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	"title": "The Bleeding Heart of Africa, Session Four",
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	"description": "This is the fourth session of The Bleeding Heart of Africa. In this session, we will be discussing chapter 5 of Cobalt Red as well as chapters 17 and 20-22 of Andrée Blouin&#x27;s My Country, Africa. As someone who lived through these tumultuous events, Blouin&#x27;s perspective is absolutely crucial in understanding Congo&#x27;s transition to independence, as well as the brutal and violent suppression of their national liberation struggle. The Bleeding Heart of Africa is a reading group hosted by the NYC-DSA Anti-War Political Education Subcommittee that will discuss colonialism, neocolonialism, and resource extraction in Congo. The syllabus will be centered around the book Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara, and will also feature supplemental texts written by Andrée Blouin, Kwame Nkrumah, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and others. 75% of the world&#x27;s cobalt, an essential mineral used in every rechargeable battery, is mined in Congo under subhuman and exploitative working conditions. These brutal material realities are the latest manifestation of a violent colonial and neocolonial history, in which imperial powers have viciously exploited Congolese labor and natural resources at the expense of their political and economic sovereignty.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/events/the-bleeding-heart-of-africa-session-four"
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