Resources produced by white allies in local occupations
Detroit
White Privilege – Terms and Resources Prepared for the Occupy Detroit Sensitivity and Racial Inclusion Workgroup
Detroit
Racism Divides the 99% Tips for White People to Challenge Racism at Occupy Detroit Based on the work by Occupy Seattle & Joel Olsen’s Whiteness & the 99%
New York - Wall Street
An Open Letter From Two White Men to #OCCUPYWALLSTREET
New York - Wall Street
Anti-Racism Allies OWS Group – Points of Unity
New York - Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street and white privilege (4-part series)
New York - Wall Street
Talking About Racism Is Too Divisive?
New York - Wall Street
Whose Occupy?
Philadelphia
To Occupy Activists With Race/Class Privilege Planning to Occupy Abandoned Buildings/Vacant Lots in Residential Neighborhoods
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Phoenix
What Does Healing Look Like? To all the white people talking about unity in the Occupy movement
Seattle
Tips for White People to Challenge Racism at Occupy Seattle
Produced by white allies for the Occupy movement at large
Occupy Opportunities for Collective Liberation - Catalyst Project’s Anti-Racist Organizing Strategy
Whiteness and the 99%, by Joel Olson
Occupation: Liberation—
Building Sustainable Resistance Movements
Reflections by the anti-imperialist collective Resistance in Brooklyn (RnB)
We are the 99%
We are the 99% (Spanish)
[link no longer available as of 10/7/15]
5 Tips for White Allies in the Occupy Movement
Other Occupy-themed resource collections
CATALYST PROJECT-OCCUPY RESOURCE CENTER
[link no longer goes to Occupy resources page]
Catalyzing Liberation Toolkit: Anti-Racist Organizing to Build the 99% Movement
[link no longer available as of 10/7/15]
Showing Up for Racial Justice - Occupy Resources
[link no longer available as of 10/7/15]
General resources for white allies
Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies
Tools for White Guys who are Working for Social Change … and other people socialized in a society based on domination
Lessons From The Single-Payer State
An example of effective multiracial anti-racist organizing
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Critical views regarding people of color and the Occupy movement
Dear OWS: Welcome to Our World
Police brutality experienced by the movement is nothing new in the black community
How Occupy Wall Street Co-Opted The Million Hoodie March
Occupying Process, Processing Occupy: Spokes Council Musings by One POC
Private Danny Chen, and why I will never again reach out to OWS about something that matters to me
Making Room for Racial Justice in the People Power Exploding Around Us
Seven Occupy Wall Street Racial Justice Roadblocks
[link no longer available as of 10/7/15]
Brown Power at Occupy Wall Street! 9/29/11
SO REAL IT HURTS: Notes on Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street's Race Problem
Black History Month--do or Die? Wall Street and American Slavery, Then and Now
Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent
The occupation movement’s greatest challenge will be overcoming the deep distrust of white liberals by the poor and the working class, especially people of color.
Critical views by people of color: Recent history, now being repeated
(2000)
Where Was the Color in Seattle? Looking for reasons why the Great Battle was so white
(2003)
An Open Letter To Activists Concerning Racism In The Anti-War Movement
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