist identity, based on a deeper understanding of their ancestry, that can drive their efforts for collective liberation. To receive regular writing from David and learn about future training opportunities with him, subscribe to his Substack, Toward Solidarity.
To learn more about David's story and the ideas behind his work, check out this interview titled, The Deep Roots of Solidarity.
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 4th, 4-6pm PT (7-9 ET) | Attend the celebratory launch of the inaugural issue of Ancestral Ground, a publication seeking to uplift and bring together a broad movement of activists, healers, and efforts bridging ancestral recovery with anti-racist practice for folks of European descent.
David will be a guest speaker at the event alongside Hilary Giovale, Louise Dunlap, Susan Raffo, Ariel Luckey, Chris Crass, and Jen Willsea.
Begins October 10th | First America: The Course is an immersive community reflection on all six episodes of Rebecca Nagle's First America podcast. The podcast release coincided with the 250-year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence to unveil how the founders’ treatment of Indigenous nations is at the root of authoritarianism in the United States.
The course is led by Comrade's Education Director Eleanor Hancock and Rebecca Nagle. Together participants will receive, contemplate, and bring additional study and reflection to the Indigenous wisdom, leadership and research embodied in the podcast in order to better understand the historical moment we are in and take action for the decolonization of our world.
David will be a guest speaker in session two to discuss the ways in which settler colonialism transformed the European poor from dispossessed resistors of early capitalism into foot soldiers in the global expansion of this system who participated in the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples around the world.
SUPPORT DAVID'S FORTHCOMING BOOK
Roots Deeper than Whiteness
"Whiteness" is a false identity that was given to our ancestors to fracture their cultural centers, their freedom struggles, and their capacity to engage in powerful, multiracial class solidarity to build the world we all need. This book shows white readers how this process took place and guides them to reclaim what whiteness took from them: a rooted identity based in a profound sense of belonging to a centuries-long struggle for collective liberation.
Over 200 donors have contributed thus far to begin funding David's capacity to work full time on this manuscript.
This book is written to be a gift and a guide to our social movements, one meant to support the emergence of a renewed paradigm of white anti-racism in a time when it is deeply needed. Help bring this book to life and contribute today.
Foundations of Radical White Anti-Racism is meant to help those of us who are white let go of the counterproductive, mainstream models of activism we've been given. In their place, participants will be called to form a rooted connection to a hidden yet unbroken legacy of multiracial social movements based in the transformative principle of solidarity.
While live sessions of this course have ended, registration for the recorded course is open through the end of June. Participants will receive indefinite access to study materials and two months of access to session recordings.
The banner photo above, taken by Jack Rottier, is from the 1968 Poor People's Campaign, Martin Luther King Jr.'s final cause that sought to unite the multiracial working class to stand against the interlocking evils of poverty, racism, and militarism.
.