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From housing struggles to food politics, from poor people's movements to radical art projects, from the Right to the City Alliance to the US Social Forum, Uses of a Whirlwind explores the current composition of social movements in the United States. With equal emphasis placed on movement history and movement building, Whirlwind is a call to action for a new decade of organizing. Contributors include Robin DG Kelley, Grace Lee Boggs, Michael Hardt, Chris Carlsson, Take Back the Land, Domestic Workers United, the Starbucks Workers Union, Brian Tokar, Dorothy Kidd, and Ashanti Alston.
Team Colors is a geographically dispersed militant research collective.
Craig Hughes: Craig Hughes is an anarchist, atheist, activist and independent researcher who currently lives in Washington, DC. Hughes is a member of the Executive Committee of the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network and has been involved in numerous organizing efforts since he became involved in punk and radical politics during the 1990s. He holds masters degrees in History, as well as Social Work and Community Organizing, for which he has to pay back a very large amount of money in loans.
Stevie Peace: Stevie Peace (editor and contributor) is a writer and organizer from Shoreview, Minnesota. Peace was first interviewed by Team Colors through his work at the Common Ground Health Clinic in New Orleans, and now participates as the newest member of the collective. Peace continues his support for Black Liberation in the wake of Gulf Coast recovery through the Anti-Racist Working Group National Solidarity Network; he currently works for Restorative Justice Community Action in Minneapolis. Peace’s writings have been published in AZiNe and Borderlands: Tales from Disputed Territories Between Races and Cultures. He is currently planning a compilation narrative project of Asian America's political recomposition and its potential sites of radical struggle.
Kevin Van Meter: Kevin Van Meter is an organizer and researcher originally from Long Island and currently based in Portland, Oregon. Van Meter appears, along with Benjamin Holtzman and Craig Hughes, in the AK Press collection Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation, Collective Theorization, with an article titled "DIY and the Movement Beyond Capitalism”; and has written for a variety of radical publications and zines. Van Meter is finalizing a Masters Degree in Political Science, focusing on current political theory, everyday resistance and social movements, at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
A. Team Colors Collective, “Acknowledgements and Dedication”
B. Andrej Grubacic and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “Yet Unnamed Preface”.
C. Team Colors Collective, “Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible” (Introduction).
D. Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst and Christina Ulke | The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, “The Whirlwinds Project in Context”.
E. Team Colors Collective “Section Summaries: Organizational Case Studies, Movement Strategies, Theoretical Analysis, Interviews”.
1. Malav Kanuga | Bluestockings Books, Café and Activist Center, “Bluestockings Bookstore and New Institutions of Self-Organized Work: The Space between Common Notions and Common Institutions”.
2. Direct Action to Stop the War, “Anti-Authoritarian Organizing in Practice”.
3. Roadblock Earth First!, “A Look At Resistance to Interstate 69 (Past, Present, and Future)”.
4. IWW Starbucks Workers Union, “The Precarious Economy and its Discontents: Struggling Against the Corporate Chains Through Workplace Organizing”.
5. Student / Farmworker Alliance, “Harvesting Solidarity: Farmworkers, Allies, and the Fight for Fair Food”
6. Marina Karides | US Social Forum Documentation Committee, “What’s Going On? The United States Social Forum, Grassroots Activism, and Situated Knowledge”.
7. Harmony Goldberg, “Building Power in the City: Reflections on the Emergence of the Right to the City Alliance and the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance”.
8. Basav Sen, “Local Struggles, Global Contexts: Building movements in North America in the age of globalized capital”
9. John Peck | Family Farm Defenders, “You Are What You Eat: The Food Sovereignty Struggle within the Global Justice Movement”
10. Brian Tokar, “Toward a Movement for Peace and Climate Justice”
11. Stevie Peace | Team Colors Collective, “The Desire to Heal: Harm Intervention in a Landscape of Restorative Justice and Critical Resistance”.
12. Ben Shepard, “DIY Politics and Queer Activism”
13. Julie Perini, “Art as Intervention: A Guide to Today’s Radical Art Practices”
14. Dorothy Kidd (“Yet Unnamed Chapter”).
15. Daniel Tucker | AREA Chicago, “Getting to know your city and the social movements that call it home: The hybrid networking and documentary work of AREA Chicago”.
16. Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias, “Transatlantic Translations: A Trilogy of Insurgent Knowledges”
17. Michael Hardt and El Kilombo Intergaláctico, “Organizing Encounters and Generating Events”.
18. Brian Marks, “Living in a Whirlwind, or the Food / Work / Energy Crisis”
19. George Caffentzis, “Notes on the Financial Crisis: From Meltdown to Deep Freeze”
20. Silvia Federici, “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons In an Era of Primitive Accumulation”
21. Peter Linebaugh, “Pallas and the Peoples Business”
22. Chris Carlsson, “Radical Patience: Feeling Effective Over the Long Haul”
23. Team Colors Collective and Benjamin Holtzman, “Challenging Power and Creating New Spaces for Possibility: A Discussion with Robin D.G. Kelley”
24. Team Colors Collective, “Confronting Fear, Configuring the New: A Discussion with Ashanti Omowali Alston”.
25. Team Colors Collective, “A Special Time on the Clock of the World: A Discussion with Grace Lee Boggs”
Y. Team Colors Collective, “Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible” (Conclusion).
Z. Biographies.