Hey rad reffers
I am preparing a presentation on the global financial crisis for community organizations here in philadelphia. I am looking for help on finding other radical resources on the financial crisis in the hopes that I won't have to reinvent the wheel for all if this in terms of resources, visual aides, timelines etc. We are using this to develop local strategic responses to the global financial crisis and the resulting cutbacks and rising unemployment in philadelphia locally.
So to be more specific - looking for any curricula/lesson plans for similar workshops - video clips, visual aides (graphs etc), timelines of the crisis, simple definitions for neoliberalism, gentrification, structural adjustment and capitalism in general. Our 1st workshop is saturday night and we will be developing it further based on feedback. The focus is to make political economics accessible to local community organizers and activists who might not and probably do not have any background in academia or economics. Also any and all historical social movement resources on alternatives to capitalist development on a local level would be useful - e.g. malcom x's speech the ballot or the bullet speech outlines simple and accessible analysis of the economy and what alternatives might look like.
Any and all responses are welcome - thanks for your time and we will make whatever we put together available for use by other folks around the country
-wiley in philadelphia
Re: Radical Resources on Economic Bailout/Financial Crisis
Here is a good newsletter for info on economics and the financial crisis from a social justice persepective.
The Dollars & Sense Newsletter
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/index.html
Resources for teaching economics:
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/teachingeconomics.html
progressive and radical economics perspectives
The School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) has a workshop called Neoliberalism In Our Communities at the top of the page that you might want to check out.
From their website: "SOUL is working to lay the groundwork for a powerful liberation movement by supporting the development of a new generation of young organizers - especially young women, young people of color, queer youth and working-class young people."
Monthly Review, a socialist publication, puts out an online "zine" which has a lot of analysis of the financial crisis.
Z-Magazine's online ZNET currently has a section called "Econ. Crisis & Response".
The Applied Research Center has put forth the Compact for Racial Justice: An Agenda for Fairness and Unity, which they say "offers concrete strategies and policy proposals to reverse racial disparities and move our society towards full equity, inclusion and dignity for all people. The Compact transcends talk of personal prejudice with compelling evidence of institutional racism and realistic proactive solutions. It seeks to engage a broad multiracial base of activists, opinion leaders and policymakers in making government and powerful institutions accountable for eliminating racial inequality in our schools, hospitals, courtrooms and workplaces."
The radio program Against the Grain has had a number of programs in response to the current crisis, and does a good job of presenting theory. Browse their archives.