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The Lit Review

The Lit Review is a new podcast series where we will interview organizers and community members about books. On each episode, we'll lead an informal conversation with our guests about a key book that

I love this podcast series already! Books are selected and discussed in the same spirit that I want for our Freedom Book Club. Even better, they have organizers and people I consider thought leaders come on and talk about the significance of the books. The intro is 🎯🎯🎯

This will definitely be a good resource for book recommendations and insight about the ones we have already read. To date, they have reviewed The Underground Railroad (episode 13) , as well as Parable of the Sower/Talents (episode 7).

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NowThis on Twitter

“This woman's coworkers showed there's still good in the world https://t.co/zvqMY4RS2D”

This was a beautiful gesture and shows how a community can really show up for someone who’s having a hard time. It reminds me of the spirit of Acorn and Robledo. 

“Most of them were good people- just poor.” (p.123)

There’s an uneasiness that I feel about this, as well, that happens whenever I think about the survival of poor people. There’s never enough resources, and whatever we can grasp is at the expense of people who also need it. The rich continue to amass wealth while we collectively struggle to get just enough and live one misstep away from financial ruin, if we’re not already struggling through one.

I love seeing so many people who have the emotional capacity to contribute to pay for someone’s cancer treatment, or to a memorial fund for Philando Castile. But the scarcity of resources, the very people who donate are the ones who likely don’t have much to spare. And WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PRIVATELY CROWDSOURCE SOMEONE’S HEALTHCARE OR TO HELP OFFSET THE FINANCIAL COST FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS KILLED BY THE STATE. Healthcare should be available for all, and cops shouldn’t be killing people. 

Geezus. There are so many insidious functions of white supremacy and unchecked capitalism. Fuck.

“Here at Acorn, if we can’t save everything, we can at least work together to save one another.”

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The thing that I want to build is so damned new and so vast! I not only don't know how to build it, but I'm not even sure what it will look like when I have built it. I'm just feeling my way, using whatever I can do, whatever I can learn to take one more step forward.

Lauren Oya Olamina, from Monday, October 17, 2032

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The agave was a handsome, variegated species-- blue-green leaves edged in yellow-white... Each leaf was tipped with a long, hard, dagger-sharp spike, and for good measure, each leaf was egged in jagged thorns that were tough enough to saw through human flesh. We intended to use them to do just that.

- Lauren Oya Olamina, from Monday, September 27, 2032

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I took these photos during a camping trip to the Lost Coast, which is in Mendocino County. I wish I had taken photos of the towns I passed to get to the coast because I see Acorn and Dovetree being these towns. 

I feel really lucky that I’ve visited and seen these areas of California. It helps make the story feel so alive.