Writing with Movements Posts

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…

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…

The Anarres Project for Alternative Futures recently interviewed me as part of their online series. I’m re-posting it here. The project is definitely worth checking out! (And you can also find this interview on Truthout.) What experiences did you have that turned you toward organizing? That’s a long story, as…

Some good news: Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements, the book that I have been working on for the past several years, is out from the University of California Press! You can look for Another Politics at your local independent bookstore or order it through the UC Press website.…

In fall 2012, I was asked to speak at a Media Democracy conference in Ottawa. At first, I wasn’t sure what I could contribute. While I’ve had a long-time appreciation for activist media, I’d never actually considered myself a media maker. This is interesting, considering my work with Left Turn…

Earlier this month in Ottawa, I helped to organize an event called “We Win Every Day” with longtime organizer and writer Chris Crass as part of his speaking tour through Quebec and Ontario. This event opened up some great discussions about victories that local organizations have achieved in recent years…