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.
26. Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assemblies
Communications centers
Health Clinics
Legal support
Eviction defense
Women’s shelter
Free Schools
Gutted houses
Food security
Community Defense
Aid distribution
Cop watch
Service work
Civil disobedience
Food not bombs
27. Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assemblies
Communications centers
Health Clinics
Legal support
Eviction defense
Women’s shelter
Free Schools
Gutted houses
Food security
Community Defense
Aid distribution
Cop watch
Service work
Civil disobedience
Food not bombs
28. Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assemblies
Communications centers
Health Clinics
Legal support
Eviction defense
Women’s shelter
Free Schools
Gutted houses
Food security
Community Defense
Aid distribution
Cop watch
Service work
Civil disobedience
Food not bombs
29. Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assemblies
Communications centers
Health Clinics
Legal support
Eviction defense
Women’s shelter
Free Schools
Gutted houses
Food security
Community Defense
Aid distribution
Cop watch
Service work
Civil disobedience
Food not bombs
30. Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assemblies
Communications centers
Health Clinics
Legal support
Eviction defense
Women’s shelter
Free Schools
Gutted houses
Food security
Community Defense
Aid distribution
Cop watch
Service work
Civil disobedience
Food not bombs
31. Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assemblies
Communications centers
Health Clinics
Legal support
Eviction defense
Women’s shelter
Free Schools
Gutted houses
Food security
Community Defense
Aid distribution
Cop watch
Service work
Civil disobedience
Food not bombs
32. Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assemblies
Communications centers
Health Clinics
Legal support
Eviction defense
Women’s shelter
Free Schools
Gutted houses
Food security
Community Defense
Aid distribution
Cop watch
Service work
Civil disobedience
Food not bombs
33. Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
hborhood assemblies
Communications centers
Health Clinics
Legal support
Eviction defense
Women’s shelter
Free Schools
Gutted houses
Food security
Community Defense
Aid distribution
Cop watch
Service work
Civil disobedience
Food not bombs
34. Direct Action * Mutual Aid * Organizing * Outreach
Common Ground Collective projects
Neighborhood assemblies
Communications centers
Health Clinics
Legal support
Eviction defense
Women’s shelter
Free Schools
Gutted houses
Food security
Community Defense
Aid distribution
Cop watch
Service work
Civil disobedience
Food not bombs
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43. How can we create engagements, projects and programs
with intention outside of disasters?
Disasters reveal failures of Power and fragility of our current
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45. Dual Power!
Politics/engagements of possibilities
Make long term strategies
Beyond capitalism, Power & civilization
Create liberatory spaces
Don’t be afraid
Be kind to ourselves along the way