Home |Register |Sign In Home Top Picks: All Books Direct Action Direct Action by L.A.</p><p> Kauffman Price: $17.95 (Paperback) MorePublished: February 21, 2017 Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) From the Publisher: A vibrant, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the Sixties What happened to the American left after the Sixties? This engrossing account traces the evolution of disruptive protest over the last 40 years to tell a larger story about the reshaping ofAmerican radicalism, showing how the direct-action blockades,occupations, and campaigns of recent activist movements have functioned as laboratories for political experimentation and renewal.</p><p> Propelled by more than 100 candid interviews conducted over a span of decades, thiselegant and lively history showcases the voices of key players in an arrayof movements – environmentalist, anti-nuclear, anti-apartheid, feminist,LGBTQ, anti-globalization, racial-justice, anti-war, and more – across an era when American politics shifted to the right, and issue- and identity- based organizing eclipsed… Rate This Book Add To Wishlist |Rate/Review Add To Bookshelf Get This Book Personalize / Add More ChoicesGo to your preferred retailer, click to choose a format and you' ll be taken directly to their site where you can get this book.</p><p> What We Say "What happened to the American left after the Sixties?" That is the question that has bedeviled activist and journalist L.A.</p><p> Kaufmann, who has been on the ground at protest movements ranging from anti-apartheid to ACT UP/NY to Earth First! andbeyond.</p><p> She's wrestled with that query for years and the result is this scholarly work.</p><p> Most imagine a splintering of the left from its anti-Vietnam focus to a hundred different issues.</p><p> Instead, Kaufmann paints a history of direct action.</p><p> She sees its roots stretching far back, but marks the beginning of the modern era to the May Day protest in DC on May 3, 1971.</p><p> Themotto of the action was "If the government won't stop the war/ We'll stop the government." Thanks to police action, it wasShare This Book About The Author L.A.</p><p> Kauffman MoreL.A.</p><p> Kauffman has spent more than 30 years immersed in radical movements, as anorganizer, strategist, journalist, andobserver.</p><p> Her writings on grassroots activismand social movement history have beenpublished in The Nation , Mother Jones , n+1, The Baffler , and many … Release Info List Price: $17.95 (Paperback) Published: February 21, 2017 Publisher: Verso Pages: 256 ISBN 10: 1784784095 ISBN 13: 9781784784096mostly disrupted before it began and has been seen as a failure.</p><p> In fact, it rattled the Nixon administration and inspired many with its bold, media-friendly tactics.</p><p> Kaufmann shows feminist/socialist techniques spreading to groups far and wide, ideas and tools such as group consensus, affinity cells and orgs that can plan actions and remain both nimble and harder to infiltrate by the police.</p><p> ACT UP brought a real PR and media savviness to the table.</p><p> Earth First! combined real worldobjectives with a larger statement.</p><p> And again and again groups wrestled with not simply reaching out to other groups (suchas people of color) but to embody diversity.</p><p> The Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization fired up actions on anational and global scale and finally began to connect the dots between police brutality and economic inequality and globalization and the destruction of the environment.</p><p> And thus the splintered issues began to merge again, so that #BlackLivesMatter could be media savvy, take advantage of the organizing skills of other groups, maintain its own identityand broaden the discussion from police shootings of black people to state violence against queers, the trans community andon.</p><p> Kaufmann juggles an endless array of groups, with one protest blending into another.</p><p> Yet she deftly shows whereOccupy Wall Street came from and why they were having those seemingly endless discussions about trivial matters.</p><p> More importantly, she asserts that it may have been swept aside by the state but ultimately inspired many effective and focused Direct Actions with clear objectives in its wake.</p><p> Again, this is not a narrative history of Direct Action filled with stories andpersonalities, which could be thrilling and more engaging to a general readership.</p><p> Nor is it the how-to manual I imagined atfirst glance.</p><p> But it's thoughtful and interesting and ultimately hopeful for those who imagined the days of radical activism were stuck in the distant past.</p><p> And someone should do a documentary film version: most of these protests involved photogenic moments and a film could viscerally and literally link these issues and actions in a way a wide audience willgrasp immediately. -- Michael Giltz What You Say Filter by No Reviews Found ..... about us |faq|advertise |privacy policy |newsletter |contact us ©2018, BookBuddha LLc.</p><p> All Rights Reserved.
