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It includes contributions – in the form of in-depth interviews, essays, and manifestos – by numerous artists and activists connected to straight edge, from Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat\/Fugazi) and Mark Andersen (\u003cem\u003eDance of Days\u003c\/em\u003e\/Positive Force DC) to Dennis Lyxzén (Refused\/The (International) Noise Conspiracy) and Andy Hurley (Racetraitor\/Fall Out Boy), from bands such as ManLiftingBanner and Point of No Return to feminist and queer initiatives, from radical collectives like CrimethInc. and Alpine Anarchist Productions to the Emancypunx project and many others dedicated as much to sober living as to the fight for a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"Perhaps the greatest reason I am still committed to sXe is an unfailing belief that sXe is more than music, that it can be a force of change. I believe in the power of sXe as a bridge to social change, as an opportunity to create a more just and sustainable world.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Ross Haenfler, Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi, author of Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, And Social Change “An 'ecstatic sobriety' which combats the dreariness of one and the bleariness of the other—false pleasure and false discretion alike—is analogous to the anarchism that confronts both the false freedom offered by capitalism and the false community offered by communism.” —CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e (born in Innsbruck, Austria, 1972) lives as an independent author and translator in Stockholm, Sweden. 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His publications with PM Press include \u003cem\u003eLife Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy \u003c\/em\u003e(2010), \u003cem\u003eSober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics\u003c\/em\u003e (editor, 2010), \u003cem\u003eGustav Landauer: Revolution and Other Writings\u003c\/em\u003e (editor\/translator, 2010), \u003cem\u003eErich Mühsam: Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings\u003c\/em\u003e (editor\/translator, 2011) and \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/soccer-vs-the-state-tackling-football-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Soccer vs. The State\"\u003eSoccer vs. The State\u003c\/a\u003e: Tackling Football And Radical Politics\u003c\/em\u003e (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Gabriel Kuhn\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-051-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 304 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175047835741,"sku":"9781604860511","price":32.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_472_straightedge3_0.jpg?v=1654987036"},{"product_id":"days-of-war-nights-of-love","title":"Days of War, Nights of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 292 heavily illustrated pages, our flagship book is the perfect size for any knapsack and the perfect reference manual for anyone seeking a life of passion and revolt. AK Press calls it \"an underground bestseller,\" but as it says in the preface: \"This book isn't designed to be used in the way a 'normal' book is. Rather than reading it from one cover to the other, casting perfunctory votes of disapproval or agreement along the way, and then putting it on the shelf as another inert possession, we hope you will use this as a \u003cem\u003etool\u003c\/em\u003e in your own efforts—not just to think about the world, but also to \u003cem\u003echange\u003c\/em\u003e it. This book is composed of ideas and images we've remorselessly stolen and adjusted to our purposes, and we hope you'll do exactly the same with its contents. \"As for the contents themselves: we've limited ourselves for the most part to criticism of the established order, because we trust you to do the rest. Heaven is a different place for everyone; hell, at least this particular one, we inhabit in common. This book is supposed to help you analyze and disassemble this world—what you build for yourself in it's place is in your hands, although we've offered some general ideas of where to start. Remember: the destructive impulse is also a creative one . . . happy smashing! Your ticket to a world free of charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Crimethinc.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 288 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Crimethinc\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Crimethinc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175061008477,"sku":"DOWNOL","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_731_daysnight3_0.jpg?v=1654987135"},{"product_id":"expect-resistance-a-field-manual","title":"Expect Resistance: A Field Manual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExpect Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e is not one but three books, each of which may be read as a complete work unto itself. The first book, printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into modern life and its discontents begun in \u003cem\u003eDays of War, Nights of Love\u003c\/em\u003e. Just as that book included improved versions of texts originally published between 1996 and 1999, this book draws on CrimethInc. material from 2000 to 2004, painstakingly refined and augmented with a great deal of new content. The second book, in red ink, is a composite account, related by three narrators, of the adventures and tribulations that inevitably ensue when people pursuing their dreams enter into conflict with the world as it is. Together these comprise a third book, an exploration of the complex relationship between ideals and reality. \u003cem\u003eExpect Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e is a field manual for a field on which all manuals are useless, a meditation on individual transformation and collective resistance in disastrous times, and a masterpiece that raises the bar for radical publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Crimethinc.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 344 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Crimethinc\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Crimethinc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175061696605,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_729_expectres3_0.jpg?v=1654987138"},{"product_id":"off-the-map","title":"Off the Map","description":"\u003cp\u003eA punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, \u003cem\u003eOff the Map\u003c\/em\u003e is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off on the winds of the world. Without the smug cynicism that seems to permeate most modern radical tales, this story is told with genuine hope, and a voice that never loses its connection with the mysteries of life, even in the midst of everyday tragedies. Wandering across Europe, the dozens of vignettes are the details of the whole—a squatted castle surrounded by tourists on the Spanish coast, a philosophizing businessman on the highways of France, a \u003cem\u003eplaça\u003c\/em\u003e full of\u003cem\u003e los crustos\u003c\/em\u003e in Barcelona, a diseased foot in a Belgian train squat, a glow bug on the dew-covered grass of anywhere—a magical, novel-like folktale for the end of the world. Featuring original artwork by Nikki McClure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Hib and Kika have actually made the generous leap from journal notes to fluid, intimate prose. 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One of the best books of this sort I have ever read.” —\u003cem\u003emicrocosm, customer review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Hib\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Kikka\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 144 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Crimethinc\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Crimethinc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175063564381,"sku":"OFFMAP","price":6.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_744_offthemap3_0.jpg?v=1654987151"},{"product_id":"rad-dad-dispatches-from-the-frontiers-of-fatherhood","title":"Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood\u003c\/em\u003e combines the best pieces from the award-winning zine \u003cem\u003eRad Dad\u003c\/em\u003e and from the blog \u003cem\u003eDaddy Dialectic\u003c\/em\u003e, two kindred publications that have tried to explore parenting as political territory. 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With grace and honesty and strength, \u003cem\u003eRad Dad’s\u003c\/em\u003e writers tackle all the issues that other parenting guides are afraid to touch: the brutalities, beauties, and politics of the birth experience, the challenges of parenting on an equal basis with mothers, the tests faced by transgendered and gay fathers, the emotions of sperm donation, and parental confrontations with war, violence, racism, and incarceration. \u003cem\u003eRad Dad\u003c\/em\u003e is for every father out in the real world trying to parent in ways that are loving, meaningful, authentic, and ultimately revolutionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Almond, Jack Amoureux, Mike Araujo, Mark Andersen, Jeff Chang, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeff Conant, Sky Cosby, Jason Denzin, Cory Doctorow, Craig Elliott, Chip Gagnon, Keith Hennessy, David L. Hoyt, Simon Knapus, Ian MacKaye, Tomas Moniz, Zappa Montag, Raj Patel, Jeremy Adam Smith, Jason Sperber, Burke Stansbury, Shawn Taylor, Tata, Jeff West, and Mark Whiteley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad\u003cem\u003e gives voice to egalitarian parenting and caregiving by men in a truly radical fashion, with its contributors challenging traditional norms of what it means to be a father and subverting paradigms, while making you laugh in the process. With its thoughtful and engaging stories on topics like birth, stepfathering, gender, politics, pop culture, and the challenges of kids growing older, this collection of essays and interviews is a compelling addition to books on fatherhood.” \u003c\/em\u003e—Jennifer Silverman, co-editor, \u003cem\u003eMy Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e“With a diverse, smart, and political collection of contributors, \u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad \u003cem\u003ewill be an instant classic among the new generation of parents whose parenting intersects with their politics. There's no way you can put this book down without feeling both inspired and entertained by the bold honesty and fierce love heard in these voices.”\u003c\/em\u003e —Jessica Mills, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad \u003cem\u003eis one of the most important voices on the planet—at once parental, political, feminist, humble, and full of heart. In \u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad\u003cem\u003e, none of our assumptions about parenting, gender, or the way things ‘have to be’ in the world go unexplored.” \u003c\/em\u003e—Ariel Gore, author of \u003cem\u003eBluebird: On Women and Happiness \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Hip Mama Survival Guide\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad\u003cem\u003e is a rattlebag of the rough-hewn and the polished, the insightful and the infuriating, the comic and the sublime. 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It's that simple.\"\u003c\/em\u003e —Tom Matlack, co-founder of The Good Men Project\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJeremy Adam Smith is the founder of the acclaimed blog \u003cem\u003eDaddy Dialectic\u003c\/em\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Daddy Shift\u003c\/em\u003e, and coeditor of \u003cem\u003eAre We Born Racist?\u003c\/em\u003e His essays, short stories, and articles have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMothering\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUtne Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWired\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous other periodicals and books. He lives in San Francisco. Tomas Moniz is the founder, editor, and a writer for the award-winning zine \u003cem\u003eRad Dad\u003c\/em\u003e . He has helped raise three children and has been making zines since the late nineties. 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Acknowledging these concerns, alternative perspectives on the game are explored, down to practical examples of egalitarian DIY soccer! \u003cem\u003eSoccer vs. the State\u003c\/em\u003e serves both as an orientation for the politically conscious football supporter and as an inspiration for those who try to pursue the love of the game away from television sets and big stadiums, bringing it to back alleys and muddy pastures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat People Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"There is no sport that reflects the place where sports and politics collide quite like soccer. Athlete-activist \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e has captured that by going to a place where other sports writers fear to tread. 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Unite the world through football, and reclaim sports!\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Minobu, Rage Football Collective (RFC), Japan “\u003cem\u003e\"Gabriel Kuhn illustrates compellingly how many radicals use soccer as a cathartic gas station, and how they integrate the game into their political beliefs and struggles. Has this to do with the game or with the people? The work ties both aspects together and is indispensable reading for those who want to know how important and how passionate activism in sports can be.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Gerd Dembowski, Bündnis aktiver Fussballfans (BAFF) \u0026amp; Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGabriel Kuhn was born in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1972. He was deeply immersed in soccer culture as a teenager, and became one of the country's youngest semi-professional players. 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Haight-Ashbury's gift economy—its free clinic, concerts, and street theatre—and Berkeley's liberated zones—Sproul Plaza, Telegraph Avenue, and People's Park—were embedded in a wider network of producer and consumer co-ops, food conspiracies, and collective schemes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing memoir and flashbacks, oral history and archival sources,\u003cem\u003eWest of Eden\u003c\/em\u003eexplores the deep historical roots and the enduring, though often disavowed, legacies of the extraordinary pulse of radical energies that generated forms of collective life beyond the nuclear family and the world of private consumption, including the contradictions evident in such figures as the guru\/predator or the hippie\/entrepreneur. There are vivid portraits of life on the rural communes of Mendocino and Sonoma, and essays on the Black Panther communal households in Oakland, the latter-day Diggers of San Francisco, the Native American occupation of Alcatraz, the pioneers of live\/work space for artists, and the Bucky dome as the iconic architectural form of the sixties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDue to the prevailing amnesia—partly imposed by official narratives, partly self-imposed in the aftermath of defeat—\u003cem\u003eWest of Eden\u003c\/em\u003eis not only a necessary act of reclamation, helping to record the unwritten stories of the motley generation of communards and antinomians now passing, but is also intended as an offering to the coming generation who will find here, in the rubble of the twentieth century, a past they can use—indeed one they will need—in the passage from the privations of commodity capitalism to an ample life in common.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"As a gray army of undertakers gather in Sacramento to bury California's great dreams of equality and justice, this wonderful book, with its faith in the continuity of our state's radical-communitarian ethic, replants the seedbeds of defiant imagination and hopeful resistance.\"\u003c\/em\u003e—Mike Davis, author of\u003cem\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003eMagical Urbanism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Utopias—we can't live without them, nor within them, for long. In\u003c\/em\u003eWest of Eden\u003cem\u003ewe see California, an earthly utopia, and the Sixties, a utopian moment, in full flower. Brave souls creating a heavenly host of communal spaces on the edge of America, hoping to break free of a world of capital, sexism, oligarchy, race. An amazing place and time that, for all its failures, changed the world—and which finally gets its due in this marvelous collection.”\u003c\/em\u003e —Richard Walker, UC Berkeley, author of\u003cem\u003eThe Country in The City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“There are a lot of versions of the sixties, and this is one that isn't stale or familiar, a book by a lot of good writers and original thinkers about how some much older ideas about the commons and the community were tinkered with, enlarged upon, turned into experiments that sometimes succeeded, sometimes failed, but left legacies that mattered. It's also a book about California's tendency to go experimental, idealistic, and eclectic, a fit successor to the classic\u003c\/em\u003eCalifornia's Utopian Colonies\u003cem\u003ethat looked at some of the great nineteenth-century experiments.”\u003c\/em\u003e—Rebecca Solnit, author of\u003cem\u003eStorming the Gates of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The counterculture—from the North Beach Parnassus to the underground press—and ‘the Movement’—from Marxists to anarchists—all of it depended on a magnificent base, and here it is described, magnificently: the Oakland breakfast program, the Alcatraz occupation, the Mime troupe, and pot farms, the communes, the collectives, the co-ops of California during the 1960s. On the lam? A bad trip? Burnt out? Cracking up? AWOL? Dropping out? Requiring metamorphosis? These could provide rural and urban alternatives to Cold War, patriarchy, speed-up, or death in the jungle. With roots in previous decades of struggle by trade unions, ethnic enclaves, religious breakaways, and nineteenth-century dreams, and with branches in the lore of our own contemporary foodways, child-rearing practices, decision-making and meeting protocols, sexual politics, and DIY culture, the California communards cleared the path. Both veterans and young folk, grey hairs and newbies will find beautiful memoire, authentic experience, and brilliant analysis in these pages\u003c\/em\u003eWest of Eden\u003cem\u003e.\"\u003c\/em\u003e—Peter Linebaugh, author of\u003cem\u003eThe Magna Carta Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\nIain Boal is an Irish social historian of science and technics, affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley and Birkbeck College, London. He is associated with the Retort group, and is one of the co-authors of Retort's\u003cem\u003eAfflicted Power: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War\u003c\/em\u003e(Verso). He co-edited with James Brook\u003cem\u003eResisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information\u003c\/em\u003e(City Lights), and is author of\u003cem\u003eThe Green Machine\u003c\/em\u003e(Notting Hill Editions), a brief planetary history of the bicycle.\u003cp\u003eJanferie Stone was a sojourner in two communes on the Mendocino Coast in the early 1970s. She has taught Native American Studies and anthropology at many levels of the California education system. Her essays have been published in\u003cem\u003eSustainable Feminisms: Advances in Gender Research\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003eFrom Rigor to Vigor: Transformations in the Field\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Watts is professor of Geography and Chair of Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught for over thirty years. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2003, he served as the Director of the Institute of International Studies from 1994–2004. His research focuses on food and energy security, rural development, and land reform in Africa, South Asia, and Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCal Winslow is a social historian, educated at Antioch College and Warwick University. He is co-author with Edward Thompson, Peter Linebaugh, and others of\u003cem\u003eAlbion’s Fatal Tree\u003c\/em\u003e. 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How do we create new, nonhierarchical structures of support and mutual aid, and include all ages in the struggle for social justice? There are many books on parenting, but few on being a good community member and a good ally to parents, caregivers, and children as we collectively build a strong all-ages culture of resistance. Any group of parents will tell you how hard their struggles are and how they are left out, but no book focuses on how allies can address issues of caretakers’ and children’s oppression. Many well-intentioned childless activists don’t interact with young people on a regular basis and don’t know how. Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind provides them with the resources and support to get started. Contributors include: The Bay Area Childcare Collective, Ramsey Beyer, Rozalinda Borcilă, Mariah Boone, Marianne Bullock, Lindsey Campbell, Briana Cavanaugh, CRAP! Collective, a de la maza pérez tamayo, Ingrid DeLeon, Clayton Dewey, David Gilbert, A.S. Givens, Jason Gonzales, Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia), Jessica Hoffman, Heather Jackson, Rahula Janowski, Sine Hwang Jensen, Agnes Johnson, Simon Knaphus, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e, London Pro-Feminist Men’s Group, Amariah Love, Oluko Lumumba, mama raccoon, Mamas of Color Rising\/Young Women United, China Martens, Noemi Martinez, Kathleen McIntyre, Stacey Milbern, Jessica Mills, Tomas Moniz, Coleen Murphy, Maegan ‘la Mamita Mala’ Ortiz, Traci Picard, Amanda Rich, Fabiola Sandoval, Cynthia Ann Schemmer, Mikaela Shafer, Mustafa Shakur, Kate Shapiro, Jennifer Silverman, Harriet Moon Smith, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Darran White Tilghman, Jessica Trimbath, Max Ventura, and Mari Villaluna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is mind-blowing, brilliant, and urgently needed! It is full of useful models and strategies for creating resistance that breaks down barriers to participation for children and people caring for children, and integrates deeply transformative commitments to building radically different activist culture and practice. This is a must-read for anyone trying to build projects based in collective action.” —Dean Spade, author of \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law\u003c\/em\u003e “Don't Leave Your Friends Behind is an essential resource for the interdependence revolution in progress. As a queer, chronically ill woman of color who loves and needs the parents and kids in my communities, I am hungry for these on the ground stories of how parents, allies, comrades, fam and friends are rewriting the world by refusing to hold mamas, papis and kids anywhere but at the center of our movements and communities, where we're supposed to be.” —Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, co-editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities\u003c\/em\u003e “Activist mothers Law and Martens propose that radical movements interested in winning must welcome parents and their children—the youngest rabble rousers. They have created a practical guide for us all to do just that, but with zero guilt trips and moralizing. \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/ruj3ab8u9u5qod9j-56208261213.shopifypreview.com\/products\/dont-leave-your-friends-behind-concrete-ways-to-support-families-in-social-justice-movements-and-communities\" title=\"Don't Leave Your Friends Behind\"\u003eDon't Leave Your Friends Behind\u003c\/a\u003e puts teeth into the slogan, Another World is Possible by showing us what a healthy left might look like.” —James Tracy, co-author of \u003cem\u003eHillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBlack Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times\u003c\/em\u003e \"A powerful mixture of self-help and literature, putting ‘family values’ in a new light and on the agenda of social justice movements. And it's not just self-help for radicals who are parents, but food for everyone who seeks to become their better, more compassionate selves.\" —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, activist, teacher, author of\u003cem\u003e Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years: 1960-1975\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVictoria Law is a mother, photographer, and writer. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award and earned her the 2011 Brooklyn College Young Alumna Award. Widely known as the grandma of the mama zine scene and a pioneer in the genre of radical parenting writing, China Martens raised her daughter as a single mother on welfare and working poor while continuing to put out The Future Generation, the longest-running parenting zine in the history of the Western world (1990 to the present). 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Whether riding side-saddle on the white bicycle of counter-cultural revolt or blasting off in a rocketship of creative resistance on a journey somewhere beyond the Milky Way to Paradiso, the jack-in-the-box historical moment of Provo comes alive again in these pages with inspiring adventures, explosive magic, free spirits, ludic interventions, and pataphysical solutions.” — Ron Sakolsky, author of \u003cem\u003eCreating Anarchy and Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Like my own community, the San Francisco Diggers, and our English counterparts spoken for by Alex Trocchi, [the radical seers in the Netherlands] felt commonly that “the coup du monde must be in the broad sense cultural.” This important book chronicles the prescience and remarkable vision of these Dutch cultural guerrillas, who had a much deeper permanent effect on their own culture than we did. I urge all those with the instincts of anarchism to read it. Those without those instincts should read it too.” — Peter Coyote, actor, author of \u003cem\u003eSleeping Where I Fall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Amsterdam, Magical center of the World and craziest town in Europe during the Sixties and Seventies! Assault on the Impossible leads you back to a thrilling episode of creative outbursts and turmoil. What went on in the city, and how did it influence the cul-tural and intellectual avant-garde? 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This collection is an indispensable guide to both preventing sexual violence and helping its survivors to heal. Includes a foreword by Kiyomi Fujikawa and Jenna Peters-Golden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whether or not you think you need it, whether or not you're a survivor, or dating a survivor, or even having sex, you would probably benefit from reading this book. And the people you choose to be intimate with will probably thank you for making their safety a priority.\" Nomy Lamm, SINS INVALID (in \u003cem\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eLearning Good Consent\u003c\/em\u003e ... offers powerful, complicated information (instead of shallow questions and uncomplicated answers). This book speaks to those who are unlearning silence as a safety\/communication strategy.\" Jen Cross, WritingOurselvesWhole.org (in \u003cem\u003emake\/shift\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Essential reading.\" Colin Atrophy Hagendorf, Support New York, and author of \u003cem\u003eSlice Harvester\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eWhat this book does is to stress consent: not 'no means no,' or even 'yes means yes,' but 'Do you want me to stay here with you?' 'Are you here?' 'I thought I wanted this, but I'm not sure now.' 'Do you think we should take this farther?' I'm moved that this book is here. 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Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together they cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, adrienne launches a new series of the same name with this volume, bringing readers books that explore experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today. 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Let this book be the best Valentine’s Day gift you’ve ever given yourself.\" —Laura Winnick, Vice\/Broadly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“adrienne maree brown dives deep, head first, into a fast swirling pool of pleasure-related topics. She swims her way from one end of the pool to the other with some help from her body-wise, experienced, friends. This book is all at once so cool, and so hot, with a rainbow of glorious compleXXXities. Pleasure Activism is bound to make a huge splash!” —Annie Sprinkle, author of \u003cem\u003eExplorer’s Guide to Planet Orgasm—For Every Body\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pleasure Activism is at heart a deeply personal collection of poems, interviews, artwork, and reflections curated and written by Brown to maximize pleasure and joy within our lives while also reducing trauma-induced pain, guilt, and shame.\" —Caitlin Isabella Laughney, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Engaging with politics and social justice issues, whether it's climate change, race, or gender, can feel like work (and it is). Adrienne maree brown makes the case that you can feel good while doing so ... [Pleasure Activism] will challenge you to rethink your approach to changing the world.” —Victoria Rodriguez, Mashable\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pleasure Activism is an invitation to know ourselves and be in conversation with the desire of our lustful imaginations... [I]t makes our personal liberation irresistible.\" —Jasmine Burnett, activist and anti-oppression consultant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"adrienne maree brown elucidates a philosophy of Pleasure Activism to transform individuals and so the world. Her explicit instructions encourage orgasms of the body, mind and spirit. First, in support of our own authentic lives, then so that we can live in loving community with others. It’s like a wise and juicy black goddess reopened Eden and said, 'Okay, everybody, let’s try this again.'\" —Veronica Vera, author \u0026amp; founder of Miss Vera’s Finishing School For Boys Who Want to Be Girls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pleasure Activism, as curated by brown, is a fitting example of the collective experience of love and the relationships that define every mass movement and whisper the most ancient wisdom about possibilities for a shared future.\" —Lorax B. Horne for \u003cem\u003eInterface: a journal for and about social movements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eadrienne maree brown is a writer rooted in Detroit who now lives in Durham, NC. She is a student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin. Some of her books include Octavia’s Brood, Emergent Strategy and We Will Not Cancel Us. Her visionary fiction has appeared in The Funambulist, Harvard Design Review, Dark Mountain, and YES! 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I’m convinced that if every person read her words, the world would be a much better place.\" —Liz Plank, journalist and executive producer of \u003cem\u003eDivided States of Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTurn This World Inside Out  \u003c\/em\u003eis doing something unique and visionary.” —Wayde Compton, Author of \u003cem\u003eAfter Canaan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Outer Harbour\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTurn This World Inside Out \u003c\/em\u003eis a must-have for educators, parents, counselors, and all members of the community who are working to transform structural harm.” —Agustina Vidal and Maryse Mitchell-Brody, The Icarus Project, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Nora Samaran\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849353588\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 136 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175304736861,"sku":"9781849353588","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/turnthisworld.jpg?v=1654988401"},{"product_id":"mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next","title":"Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAround the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nSurvival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout.  \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nWriting for those new to activism as well as those who have been in social movements for a long time, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e draws on years of organizing to offer a radical vision of community mobilization, social transformation, compassionate activism, and solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA teaching guide for Mutual Aid may be downloaded \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/v.versobooks.com\/Mutual_Aid_Teaching_Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e. A study guide for prison reading groups is available \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/v.versobooks.com\/Mutual_Aid_Prison_Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDean Spade is an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches courses on policing, imprisonment, gender, race, and social movements. Dean has spent over two decades working in social movements working to end prisons, borders, poverty, and war and support people trying to survive right now. In 2002, Dean founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and\/or people of color, and which operates on a collective governance model. Alongside his book \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law\u003c\/em\u003e, Dean's writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOut\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIn These Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSocial Text\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSigns\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“We need this book right now! This reads like a how-to manual for modern and future interdependence. Dean walks us through what mutual aid is, best practices, pitfalls, and helps us tap into the wisdom and potential of this strategy for surviving the crises we can anticipate and those that will surprise us. Read this and move from a scarcity\/charity mindset to one of abundant solidarity!” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNjkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\" title=\"adrienne maree brown\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePleasure Activism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I cheered after I read this book. Finally, we have an accessible mutual aid primer to ground our work in this current challenging yet invigorating moment. I’m giving copies of this book to everyone I know. You should too.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\" title=\"Mariame Kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, founder and director of Project NIA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Peter Kropotkin called mutual aid a ‘factor in evolution.’ The Black Panther Party called it ‘survival pending revolution.’ Dean Spade tells us that mutual aid is fundamental to making revolution. It is about building solidarity, preparing for battle, and creating a culture of collective care to displace the atomizing culture of individualism and the market. An indispensable guide for our moment, this book teaches us that effective social movements are impossible without mutual aid. Read every page. Carry it everywhere. Share it with everyone. Change everything.” Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003cem\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Urgently calling for radical creativity and transformative change, Spade invites readers to think critically about their roles in groups and liberation.” Heather Munao, \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eMutual Aid\u003c\/em\u003e] provides a useful framework of the meaning of mutual aid while explaining how it is an essential component to social transformation and solidarity movements.” Hannah May-Powers, \u003cem\u003eTulane Hullabaloo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Deftly exploring the grassroots theory of mutual aid and its role in social justice movements, Spade critiques the existing systems and the need to ‘fix’ people who are in need, as well offering actionable advice for activists.” Eve Upton-Clark, \u003cem\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Dean Spade\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781839762123\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 128 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175343435869,"sku":"9781839762123","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/mutualaid.jpg?v=1654988718"},{"product_id":"rebellious-mourning-the-collective-work-of-grief","title":"Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This intimate, moving, and timely collection of essays points the way to a world in which the burden of grief is shared, and pain is reconfigured into a powerful force for social change and collective healing.” Astra Taylor, author of \u003cem\u003eThe People’s Platform\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe can bear almost anything when it is worked through collectively. Grief is generally thought of as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lessen the power of the forces that debilitate us, while at the same time building the humane social practices that alleviate suffering and improve quality of life for everyone. Addressing tragedies from Fukushima to Palestine, incarceration to eviction, AIDS crises to border crossings, and racism to rape, the intimate yet tenacious writing in this volume shows that mourning can pry open spaces of contestation and reconstruction, empathy and solidarity. With contributions from Claudia Rankine, Sarah Schulman, David Wojnarowicz, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, David Gilbert, and thirty-two others. Also includes a 32-page color insert featuring artists like Jet Chalk, Oree Originol, Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Milstein\"\u003eCindy Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eAnarchism and Its Aspirations\u003c\/em\u003e, co-author of \u003cem\u003ePaths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor of the anthology \u003cem\u003eTaking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A primary message here is that from tears comes the resolve for the struggle ahead.” Ron Jacobs, author of \u003cem\u003eDaydream Sunset\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eRebellious Mourning \u003c\/em\u003euncovers the destruction of life that capitalist development leaves in its trail. But it is also witness to the power of grief as a catalyst to collective resistance.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In a time when so many lives are considered ungrievable (as coined by Judith Butler), grieving is a politically necessary act. This evocative collection reminds us that vulnerability and tenderness for each other and public grievability for life itself are some of the most profound acts of community resistance.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eUndoing Border Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our current political era is filled with mourning and loss. This powerful, intimate, beautiful book offers a transformative path toward healing and resurgence.” Jordan Flaherty, author of \u003cem\u003eNo More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The great Wobbly agitator, Joe Hill, famously told us, “Don’t mourn, organize!” But he was talking about the loss of hope and confidence that we can contribute to the struggles for justice, that it is a way of life, a culture of resistance. These essays by some of the most dedicated organizers among us today show that honoring and remembering—yes, mourning—actually strengthens our solidarity and vision. Cindy Mil- stein has created an essential and dynamic work.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states\" title=\"An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\"\u003eAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Grief is often regarded as one of those ‘negative emotions’ we simply have to ‘get through.’ But can it also be a process of sharing and learning, motivating us to make the world a better place? This book’s answer is a resounding yes!” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePlaying as If the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Political organizers, whose lives are devoted to ending the injustice that causes inordinate grief in others, too often dismiss our own grief as shameful or self-indulgent. But this beautiful collection of essays is a clarion call to turn and face the truth of our own sorrow—and its power, as editor Cindy Milstein writes, to “open up cracks in the wall of the system.” Here, thinkers, organizers, and artists, from Ferguson to Appalachia to Fukushima to Oaxaca to maximum-security prisons, share their lives, their work, and the various ways in which acknowledging grief—that unavoidable leveler of souls—can allow despairing, isolated peoples to rise together as one.” Susie Day, author of \u003cem\u003eSnidelines: Talking Trash to Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This groundbreaking anthology offers access to diverse experiences of what it feels like to grieve for those we’ve lost, within the context of all-too-often-deadly systems of global hegemonic control.... \u003cem\u003eRebellious Mourning \u003c\/em\u003erepresents an indispensable road map by which those of us grieving many kinds of losses might find our way back to generative struggle, during a time when the Left so urgently needs new sites for building connection.” Kathleen McIntyre, editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Worst\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Like songs of sorrow sung together, or laughing in pain and survival around a campfire, this book leaves us whole, grounded, ready for movement, as grief shared in connection should.” Cindy Crabb, author of \u003cem\u003eLearning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175357427805,"sku":"9781849352840","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/rebellious_mourning_rgb_1.jpg?v=1654988841"},{"product_id":"holding-change-the-way-of-emergent-strategy-facilitation-and-mediation","title":"Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating the ease necessary to help us move through the inevitable struggles of life? How do we practice the art of holding others without losing ourselves? Black feminists have answers to those questions that can serve anyone working to create changes in our world, changes great and small; individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHolding Change\u003c\/em\u003e is about attending to coordination, to conflict, to being humans in right relationship with each other, not as a constant ongoing state, but rather as a magnificent, mysterious, ever-evolving dynamic in which we must involve ourselves, shape ourselves and each other. The majority of the book is sourced from brown’s twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work with movement groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes contributions by Autumn Brown, Sage Crump, Malkia Devich-Cyril, Ejeris Dixon, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Prentis Hemphill, Micky ScottBey Jones, N’Tanya Lee, and Makani Themba\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNjkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\" title=\"adrienne maree brown\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e is powerful both as a healer and as a thought leader. Her revelatory work, \u003cem\u003eHolding Change\u003c\/em\u003e, arrives at the intersection of activism and whole-wellness, at a time when the world needs it most. \u003cem\u003eHolding Change\u003c\/em\u003e is about improved communication, achieving conflict resolution, and making space for others while still holding one’s self in high regard. A necessary and mighty tool.” Patrisse Khan Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and NYT bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWhen they Call You a Terrorist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“adrienne maree brown is not an outsider looking into movement work but a weaver who has committed her life to our collective liberation ... She helped us advance our structure, systems, and vision in ways that allowed us to stay grounded in our north star. She is a master adapter and a gift to the movement.” Karissa Lewis, Rising Majority\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Adrienne is the most powerful, insightful facilitator I have ever had the privilege to witness, let alone work with ... Her technique is a powerful demonstration of how strong, innovative facilitation has the ability to help leaders build visionary movements.” Thenjiwe McHarris, Blackbird and Movement for Black Lives\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eadrienne maree brown is the author of \u003cem\u003eEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/pleasure-activism-politics-feeling-good\"\u003ePleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/we-will-not-cancel-us-and-other-dreams-transformative-justice\"\u003eWe Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e; co-editor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/octavias-brood-science-fiction-stories-social-justice-movements\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOctavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e; cohost of the podcasts How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables; and founder of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: adrienne maree brown\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849354189\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 198 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175371681885,"sku":"9781849354189","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/holdingchange_0.jpg?v=1654988937"},{"product_id":"when-to-talk-and-when-to-fight-the-strategic-choice-between-dialogue-and-resistance","title":"When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen to Talk and When to Fight\u003c\/em\u003e is a conversation between talkers and fighters. It introduces a new language to enable negotiators and activists to argue and collaborate across different schools of thought and action. Weaving beautiful storytelling and clear analysis, this book maps the habits of change-makers, explaining why some groups choose dialogue and negotiation while others practice confrontation and resistance. Why do some groups seemingly always take an antagonistic approach, challenging authority and in some cases trying to tear down our systems and institutions? Why are other groups reluctant to raise their voices or take a stand, limiting themselves to conciliatory strategies? And why do some of us ask only the first question, while others ask only the second?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThreaded among examples of conflict, struggle, and change in organizations, communities, and society is the compelling personal story that led Subar to her community of practice at Dragonfly, advising leaders in social justice organizations on organizational and advocacy strategy. With lucid charts and graphs by Rosi Greenberg, \u003cem\u003eWhen to Talk and When to Fight\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant new way of talking about how we change the world. In his foreword, Douglas Stone, coauthor of the international best-seller \u003cem\u003eDifficult Conversations\u003c\/em\u003e, makes the case that negotiators need this language. In a separate foreword, Esteban Kelly, cofounder of AORTA Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance, explains why radicals and progressives need it. If you are a change-maker, you will soon find yourself speaking this language. Be one of the first to learn it. Read this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Rebecca Subar’s rich personal background and distinguished career advising political negotiators, organization-builders, and movement strategists have positioned her as one of the world’s leading voices on conflict management. Here Subar combines profound insights from both practitioners and theoreticians, offering her readers invaluable paradigms on conflict transformation. \u003cem\u003eWhen to Talk and When to Fight\u003c\/em\u003e is the book many of us having been waiting for!” Sa’ed Atshan, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies, Swarthmore College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This is an emotionally and intellectually engaging masterpiece about lovers and fighters. It makes clear that the defining connection between talking and fighting is that the fight for policy change and passionate dialogue must both exist to change a narrative of trauma and injustice. This is a must-read.” Shawanna Vaughn, antiviolence and criminal justice activist with Silent Cry Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWhen to Talk and When to Fight\u003c\/em\u003e brilliantly bridges the worlds of bargaining-table negotiation and social movement power building. Rebecca Subar creates an original framework for understanding why the two approaches are often in tension with one another and how—when coordinated skillfully—they can be used together. A writer who is both a ‘peacemaker and provocateur,’ Subar fills her book with illuminating stories and narrates with a wonderfully engaging personal voice, making the reading at once absorbing and enlightening.” Mark Engler, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThis Is an Uprising\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Rebecca Subar’s book is a powerful and important exploration of the tensions between challenging unjust centers of power and negotiating our terms of victory. This book has forced me to ask tough questions about both the social justice strategies I am comfortable with—and the strategies I need to get more comfortable with to be the most effective human rights advocate possible.” Sunjeev Bery, Executive Director, Freedom Forward\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eWhen to Talk and When to Fight\u003c\/em\u003e, Subar argues against black-and-white binaries and promotes the validity of different strategies depending on the mix of personal and community styles, principles and values, structural obstacles and biases, and the power dynamics between the opposing parties in a constantly churning and contradictory society. Subar’s style is engaging and challenging, a smart ‘how-to’ book that is grounded in a deep personal understanding of social struggle and political advocacy.” Alice Rothchild, author of \u003cem\u003eCondition Critical: Life and Death in Israel\/Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRebecca Subar taught Peace and Conflict Studies at West Chester University from 2005 to 2019. She is a senior partner at Dragonfly, where a multiracial band of consultants supports organizations that make social change. She has coached leaders of political advocacy groups large and small on their race consciousness, their organization’s growth, and their strategy for changing the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRosi Greenberg is a graphic facilitator and leadership trainer. She holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School and works with C-suite executives, community organizers, nonprofits, philanthropists, youth groups, political campaigns, and more, helping them to connect deeply and make creative, systemic change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEsteban Kelly is the executive director for the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and a founding member in AORTA, a worker-owned co-op whose facilitation supports organizations fighting for social justice and a solidarity economy. He received a Social Innovation Award for Public Policy and is an advisor to the Movement for Black Lives policy table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDouglas Stone has taught negotiation and conflict management at Harvard Law School since 1993. 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It is written for everyday people: survivors, people who caused harm, and friends or family who want to help without turning to the police or state services. Community-based interventions build on friendships, family connections, and caring relationships rather than policing and punishment. While friends and family are often the “first responders” to violence, many have lost basic tools to end and prevent violence. 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The Rape Documentary and editor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/love-accountability-digging-roots-child-sexual-abuse\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove With Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Instead of writing about transformative justice as a theoretical nice idea, \u003cem\u003eThe Creative Interventions Toolkit\u003c\/em\u003e is packed with tools and readings to work through the real deal of interrupting violence without the cops ... In a bold time when we are closer than ever to making abolition and defunding police and prisons real, this toolkit is more necessary than ever.” Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarahinsa, co-editor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/beyond-survival-strategies-and-stories-transformative-justice-movement\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Creative Interventions Toolkit \u003c\/em\u003eis one of the clearest and most practical resources to build transformative justice and community accountability skills that our movements have...If you want to deepen your practice, through one resource, start here.” Ejeris Dixon, Co-editor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/beyond-survival-strategies-and-stories-transformative-justice-movement\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Creative Interventions Toolkit\u003c\/em\u003e is the in-depth practical guide that people looking to come together to support people experiencing violence need. 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This is a collective story of trans women of color, who were sex workers and radical political organizers, who created shared housing to ensure that young people had safe places to sleep. It is the story of clean syringes, \"liberated\" from empathetic doctors’ offices by activists who were punk women of color who distributed them among injection drug users in squats in the East Village, and the early AIDS activists who made sure that everyone knew how to use them. It is the story of Black Panthers and the Young Lords taking over Lincoln Park Hospital in the Bronx to demand and ultimately create community-accessible drug treatment programs; and of bad date sheets passed between sex workers in Portland, who created a data collection tool that changed how prison abolitionists track systemic violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a political moment when Liberatory Harm Reduction and mutual aid are more important than ever, this book serves as an inspiration and a catalyst for radical transformation of our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e. Introduction by Tourmaline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Saving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is rooted in Shira Hassan’s extensive experience and commitment to harm reduction as a liberatory practice. This is a book grounded in deep love for those who are most marginalized in our society and respectfully documents their stories and emancipatory analyses. This open-hearted book is illuminating, informative and inspiring. It will have a forever place on my bookshelf.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Do This 'Til We Free Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"This vital book is a spark, a balm, an agitation, a blessing, a celebration. Through narrative and research and conversation and reflection, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e tears down the myths perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex and prison-industrial complex, and shows us how communities have been building ways to survive and heal in spite of--and against--these systems. Shira Hassan’s book is at once expansive and personal, far-reaching and like coming home. I'm going to return to it again and again, and you will too.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaya Schenwar, co-author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison by Any Other Name \u003c\/em\u003eand editor-in-chief\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Truthout\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"Grounded, brilliant, and generous - \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction\u003c\/em\u003e offers key tools, histories, testimony and analysis to deepen our everyday work to support ourselves and our beloved communities. As always, deep gratitude to the visionary Shira Hassan for this luminescent collection, resplendent with the power to shift hearts and minds. A must read for organizers, educators and all of us working to do more than struggle and survive.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/erica-r-meiners\"\u003eErica R. Meiners\u003c\/a\u003e, co-author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolition-feminism-now\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition. Feminism. Now.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"This brilliantly moving book - at once a generous love letter to our freedom movements and an urgent demand for radical transformative work - will inspire readers not only to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethink\u003c\/em\u003e about harm reduction differently, but to actually \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elive\u003c\/em\u003e in ways that reflect a commitment to its liberatory potential. Shira Hassan has brought together an amazing chorus of voices that includes freedom fighters, political educators, cultural workers, BIPOC leaders and disability justice activists whose analyses and reflections offer exactly the kind of collective wisdom and encouragement that we need right now. Indeed, the possibility of a radical queer abolitionist future is closer because of Shira Hassan has so beautifully helped us understand the potential for freedom when we engage in a process of saving our own lives.\"\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eBeth Richie, co-author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolition-feminism-now\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition. Feminism. Now.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Saving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most important books that I have read in a long time. Shira Hassan defines and emphasizes the necessary intersections of multiple growing movements for reproductive justice, transformative justice, disability justice, anti-criminalization of sex work, healing justice, and abolition. This is the first book that has explicitly brought our movements together to highlight the importance of our shared analyses and commitments. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is also a tribute to leaders, organizers, care workers, and icons who have long been at the forefront of liberatory struggles, but have been historically neglected or deemed disposable by mainstream and leftists movements. This book weaves together painful stories, astute political insights, research, theory, and lived experiences to remind readers of the importance of community and our commitments to one another. For those of us who have been at the outskirts of multiple spaces and places, this is a guide, an affirmation book, a welcomed mirror, an entire embrace. This book reminds us that the power has always been with us and it welcomes everyone else to learn from and to join us.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConnie Wun, co-founder of AAPI Women Lead\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e“With \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, Shira Hassan has yet again provided an immensely practical, grounded, inspiring, indispensable tool for our struggles. This book will introduce a whole new generation of organizers who got involved in anti-police mobilizing and COVID mutual aid projects to the history, principles and practices of liberatory harm reduction, which are essential for ensuring this work resists paternalistic charity dynamics, brings everyone along, and actually builds the new world we need rather than just tinkering with the broken institutions that currently dominate us. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is packed with compelling stories that show what liberatory harm reduction is and what it can do, and what tensions surround its practice that need to be attended to with care by its practitioners. Shira shares her particular wisdom, gleaned from years of practice in communities most harmed by policing and coercive social services and healthcare models, showing paths forward that generate community-based solutions that we can all start working on right now. This book is easy to read, and ready to inspire us all as we take the difficult and urgent next steps confronting the unfolding crises of our times.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is a courageous, insightful, and vulnerable offering from Shira Hassan, pulled from three decades of her life and movement history. Part narrative of how she saved her own life along with many others, part handbook on how practicing harm reduction creates liberatory and resilient movements, and part history lesson illustrating the role that harm reduction has played for decades past and decades to come. This book is an essential read, as oppressed communities are co-figuring how to survive these times together.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEjeris Dixon, Executive Director of Vision Change Win\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"As someone who has had the privilege of learning from Shira Hassan and her community of liberatory harm reductionists, I know what an incredible gift it is that now the rest of the world can too. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e fiercely reclaims the roots of harm reduction in disabled, Indigenous, Black, queer, trans, sex working, drug using, and migrant communities, and challenges conventional wisdoms around treatment, service provision, violence, trauma, survival, resilience, empowerment, and change in ways that are absolutely essential in the current moment, and to build the futures we want. Whether we are looking for lessons on how to tackle the opioid crisis, interrupt and heal from violence, or ensure reproductive justice for all, the chorus of voices gathered in this volume offer incisive, insightful, and practical real talk from the frontlines. Simultaneously irreverent and serious as a heart attack, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e tells it like it is and as it needs to be if we are all going to survive what is unfolding now and what is to come.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAndrea J. Ritchie, Interrupting Criminalization and co-author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo More Police: A Case for Abolition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Saving Our Own Lives \u003c\/em\u003eis truly a priceless gift to the world. Each chapter or revolutionary love note recounts the beautiful, brilliant, and, at times, painful histories of the family of Black, Indigenous and People of Color organizers, people in the sex trade, sex workers, young people, queer people, trans people, and those whose street-based strategies for survival and love created what we now know as 'harm reduction.' There are so many lessons on each and every page, all exquisitely written to document stories that we should already know and principles of liberation that we should be practicing every day. This book should be read page by page by everyone and held close at hand for constant reminders of those to whom we owe so much. Shira Hassan in collaboration with her revolutionary harm reduction family has created an incredible book that has such relevance to our continued co-creation of a liberatory abolitionist future.\u003ci\u003e\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMimi Kim, founder of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/creative-interventions\"\u003eCreative Interventions\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40640237011037,"sku":"9781642598414","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/savingourownlives9781642598414-f_medium-a2a959ebbdc14bb9f352fb250c742d62.jpg?v=1666804172"},{"product_id":"radical-happiness-moments-of-collective-joy","title":"Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular culture encourages us to think of happiness as a human right, misery is abundant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSegal believes we have lost the art of “radical happiness”—the liberation that comes with transformative, collective joy. She argues that instead of obsessing about our own well-being we should seek fulfilment in the lives of others. Examining her own experience in the women’s movement, Segal looks at the relationship between love and sex, and the scope for utopian thinking as a\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003csmall data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e means to a better future. She also shows how the gaps in care that come from the diminishing role of the welfare state must be replaced by alternative ways of living together and looking after one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this brilliant and provocative book, Segal proposes that the power of true happiness can only be discovered collectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The socialist feminist we need to listen to right now. Her book is an important one because we need ‘a politics of hope’ like never before.” \u003cb\u003eEmma Rees, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eRadical Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately arrives at a convincing argument about our need to overcome the now-common tendency to view dystopian thinking as a political act in and of itself … If happiness is ‘not so much an emotion, a psychic state or inner disposition, but rather a way of acting in the world,’ then so is the path to real social change. It is defined not by a list of demands, but by a commitment to the common good. A feminism that’s about showing up for each other and not merely ourselves: how radical.” \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Shane, \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An expansive and contemplative exploration of love, joy, desire, and the concepts surrounding Utopias, all of which find the author navigating human psychology, sociology, societal mores, and the economics of happiness. A calm, refreshing breath of fresh air in a dangerously uncertain moment in human history.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An engaging, enlightening read for anyone who wants to ponder the links between personal dissatisfaction and political disengagement—and possible remedies. The idea of collective happiness as the root of much satisfaction is simple, but deceptively hard to write about, let alone achieve. Segal succeeds in inspiring on many levels.” \u003cb\u003eIsabel Berwick, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRadical Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately arrives at a convincing argument about our need to overcome the now-common tendency to view dystopian thinking as a political act in and of itself.” \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Shane,\u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A vital intervention that draws on on a wide range of radical thinkers to offer a real breadth and depth of perspectives in an accessible read. 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It’s an incisive look at another facet of politics and society.” \u003cb\u003eTobias Carroll, \u003ci\u003eSignature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40743367180381,"sku":"9781786631558","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/radicalhappiness9781786631558-7dc78e9ebe238a070b623dc076853b56.jpg?v=1669324955"},{"product_id":"practical-anarchism-a-guide-for-daily-life","title":"Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBring out your inner anarchist!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom relationships to school, work, art, even the way you organize your time, anarchism can help you find fulfillment, empathy, and liberation in the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may not realize it, but you are probably already practicing anarchism in your daily life. From the small questions such as 'where should I shop?' to the big ones like 'how do I love?', Scott Branson shows that anarchism isn't only something we do when we vote, protest, or read the news. With practical examples enriched by history and theory, the tips will empower you to break free from the consumerist trappings of our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnarchism is not just for white men, but for everyone. In reading this book, you can detach from patriarchal masculinity, norms of the family, gender, sexuality, racialization, individual responsibility, and the destruction of our planet, and replace them with ideas of sustainable living, ties of mutual aid, and the horizon of collective liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eScott Branson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eis a queer and trans writer, translator, teacher, artist, and anarchist organiser, living in Western North Carolina. They translated Guy Hocquenghem's second book, \u003cem\u003eGay Liberation After May 68\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as Jacques Lesage De La Haye’s \u003cem\u003eThe Abolition of Prison\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-edited \u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies\u003c\/em\u003e. They are also a frequent co-host on the anarchist podcast \u003cem\u003eThe Final Straw Radio\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"A joyful rethinking of anarchism. Branson draws on a wealth of cutting-edge theory and the messiness of activism to illuminate new ways to transform society. The result is a practical guide to everyday revolutions. A real treasure.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eAlex Prichard, author of \u003cem\u003eAnarchism: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Clever and inspiring! Branson's brilliant method of weaving together our collective and individual lives alongside our most complex relationships with the systems that we are part of is truly refreshing and ground-breaking. I feel that I and many other radicals have walked the edges of so many of these conversations that Branson has skilfully and necessarily busted open.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e carla joy bergman, editor of\u003cem\u003e Trust Kids\u003c\/em\u003e and co-author of \u003cem\u003eJoyful Militancy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Steeped in knowledge of Black and queer feminisms and decolonial struggles against the state, 'Practical Anarchism' is a powerful guide to the collective manufacture of utopia now.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sophie-lewis\" title=\"Sophie Lewis\"\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAbolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Presents clear, astute critiques of work, school and the destruction of community in capitalism and serves as a handbook for liberation, both optimistic and intensely motivating.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-kinna\" title=\"Ruth Kinna\"\u003eRuth Kinna\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Time and time again, anarchists have been involved in improving social relationships, empowering dispossessed and marginalised communities, and supporting struggles on the right side of history. In this highly readable and passionate book, Scott Branson sheds a light on many examples of everyday anarchist engagement.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSoccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"This brilliant book is an antidote to giving up. Weaving practical advice alongside women of colour, queer activists, abolitionists and more, Branson offers us a beautiful reminder that we do anarchism everyday - through care, through imagining, through loving - against and in spite of the state.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Raechel Anne Jolie, author of \u003cem\u003eRust Belt Femme\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"An anarchist kaleidoscope, inviting us to shake up this world and see the endless array of beautiful possibilities that are already present in the here and now. This book - tender, dreamy, actionable - inspires us to pick up all the sparkly, even if sometimes jagged, edges of daily life that too often go unnoticed and toss them, time and again, into utopian play.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Barukh Milstein\"\u003eCindy Barukh Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eTry Anarchism for Life: The Beauty of Our Circle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Deftly and joyfully shows us that lives lived with compassion and collective autonomy in the engagements we call anarchy have practical applications in our everyday living.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTY5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/scott-crow\" title=\"scott crow\"\u003escott crow\u003c\/a\u003e, insurgent, author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"contents\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Am I Already Doing Anarchy?: Anarchy On and Off the Streets\u003cbr\u003e2. Are Relationships Even Possible?: Anarchy at Home\u003cbr\u003e3. You Call this Living?: Anarchy on the Job\u003cbr\u003e4. Can I Relearn That?: Anarchy in School\u003cbr\u003e5. How Do We Pay for It?: Anarchy in your Wallet and in the Market\u003cbr\u003e6. Can We Still Enjoy Ourselves?: Anarchy and Art\u003cbr\u003e7. Who Will Fix the Roads and Collect the Trash?: Anarchy in your Neighbourhood\u003cbr\u003e8. When Will It End?: Anarchy, Time, and the World\u003cbr\u003eCoda: No Place, or Living a World Without a State\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40763920416861,"sku":"9780745344928","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745344928.jpg?v=1671472750"},{"product_id":"liberated-to-the-bone-histories-bodies-futures","title":"Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. 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By showing how these approaches are intricately connected—physically and emotionally—Raffo interrupts the traumatic binaries of the political and spiritual, the physical and intellectual, and healing and organizing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book speaks to the relationships we need for our collective liberation. This is a vibrant, complex and a veritable feast for our hunger, our hearts, our collective spirits and breath. Raffo speaks to our kin and asks us to shape our relationships to earth, to bodies, to histories, and transformation. Her words are a path toward shedding our fears and building new cosmologies for connection and healing. This book is medicine as necessary as blood, as bone, as air, as seeds, as water is to our collective memories and futures.\" —Cara Page, Cultural Worker\/Organizer, co-founding member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is much talk in Indian Country about decolonizing our minds. Raffo has set readers on a path to decolonizing our bodies, our entirety. Unlearning, learning, and 'being' ourselves into healing from seven generations of dis-ease. And doing so willingly and ably in community—doing this together, collectively, for the better of the whole. Miigwech, Susan.\" —Marcie Rendon, author of \u003cem\u003eCash Blackbear Mysteries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading Susan Raffo is like coming home to what we know is true and didn't quite know how to say. Her essays move us inward and forward. She grounds us in deep and ancient love and calls us to claim our own version, a fierce invitation to ourselves and each other. She teaches a poetry of belonging, she urges us to sacred truth, she offers such grace, all grounded in the imperative to heal into our mutual liberation. This book is a balm of truth telling, the kind we all long for and rarely find in our current culture of fear and denial. The truth will set us free and Susan Raffo's book offers us a pathway into a kind of knowing that we desperately need and is long overdue. I am full of gratitude for Susan and her wisdom.\" —Tema Okun, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor Has No Clothes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Susan shows us how intergenerational memories are alive in our cells. How the longings for love and justice are calling to us from our bodies. She weaves together embodied healing and organizing for liberation, revealing it as one cloth. This book will usher you into radical practices for freedom.\" Staci K Haines, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Trauma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book literally feels like lifeblood to me as a survivor, an activist, a writer, and a white person unlearning whiteness. We need Susan Raffo's stories, wisdom, and questions as we inch toward liberation. With brilliance, compassion, and ferocity, Liberated to the Bone helps connect us to our bodyminds, to each other, and to liberatory strategies.\" —Eli Clare, author of \u003cem\u003eBrilliant Imperfection\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSusan Raffo is a writer, cultural worker, and bodyworker. She is part of the Healing Histories Project, which focuses on transforming the medical-industrial complex and confronting eugenic legacies. She works with REP, a Black-led community-based crisis response model grounded in the belief that we have the ability to love and protect one another without giving our agency to systems built to destroy, consume, or commodify us. Author of Queerly Classed and Restricted Access, she is published in a range of anthologies and websites. 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One part art, one part activism, one part science fiction, this book offers the reader a guide to establishing a Hologram network as well as reflections on this cooperative work in progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCassie Thornton is an artist and activist from the US, currently living in Canada. She refers to herself as a feminist economist, a title that frames her work as that of a social scientist actively preparing for the economics of a future society that produces health and life without the tools that reproduce oppression— like money, police or prisons. She is currently the co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful and beautiful tool for people and societies in movement. It helps us see how moments of crisis give rise to new forms of solidarity. It exemplifies what we as scholars, artists, and people in movements can do. Join this journey: you will be transformed.\" Marina Sitrin, editor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/pandemic-solidarity-mutual-aid-during-the-covid-19-crisis\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePandemic Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An imaginative intervention that proposes a collective model for health care as a process of political transformation. With the Covid-19 pandemic we have seen that the systems of care that prevail in capitalism do not work. \u003cem\u003eThe Hologram\u003c\/em\u003e offers an inspiring solution.\" Melanie Gilligan, artist and writer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What comes after Covid? How do we address the naked, class-based and racial inequalities exposed by the plague? Cassie Thornton proposes a healing hypothesis in The Hologram. It could not come at a more necessary moment.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Fool\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eForeword \u003cbr\u003ePreface: Artist’s Update \u003cbr\u003e1. A Different Medicine is Possible: Visiting the Greek Solidarity Clinics \u003cbr\u003e2. Is this the End or is this the Beginning? - A Four-Part Course in Social Holography Trust Wishes Time Patterns \u003cbr\u003e3. The Practice \u003cbr\u003e4. Wikipedia Entry from the Future \u003cbr\u003e5. Feminist Economics and the People’s Apocalypse \u003cbr\u003e6. Appendix I: Art, Debt, Health and Care: An Interview \u003cbr\u003e7. Appendix II: Contextualizing The Hologram: Feminist Ethics, Post-Work Commons and Commons in Exile \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eThe Ten of Swords\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41052744089693,"sku":"9780745343327","price":25.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745343327.jpg?v=1685566476"},{"product_id":"nourishing-resistance-stories-of-food-protest-and-mutual-aid","title":"Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the cooks who have quietly fed rebels and revolutionaries to the collective kitchens set up after hurricanes and floods, food has long played a crucial role in resistance, protest, and mutual aid. Until very recently, food-based work\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003esteadfast and not particularly flashy\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eslipped under the radar or was centered on celebrity chefs and well-funded nonprofits. Adding to a growing constellation of conversations that push against this narrative, Nourishing Resistance centers the role of everyday people in acts of culinary solidarity and mutual aid. Twenty-three contributors\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003ecooks, farmers, writers, organizers, academics, and dreamers\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003ewrite on queer potlucks, BIPOC-centered farms and gardens, rebel ancestors, disability justice, indigenous food sovereignty, and the fight against toxic diet culture, among many other topics. They recount bowls of biryani at a Delhi protest, fricasé de conejo on a Puerto Rican farm, pay-as-you-want dishes in a collectively-run Hong Kong restaurant, and lemon cake cooked in a New Jersey disaster relief kitchen. They chronicle the communal kitchens and food distribution programs that emerged in Buenos Aires and New York City in the wake of COVID-19, which caused surging food insecurity worldwide. They look to the past, revealing how \"Bella Ciao\" was composed by striking women rice workers, and the future, speculating on post-capitalist worlds that include both high-tech collective farms and herbs gathered on the side of highways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough essays, articles, poems, and stories,\u003cem\u003e Nourishing Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e argues that food is a central, intrinsic part of global struggles for autonomy and collective liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection of essays offers invaluable frameworks and inspirational models on how to get food out of capitalist markets and into the hands and stomachs of all. They fiercely demonstrate how the harvesting, growing, preparing, cooking, sharing, and eating of food has shaped and reshaped our cultures, created the social conditions for conviviality, and helped to break the seclusion and alienation that racist capitalist patriarchies organize. A must read for all who dream of keeping practices of commoning alive.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRe-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A thoughtfully assembled, refreshingly global collection of radical voices who urge us to reimagine the meaning of the phrase ‘food is political.’”\u003cbr\u003e—Mayukh Sen, author of \u003cem\u003eTaste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Prepare to be nourished by this book. In these essays, contributors share personal and collective stories of grassroots food activism from around the world. From community kitchens to queer potlucks to critical analyses of public space, diet culture, and property—you’ll witness how they reimagine food beyond the food enterprise status quo. Each essay is intimate. As the authors revisit what community, sovereignty, radical, and other concepts mean, they address concepts that are often taken for granted in food-related activism and scholarship. While lifting up the significance of food in social movements, they make fresh connections between movements whose stories are often told separately. There are no prescriptive ‘solutions’ here, thank goodness. This collection is a reminder that kitchen sink food activism is taking place everywhere and is happening now. By sharing their stories, the authors invite us to reconsider our commitments, our assumptions, and what we think is possible.” \u003cbr\u003e—Naya Jones, assistant professor, University of California Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This beautiful and thought-provoking collection of essays brings together reflections on the role of food in Indigenous land defense, immigrant ritual, international social centers, queer belonging, and so much more. I finished the book reinvigorated to bring radical attention to the ways in which our meals truly make our movements. \u003cem\u003eNourishing Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us that any project toward liberation has a common root: the need for nourishment.” \u003cbr\u003e—Raechel Anne Jolie, author of \u003cem\u003eRust Belt Femme\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is delicious in all seven colours of the rainbow, as we say in South Africa about a balanced meal that is diversely nutritious. It is the queer potluck club where new friends bring casseroles of dangerously loving inscriptions of a future that is free and freeing. It is a buffet of radical imaginations of past, present, and future cooperatives fighting for new arrangements of society that facilitate self-determination, intersectional justice, and equity. This meditation and manifesto on food brings into focus how food, its presence, its cultures, its systems, and its work, is vital to any liberatory or emancipatory agenda. Food is not only essential for cultivating multigenerational connection and community outside of the nuclear family structure, as one writer notes, but also for prying apart all sorts of binaries to release new possibilities and futures. When you are done, lick your fingers. They will taste like canned beans left along migrant trails in Arizona, homemade sourdough that stood up against coal giants, and the stew that was a tool to foster closer bonds in the migrant residents of Constitución. There will be nothing to waste.” \u003cbr\u003e—Kneo Mokgopa, writer and artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Reading \u003cem\u003eNourishing Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e fills me with a feeling of possibility, and a renewed appreciation for the transformative power that exists in the simple act of sharing food with those around you. This collection of essays shifts the paradigm away from the binary of frontlines work and support work, and towards a view of movement building that sees everyone’s contributions as absolutely essential to the health and viability of the whole movement—from scrubbing dishes to creating a blockade, from jail support to boiling rice. To me, there’s nothing more empowering than seeing tangible examples of people using their gifts to cook up unique and life-giving contributions to the social movements around them, and this collection is full of those.”\u003cbr\u003e—Ciro Carrillo, \u003cem\u003eMutual Aid on Lockdown\u003c\/em\u003e podcast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Like a song that makes you feel like you can take on the world, this collection of interviews, poetry, essays, and story is a chorus of activists, academics, artists, farmers, writers, sex workers, teachers, and other disruptors, whose writings teach, inspire, and challenge, in offering new visions for what can be when we act on aspirations for a world in which every persons right to food, love, and dignity are taken for granted. The many notes include historical and contemporary pieces on topics that range from radical farming and food sovereignty, the solemnity and pleasure of eating and feeding, fat activism and emerging unapologetically from the margins, immigration and the politics of care, capitalism, and revolution, to celebrating queer joy. Each voice puts a finger on the deep personal and shared relationships we have with food and shows how those can be put in service of creating collective commitments that better sustain our hearts, minds, and hands in connection with the land that gives us life.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jennifer Brady, registered dietitian and director of the School of Nutrition and Dietetics at Acadia University in Mtaban\/Wolfville, Mi’kma’ki\/Nova Scotia, Turtle Island\/Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The collection of rich stories, analytic accounts, and thought-provoking interviews in this book is a wonderful read for anyone curious about or working towards liberatory food cultures today. These activist-writers take us through inspiring and intriguing examples of food as mutual aid, food in practices of decolonization, and food as deeply embedded with rebellion. A beautiful and provocative set of pieces that whet the appetite for cooking up revolution and care.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michelle Glowa, assistant professor in the Anthropology and Social Change department at the California Institute of Integral Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNourishing Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e transports us from the coal fields of West Virginia to farmer protests in India and far beyond, reminding us of the global role of food and collectivism in the fight against oppression and injustice. A truly humanizing and nourishing anthology that reminds us of the inherent politics and power of food.”\u003cbr\u003e—Debbie Weingarten, journalist\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWren Awry \u003c\/strong\u003eis a writer, editor, and archivist whose work ranges from researching and writing about the role of food in labor strikes, mutual aid projects, and revolt to helping with community dinners at their local, collectively run social center. They’ve written about food for publications including\u003ci\u003e The Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntropy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e; and have facilitated various culinary writing classes, including garden poetry for first graders and a community workshop on queer food writing. Most recently, they've been digging through radical, labor, and zine archives to find materials related to food and cooking, and are learning to build archives on their own and in collaboration with others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Barukh Milstein\"\u003eCindy Barukh Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (Foreword) is a diasporic queer Jewish anarchist, author of \u003cem\u003ePaths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAnarchism and Its Aspirations\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor of anthologies such as \u003cem\u003eRebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDeciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThere Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists\u003c\/em\u003e. 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For longtime workplace activist Ian Allinson, the answer is clear: organising at work is essential to rebuild working-class power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe premise is simple: organising builds confidence, capacity and collective power - and with power we can win change. Workers Can Win is an essential, practical guide for rank-and-file workers and union activists. Drawing on more than 20 years of organising experience, Allinson combines practical techniques with an analysis of the theory and politics of organising and unions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book offers insight into tried and tested methods for effective organising. It deals with tactics and strategies, and addresses some of the roots of conflict, common problems with unions and the resistance of management to worker organising. As a 101 guide to workplace organising with politically radical horizons, Workers Can Win is destined to become an essential tool for workplace struggles in the years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/supadu-imgix\/plutopress-uk\/pdfs\/look-inside\/LI-9780745347813.pdf\"\u003ePreview the book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIan Allinson has been a workplace activist since 1991, working for a private sector employer which didn’t recognise a union for most workers, and where he led a number of strikes including the first national strike in the IT industry. He served ten years on the national Executive Committees of Amicus and Unite, and was a candidate for Unite General Secretary in 2017. He is currently industrial action coordinator on the executive committee of Manchester TUC, where he was previously President. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrations: Colin Revolting’s cartoons have been published by \u003cem\u003eNew Musical Express\u003c\/em\u003e and the Ramblers Association. Colin has twice been dismissed for organising at work – once in a large public institution and later in a small charity. He is still trying to organise at work, hence the pseudonym.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Just at the time when workers are mobilising to tackle the economic and climate crises we all face, this invaluable handbook comes along to provide an essential guide to winning.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e John McDonnell MP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Drawing on years of experience, Unite activist Ian Allinson has written an organising handbook that will be invaluable for rank and file organisers and trade union professionals alike. He offers timely, concrete analysis and advice that will be an aid to activists across the trade union movement.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Kim Moody, author and founder of\u003cem\u003e 'Labor Notes'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'In the age of climate breakdown, militant worker organising is as urgent as ever. Workers and environmentalists share a common enemy in the capitalist class and Allinson gives us all a powerful guide of how to effectively organise for social change from our workplaces.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Chris Saltmarsh, co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal and author of\u003cem\u003e 'Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘A must read for every trade union activist.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Lyn-Marie O’Hara, Glasgow equal pay striker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘Workplaces are key sites of struggle against the hostile environment for migrants, and so to tackle these injustices against migrants we need strong unions. ‘Workers Can Win’ is a readable, practical guide for organising at work and building the power we need to fight back against oppression.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Ida Jarsve, co-founder, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘A vital resource for anyone serious about taking part in trade union work at any level, and also extremely useful for anyone working for positive change in their community.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Brendan Montague, editor of\u003cem\u003e ‘The Ecologist’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘Workers have needed a practical, positive, accessible guide to organising in Britain for a long time and Ian, using his vast experience in the area has created just that. It will be a valuable resource for union representatives and organisers wanting to grow their branch and union!\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'This book is just brilliant. It is not only packed full of invaluable advice and practical tips for anybody organising in the workplace, but it is also hopeful. Crucially, it offers an accessible political analysis of why it is so important for working class people to build power in the workplace and beyond, demystifying the process as it goes.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Laura Pidcock, National Secretary of The People's Assembly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. Why organise at work?\u003cbr\u003e3. Starting out\u003cbr\u003e4. Servicing, advocacy, mobilising and organising\u003cbr\u003e5. Choosing and communicating about issues\u003cbr\u003e6. How to organise\u003cbr\u003e7. Using your rights\u003cbr\u003e8. Planning action\u003cbr\u003e9. Industrial and direct action\u003cbr\u003e10. Management mischief\u003cbr\u003e11. Dealing with your union\u003cbr\u003e12. 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This is what is so appealing about brown’s work—she is almost hopelessly optimistic. She refuses to give in to cynicism or despair, and this ability to dream wildly is part of why she can maintain such openness toward the idea of a better future.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Colorlines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNjkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\" title=\"adrienne maree brown\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer rooted in Detroit who now lives in Durham, NC. She is a student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin. 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