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UPCOMING EVENTS
This fall, David and White Awake Director, Eleanor Hancock, will be offering Comrades in Struggle, a four-session online anti-bias training. It's an offering open to all that is meant to help participants unlearn racial and class biases, understand how bias is instilled into the masses to divide and rule, and gain skills for empowering others to see this manipulation and move toward solidarity. The course will include a strong focus on anti-Palestinian racism and antisemitism alongside many forms of racial and class bias that continue to be weaponized in our society.
The YWCA of Madison, Wisconsin, is holding their Racial Justice Summit at the end of September. The summit is among the largest annual gatherings in the United States of people committed to transforming relationships, cultures, and systems toward racial justice and collective liberation.
David will be giving a 4-hour workshop for white-identified conference attendees that draws on his Foundations of Radical White Anti-Racism training. While David's offering will take place in-person in Madison on September 27th, the conference includes an online portion on the 25th & 26th that all can join regardless of location.
Other keynote speakers and facilitators include Autumn Brown, Ruth King, Ijeoma Oluo.
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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.
David Dean is a political 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 supporting white people to engage in multiracial movements with emotional strength, political clarity, and fierce purpose. David leads independent trainings and is also a contributor and former Associate Director at White Awake, a racial and economic justice education center. Over the past decade he has taught courses for more than 5000 people and trained activists throughout the country.
David's forthcoming book, Roots Deeper than Whiteness: Remembering who we are for the well-being of all, is meant to help white Americans cultivate a rooted, anti-racist identity, based on a deeper understanding of their ancestry, that can drive their participation in efforts for collective liberation. To receive regular writing from David and learn about training opportunities with him, sign up for his newsletter, Toward Solidarity.
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.
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