Spring 2025: Care
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Fall 2024: Revolution

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    Guiding Questions

    • What is the role of care in revolution?

    • How should we implement care?

    • What role does care play in a post-revolution world?

    Weekly Readings

    • Re-Imagining Wellness in the Age of Neoliberalism by Sarah Badr

    • Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva

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    Guiding Questions

    Think of a societal change you hope to see one day—our focus is on the means by which such hopes turn into reality.

    • What strategies and tools do you think will be most effective at realizing it?

    • What role does revolution play in your answer? Why? What strategies and tools may be most effective at building revolution?

    • What forms the greatest obstacle to your desired change? How do your previous answers address them?

    Weekly Readings

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    Guiding Questions

    • Is violence a necessary component of revolution?

    • What role does non-violence serve in protest

    • Does activism fall short of realizing the broader goals of a protest?

    Weekly Readings

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    Guiding Questions

    • How did the Cuban revolution start? How was victory gained?

    • What was the impact of the Cuban Revolution? Did history absolve Castro?

    • Do the negative/imperfect parts of the aftermath of a revolution outweigh the positive components?

    Weekly Reading

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    Guiding Questions

    • What is the current U.S. voting system’s place in the U.S.?

    • Does the current voting system allow for radical action and imagination?

    • What is voting’s role in a revolution?

    Weekly Readings

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    Guiding Questions

    • How do we define terrorism and legitimate violence?

    • Why don’t we see violent resistance in the U.S.?

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    Guiding Questions

    • Where do we see violence?

    • In which situations do we normalize it?

    • How does the violence of the state differ from the violent resistance of oppressed people?

    Weekly Readings

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    Guiding Questions

    • How does civil disobedience define itself in America?

    • What is the masses' conception of it?

    • What is protest?

    • Can nonviolence be revolutionary?

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    Guiding Questions

    • Can a group “of” a university really be abolitionist?

    • What is the MJLC’s place in the abolitionist movement?

    Weekly Readings

  • Slides

    Guiding Questions

    • What is the carceral state?

    • Where is UW-Madison's place within it?

    Weekly Readings

  • Slides

    Guiding Questions

    • What is the MJLC?

    • What are our study group discussion agreements?

Spring 2024: Dream