Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society
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Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society
Book Talk with author Andrew Cornell
At the Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
June 3rd 7-9pm
more info: thesquirrel.org/ 585-305-1594
Movement for a New Society, a radical pacifist organization active in the 1970s and 1980s, pioneered forms of consensus decision making, communal living, direct action, and self-education now central to antiauthoritarian movements.
Yet members found their commitments to “live the revolution now” often alienated potential allies and distracted them from confronting their opponents, while their distrust of leadership and commitment to cumbersome group processes made it difficult to keep their analysis and strategy cutting-edge.
In this talk, followed by a discussion, Andrew Cornell will place Movement for a New Society in the broader history of U.S. anarchism and post-1960s radicalism, while offering an assessment of the strategies and conceptual tools it left to current movements.
Andrew Cornell is an educator, organizer and writer who has worked in labor, global justice, prison abolition, and other social movements. Cornell has written for periodicals such as Left Turn, Z Magazine, Utne Reader, MRzine. He is completing a book about U.S. anarchism in the mid-20th century as a postdoctoral fellow at Haverford College in Philadelphia.
