TIMELINE
Once a month, 3-4 hours per meeting for discussion
Month 1 – introduction
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Expectations
Agreements
Personal histories/introductions
Primary Reading
 How to Fuck Up
http://portlytruestories.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-fuck-up.html
 Revolution in Conflict: Anti-Authoritarian Approaches to Resolving and Transforming
Conflict and Harm
http://zinelibrary.info/revolution-conflict-anti-authoritarian-approaches-resolving-andtransforming-conflict-and-harm
Month 2 – baseline
Primary Reading
 Gen 5 “Towards Transformative Justice” pg 1-31, intro, section one, section two.
Optional Reading
 "INCITE! Community Accountability Fact Sheet" (Page 83)
http://www.incite-national.org/media/docs/0985_revolution-starts-at-home.pdf
 Finding Ways Not To Call Police
http://imaginealternatives.tumblr.com/post/487334687/feeling-for-the-edge-ofyour-imagination-finding-ways
Month 3 – Baseline
Primary Reading
 Gen 5 “Towards Transformative Justice” pg 32-77, section three, conclusion and next
steps
Optional Reading
 "INCITE! Community Accountability Fact Sheet" (Page 83)
http://www.incite-national.org/media/docs/0985_revolution-starts-at-home.pdf
 Finding Ways Not To Call Police
http://imaginealternatives.tumblr.com/post/487334687/feeling-for-the-edge-ofyour-imagination-finding-ways
Month 4 – Complicated Nature of Violence and Power
Primary Reading
 Tod Augusta Scott – Dichotomies in the Power and Control Story and Letters from
Prison p 1-67 in zine As If They Were Human
http://zinelibrary.info/if-they-were-human-different-take-perpetrator-accountability
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Connie Burk – Gender and Violence Analysis: Considerations for IPV p 1-8
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N2FU7u223M67HQJPrt5JZMrVljBha7dQwDw5
Y8LreWY/edit?authkey=COD5tNAP
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It’s Down to This article - Safety is an Illusion: Reflections on Accountability
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20110109020717580
Optional Reading
 Rev @ Home book: The Secret Joy of Accountability: Self-accountability as a Building Block for
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Change / Shannon Perez-Darby, Seeking Asylum: On Intimate Partner Violence & Disability /
Peggy Munson
Other article from It’s Down to This
Month 5 – Case Studies
Primary Reading
 "Taking Risks: Implementing grassroots community accountability
strategies"(Page 64-79 in Revolution Starts at Home zine) by CARA
http://zinelibrary.info/revolution-starts-home-confronting-partner-abuse-activistcommunities
 INCITE!: Community Accountability Principles/Concerns/Strategies/Models (Working
Document)
http://www.incite-national.org/index.php?s=93
Optional Reading
 Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability
http://www.anarchapistemology.net/archives/18
Month 6 – Case Studies
Watch the documentary Hollow Water together as a group
http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=50027
Primary Reading
 Patricia Monture-OKanee: Thinking About Aboriginal Justice: Myths and Revolution
http://iportal.usask.ca/docs/purich/purich-12468.pdf
Month 7 – Case Studies
Primary Reading
 Give Me Back: Interview with Philly’s Pissed and Philly Stands Up (p 1-7)
http://www.phillyspissed.net/node/33
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Philly’s Pissed & Philly Stands Up Collected Materials (p 1-19)
http://www.scribd.com/full/3108714?access_key=key-233hntor7xmurvy1cd70
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A Stand-Up Start Up (p 1-15)
http://www.phillystandsup.com/PDFS/A%20Stand%20Up%20Start%20Up.PDF
Month 8 – Case Studies
Primary Reading
 Revolution Starts at Home book: I Am Because We Are: Believing Surivors & Facing
Down the Barrel of the Gun / Alexis Pauline Gumbs (UBUNTU); interviewed by Leah
Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
 Community United Against Violence, pages 4-8
http://www.cuav.org/media/docs/2411_CUAV_StrategicPlan2009.pdf
Month 9 – Case Studies
Primary Reading
 Dealing With Our Shit (as much as you want)
http://zinelibrary.info/dealing-our-shit-six-years-mens-group-and-accountabilitywork
 Revolution Starts at Home book: Accountability & Transformative Justice / Gaurav Jashnani, RJ
Maccani & Alan Greig (Challenging Male Supremacy Project)
Optional Reading
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Experiments in Transformative Justice by The Challenging Male Supremacy Project
http://zapagringo.blogspot.com/2010/06/challenging-male-supremacy-project.html
Month 10 – Alternative Models
Primary Reading
 Revolution Starts at Home Book: Making Our Stories Matter: The StoryTelling & Organizing
Project (STOP) / Rachel Herzing & Isaac Ontiveros
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StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP)
o Storytelling As Organizing: http://www.stopviolenceeveryday.org/stop2/stop-in-action
o Community Response to Racist Violence:
http://www.stopviolenceeveryday.org/a-community-response-to-racistviolence-phoebe/
o He Korero Iti, A Small Story: http://www.stopviolenceeveryday.org/hekorero-iti-%e2%80%93-a-small-story/
o Rachael’s Story: http://www.stopviolenceeveryday.org/rachaels-story/
o Friends Take a Car Out of Action:
http://www.stopviolenceeveryday.org/friends-take-a-car-out-of-action/
Month 11 – Alternative Models
Primary Reading
 Friends Are Reaching OUT (Northwest Network)
 NW Network Relationship skills curriculum
Month 11 – Alternative Models
Primary Reading
 Bystander Intervention articles