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. This will be our last session! We will be finishing the book, revisiting Ursula Le Guin's
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, reflecting on overall takeaways and discussing next steps.
75% of the world'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.
