Anthropology 397RA - ST- Relational Organizing

This class brings together students and community members who are currently engaged in activist and organizing work to confront state violence, including: mass incarceration, the criminalizing of immigrants, policies that promote gentrification and displacement, and the school to prison pipeline, among others. The class is structured around a series of workshops and readings on critical organizing skills and concepts, as well as intentional relationship building between participants. The goals of the class are: 1) to create a space in which participants can explore more relational modes of organizing and build on their existing organizing experience, and 2) to deepen relationships between organizers and activists working across diverse communities in Western Massachusetts.