Black Flags and Windmills: Creating grassroots power from below 2014 edition
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.
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- 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
- 43. How can we create engagements, projects and programs with intention outside of disasters? Disasters reveal failures of Power and fragility of our current systems.
- 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
- 46. Keep Organizing for collective liberation!
- 47. DON’T GIVE UP DON’T GIVE IN RESIST REBEL CREATE BUILD!
Editor's Notes
- This is the edited and shortened version
- This is the full PP/ Greenscare slide
- Don’t give in Don’t give up ENDING CORRECTED