Organize!: Building from the Local for Global Justice
Editor(s): Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, & Eric Shragge
Publisher: PM Press / Between the Lines
Print Length: 336 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Social Science, Political Science
Area: Canada, The United States of America (USA), New Zealand
Topic: Activism, Civil Participation, Scholar & Activist, Scholarship & Knowledge, Research, Social Justice, Social Movement, Racism, Decolonization & Anti-Colonization, Organization, Palestine, Indigenous & Indigeneity, Migrants, Foreign/Migrant Workers, Art & Design, History
What are the ways forward for organizing for progressive social change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crises? How do political activists build power and critical analysis in their daily work for change?
Grounded in struggles in Canada, the United States, Aotearoa/New Zealand, as well as transnational activist networks, Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice links local organizing with global struggles to make a better world. In over twenty chapters written by a diverse range of organizers, activists, academics, lawyers, artists, and researchers, this book weaves a rich and varied tapestry of dynamic strategies for struggle. From community-based labor organizing strategies among immigrant workers to mobilizing psychiatric survivors, from arts and activism for Palestine to organizing in support of Indigenous Peoples, the authors reflect critically on the tensions, problems, limits, and gains inherent in a diverse range of organizing contexts and practices. The book also places these processes in historical perspective, encouraging us to use history to shed light on contemporary injustices and how they can be overcome. Written in accessible language, Organize! will appeal to college and university students, activists, organizers and the wider public.
Contributors include: Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Eric Shragge, Devlin Kuyek, Kezia Speirs, Evelyn Calugay, Anne Petermann, Alex Law, Jared Will, Radha D’Souza, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Norman Nawrocki, Rafeef Ziadah, Maria Bargh, Dave Bleakney, Abdi Hagi Yusef, Mostafa Henaway, Emilie Breton, Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, Rachel Sarrasin, Dolores Chew, David Reville, Kathryn Church, Brian Aboud, Joey Calugay, Gada Mahrouse, Harsha Walia, Mary Foster, Martha Stiegman, Robert Fisher, Yuseph Katiya, and Christopher Reid.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Organize! Looking Back, Thinking Ahead — Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, and Eric Shragge
Activist Research: Mapping Power Relations, Informing Struggles — Aziz Choudry and Devlin Kuyek
Research Partnerships and Local Community Organizing: Reflections by Evelyn Calugay — Kezia Speirs
Fundraising: Politics and Strategies — Anne Petermann
Some Comments on Law and Organizing — Alex Law and Jared Will
Rights, Action, Change: Organize for What? — Radha D’Souza
Escape, Retreat, Revolt: Queer People of Color Living in Montreal Using Photovoice as a Tool for Community Organizing — Edward Ou Jin Lee
Listen to the Music: Work the Music, Organize the Community — Norman Nawrocki
Art for Palestine: “Renarrating” History and the Present — Rafeef Ziadah
Community Organizing: Maori Movement-Building — Maria Bargh
Solidarity, Real and Imagined: Lessons from the 1991 Postal Strike — Dave Bleakney and Abdi Hagi Yusef
Immigrant Worker Organizing in a Time of Crisis: Adapting to the New Realities of Class and Resistance — Mostafa Henaway
Prefigurative Self-Governance and Self-Organization: The Influence of Antiauthoritarian (Pro)Feminist, Radical Queer, and Antiracist Networks in Quebec — Ėmilie Breton, Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, and Rachel Sarrasin (Research Group on Collective Autonomy)
Making Our Space, Taking Our Place: Lessons from Migrant Women’s Organizing in Montreal — Dolores Chew
Mad Activism Enters Its Fifth Decade: Psychiatric Survivor Organizing in Toronto — David Reville and Kathryn Church
Organizing and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Strategy: The Turn to BDS in Palestine Solidarity Politics in Montreal — Brian Aboud
Muhammad Ali and the Moon Migrants — Joey Calugay
Solidarity Tourism and International Development Internships: Some Critical Reflections — Gada Mahrouse
Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity toward a Practice of Decolonization — Harsha Walia
Organizing in Solidarity with “Threats to National Security”: The Campaign against Immigration “Security Certificates” — Mary Foster
Confessions of a Reluctant Food Activist — Martha Stiegman
Building Power Beyond the Grassroots: ACORN Matters — Robert Fisher
Urban Neoliberalism and the Right to the City Alliance — Yuseph Katiya and Christopher Reid
Book Contributors
Aziz Choudry was Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT), University of Johannesburg. He is editor of The University and Social Justice, Activists and the Surveillance State and Just Work? Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today (Pluto, 2020, 2019, 2016).
Source: https://www.plutobooks.com/author/aziz-choudry/
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Jill Hanley is a Professor at the McGill School of Social Work and Scientific Director of the SHERPA University Institute on Migration, Health and Social Services (http://sherpa-recherche.com/). Dr. Hanley’s work focuses on closing the gaps between policies and practice concerning the social rights of migrant populations. This is reflected across the various realms of her work, including at Sherpa, where she leads a team of researchers in studies to enhance front-line interventions with migrants and propose policy changes to improve access to social rights by this group.
Source: https://www.mcgill.ca/socialwork/about/people/faculty/hanley
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Eric Shragge is the Principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University. His research interests include community organizing, community economic development, workfare, and social economy. His publications include Community Economic Development: Building for Social Change with Michael Taye, Cape Breton University Press, 2006; Action Communautaire: derieves and possibilities, Eco-Societe, 2006, Activism and Social Change: Lessons for Community and Local Organizing, Broadview Press, 2003.
Source: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/authors/view/eric-shragge
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