Foreword: Radicalization Is Vital by Maya SchenwarIntroduction:
Remaking the World by Kelly HayesIntroduction: We Can Only Survive
Together by Mariame KabaChapter 1: Beyond Alarm, toward Action
Chapter 2: Refusing to Abandon
Chapter 3: Care Is Fundamental
Chapter 4: Think Like a Geographer
Chapter 5: Rejecting Cynicism and Building Broader Movements
Chapter 6: "Violence" in Social Movements
Chapter 7: Don’t Pedestal Organizers
Chapter 8: Hope and Grief Can Coexist
Chapter 9: Organizing Isn’t Matchmaking
Chapter 10: Avoiding Burnout and Going the DistanceConclusion:
Relationships, Reciprocity, and Struggle by Kelly HayesConclusion:
Beyond Doom, toward Collective Action by Mariame KabaAfterword:
Movements Make Life by Harsha Walia
Mariame Kabais an organizer, educator, librarian, and prison
industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements
for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba is the founder
and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization
with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame co-leads the
initiative Interrupting Criminalization, a project she co-founded
with Andrea Ritchie in 2018.
Kaba is the author of theNew York TimesBestsellerWe Do This Til We
Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice(Haymarket
Press 2021),Missing Daddy(Haymarket 2019),Fumbling Towards Repair:
A Workbook for Community Accountability Faciltators with Shira
Hassan (Project NIA, 2019),See You Soon(Haymarket, March 2022)
andNo More Police: A Case for Abolitionwith Andrea Ritchie (The New
Press, Aug 2022).
Kelly Hayes is a Menominee author, organizer, movement educator, and photographer. She is also the host of Truthout's podcast Movement Memos. Hayes is a cofounder of the Lifted Voices collective and the Chicago Light Brigade. Her written work is featured in numerous publications and multiple anthologies, includingWho Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States(Haymarket Books, 2016),Education in Movement Spaces: Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square(Routledge, 2020), andThe Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail at Showing Up for Each Other in the Fight for Freedom(BGD Press, 2016). Hayes also coauthored an essay with Mariame Kaba in Kaba's bookWe Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice(Haymarket Books, 2021). Hayes's movement photography is featured in the Freedom and Resistance exhibit of the DuSable Museum of African American History.
"[Let This Radicalize You] is both a how-to guide for community
activists and a deeply-felt assessment of how we can better support
one another to sustain lifelong involvement in progressive
efforts.... [The Book] is a well-wrought antidote to the pervasive
despair of living in Trumpian times.... Kaba is known for reminding
those in her orbit to see crises as opportunities for radical
action rather than hopelessness. Let This Radicalize You urges us
forward, prodding us to bring the world we want into existence with
creativity, persistence and sass." -The Indypendent "Let This
Radicalize You is critical reading for anyone wishing the world
were a better place than it is." --Inquest
"This is a prophetic work, one that will be pressed with great
urgency into the palms of friends and comrades, kin and colleagues,
and anyone else ready to rise up against machineries of mass death.
With great clarity and generosity, Hayes and Kaba model how
participants in movements can be tough on systems while being
gentle with one another and themselves, nurturing a "counterculture
of care" as an integral part of building the next world." --Naomi
Klein, author, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal "In
this time of perpetual crisis, when too many of our movements are
imploding and the work often feels soul crushing, Kelly Hayes and
Mariame Kaba have turned decades of collective wisdom and
experience into the text we desperately need right now. This book
will radicalize even the 'radicals' by reminding us that to be
radical is not to have all the answers or some special portal into
transcendent knowledge. It is about seeing and moving differently
in the world. It means having the courage to imagine, make
mistakes, to trust, listen, learn, think, and rethink; to resist
punditry, pedestals, and perfection; to reject cynicism and embrace
critical analysis; to plot, to hold on, to care and commune, to
show up, to love. They teach us to mourn and organize, and that we
who believe in freedom have to rest. And they understand better
than anyone what Dr. King meant when he called on us to 'rededicate
ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new
world.'" --Robin D. G. Kelley, author, Freedom Dreams: The Black
Radical Imagination "Let This Radicalize You is a rich treasury of
practical lessons and insights from organizers and activists across
many of today's most important sites of struggle. Through deeply
moving storytelling, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba share a stirring
vision of commitment and collaboration that is rooted in love,
reality, and solidarity--and one that doesn't shy away from the
challenges we face inside and outside our movements or the high
stakes. This book is a gift for everyone, no matter their level of
political engagement, interested in building the new worlds of care
and mutual flourishing that we need." --Astra Taylor, author,
Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions "There is so much
incredible goodness between these covers. How I wish I had this
wisdom when I was young. Everything within fills me with hope and
joy for our future. This book is about reclaiming our humanity and
care for one another as we seek to heal ourselves and our world. It
is an essential work that can change the course of the history we
create each day!" --Lisa Fithian, author, Shut It Down: Stories
from a Fierce, Loving Resistance "Let this Radicalize You is geared
toward helping young orga
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