The Recipe for Resistance: Alicia Garza on Scapegoats, Solidarity, and Strategy, Part 1
Episode Description
Ejeris Dixon welcomes back Alicia Garza for a clear-eyed read of the moment. Garza breaks down how fascism weaponizes white supremacy and emergency politics to manufacture enemies, demand a strongman, and win consent, while reminding us that resistance is a long tradition in Black, immigrant, and trans communities.
Stay tuned for part two of this vital conversation, as Dixon and Garza will discuss concrete power-building moves to "keep the barometer at bay".
About Alicia
Alicia Garza believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve -- to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An author, political strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast, Alicia founded the Black Futures Lab in 2018 to make Black communities powerful in politics. Alicia is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. The Black Lives Matter Global Network now has 40 chapters in four countries. She currently serves as the Senior Vice President for Movement Infrastructure and Explorations at the Freedom Together Foundation. Alicia is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism, and a Senior Advisor to the President at the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
About Ejeris
Ejeris is a political strategist passionate about strengthening liberation movements and building community safety. Ejeris serves as the Fascism Barometer's "movement meteorologist," exploring the impact of fascist movements on communities of color, queer and trans communities, and all marginalized people. Having worked for the past twenty-five years at the intersections of racial justice, LGBTQ liberation, anti-violence, transformative justice, and economic justice movements, Ejeris focuses on creating political and strategic experiments to strengthen social justice movements through the organization Ejerie Labs.
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Trump Directive Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” and “Anti-American” Views as Domestic Terrorism, Democracy Now
Mapping Community Defense and Care In Our Neighborhoods with Kelly Hayes
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza
800 arrests amid Chicago immigration 'blitz' of helicopters and midnight raids, USA Today, Michael Loria Eduardo Cuevas
Trump Just Issued Two of His Most Dangerous Directives Yet, Zeteo, Kim Wehle
White House Anti-Terror Order Targets ‘Anti-Capitalist’ and ‘Anti-American’ Views. Here’s What To Know, USA Today, Solcryé Burga
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team, Wired, Dell Cameron
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We’re Experts in Fascism, We’re Leaving the U.S., New York Times Opinion
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