What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is
a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers
building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
Longtime
organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine
some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the
convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and
consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that
will require mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both
state violence and environmental disaster.
The book is
intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to
map their own journeys through the work of justice-making. It
includes insights from a spectrum of experienced organizers, including
Sharon Lungo, Carlos Saavedra, Ejeris Dixon, Barbara Ransby, and Ruth
Wilson Gilmore about some of the difficult and joyous lessons they have
learned in their work.
"This is
a prophetic work, one that will be pressed with great urgency into the
palms of friends and comrades, kin and colleagues, and anyone else ready
to rise up against machineries of mass death. With great clarity and
generosity, Hayes and Kaba model how participants in movements can be
tough on systems while being gentle with one another and themselves,
nurturing a "counterculture of care" as an integral part of building the
next world." —Naomi Klein, author, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
“Let This Radicalize You is
a beacon of world-making potential you won't find anywhere else. In the
wretched catastrophes of the racial capitalocene, this book is your
guide to elsewhere, and it is brilliant." —Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, coauthor, Rehearsals for Living
