The purpose of power : how we come together when we fall apart / Alicia Garza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garza, Alicia, 1981- author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 313 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : One World, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country's leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter "In a year when a long overdue reckoning with racism is once again in the spotlight, Garza's call to action ... is urgent and critically necessary."-- Time ("The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020") In 2013, Alicia Garza wrote what she called "a love letter to Black people" on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. Garza wrote: Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. With the speed and networking capacities of social media, #BlackLivesMatter became the hashtag heard 'round the world. But Garza knew even then that hashtags don't start movements--people do. Long before #BlackLivesMatter became a rallying cry for this generation, Garza had spent the better part of two decades learning and unlearning some hard lessons about organizing. The lessons she offers are different from the "rules for radicals" that animated earlier generations of activists, and diverge from the charismatic, patriarchal model of the American civil rights movement. She reflects instead on how making room amongst the woke for those who are still awakening can inspire and activate more people to fight for the world we all deserve. This is the story of one woman's lessons through years of bringing people together to create change. Most of all, it is a new paradigm for change for a new generation of changemakers, from the mind and heart behind one of the most important movements of our time.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Garza, Alicia, 1981- The purpose of power

ISBN:

9780525509691

0525509690

Publisher Number:

40030166834

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.