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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

SoundThinking is a part of the growing surveillance-industrial complex that is being used to criminalize, police, and incarcerate people living in Black and people of color communities. Racial capitalism gives us a framework for understanding why ShotSpotter exists and the intersecting mechanisms of harm that it inflicts on our communities.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

16 Under the cover of “educational purposes,” research that has the potential to generate millions in patent revenues—let alone the revenues from construction or health services—benefits from the reduced overhead of sitting on property-tax-exempt campus land. The challenges are vast, but the response has been mighty—and it is growing.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

As a child growing up in North Carolina, I remember watching individual unionized textile mills slowly disappear from the landscape. 16 In short, this achievement would not have occurred without centering gender. Our last mistake as a movement was, to put it simply, giving up. But doing so did not fully improve standards.

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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s without blame, and fairly common, to get trapped in a kind of hopelessness that another world is attainable in the face of ever-growing systems of oppression. Tom Llewellyn: [00:00:06] Welcome to a special episode of Cities@Tufts, brought to you by Shareable and Tufts University with support from the Barr and Shift Foundations.