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Mandy Carter & Matt Meyer on Intersectional and Intergenerational Organizing Skills and Strategy
Listen to two renowned radical justice organizers, and coeditors of We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America, discuss strategies and challenges for successful movement-building in an era of ascendant white supremacy. Recorded live at Firestorm Books in Asheville, NC.
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John P. Clark’s Between Earth and Empire in Foreword Reviews
"The book is breathtaking in breadth, but there is a singular message: while humans brought the Earth to the brink, there remains hope that the planet and its creatures will be able to reassert themselves. May Clark’s sobering assessment of the current state of humanity’s relationship to the world be taken to heart."
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David Pilgrim's Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors:Stories from the Jim Crow Museum reviewed in Southern Literary Review
"This text serves to help each of us examine our own past, as well as the country’s. It plainly illuminates dark corners and raises awareness of the importance of sensitivity, listening, empathy, and truth-telling."
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Silvia Federici interview with Slutist On Witch Hunts, Body Politics & Rituals of Resistance
"My optimism comes from the fact that the surge of institutional violence today is a response to the worldwide growth of movements which know that capitalism is a cruel, destructive, unsustainable system. The new upsurge of violence against women (for instance) is due to the fact that in so many places women are leading the struggles. We have seen it not only in Latin America, but in the U.S. as well, at Standing Rock. Women are the ones who are fighting against fracking, to obtain better services in their communities, to keep alive their cultures and their children. So, we must see the other side of the repression. The wars, the tortures, the jails, the many forms of impoverishment that we see today across the world are a response to the fact that millions of people demand another society. But their struggles will grow no matter how much violence is unleashed against them."
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Ian Brennan, author of Silenced by Sound: Opening Our Borders, Embracing Diversity & Championing Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchange
"In this era of rising global xenophobia, now more than ever is a time not to fortify, but open our borders, embrace diversity, and champion cross-cultural artistic exchange for the diplomatic enrichment, heightened empathy, understanding, and cooperation that only it can bring."
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Jenny Brown on KPFA's Against the Grain radio with Sasha Lilley
The birthrate in the U.S. has hit a historical low, with fewer babies being born than that necessary to replace the existing population. Organizer Jenny Brown argues that that’s because the social support for women and families is so meager, that women have stopped having children or have reduced the number of kids they’re having. And this informal birth strike, she argues, has the business class worried — and points to a hidden source of power.
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Matthew N. Lyons, author of Insurgent Supremacists:
Some thoughts on fascism and the current moment
“We are living in a dangerous and frightening period in U.S. history. We have lived through two and half years of the most right-wing and authoritarian presidential administration in living memory. We’ve seen an upsurge of militant rightist forces with an array of repressive and supremacist agendas—alt-rightists, white nationalists, Patriot groups, Christian rightists, and others. And we’ve seen a rise in supremacist violence by the state and by forces outside the state—against immigrants and refugees, against people of color, against Muslims, against trans people, against Jews, and against others. So it makes sense that people have been talking about fascism, as we try to understand these threats and mobilize against them. This is what I want to focus on: How can we use the concept of fascism to better understand the current situation in the U.S., and to better organize to change it?"
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People's Music for the Soul. Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore's Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song CD reviewed in Counterpunch
"That imaginary scene describes the feeling one gets listening to the CD of Working-Class Heroes. It’s as if a political rally was in your stereo or whatever device you use to listen to music these days. Ideally, listening to it will get you just as fired up as if you were at such a rally."
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A review of Michael Fine's Abundance which discusses the chaotic Liberian civil war
"Fine’s excellent characters bring the human cost of the Liberian civil war home. He makes it real. He makes it personal. And he writes a tale worth reading."
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An overview of the work of Iain McIntyre and a review of his anthology, On the Fly! Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879-1941 from Labour History Melbourne
"Rich in humanity, On the Fly! is an enjoyable, moving, and instructive scholarly work of social history and of literature. It took years to research and put together, a fine example of passionate, methodical, time consuming, ‘slow’ research. Sadly, this is the sort of research and publication the modern neoliberal university, with its emphasis on metrics and the quick-fix treadmill production of publications, variously works to frustrate and prevent."
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