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DESCRIPTION:\n\nFor our August, 31st meeting we will be reading the first five chapters 
 of Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, by 
 Astra Taylor. For our October 5th meeting we will finish the 
 book.\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/2024/09/04/18869108.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/2024/09/04/18869108.php
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