Writing with Movements Posts

The July/August 2016 issue of Briarpatch Magazine features this article. I’m re-posting it here. This piece combines some of the reflections I presented at Another Politics book events with thoughts and experiences that activists across North America shared in discussions at those events. A longer version of this article appears…

When people come together to struggle for justice and dignity, they frequently produce some of the most vital and innovative ways of understanding themselves and the world. Robin Kelley puts this well in Freedom Dreams: “Social movements generate new knowledge, new theories, new questions. The most radical ideas often grow…

I’m a vocal proponent of creating intergenerational movements. But, I confess, I haven’t always been. This topic didn’t become significant to me until I was in my mid-twenties and spending regular time at a San Francisco anarchist collective house that included a child. Rahula Janowski, the mother of that child…

After 15 months, 44 cities, and 72 events, the Another Politics Tour is done. I have been completely blown away by all of the inspiring people I’ve encountered, across North America, working diligently and creatively to build effective, visionary movements. I’ve learned so much from you all, and I hope…

Drawing on interviews with dozens of experienced organizers, Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements engages the convergence of anti-authoritarian radicalism and broader-based movements in the U.S. and Canada. From this convergence, a growing set of activists – from anti-poverty organizers in Toronto to prison abolitionists in Oakland, from occupy…

Carwil Bjork-James recently interviewed me for Agency‘s new “Anarchist Profiles” series. I’m re-posting it here. Definitely check out Agency! Tell us a little bit about yourself and your own background and how that led to writing this book. I am originally from Anchorage, Alaska, on traditional Dena’ina territory and I…

I’m delighted to make available a new version of my “Tips for Going on Book Tour” with more details and recommendations. I wrote the original version of these tips after the 2011 West Coast tour for Andy Cornell’s book Oppose and Propose!: Lessons from Movement for a New Society, collaboratively…

The March/April 2015 issue of Briarpatch features this excerpt from Another Politics. I’m re-posting it here. Briarpatch is a wonderful longstanding activist magazine in the Canadian context. “What’s the connection between concrete activities and vision?” This is a provocative question longtime New York housing and HIV/AIDS organizer Michelle O’Brien posed…

Drawing on interviews with dozens of experienced organizers, Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements engages the convergence of anti-authoritarian radicalism and broader-based movements in the U.S. and Canada. From this convergence, a growing set of activists – from anti-poverty organizers in Toronto to prison abolitionists in Oakland, from occupy…

Drawing on interviews with dozens of experienced organizers, Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements engages the convergence of anti-authoritarian radicalism and broader-based movements in the U.S. and Canada. From this convergence, a growing set of activists – from anti-poverty organizers in Toronto to prison abolitionists in Oakland, from occupy…