I’ve been restless since Thursday. A lot of other people have been too. We want to DO something about the fact that the FBI has revived its pursuit of Assata Shakur by adding her to its most wanted terrorist list and increasing the bounty for her capture.

I signed a petition demanding that the government re-investigate her case and exonerate her. What else is there to do?

So on Sunday, I put a question to my Facebook friends: “Would you host a teach-in about Assata in your home, workplace, house of worship, or community?” There was a lot of interest in the idea.

So in record time with the help of my friends Dara, Shonettia, and Nicole, there’s a site where anyone can sign up to host a teach-in about Assata’s life and case during the week of June 2 through 9, 2013.

On the Assata Teach-in site, you can fill out a form with relevant information about your planned teach-in, you can find a curriculum template for a youth teach-in and next week for an adult teach in. You can find resources about Assata’s life and her case.

Additionally, there’s a call for artists to submit posters with the message “Assata is (STILL) Welcome Here” in time for her birthday which is in July.

Anyone can participate in the week-long series of teach-ins this June either by hosting one or perhaps attending one. Anyone can participate in our attempt to replace the government’s billboard branding Assata as a terrorist with a poster welcoming her into our spaces instead.

I know that many have felt helpless and I hope that these actions are small ways to help us engage in solidarity work with each other and with Assata. I hold on to these words by Alice Walker, they serve guideposts for me:

“I have learned to accept the fact that we risk disappointment, disillusionment, even despair, every time we act. Every time we decide to believe the world can be better. Every time we decide to trust others to be as noble as we think they are. And that there might be years during which our grief is equal to, or even greater than, our hope. The alternative, however, not to act, and therefore to miss experiencing other people at their best, reaching toward their fullness, has never appealed to me.”

So I hope that you will choose to act. Please visit the Assata Teach-in site and share it with others who you think would be interested too.