{"product_id":"remaking-democracy","title":"Remaking Democracy: How We Make The Worlds We Want","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow can we empower ourselves and our communities to make lasting social change?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy \u003c\/em\u003eis a guidebook for social change. We are at a watershed moment of rising fascism and rising seas: our institutions are failing us, health crises ravage our communities, and the natural world has been thrust into catastrophic climate freefall. Despair threatens to overtake hope in our visions of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, organizers and teachers Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams offer analysis and strategy for sustainable transformation. This accessible and practical resource presents case studies alongside a design toolkit that equips readers to participate in creating the abundant worlds we want. \u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy \u003c\/em\u003eempowers us—individually and in groups—to make lasting social change on every level, so that we who are affected by systems can become their creators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“We need to know how to do the work of social change, and how to build structures to sustain our values of care, justice, and respect for the Earth and all its inhabitants. The guidebook for this change is \u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e.” Safiya U. Noble, author of \u003cem\u003eAlgorithms of Oppression\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A love letter to past, present, and future change makers, \u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e is the antidote to techno-authoritarianism—and all projects used to truncate human connectedness—that we have been waiting for. With savvy, accessible prose, Chynoweth and Adams have composed an indispensable volume for theorists, organizers, and creative practitioners that speaks to the resilient power and promise of collective imagineering and community-sung desire and play at every scale.” Anita Say Chan, author of \u003cem\u003ePredatory Data\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This book is a tour de force offering a clear and deep analysis of capitalism and its inherent contradictions through which we can organize and bring this beast to its feet. Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams brought me real hope that defeat of capitalist vicious greed can be done.” Faranak Miraftab, professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A truly remarkable book loaded with ideas and strategies for reimagining society and building community.” C.T. Lawrence Butler, cofounder of Food Not Bombs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Chynoweth and Adams remind us that the cure for fascism is democracy—not as an abstract set of institutions but as direct participation and human agency. The problems that seem so hopeless they recast as contradictions, and every contradiction is an opportunity, a point of leverage. These authors, who’ve devoted their lives to seeking points of leverage and acting to make change, offer a practical framework and techniques any and all of us can take up, to change and save the world and ourselves one step at a time, in community with one another.” Steve Randy Waldman, computer programmer and writer at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/interfluidity.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003einterfluidity.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This is a rare volume that combines analysis based on grassroots organizing experience outside metro areas and theoretical insights from global struggles. All this is brought together in insightful dialogs between the authors . . . a fascinating and unique combination of story telling and deep reflection.” James Kilgore, abolitionist activist and author of \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Mass Incarceration \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Now is the time to put forward bold, people-centered solutions. To do so, we need to learn from past movements, not rehash them. We need organizers who have been on the frontlines training a new crop of leaders that can see beyond their own time. \u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want\u003c\/em\u003e is a training manual for our future.” Carol Ammons, Illinois State Representative, co-chair of the Illinois Black Caucus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“For the first time in human history, a connected, just, and equitable global society is possible. What we lack is mass participation in imaging and creating that world. Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want helps us think beyond the reality of our current existence to forge a radically inclusive, global community.” Alfredo Lopez, founder of May First Movement Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Danielle Chynoweth has kept her eyes on the prize for decades, shepherding institutions that have withstood outside pressure from fascists and funders alike—while building the organic community leaders and durable community-building policies that are the bedrock of transformation. This book will be a gift to anyone else hoping to do the same at this pivotal moment.” Hannah Sassaman, Executive Director, People’s Tech Project\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Finally, after many years and much searching, I have found a book for all ages that can be used as a response to the question: what to do? I will use it in my lifelong learning courses on democracy.” Larry Richards, cybernetician\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“My creative journey has become inseparable from community, social responsibility, and care. The teachings of Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams further deepened my understanding of approaching individual and collective harmony. [This] holistic approach has taught me to hold both in balance, affirming that a society flourishes only when the individual and the collective are equally seen, nurtured, and respected.” Koushalya Jeganathan, filmmaker, India\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This book comes at the perfect time, when people everywhere are anxious about the new world order and citizen activism matters more than ever.” Keiko Sei, media activist, Thailand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This is a book I’ve been waiting for, even when I didn’t know it consciously. Chynoweth and Adams provide a timely and urgent call to participation in imagining the world we want to live in. Drawing on their decades of experience, they offer a message of hope and possibility. Anyone who looks at the world around them and sees reasons to despair should pick up this book and learn how to hope again.” Dr. Andrew Ó Baoill, lecturer, University of Galway\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e is a rallying call to transform a world in crisis. Urgent, practical, and fiercely hopeful, this book equips readers to imagine boldly, act collectively, and build the equitable futures our movements demand. Blending theory, real-world case studies, and actionable exercises, it invites us to envision—and create—the futures we deserve. In a time of democratic erosion, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, \u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e provides a radically hopeful and deeply practical approach to collective transformation.” Tish Stringer, visual anthropologist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This book serves as a curriculum that invites us to become active collaborators in reimagining, revolutionizing, and reconstructing new equitable democratic practices that accompany futurist thinking, participatory joy, advancing praxis, promotional healing, and equitable democracies.” Stacey A. Robinson, multimedia artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This is the cookbook we need when democracy is in crisis. These are the recipes—and the stories behind the recipes—that will allow every local activist, line cook, and renowned chef alike to build their own local recipes for democracy; to improvise the exact ingredients and spices for their own communities. Democracy should be delicious.” Dr. Kate McDowell, professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“In an era of harrowing ecological, economic, and authoritarian crises, \u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e is an optimistic yet realist approach to building a more thoughtful and civil society.” Sascha Meinrath, policy activist and educator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This invaluable and timely book provides actionable plans and essential tools for transforming our world from the ground up. Inspiring hope and courage to confront the daunting challenges facing us today, \u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e is mandatory reading for anyone working towards a more just society.” Victor Pickard, professor, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Blending experimental art, systems thinking, and grassroots organizing, \u003cem\u003eRemaking Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e offers an urgently needed toolkit for designing participatory, just futures. Chynoweth and Adams bring theory and practice together with originality, clarity, and care.” Keith Moore, composer, artist-organizer, and educator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Rooted in twenty-first-century local struggles, experienced activist and theoretician Danielle Chynoweth has written a timely, insightful, and practical guide for melding together different oppressed communities into united struggle against the US empire.” Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Adams, PhD,\u003c\/strong\u003e is a composer, teacher, and caregiver, who has worked at the intersection of art, education, and organizing for over twenty years. As a knowledge worker intent on creating the cultural change that will support social justice, she co-instigated Julie \u0026amp; Elizabeth’s Anti-Capitalist Concert Series, and organized with the Crown Heights Tenant Union, Free University NYC, and What A Neighborhood! She has taught at Columbia University and the School for Designing a Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanielle Chynoweth\u003c\/strong\u003e is a local-to-national leader in the Media Justice and Housing Rights movements. As an elected public servant, she has designed alternative crisis response, family shelter, and Solidarity Gardens, and spearheaded public arts, community broadband, solar affordable housing, and police oversight. She was the Organizing Director for Media Justice and cofounded the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. She teaches social change at the University of Illinois, the School for Designing a Society, and internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePreface: Safiya U. Noble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIntroduction: \u003cstrong\u003eWhat Time Is It on the Clock of the World?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSPIRAL OF CHANGE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e1. \u003cstrong\u003eAnalysis: Living in Contradiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormulation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e2. \u003cstrong\u003eStrategy: The Spiral of Change\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormulation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e3. \u003cstrong\u003eFrom Indymedia to Media Justice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntervention\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI GATHER PEOPLE AND STORIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e4. \u003cstrong\u003eBegin with Telling Untold Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormulation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e5. \u003cstrong\u003eBuild Beloved Communities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAssignment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e6. \u003cstrong\u003eAs Violence Was Done to Me\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII FORMULATE PROBLEMS AND SYSTEMS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e7. \u003cstrong\u003eDig to Your Problem’s Roots\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormulation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e8. \u003cstrong\u003eDevelop a Systems Analysis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAssignment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e9. \u003cstrong\u003eCampaign for Prison Phone Justice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntervention\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII GENERATE DESIRES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e10. \u003cstrong\u003eDesire as Liberation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormulation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e11. \u003cstrong\u003eRight or Wrong, My Desires\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAssignment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e12. \u003cstrong\u003eThe School for Designing a Society\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntervention\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV UNEARTH CONTRADICTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e13. \u003cstrong\u003eContradictions Reveal Opportunity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormulation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e14. \u003cstrong\u003eFind Leverage for Change\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAssignment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e15. \u003cstrong\u003eEnding Homelessness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntervention\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eV DESIGN INTERVENTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e16. \u003cstrong\u003eDesigning Care for a Loved One\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e17. \u003cstrong\u003eWhere to 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