Let This Radicalize You Virtual Book Launch

Join us for a virtual launch event celebrating the release of Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba.
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What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both state violence and environmental disaster.
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Speakers include Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Tony Alvarado Rivera , Ejeris Dixon, Aly Wane and Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018.
Kelly Hayes is the host of Truthout’s podcast “Movement Memos” and a contributing writer at Truthout. Kelly’s written work can also be found in Teen Vogue, Bustle, Yes! Magazine, Pacific Standard, NBC Think, her blog Transformative Spaces, The Appeal, the anthology The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail At Showing Up For Each Other In the Fight For Freedom and Truthout’s anthology on movements against state violence, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Kelly is also a direct action trainer and a co-founder of the direct action collective Lifted Voices.
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[@jessicaphoenix1312]

This is a perfect title and I hope folks are excited to check this book out!

[@robmack2837]

I heard Mariame Kaba on Ibram X's show. I am a black man but I would love to hear her debate her views with someone astute in these matters from the other side of the spectrum. Maybe victims of crime or people living in crime ridden areas who want to have more criminals arrested. Maybe police who witness the ravages of crime on families and communities. Often social justice people are given a free pass to extol their lofty ideas which oftentimes lead to unintentional, yet deleterious outcomes.

[@nihilioellipsis]

I haven't listened to this yet but I have heard Kelli speak a number of times describing actual work and encounters with local neighborhood people involved in a variety of community issues. your point is very well taken though about the seemingly common disconnection between local people experiencing violence and other negative things in their own local lives versus activists who are at somewhat of a distance. what are the reasons I like the movie Norma Rae with Sally Field is that the outside union organizer who eventually did leave involved himself in the whole community and the lives of individuals. that's a Hollywood movie based on true stories, so I don't know how accurate the portrayal is. But I also have worked in some community support and activism efforts focused around education, including neighborhood Chamber of Commerce, adult literacy, teacher training and youth tutoring/scholarship programs, &c. my degrees of personal collection with people I worked with varied from living in the same community to living away from the community. other people doing similar work whom I know and who do the best work always live in the same community as the people they collaborate with on some type of improvement or another.