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Social Networks
The Politics of Planning: Conference Organizing as an Act of Resistance
From: Educating for Action
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This chapter is not about how to build stuffy, compulsory, talkat-you-from-a-podium conferences. Rather, this guide walks you through the process of organizing liberatory gatherings that prefigure revolutionary change. In other words, we hope to facilitate the planning of public assemblies where we act in a manner that mirrors the world we want to see created.
Contributors
Jenny Grubbs
Jennifer Grubbs is a doctoral student in anthropology at American University, specializing in race, gender, and social justice. She is currently a coordinator for the Working Group Committee on Humane Research with the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. Her past research includes an autoethnography of Farm Sanctuary, a Marxist-anarchist analysis of animal industries, and a feminist analysis of animal slavery. Her current research expands on the intersectionality of oppression, the animal liberation movement, and the capitalist mode of production. As a vegan anti-capitalist anarchist, she uses her academic position to queer the normative nonsense that happens in the ivory tower.
Michael Loadenthal
Michael Loadenthal is a proud father, anarchist organizer, clandestine conspirator, and academic insurgent based in Washington, DC. Over the past 15 years, he has been involved in a number of anti-authoritarian projects around the world, and presently focuses his energies on developing challenges to the State’s criminalization of dissent. A doctoral fellow and onagain, off-again adjunct, Michael currently splits his time between raising a vegan daughter, researching Statecraft, teaching theory, and agitating for a better world. He regularly publishes propaganda and political theory under a variety of pseudonyms, and is the co-author of the website Thoughts of a Pregnant Vegan.
