We continue our discussion of building a trans-formative social movement in the United States. On our last program, we looked back at the social movement over the past few years and analyzed it based on the Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements. On this program, speak about the tasks ahead to build consensus and an engaged movement of people pushing for peace, justice and a sustainable way of living. Our guest is David Solnit.
Listen here:
Our Tasks in 2014 to Build a Trans-formative Social Movement with David Solnit by Clearingthefog on Mixcloud
Relevant articles and websites:
People Power Document by David Solnit
Globalize Liberation: 5 Stages For Social Movements by George Lakey
People Power: It’s Time to Stop the War Ourselves by Aimee Allison and David Solnit
Guest:
David Solnit is an organizer, writer and puppeteer. As a direct action, global justice and anti-war organizer, he was an organizer in the shutdowns of the WTO in Seattle in 1999 and in San Francisco the day after Iraq was invaded in 2003. He is an arts organizer, puppeteer and a co-founder of Art and Revolution, using culture, art, giant puppets and theater in mass mobilizations, for popular education and as an organizing tool. David is a direct action, strategy and cultural resistance trainer who currently works with Courage to Resist, supporting GI resistance. He also organizes with anti-corporate capitalist, climate justice, anti-war, human rights, and environmental justice groups against the Chevron Oil Corporation, who has both a toxic refinery and corporate headquarters near his home in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Solnit edited Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World. Army veteran Aimee Allison and he co-wrote Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World (http://www.myspace.com/armyofnonebook). His newest book, co-written with his sister Rebecca Solnit is Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle (AK Press 2008).