Description
When the Women’s March gathered millions just one day after Trump’s inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump’s election, bringing authoritarianism and the specter of neo-fascism, and intensifying corporate capitalism’s growing crises of inequality and injustices. Yet now we see a new universalizing resistance among progressive and left movements for truth, dignity, and a world based on democracy, equality, and sustainability.
Derber offers the first comprehensive guide to this new era and an original vision and strategy for movement success. He convincingly shows how only a new universalizing wave, a progressive and revolutionary "movement of movements," can counter the world-universalizing economic and cultural forces of intensifying corporate and far-right power.
Derber explores the crises and eroding legitimacy of the globalized capitalist system and the right wing movements that helped create the Trump era. He shows how left universalizing movements can--and must—converge to propel a mass base that can prevent societal, economic, or ecological collapse, stop a resurgent Right, and build a democratic social alternative. He describes tactics and strategies for thisnew progressive movement. Brief guest "interludes" by Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Bill Fletcher, Juliet Schor, Gar Alperovitz, Chuck Collins, Matt Nelson, Janet Wallace, and other prominent figures tell how to coalesce and universalize activism into a more powerful movement wave—at local, community, national, and international levels.
Vivid and highly accessible, this book is for activists, students, and all citizens concerned about the erosion of justice and democracy. It thoroughly illuminates the rationale, theory, practice, humanism, love, and joy of the social transformation that we urgently need.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
A PERSONAL PRELUDE:
INTRODUCTION: A CALL TO ACTION
PART I UP AGAINST THE WALL: THE UNIVERSALIZING CORPORATE SYSTEM AND THE APOCALPYSE
Chapter 1 THE SYSTEM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: THE MILITARIZED MATRIX VS US
Chapter 2 THE PAC-MAN SYSTEM: HOW IT IS UNIVERALIZING AND THREATENING EXTINCTION
Part II UNIVERSALIZING RESISTANCE
Chapter 3 IRRESISTIBLE RESISTANCE: THE GRASS ROOTS AND THE WAVES OF CHANGE
Chapter 4 MOVEMENT GPS: TEN RULES OF THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE
Chapter 5 FIGHT THE POWER, A.K.A THE SYSTEM: CHOOSE DEMOCRACY OVER AUTHORITARIANISM
Chapter 6 WIN THE MAJORITY: IT’S EASIER THAN YOU THINK
Chapter 7 Converge! GET OUT OF YOUR SILO
Chapter 8 DEMOCRATIZE THE WORLD: GLOBALIZE AND LOCALIZE
Chapter 9 PACHAMAMA: PROTECT MOTHER EARTH
Chapter 10 DON’T JUST SAY NO: SAY YES TO ALTERNATIVES
Chapter 11 CREATE MEDIA OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE: MOVEMENTS BEYOND PROPOGANDA
Chapter 12 LET’S GET POLITICAL: MOVEMENTS AND ELECTIONS
Chapter 13 THINK, Learn and teach: EDUCATION AS ACTIVISM
Chapter 14 CHOOSE LIFE AND LOVE: THE CULTURE OF ACTIVISM
PART III FROM VISION TO PRACTICE
Chapter 15 GRAND STRATEGY: ANSWERING THE BIG QUESTIONS
Chapter 16 WALKING THE TALK: NUTS AND BOLTS
