Category Archives: Strategy

Towards Collective Liberation – Chris Crass

By Chris Crass

Excellent book on organizing and anarchism. Very practical and relatable examples.

Organizing / leadership
- Supporting people to come together and overcome isolation and feelings of inadequacy is one of the key tasks of organizers, and we can do this by developing a systematic understanding of the problems we face, nurturing relationships of solidarity and respect, building up collective power through action, and working for social change in ways that also help us grow and live our values in the here and now.

2/8/18

Really incredible book. Highly recommend for anyone doing social justice work.

all that you touch
you change
all that you change
changes you
the only lasting truth
is change
god is change

What is Emergent strategy?
- Emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies.

10/10/17

Powerful book on indigenous resistance. Though very dense. I did not read the whole book but I learned a lot.

Government / Settler Culture
- European philosophies have always been much less concerned about the search for truth than with providing intellectual covers for the exercises of brute power by white rulers.

Great book. Highly recommend for anyone doing any kind of social justice work. Especially people trying to build up a movement.

1/4/17

Uprising can be a craft, and that this craft can change our world. Those who practice it tell us that outbreaks of widespread disruption, although commonly misunderstood, are neither flukes nor fleeting failures.

10/15/15

What they mean when they say peace
- Real peace cannot be imposed; it can only emerge as a consequence of the resolution of conflict. hence the classic chant: no justice, no peace.
- That means you can’t have rich people and poor people without police to impose that unequal relation to resources.