“Demonstrates how we have the means at hand to extinguish the blaze and reset our wayward course towards a more livable and just planet for all.”—Simon Spring, author, The Anarchist Roots of Geography\nAre alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope.\nAcross the world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to realize their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetary destruction, often pitted against the new megaprojects promoted by greenwashed alternative energy infrastructures and the neocolonialist, technocratic policies that are the forerunners of the Green New Deal. Topics include:\n*The Situation Now and Our Likely Futures 
*The Ecological Crisis beyond Carbon 
*Foxes Building Henhouses: Government Promises and Market Solutions 
*The Solutions Are Already Here: We Have Stopped Pipelines, Airports, Highways, and Mines 
*Finding Our Place in a Damaged Ecology 
*Fighting Where We Live: From Cities to Habitats 
*A Thousand Worlds Struggling to Be Born: Ecosystems of Revolt 
*Ecological Revolution: The Best Strategy in Success or Failure 
*Ecological Imaginations: Plotting a Total Transformation of Human Existence 
*Justice and Reconciliation: Making Sure Mass Murder Doesn't Pay 
*Present Steps in the Networking of Local and Global Spaces\nGelderloos interviews food sovereignty activists in Venezuela, indigenous communities reforesting their lands in Brazil, and anarchists fighting biofuel plantations in Indonesia, looking at the battles that have cancelled airports, stopped pipelines, and helped the most marginalized to fight borders and environmental racism, to transform their cities, to win a dignified survival.\nAs the climate crisis worsens, we must look to revolutionary strategy for justice. Here is the information everyone needs to understand the problem and plot new, path-breaking, even revolutionary solution.

The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below

Business & Money

Gelderloos, Peter

Economics

Pluto Press

The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below

Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities—even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.
Contemporary movements for social change face plenty of difficult questions, but sometimes matters of strategy and tactics receive low priority. Many North American activists fail to scrutinize the role of nonviolence, never posing essential questions:
• Is nonviolence effective at ending systems of oppression?
• Does nonviolence intersect with white privilege and the dominance of North over South?
• How does pacifism reinforce the same power dynamic as patriarchy?
• Ultimately, does nonviolence protect the state?
 Peter Gelderloos is a radical community organizer. He is the author of Consensus: A New Handbook for Grassroots Political, Social, and Environmental Groups and a contributor to Letters From Young Activists. He is the co-facilitator of a workshop on the prison system, and is also involved in independent media, copwatching, anti-oppression work, and anarchist organizing.

How Nonviolence Protects the State

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

South End Press

According to Worshiping Power, we need to stop thinking of the State as a potential vehicle for emancipation. From its origins, the State has never been anything other than a tool to accumulate power. This innovative and partisan study of human social complexity cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to uncover social practices and institutions that have stifled egalitarian forms of self-organization throughout history. Just as importantly, it shows that the difficulties and consequences of state formation are not relegated to prehistory. Despite a ubiquity that renders them almost invisible today, states are constantly trying to augment their power, and all are closer to the brink of collapse than they would like to let on.Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is the author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, and Anarchy Works.Table of ContentsIntroductionI. Take Me to Your Leader:: The Politics of Alien InvasionII. Ze Germans: A State-Making TechnologyIII. Save Me from Yourself: The Statist Spread of Salvation ReligionsIV. Sleeper States and Imperial Imaginaries: Authority’s Afterlife and ReincarnationV. The Modern State: A Revolutionary HybridVI. Zomia: A Topography of PositionalityVII. Chiefdoms and Megacommunities: On the Stability of Non-State HierarchiesVIII. They Ain’t Got No Class: Surpluses and the StateIX. All in the Family: Kinship and StatehoodX. Building the Walls Higher: From Raiding to WarfareXI. Staff and Sun: A New Symbolic OrderXII. A Forager’s Mecca: Dreams of PowerXIII. From Clastres to Cairo to Kobane: Learning from StatesBibliographyIndex

Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation

History

World

AK Press

This quick-and-easy facilitator's guide to consensus decision making supposes no prior experience on the part of the reader and breaks the consensus process down logically in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step manner. A highly structured format allows the guide to serve not only as a how-to for the uninitiated, but also as a reference manual for those already familiar with the consensus process. While intended primarily for grassroots political and environmental groups, this handbook can be used in academia, in the corporate world, and by anyone who wants to cooperate with consensus.

Consensus: A New Handbook for Grassroots Political, Social and Environmental Groups

Social Sciences

See Sharp Pr

Philosophy

Detritus Books

Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities--even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.

In the years since the end of the Cold War many new social movements have started peacefully, only to adopt a diversity of tactics as they grew in strength and collective experiences. The last ten years have revealed more clearly than ever the role of nonviolence. Propped up by the media, funded by the government, and managed by NGOs, nonviolent campaigns around the world have helped oppressive regimes change their masks, and have helped police to limit the growth of rebellious social movements. Repeatedly losing the debate within the movements themselves, proponents of nonviolence have increasingly turned to the mainstream media and to government and institutional funding to drown out critical voices.The Failure of Nonviolence examines most of the major social upheavals following the Cold War to reveal the limits of nonviolence and uncover what a diverse, unruly, non-pacified movement can accomplish. Critical of how a diversity of tactics has functioned so far, this book discusses how movements for social change can win ground and open the spaces necessary to plant the seeds of a new world.

The Failure of Nonviolence

Military

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The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below

The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below

How Nonviolence Protects the State

Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation

Consensus: A New Handbook for Grassroots Political, Social and Environmental Groups

How Nonviolence Protects the State

How Nonviolence Protects the State

The Failure of Nonviolence