I wish I read more fiction
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In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers …
The intro by Robin D.G. Kelley AND the afterword by Nick Estes are incredible. Excited to get into what’s between them!
How do we organise in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign?
For …
I’m having big swings of feelings as I wrap up the Bevins book. He referenced this one in his last chapter. I think I need to dig deeper.
My question before reading: is this what sociocracy does?
Intro about Adam Yauch is touching
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you …
I’m already nervous that this book is so entrenched in the “brain-as-computer” competitive/individualist paradigm of cognition that it will never even touch issues like situated learning (which I consider to be the most important issue in any discussion of learning, teaching, education, and schooling). Let’s see!
Maybe a foil to Bevins? Claim made in the conclusion of Slow Down that 3.5% of a population engaged in organizing can “bring about major change” is attributed to this book.
Christine reminds me periodically how dangerous it is for me as a european-american white person to put indigenous north american peoples and histories constantly on a pedestal, and how easy it is to slip into some newfangled version of the “noble savage” bullshit. I also keep trying to resist the pull of becoming some kind of myopic Dawn of Everything fanboy. AND YET ever since reading that book, I find myself coming to any/every political analysis wondering: why doesn’t this writer start with a treatment of the n.am indigenous critique? Why on earth would anyone start a massive critique of the mess that europe hath wrought by looking exclusively to european-worldview ideas for solutions?
So basically I’m wondering, after reading just the introduction, whether I’m gonna be able to get much out of this. But I’m gonna try!
Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of …
Rebecca's favorite book ever
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actual poll tax receipt before the ones in this book. Flores Magón makes a cameo in the intro as well. Lots of unexpected delights in here so far!
Throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living …
I read the chapter about schools first, which may have been a mistake…
I’ve gone back and through Silencing the Past so many times… maybe some of his other work will illuminate some things I feel like I’m missing in that book?
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first …
I know the historical parallels are not all aligned, but it sure does feel useful right now to understand what it’s like to live through a collapse. I’m curious to see how much time she spends on all the different margins and peripheries versus trying to get to some kind of universalizing experience.
As anticipated— some interesting bits but overall not much to inspire the deep action that’s so urgently needed
Oh man oh wow. So much to learn from this story and the stories within it.
My god this book is breaking my heart. I cannot believe it’s taken me this long to get to it.
