Organize! : building from the local for global justice by Choudry, A. A; Hanley, Jill; Shragge, Eric instant download

Organize! : building from the local for global justice by Choudry, A. A; Hanley, Jill; Shragge, Eric instant download

1 online resource (313 pages), Penned by a diverse range of activists, academics, lawyers, artists, and researchers, this book weaves a rich and varied tapestry of strategies for bringing about change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crisis. From community-based labor-organizing strategies among immigrant workers to mobilizing psychiatric survivors, from arts and activism for Palestine to organizing in support of indigenous peoples, each essay in this work reflects critically on the tensions, problems, limits, and gains inherent in a range of organizing contexts and practices. The book also places these processes in historical perspective, encouraging us to use history to shed light on contemporary injustices and how they can be overcome, Includes bibliographical references, Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Organize! Looking Back, Thinking Ahead; Activist Research: Mapping Power Relations, Informing Struggles; Research Partnerships and Local Community Organizing: Refl ections by Evelyn Calugay; Fundraising: Politics and Strategies; Some Comments on Law and Organizing; Rights, Action, Change: Organize for What?; Escape, Retreat, Revolt: Queer People of Color Living in Montreal Using Photovoice as a Tool for Community Organizing; Listen to the Music: Work the Music, Organize the Community; Art for Palestine: \"Renarrating\" History and the Present, Community Organizing: Maori Movement-BuildingSolidarity, Real and Imagined: Lessons from the 1991 Postal Strike; Immigrant Worker Organizing in a Time of Crisis: Adapting to the New Realities of Class and Resistance; Prefi gurative Self-Governance and Self-Organization: The Infl uence of Antiauthoritarian (Pro)Feminist, Radical Queer, and Antiracist Networks in Quebec; Making Our Space, Taking Our Place: Lessons From Migrant Women's Organizing in Montreal; Mad Activism Enters Its Fifth Decade: Psychiatric Survivor Organizing in Toronto, Organizing and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions…