By Helen Zhao There is a great line in Alyssa Battistoni’s “Spadework”: “…organizing conversations allowed you to air grievances long suppressed in the name of politeness or professionalism, to create a space for politics where it wasn’t supposed to be.”… Continue Reading
By Alyssa Battistoni One of the things I was struggling with in “Spadework” is the question of politics and time—not only the time of one’s own life and decisions about how to spend it, but time in the sense of… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Today’s organizers — not activists, thank you — make clear that they are not black bloc participants brawling with police or hippies plotting a love-in. They are inspired by a tradition of professional revolutionaries, by Lenin’s exhortation that “unless the… Continue Reading