11/14: Pages for Progress – A Nonfiction Book Club
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This new quarterly gathering will be a non-fiction book club rooted in community education, collective action, and a deep love for the people that make us great: YOU!
Beginning November 14, Pages For Progress will begin meeting quarterly to discuss a non-fiction book, followed by an activity that gives actionable steps toward something we can do in our community to support the causes that matter to the group.
Our first choice is ‘Let This Radicalize You’ by longtime organizers and educators Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. The book is an assemblage of co-authored reflections, interviews and questions that are intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own journeys through the work of justice-making. We hope you’ll join us this November.
If you order a copy of the book through the store, you get a 10% discount. Give us a call, an email, or stop in to place your order.
About the book
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You 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.
The book is an assemblage of co-authored reflections, interviews and questions that are intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own journeys through the work of justice-making. It includes insights from a spectrum of experienced organizers, including Sharon Lungo, Carlos Saavedra, Ejeris Dixon, Barbara Ransby, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore about some of the difficult and joyous lessons they have learned in their work.