Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?
Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance
- 300 pages
- English
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Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?
Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance
About this book
"Each of these essays is a sharpened weapon for the battles looming large on the horizon." -George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Building the Commune
"Combining the most creative thought from the global North and South, Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? promises to be an indispensable resource for understanding why the new revolutionary movement of the 21st century will emerge from the ranks of the most marginalized by capitalism and colonialism." -Ajamu Baraka, editor of Black Agenda Report
Even mainstream media like the New York Times and The Economist have recently posed the question: Why don't the poor rise up?, uneasily amazed that capitalism hasn't met with greater resistance. In the context of unparalleled global wealth disparity, ecological catastrophe, and myriad forms of structural oppression, this vibrant collection offers a reassessment of contemporary obstacles to mass mobilization, as well as examples from around the world of poor people overcoming those obstacles in inspiring and instructive new ways. With contributions from Idle No More cofounder Alex Wilson, noted Italian theorist Franco "Bifo" Berardi, and nineteen other scholars and activists from around the world, Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? presents a truly global range of perspectives that explore the question of revolution, its objective and subjective prerequisites, and its increasing likelihood in our time.
Ajamu Nangwaya, Ph.D., is an educator at Seneca College with over twenty-five years of experience in community organizing and advocacy.
Michael Truscello, Ph.D., is an educator at Mount Royal University and author of the forthcoming book- The Infrastructure Society.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- THE GLOBAL NORTH
- Idle No More
- An American Exception
- Until We Win
- Some Thoughts on White Supremacy and Jesus as Bread and Circuses
- Organizing with Solidarity in Mind
- Trump, The Alt Right, and the New State of Exception
- Not Co-optation nor Charity
- Cultivating the Radical Imagination in the North of the Americas
- On the Spiritual Exploitation of the Poor
- Society Without Sociability
- THE GLOBAL SOUTH
- Engendering Revolt in the Anglophone Caribbean
- “They’ve Turned the Guns on the People!”
- Resource-Full Organized Communities Undermine Systems of Domination
- In Defense of the Territory of Life
- On Fire and the “Multiplications” of the Poor in Mathare, Nairobi
- Critical Consciousness as an Act of Culture
- Powers of the Uncivil
- Contributors
- Index
- Friends of AK
- Copyright