After seven years of social movement research, radical public education, and general rabble-rousing the Radical Imagination Project is signing off. As project co-directors, we want to extend our sincere thanks to all of you fellow travelers who have joined us on this collective journey seeking new routes to radical social change. Over the next few…
If you missed the amazing panel discussion featuring Michael Truscello, Catherine Martin, Jackie Barkley, Lynn Jones, El Jones, Ardath Whynacht, and Brad Fougere at Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-first Century Resistance on Wednesday October 11, 2017 you can find video of the event here (part 1, part 2, part 3). Special…
Join us on October 11 at 6:30 pm for the Halifax launch of Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance (2017, AK Press). The launch will feature a panel discussion focusing on the question of when, how, and under what conditions exploited and oppressed peoples rise up to create radical and…
THE CHEBUCTO FREE SCHOOL is a self-organized, community-driven experiment in participatory and liberatory education. Through it, we seek to connect skill and knowledge-sharing with local struggles for social justice. We all have something to learn, we all have something to teach, so it is our passions, values, and curiosity that guide the curriculum and sculpt…
This fall join us at the Central Branch Library in Halifax for screenings of subMedia’s social justice documentary series “Trouble.” Screenings will be followed by moderated discussion. We bring you this exciting and timely series in collaboration with Halifax Public Libraries and Autonomy East. Here’s the schedule… — The Radical Imagination Project Presents Trouble Join…
From political rhetoric to the popular imagination, prisons are presented as key social institutions and incarceration as a necessary tool for maintaining civilized life. But are they? What if, instead of imagining prisons as frightening but essential places, we understand them as institutions key to defending and extending white supremacy, settler colonialism, and capitalist exploitation?…
How have people organized to confront fascism? What are the best lessons we can learn for our own organizing from historical examples near and far? Join us for a public discussion about struggles against fascism then and now and the history and contemporary possibility of building a common front against fascism. A public discussion featuring…
