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

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

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

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

Overview

From housing struggles to food politics, from poor people's movements to radical art projects, from the Right to the City Alliance to the US Social Forum, Uses of a Whirlwind explores the current composition of social movements in the United States. With equal emphasis placed on movement history and movement building, Whirlwind is a call to action for a new decade of organizing. Contributors include Robin DG Kelley, Grace Lee Boggs, Michael Hardt, Chris Carlsson, Take Back the Land, Domestic Workers United, the Starbucks Workers Union, Brian Tokar, Dorothy Kidd, and Ashanti Alston.

Team Colors is a geographically dispersed militant research collective.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849350167
Publisher: AK Press
Publication date: 08/01/2010
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 420
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Craig Hughes: Craig Hughes is an anarchist, atheist, activist and independent researcher who currently lives in Washington, DC. Hughes is a member of the Executive Committee of the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network and has been involved in numerous organizing efforts since he became involved in punk and radical politics during the 1990s. He holds masters degrees in History, as well as Social Work and Community Organizing, for which he has to pay back a very large amount of money in loans.

Stevie Peace: Stevie Peace (editor and contributor) is a writer and organizer from Shoreview, Minnesota. Peace was first interviewed by Team Colors through his work at the Common Ground Health Clinic in New Orleans, and now participates as the newest member of the collective. Peace continues his support for Black Liberation in the wake of Gulf Coast recovery through the Anti-Racist Working Group National Solidarity Network; he currently works for Restorative Justice Community Action in Minneapolis. Peace’s writings have been published in AZiNe and Borderlands: Tales from Disputed Territories Between Races and Cultures. He is currently planning a compilation narrative project of Asian America's political recomposition and its potential sites of radical struggle.

Kevin Van Meter: Kevin Van Meter is an organizer and researcher originally from Long Island and currently based in Portland, Oregon. Van Meter appears, along with Benjamin Holtzman and Craig Hughes, in the AK Press collection Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation, Collective Theorization, with an article titled "DIY and the Movement Beyond Capitalism”; and has written for a variety of radical publications and zines. Van Meter is finalizing a Masters Degree in Political Science, focusing on current political theory, everyday resistance and social movements, at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Preface: In the Wind Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Andrej Grubacic xv

Foreword: The Whirlwinds Project in Context xxvii

Marc Herbst for the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press

Introduction: Sowing Radical Currents in the Ashes of Yesteryear: The Many Uses of a Whirlwind

Team Colors Collective 1

Organization Case Studies 15

Bluestockings Bookstore and New Institutions of Self-Organized Work: The Space Between Common Notions and Common Institutions Malav Kanuga 19

Bluestockings Bookstore and Activist Center

Anti-Authoritarian Organizing in Practice 37

Direct Action to Stop the War

A Look At Resistance to Interstate 69: Past, Present, and Future 47

Roadblock Earth First!

The Precarious Economy and Its Discontents: Struggling Against the Corporate Chains Through Workplace Organizing 57

The Starbucks Workers Union

Harvesting Solidarity: Farmworkers, Allies, and the Fight for Fair Food 65

Student/Farmworker Alliance

A Conversation on Organizing Models for Social Justice Struggles in the City 79

City Life/Vida Urbana

Picture the Homeless

Take Back the Land

United Workers; Moderated by Betty Robinson; Introduction John Duda

What's Going On? The USSF, Grassroots Activism, and Situated Knowledge Marina Karides 85

U.S. Social Forum Documentation Committee

Building Power in the City: Reflections on the Emergence of the Right to the City Alliance and the National Domestic Workers Alliance Harmony Goldberg 97

Movement Strategies 109

Local Struggles, Global Contexts: Building Movements in North America in the Age of Globalized Capital Basav Sen 113

You Are What You Eat: The Food Sovereignty Struggle within the Global Justice Movement John Peck 125

Family Farm Defenders

Toward a Movement for Peace and Climate Justice Brian Tokar 135

The Desire to Heal: Harm Intervention in a Landscape of Restorative Justice and Critical Resistance Stevie Peace 149

Team Colors Collective

DIY Politics and Queer Activism Benjamin Shepard 163

Art as Intervention: A Guide to Today's Radical Art Practices Julie Perini 183

Whistling into the Typhoon: A Radical Inquiry Into Autonomous Media Dorothy Kidd 199

Getting to know Your City and the Social Movements That Call It Home: The Hybrid Networking and Documentary Work of Area Chicago Daniel Tucker 211

Area Chicago

Theoretical Analyses 223

Transatlantic Translations: Detectives and Researchers for the Revolution(s) 227

Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias

Organizing Encounters and Generating Events Michael Hardt El Kilombo Intergaláctico 245

Living in a Whirlwind: The Food/Energy/Work Crisis of 2008-09 Brian Marks 259

Notes on the Financial Crisis: From Meltdown to Deep Freeze George Caffentzis 273

Feminism and the Politics of the Commons in an Era of Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici 283

Pallas and "The People's Business" Peter Linebaugh 295

Radical Patience: Feeling Effective over the Long Haul Chris Carlsson 305

Interviews 315

Challenging Power and Creating New Spaces for Possibility: A Discussion with Robin D.G. Kelley Benjamin Holtzman 317

We Can Begin to Take Back Our Lives: A Discussion with Ashanti Omowali Alston 331

Team Colors Collective

The Power Within Us to Create the World Anew: A Discussion with Grace Lee Boggs Stevie Peace 347

Team Colors Collective

Biographies 363

Bibliography 371

Index 387

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