February 19th General Meeting Agenda

• Presentation
  • Imperial Policing: From Minneapolis to Palestine

• Business
  • Assata Shakur Book Club
    • Meet on Signal or Discord and read around the circle
    • Schedule weekly meetings (1 hour per session)
  • RSP Intensive Study Program (proposal)
    • Goals:
      • To develop the theoretical knowledge of participants as to be able to apply it in practice for the purpose of creating a well-developed communist organization in Peoria
      • To develop other practical skills in relation to organizing
      • Workload of ~2 hours of reading per week (asynchronous), weekly meetings discussing readings on call
      • Other practical skills (technology, public speaking, writing, etc.)
    • Time range: June to August/September
      • 16 weeks
      • Theory – the methodology
        • Philosophy - Dialectical materialism
        • Capital - Marx’s critique of the fundamental issues of capitalism
        • Class dynamics in the settler-colonial state (theory of settler-colonialism)
      • History - the substrate
        • Communism in general
        • USA
        • World history
      • Practical skills
        • How to talk to people
          • How to identify and build united fronts
          • How to manage conflicts, teambuilding/camaradie
          • Contradiction management
        • Website making, basic technological literacy
        • Public speaking
        • Writing (speeches, essays, etc.)
        • Research
        • Signmaking and graphic design
      • Organizing Committee
        • Social investigation pending warmer weather
        • Tabling at Bradley pending warmer weather

Slides