Rad Manual

Pick/Choose Topics:

Kamala

• Organizations
• Good/Bad practices
• Dos/Donts/Tips/Tricks
• How radicals are used/brainwashed
• Cooperatives

Mel

• International/Solidarity
• Art/Photographs/Spoken Word/Symbols
• Vox Pop/Word in the Herd
• Womyn's perspective
• Glossary.

Theory

• Incorporation
• Direct Action
• Space
• Funding
• Education:
  • "...vision of progressive revolutionary change was based of the role of critical education in achieving mass political consciousness with democratic, grassroots base rather than an elite leadership"-(Margaret Ledwith in Community Development: A Critical Approach, talking of Antonio Gramsci).
• Midwest Academy Strategy Chart: P. 156 from E. Shragge 1st course pack.

Dos/donts/tips/tricks

• Meetings

Everywhere/everyone

• links
• International
• Art
• Women's perspectives

Deadline: JULY 31 2009 Have everything compiled.

Notes

• Zine Library

http://zinelibrary.info/

Art

Claire Fontaine- Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike http://zinelibrary.info/ready-made-artist-and-human-strike "What I'm trying to do is point to a future when art will no longer exist as a category seperate from life."-Jerry Dreva

Art/Photographs/Spoken Word/Symbols

• culture that is part of liberation

womyn

• Men in Feminism: Men must struggle to create for themselves a kind of experience of their own gender location which male supremacy has forbidden.Sandra Harding ( p.286)
• Feminism and the Liberal/Radical Split: the achievement of full freedom for women (all women, not a privileged few) presupposes such profound economic, social and political changes that, were such a historical development to take place, the present status quo could not and would not survive. Hester Eisenstein (p. xvii)
• A serious anarchism must also be feminist, otherwise it is a question of patriarchal half-anarchism, and not real anarchism. Anarchist Federation of Norway

Jargon Glossary (definition and use

• • Direct Action: Acting directly to represent our interest ourselves. Refers to any action that cuts out the middle man and solves problems directly, eithout appealing to elected reps, corporate interests, and other powers. (taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)
  • Consensus: A process which requires an environment in which all contributions are valued and participation is encouraged.(taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)
  • Gender fluidity: The belief that social constructions of gender identity and gender roles lie along a spectrum and cannot be limited to two genders; a feeling that one's gender varies from societal notions of two genders.
  • Pansexual: A term of choice for people who do not self-identify as bisexual, finding themselves attracted to people across a spectrum of genders.
  • Privilege: Special rights, advantages, or immunity granted to, or assumed by, certain groups and considered by them as their right; for example in the United States, privilege accrues mostly to whites, to heterosexual people, and most of all, to white, heterosexual males.
  • Intervention: Action to change a situation for the better; a deliberate, organized effort to improve the circumstances of one or more individuals by altering the environment, policies, and/or circumstances facing or affecting those individuals
  • Affinity Group: An affinity group is a small group of 5 to 20 people who work together autonomously on direct actions or other projects. You can form an affinity group with your friends, people from your community, workplace,or organization. Affinity groups challenge top-down decision-making and organizing, and empower those involved to take creative direct action.(taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)
  • Collectives:A collective is a permanent organizational grouping that exists to accomplish a range of tasks or achieve a goal or maintain a permanent project.
  • Federation: Federations are essentially unions of autonomous organizations and/or affinity groups. Federations are formal organizations with constitutions, bylaws, and specific membership guidelines.(taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)
  • Participation :
  • Direct Democracy : Literal direct democracy is a bottom up method of decision making that uses voting as the means to arrive at decisions. In direct democracy, anyone can call a vote on an issue and anyone can technically call an assembly, however, a group or council can draft and approve guidelines for calling votes and calling assemblies.(taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)
• Anarchism: "While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary for society, and instead advocate more co-operative, anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic organisation." (The Politics of Individualism, p. 106) L. Susan Brown
• Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily courage in non-cooperation with the tyrannical forces of the State and the Church, he helps to tear down present society; the Anarchist by daily cooperation with his fellows in overcoming evil with good-will and solidarity builds toward the anarchistic commonwealth which is formed by voluntary action with the right of secession.

— Ammon Hennacy, The Book of Ammon, 1964

• Community :
• Organizing : This term can mean different things to different communities. Organizing can refer to the process of base building and strengthening social movements by working with people in affected communities to define their objectives, and co-creating a strategy to achieve those objectives. Other organizing models focus more on engaging people outside of affected communities to support an issue or campaign. Yes, there is a tension between the two. Organizing activities, no matter the tactical model, can include education, outreach, power mapping, advocacy, civil disobedience, long-term relationship building, and targeting decision makers to affect policy.

Social action : Marginalized : Power : Process : Sustainable : Grassroots : Change : Capacity building : Solidarity : Structure : System(ic) :

• • Safe space: A place where anyone can relax and be fully self-expressed, without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable, unwelcome, or unsafe on account of biological sex, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, cultural background, age, or physical or mental ability; a place where the rules guard each person's self-respect and dignity and strongly encourage everyone to respect others
  • Oppression : Refers to the subordination, marginalization, and exclusion from society of these groups, thereby denying them social justice, citizenship, and full democratic rights to participate in society. (Margaret Ledwith in Community Development: A Critical Approach). Oppression is structural and refers to the vast and deep injustices some folks suffer as a consequence of often unconscious assumptions and reactions of well-meaning people in ordinary interactions, media, and cultural stereoptypes, and structural features of bureaucratic hierarchies and market mechanisms. (Taken from Iris Marion Young, Five Faces of Oppression).
  • Sexual minority: An umbrella term for people whose sexuality is expressed in less common ways; may include people who self-identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, Two-Spirit, third gender, and so on.
  • Two-Spirit: A term whose definition varies across Native American cultures, but which generally means a person born with one biological sex and fulfilling at least some of the gender roles assigned to both sexes; often considered part male and part female or wholly male and wholly female; often revered as natural peace makers as well as healers and shamans.

Anti-oppression : advocacy : Poor : Intervention : Asset-based : Mobilization : Neo-liberal agenda: LGBTQ : Political : Ecological : Non-profit organizations : Incorporation : Social Economy : Cooperative :

Community org. and CED practice (J.Panet Raymond's coursepack)

• Self-mobilization : spread if government and NGOs provide an enabling framework of support. Such self-initiated mobilization may or may not challenge existing distributions of wealth and power.

Pretty’s typology of participation (1995) p.46

• Space :

p.47

• Participation :

p.48, p.50 p.62. Community org. and CED practice

• Organizing :

p.53, p. 54, p.58 - SIMs : single issue mobilisation - approaches; community development and social action p.55, 56

• Ten tools for organizing power (p.59, p.64)

Activism and social change (shragge)

• Theory p. 60-61

• Organizing models : p. 68-69-70

Crypto-anarchism/techno-anarchism

[10:43:42 PM] David H. Mason: well the internet is supposed to be promote autonomism.. check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism ... and there are a lot of libertarian trends.. would be interesting to link them.. hah hah.. libcom is supposed to be include these perspectives, derived from software and media piracy, but you'd also run into cryptography and survivalist types.. http://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Alibcom.org+anarchism+technology

• [10:43:56 PM] Mélanie Hughes: perfect thanks
• [10:46:07 PM] David H. Mason: well i hope you run across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Anarchism hah hah