The Recipe for Resistance: Alicia Garza on Scapegoats, Solidarity, and Strategy, Part 2
Episode Description
In our season finale, host Ejeris Dixon welcomes organizer, author, and strategist Alicia Garza back to finish the conversation on power, and what it takes to beat fascist politics. Alicia lays out a practical “recipe for liberation”: from deepening political education, to building community while rooting the work in love. She argues that while a small amount of people may be unmoved, the vast majority is persuadable. Also, Ejeris reflects on Season 2 of The Fascism Barometer, reminding us about what we've learned, and reviewing concrete action steps we can take to resist fascism and build a powerful resistance.
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.
Resources
Reading
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza
“Mapping Community Defense and Care In Our Neighborhoods” with Kelly Hayes
“Pentagon Admits to Striking Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Drug Links” by Chris Walker, Truthout
“How SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans could be saved during the shutdown” by Amanda Becker, the 19th
“Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’” by Aaron Glantz, the Guardian
Listen
Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times, Movement Memos with Kelly Hayes
Watch
Trump’s Shutdown: Our Healthcare Is On The Line, with Working Families Party
Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails by Democracy Now
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