black flags and windmills: creating grassroots power from below 2014 edition
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This visual and engaging presentation drawn from scott crow’s book Black Flags and Windmills illustrates through stories, analysis and diverse political movement histories how individuals and communities can create collective liberation to change their own worlds by creating power from below. It covers how the ideas, philosophies and practices of anarchism have grown shaping and influencing modern political movements and tendencies from the post-Seattle alternative globalization movements to the Common Ground Collective after Hurricane Katrina, the Occupy uprisings, environmental and animal rights movements and beyond. It also covers the rise of the surveillance state and the implications of political activism being labeled ‘terrorism’. The presentation which is equal parts personal story, radical history and organizing philosophies asks questions about how we engage in social change, the real and perceived challenges presented by the state and power and dares us to rethink how we engage in creating sustainable and liberatory futures.TRANSCRIPT
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beyond capitalism/ Power
collective liberation
solidarity
direct action
mutual aid
autonomy
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Angola 3
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Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assembliesCommunications centersHealth ClinicsLegal supportEviction defense Women’s shelterFree Schools Gutted houses Food securityCommunity DefenseAid distributionCop watchService workCivil disobedience
Food not bombs
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Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assembliesCommunications centersHealth ClinicsLegal supportEviction defense Women’s shelterFree Schools Gutted houses Food securityCommunity DefenseAid distributionCop watchService workCivil disobedience
Food not bombs
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Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assembliesCommunications centersHealth ClinicsLegal supportEviction defense Women’s shelterFree Schools Gutted houses Food securityCommunity DefenseAid distributionCop watchService workCivil disobedience
Food not bombs
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Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assembliesCommunications centersHealth ClinicsLegal supportEviction defense Women’s shelterFree Schools Gutted houses Food securityCommunity DefenseAid distributionCop watchService workCivil disobedience
Food not bombs
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Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assembliesCommunications centersHealth ClinicsLegal supportEviction defense Women’s shelterFree Schools Gutted houses Food securityCommunity DefenseAid distributionCop watchService workCivil disobedience
Food not bombs
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Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assembliesCommunications centersHealth ClinicsLegal supportEviction defense Women’s shelterFree Schools Gutted houses Food securityCommunity DefenseAid distributionCop watchService workCivil disobedience
Food not bombs
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Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assembliesCommunications centersHealth ClinicsLegal supportEviction defense Women’s shelterFree Schools Gutted houses Food securityCommunity DefenseAid distributionCop watchService workCivil disobedience
Food not bombs
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Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
hborhood assembliesCommunications centersHealth ClinicsLegal supportEviction defense Women’s shelterFree Schools Gutted houses Food securityCommunity DefenseAid distributionCop watchService workCivil disobedienceFood not bombs
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Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assembliesCommunications centersHealth ClinicsLegal supportEviction defense Women’s shelterFree Schools Gutted houses Food securityCommunity DefenseAid distributionCop watchService workCivil disobedience
Food not bombs
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How can we create engagements, projects and programs with intention outside of disasters?
Disasters reveal failures of Power and fragility of our current systems.
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Creating Power from Below
rethinking our movements
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Dual Power!
Politics/engagements of possibilities
Make long term strategiesBeyond capital ism, Power & civi l ization
Create liberatory spaces
Don’t be afraid
Be kind to ourselves along the way
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Keep Organiz ing for co l lecti ve l iberati on!
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DON’T GIVE UP DON’T GIVE IN
RESIST REBEL
CREATE BUILD!
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