Black Flags and Windmills : Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective by Crow, scott instant download

Black Flags and Windmills : Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective by Crow, scott instant download

1 online resource (289 pages), Tracing a life of radical activism and the emergence of a grassroots organization in the face of disaster, this chronicle describes scott crow's headlong rush into the political storm surrounding the catastrophic failure of the levee in New Orleans in 2005 and the subsequent failure of state and local government agencies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It recounts crow's efforts with others in the community to found Common Ground Collective, a grassroots relief organization that built medical clinics, set up food and water distribution, and cr, Print version record, Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Glossary; People and Organizations; Foreword to the Second Edition by John P. Clark; Foreword by Kathleen Cleaver; \"Even before the thoughts occurred ... \"; Introduction: Waking up from Oblivion; Prologue: It Takes a Spark to Start a Prairie Fire; Against Forgetting; Black Flags and Windmills; A Battle in Algiers; Barbed-Wire Hopes; Of Anarchists, Panthers, and Zapatistas; \"Like concrete ... \"; Like Flowers in Concrete; With Thunder in Our Hearts; Raising Common Ground; Postscript: An Ending and a Beginning, \"Dream the future ... \"Photographs; Interviews; Shifting Culture without Government; Black Flags and Radical Relief Efforts in New Orleans: An Interview with scott crow; Appendices; Common Ground Communiqués (2005-2009); Common Ground Documents; Outline of Common Ground Activities and Programs; Notes; Acknowledgments; Further Reading; About the Authors