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DESCRIPTION:Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online 
 invite.\n\nFor our August meeting we will be reading the first five 
 chapters of Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing 
 Idea, by Astra Taylor.\nSolidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely 
 analyzed and poorly understood. Here, two leading activists and thinkers 
 survey the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of 
 nation, identity, and class to ask: how can we build solidarity in an era 
 of staggering inequality, polarization, violence, and ecological 
 catastrophe? Offering a lively and lucid history of the idea—from Ancient 
 Rome through the first European and American socialists and labor 
 organizers, to twenty-first century social movements like Occupy Wall 
 Street and Black Lives Matter—Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor trace the 
 philosophical debates and political struggles that have shaped the modern 
 world.\nLooking forward, they argue that a clear understanding of how 
 solidarity is built and sustained, and an awareness of how it has been 
 suppressed, is essential to warding off the many crises of our present: 
 right-wing backlash, irreversible climate damage, widespread alienation, 
 loneliness, and despair. Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor insist that solidarity is 
 both a principle and a practice, one that must be cultivated and 
 institutionalized, so that care for the common good becomes the central aim 
 of politics and social life.\nStrike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical 
 book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. 
 Previous readings have included (in chronological order) Doughnut 
 Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its 
 Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The 
 Deficit Myth,  Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium 
 , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The 
 Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing 
 Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn 
 of Everything  A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond 
 Money, Less is More,  Cannibal Capitalism,  Debt, the First 5000 Years 
 , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist 
 Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems 
 that Shape our World, Wealth Supremacy, The Persuaders, and The Path to a 
 Livable Future.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/08/05/18868457.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Solidarity, by Astra Taylor
LOCATION:Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online 
 invite.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/08/05/18868457.php
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