Full Description
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both state violence and environmental disaster.
The book is an assemblage of co-authored reflections, interviews and questions that are intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own journeys through the work of justice-making. It includes insights from a spectrum of experienced organizers, including Sharon Lungo, Carlos Saavedra, Ejeris Dixon, Barbara Ransby, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore about some of the difficult and joyous lessons they have learned in their work.
Contents
Foreword: Radicalization Is Vital by Maya SchenwarIntroduction: Remaking the World by Kelly HayesIntroduction: We Can Only Survive Together by Mariame KabaChapter 1: Beyond Alarm, toward Action
Chapter 2: Refusing to Abandon
Chapter 3: Care Is Fundamental
Chapter 4: Think Like a Geographer
Chapter 5: Rejecting Cynicism and Building Broader Movements
Chapter 6: "Violence" in Social Movements
Chapter 7: Don't Pedestal Organizers
Chapter 8: Hope and Grief Can Coexist
Chapter 9: Organizing Isn't Matchmaking
Chapter 10: Avoiding Burnout and Going the DistanceConclusion: Relationships, Reciprocity, and Struggle by Kelly HayesConclusion: Beyond Doom, toward Collective Action by Mariame KabaAfterword: Movements Make Life by Harsha Walia
