Community Organizing in Radical Times: An Interview with Amy Sonnie and James Tracy
A hidden history of the 1960s and what lessons it offers movements in these current radical times.
Articles by Matt Dineen
More than a Symbolic Gesture: Occupy Wall Street and the Rise of the American Autumn
Beginning on September 17th with Occupy Wall Street, a new and dynamic social movement has arrived and is capturing the imagination of millions of people in towns and cities around the world. This is real.
Permanent Autonomous Zone: A Conversation With Zine Writers Erick Lyle and Jeff Miller
What if our lives were filled with moments of liberation from the everyday? Is it possible to carve out spaces that challenge the dominant logic of the market, where we can pursue meaningful work and actualize our dreams? This most daunting task must begin with conversations between co-conspirators.
Indicting Green Capitalism: Heather Rogers’ Green Gone Wrong
In her new book, Green Gone Wrong, Heather Rogers interrogates the efficacy of what is offered to consumers by the Green Marketplace: organic and fair-trade foods, eco-architecture, bio-fuels, hybrid automobiles, and carbon offsets. Going beyond the soundbytes and slogans of corporate greenwashing and inconvenient half-truths, Green Gone Wrong paints a vivid and disturbing reality of environmentalism in the 21st Century.
Beyond the Inauguration: The Shifting Ground of Protest Strategies for Real Change in the Obama Era
"What the cynics fail to understand," Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address, "is that the ground has shifted beneath them-that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply." Can progressive social movements in the United States apply the new president's own words toward successful strategies for truly meaningful change under his administration? What does the lack of visible dissent at Obama's inauguration suggest about the politics of protest and the prospects for global justice in the post-Bush era?
On The Lower Frequencies: An Interview with Author Erick Lyle
"Every time there's a natural disaster you see this wave of people suddenly organized into this help-mode It's in moments of crisis that the system is actually peeled back and you see people naturally organize into these situations of mutual aid It's interesting that the government is always trying to sell itself to us, that without the government it would instantly be like Mad Max and we'd all be killing each other for the last drops of oil. But I'm not so sure that that's true." - Erick Lyle