Tomorrow, activist and scholar Chris Dixon will give a talk at Brown University about the convergence of social movements and grassroots organizing.
From the event facebook page:
"Reinventing Radicalism: Anti-Authoritarian Activism in North America" will discuss how the last decade has seen the exciting convergence of anti-authoritarian radicalism and broader-based movements in the U.S. and Canada. Coming out of this convergence, a growing cohort of activists are developing shared politics, practices, and sensibilities based in overlapping areas of work. This cohort is a political tendency, the anti-authoritarian current, which cuts across a range of left social movements. What distinguishes this current is its commitment to combining anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist politics with grassroots organizing among ordinary, non-activist people. Drawing on in-depth interviews with organizers across North America, this presentation will trace the strands that have led into the anti-authoritarian current, explore the defining principles of its politics, and the discuss questions it poses for all of us committed to social transformation.
Chris Dixon is a scholar and longtime activist who received his PhD from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His writing has appeared in numerous book collections as well as periodicals such as Anarchist Studies, Left Turn, Social Movement Studies, and Upping the Anti. He is currently completing a book, tentatively titled Against and Beyond, based on interviews with anti-authoritarian organizers across the U.S. and Canada involved in broader-based movements.
This event will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Smith-Buonanno room
201. This lecture is the first in a series entitled "Global Resistance
to Neoliberalism," and is sponsored by a Graduate International
Colloquium grant from Brown University's Office of International Affairs. Those of you unable to attend can find a video of this talk hosted on vimeo.
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