Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States

TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 11
PREFACE: IN THE WIND by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Andrej Grubacic......Page 16
FOREWORD:\rTHE WHIRLWINDS\rPROJECT IN CONTEXT\rby Marc Herbst......Page 28
INTRODUCTION\rSOWING RADICAL\rCURRENTS IN\rTHE ASHES OF\rYESTERYEAR:\rThe Many Uses of a Whirlwind\rby Team Colors Collective......Page 31
ORGANIZATION CASE\rSTUDIES......Page 45
BLUESTOCKINGS\rBOOKSTORE AND NEW\rINSTITUTIONS OF SELFORGANIZED\rWORK:\rThe Space Between Common\rNotions and Common Institutions\rby Malav Kanuga......Page 49
ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN ORGANIZING IN PRACTICE by Anonymous (Direct Action to Stop the War)......Page 67
A LOOK AT\rRESISTANCE TO\rINTERSTATE 69:\rPast, Present, and Future\rby Roadblock Earth First!......Page 77
THE PRECARIOUS\rECONOMY AND ITS\rDISCONTENTS:\rStruggling Against the Corporate Chains Through Workplace Organizing\rby The Starbucks Workers Union......Page 87
HARVESTING\rSOLIDARITY:\rFarmworkers, Allies, and the Fight for Fair Food\rby\rStudent Farmworker Alliance......Page 95
A CONVERSATION ON ORGANIZING MODELS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE STRUGGLES IN THE CITY by\rModerated by Betty Robinson / Introduction by John Duda......Page 109
WHAT\'S GOING ON? THE USSF, GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM, AND SITUATED KNOWLEDGE by Maria Karides (U. S. Social Forum Documentation Committee)......Page 115
BUILDING POWER IN THE CITY: Reflections on the Emergence of the Right to the CityAlliance and the National Domestic Workers Alliance by Harmony Goldberg......Page 127
MOVEMENT STRATEGIES......Page 139
LOCAL STRUGGLES,\rGLOBAL CONTEXTS:\rBuilding Movements in North America in the Age of Globalized\rCapital\rby Basav Sen......Page 143
YOU ARE WHAT YOU\rEAT:\rThe Food Sovereignty Struggle within the Global Justice Movement by\rJohn E. Peck (Family Farm Defenders)......Page 155
TOWARD A MOVEMENT\rFOR CLIMATE JUSTICE by\rBrian Tokar......Page 165
THE DESIRE HEAL:\rHarm Intervention in a Landscape of Restorative Justice and Critical\rResistance\rby Stevie Peace (Team Colors Collective)......Page 179
DIY POLITICS AND\rQUEER ACTIVISM\rby Benjamin Shepard......Page 193
ART AS INTERVENTION:\rA Guide to Today\'s Radical Art\rPractices\rby Julie Perini......Page 213
WHISTLING INTO THE\rTYPHOON:\rA Radical Inquiry Into Autonomous Media by\rDorothy Kidd......Page 229
GETTING TO KNOW\rYOUR CITY AND THE\rSOCIAL MOVEMENTS\rTHAT CALL IT HOME:\rThe Hybrid Networking and\rDocumentary Work of AREA\rChicago\rDaniel Tucker......Page 241
THEORETICAL ANALYSES......Page 253
TRANSATLANTIC\rTRANSLATIONS:\rDetectives and Researchers for the\rRevolution(s)\rby Maribel Casas-Cortes & Sebastian Cobarrubias\r(Producciones Translocales)......Page 257
ORGANIZING\rCOUNTERS AND\rGENERATING EVENTS\rby EI Kilombo Intergalactico & Michael Hardt......Page 275
LIVING IN A WHIRLWIND:\rThe Food/Energy/Work Crisis of 2008-09 by Brian Marks......Page 289
NOT THE\rFINANCIAL CRISIS:\rFrom Meltdown to Deep Freeze\rGeorge Caffentzis......Page 303
FEMINISM AND THE\rPOLITICS OF THE\rCOMMONS IN AN\rERA OF PRIMITIVE\rACCUMULATION\rby Silvia Federici......Page 313
PALLAS AND \"THE\rPEOPLE\'S BUSINESS\"\rby\rPeter Linebaugh......Page 325
RADICAL PATIENCE: Feeling Effective over the Long Haul by\rChris Carlsson......Page 335
INTERVIEWS......Page 345
CHALLENGING POWER\rAND CREATING\rNEW SPACES FOR\rPOSSIBILITY:\rA Discussion with Robin D.G. Kelley by Benjamin Holtzman......Page 347
WE CAN BEGIN TO TAKE BACK OUR LIVES: A Discussion with Ashanti Omowali Alston\rby Team Colors Collective......Page 361
THE POWER WITHIN\rUS TO CREATE HE\rWORLD ANEW:\rA Discussion with Grace Lee Boggs\rby Stevie Peace (Team Colors Collective)......Page 377
BIOGRAPHIES......Page 393
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 401
INDEX......Page 417