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…
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…
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…
How can we move beyond both the fascist “alt-right” and a bankrupt (neo)liberalism toward a collectively liberated society with justice and democracy for all? Join us for a follow-up event to “Resistance in the Time of Trump” focusing on organizing, action, and building a radical, grassroots resistance in dangerous times. The event will begin with…
In advance of the public discussion on December 3 we’re sharing a reading list on some of the best pieces we’ve come across thinking through what it means to resist and build alternatives in the time of Trump. Resistance in the Time of Trump: A Reading List “An Introduction to Trump Syllabus 2.0” N.D.B. Connolly…
