Uses of a Whirlwind

Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States
Herausgeber: Meter, Kevin van; Peace, Stevie; Hughes, Craig

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview of contemporary American social movements-from the people who built them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781849350167
• ISBN-10: 1849350167
• Artikelnr.: 29941497

Autorenporträt

Craig Hughes: Craig Hughes is an anarchist, atheist, activist and independent researcher who currently lives in Washington, DC. Hughes is a member of the Executive Committee of the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network and has been involved in numerous organizing efforts since he became involved in punk and radical politics during the 1990s. He holds masters degrees in History, as well as Social Work and Community Organizing, for which he has to pay back a very large amount of money in loans. Stevie Peace: Stevie Peace (editor and contributor) is a writer and organizer from Shoreview, Minnesota. Peace was first interviewed by Team Colors through his work at the Common Ground Health Clinic in New Orleans, and now participates as the newest member of the collective. Peace continues his support for Black Liberation in the wake of Gulf Coast recovery through the Anti-Racist Working Group National Solidarity Network; he currently works for Restorative Justice Community Action in Minneapolis. Peace's writings have been published in AZiNe and Borderlands: Tales from Disputed Territories Between Races and Cultures. He is currently planning a compilation narrative project of Asian America's political recomposition and its potential sites of radical struggle. Kevin Van Meter: Kevin Van Meter is an organizer and researcher originally from Long Island and currently based in Portland, Oregon. Van Meter appears, along with Benjamin Holtzman and Craig Hughes, in the AK Press collection Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation, Collective Theorization, with an article titled "DIY and the Movement Beyond Capitalism”; and has written for a variety of radical publications and zines. Van Meter is finalizing a Masters Degree in Political Science, focusing on current political theory, everyday resistance and social movements, at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

A. Team Colors Collective, "Acknowledgements and Dedication"
B. Andrej Grubacic and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "Yet Unnamed Preface".
C. Team Colors Collective, "Radical Community Organizing to Make a
Revolution Possible" (Introduction).
D. Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst and Christina Ulke The Journal of Aesthetics
and Protest Press, "The Whirlwinds Project in Context".
E. Team Colors Collective "Section Summaries: Organizational Case Studies,
Movement Strategies, Theoretical Analysis, Interviews".
1. Malav Kanuga Bluestockings Books, Café and Activist Center,
"Bluestockings Bookstore and New Institutions of Self-Organized Work: The
Space between Common Notions and Common Institutions".
2. Direct Action to Stop the War, "Anti-Authoritarian Organizing in
Practice".
3. Roadblock Earth First!, "A Look At Resistance to Interstate 69 (Past,
Present, and Future)".
4. IWW Starbucks Workers Union, "The Precarious Economy and its
Discontents: Struggling Against the Corporate Chains Through Workplace
Organizing".
5. Student / Farmworker Alliance, "Harvesting Solidarity: Farmworkers,
Allies, and the Fight for Fair Food"
6. Marina Karides US Social Forum Documentation Committee, "What's Going
On? The United States Social Forum, Grassroots Activism, and Situated
Knowledge".
7. Harmony Goldberg, "Building Power in the City: Reflections on the
Emergence of the Right to the City Alliance and the National Domestic
Worker's Alliance".
8. Basav Sen, "Local Struggles, Global Contexts: Building movements in
North America in the age of globalized capital"
9. John Peck Family Farm Defenders, "You Are What You Eat: The Food
Sovereignty Struggle within the Global Justice Movement"
10. Brian Tokar, "Toward a Movement for Peace and Climate Justice"
11. Stevie Peace Team Colors Collective, "The Desire to Heal: Harm
Intervention in a Landscape of Restorative Justice and Critical
Resistance".
12. Ben Shepard, "DIY Politics and Queer Activism"
13. Julie Perini, "Art as Intervention: A Guide to Today's Radical Art
Practices"
14. Dorothy Kidd ("Yet Unnamed Chapter").
15. Daniel Tucker AREA Chicago, "Getting to know your city and the social
movements that call it home: The hybrid networking and documentary work of
AREA Chicago".
16. Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias, "Transatlantic
Translations: A Trilogy of Insurgent Knowledges"
17. Michael Hardt and El Kilombo Intergaláctico, "Organizing Encounters and
Generating Events".
18. Brian Marks, "Living in a Whirlwind, or the Food / Work / Energy
Crisis"
19. George Caffentzis, "Notes on the Financial Crisis: From Meltdown to
Deep Freeze"
20. Silvia Federici, "Feminism and the Politics of the Commons In an Era of
Primitive Accumulation"
21. Peter Linebaugh, "Pallas and the Peoples Business"
22. Chris Carlsson, "Radical Patience: Feeling Effective Over the Long
Haul"
23. Team Colors Collective and Benjamin Holtzman, "Challenging Power and
Creating New Spaces for Possibility: A Discussion with Robin D.G. Kelley"
24. Team Colors Collective, "Confronting Fear, Configuring the New: A
Discussion with Ashanti Omowali Alston".
25. Team Colors Collective, "A Special Time on the Clock of the World: A
Discussion with Grace Lee Boggs"
Y. Team Colors Collective, "Radical Community Organizing to Make a
Revolution Possible" (Conclusion).
Z. Biographies.