📚 READING AS RESISTANCE Advanced Literacy Workshop Series 📍 The People’s House | Oakland, CA Join Dr. Rebecca Hall, author of Wake, for a powerful three-part Advanced Literacy Series focused on how to read deeply, think critically, and retain knowledge as a practice of resistance. Together, we will study Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, a foundational text that exposes how the transatlantic slave trade reshaped Africa, laid the groundwork for colonization, and dismantles the myth that colonialism brought anything other than destruction. As Rodney famously argued, they may have built roads, but they all led to the sea. This series is designed to strengthen your ability to engage complex nonfiction texts with clarity, discipline, and purpose. Workshop Breakdown Workshop 1 Introduction to the book and Dr. Hall’s Meta-Reading method Learn an effective annotation system to support retention and analysis Seminar-style discussion questions to guide engagement Workshop 2 Discussion of the first half of the book Active use of annotation methods Participants and Dr. Hall co-create discussion questions and explore additional meta-approaches to reading nonfiction Workshop 3 Discussion of the second half of the book Creative approaches to advanced nonfiction literacy Celebrate a new superpower 🗓 Sundays: February 1, February 15, and March 1 ⏰ 1:00–2:30 PM 📍 The People’s House 893 Willow St, Oakland This is a three-part series. The event is FREE, but participants will need to purchase the book. No one turned away for lack of funds. 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/ReadingAsResistance Reading is not passive. It is preparation. It is memory. It is resistance. #ReadingAsResistance #AdvancedLiteracy #PeoplesHouse #OaklandEvents #PoliticalEducation #BlackStudies #LiberationEducation #CommunityLearning #KnowYourHistory #MovementEducation