Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective - Couverture souple

Crow, Scott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1604864532 ISBN 13 : 9781604864533

Editeur : PM Press, 2014

Synopsis

When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans in 2005, scott crow cofounded the Common Ground Collective. Without government, FEMA ot the Red Cross, this volunteer organisation built medical clinics, set up food and water distribution and created community gardens. They resisted home demolitions, white militias, police brutality and FEMA's incompetence. crow's vivid memoir maps the intertwining of his radical experience and ideas with Hurricane Katrina's reality, and community efforts to translate ideals into action and resist indifference.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

scott crow is an Austin, TX-based anarchist community organizer, writer, and trainer who began working on anti-apartheid, international political prisoner and animal rights issues in the mid-1980s. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of several social justice groups and education projects throughout Texas and the South including Common Ground Collective (with Malik Rahim), Radical Encuentro Camp, UPROAR (United People Resisting Oppression and Racism), Dirty South Earth First!, and North Texas Coalition for a Just Peace. He has trained and organized for Greenpeace, Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, ACORN, Forest Ethics, and Ralph Nader, and many smaller grassroots groups. He is currently collaborating on sustainable, democratic, economic mutual aid projects within Austin.

Kathleen Cleaver served as the spokesperson and was the first female member of the Black Panther Party's decision-making body. She is a senior lecturer in law at Emory University and the author of Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party.

John P. Clark is an eco-communitarian anarchist theorist and activist. He lives and works in New Orleans, where his family has been for twelve generations. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community and The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PM Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1604864532
• ISBN 13: 9781604864533
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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