What
fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our
worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical
and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power
in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
Longtime organizers and movement
educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political
lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass
protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this
confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require
mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both state
violence and environmental disaster.
The book is intended to aid and
empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own
journeys through the work of justice-making. It includes insights
from a spectrum of experienced organizers, including Sharon Lungo,
Carlos Saavedra, Ejeris Dixon, Barbara Ransby, and Ruth Wilson
Gilmore about some of the difficult and joyous lessons they have
learned in their work.