
From ACT UP to the WTO
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This anthology offers a history of ACT UP for a new generation of activists and students. It is divided into five sections which address the new social movements, the use of street theater to reclaim public space, queer and sexual politics, new media/electronic civil disobedience, and race and community building. Contributions range across a diverse spectrum: The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, Jubilee 2000, Students for an Undemocratic Society, Fed Up Queers, Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Triangle Foundation, Jacks of Color, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Lower East Side Collective, Community Labor Coalition, Church of Stop-Shopping, Indy Media Collective, Black Radical Congress, The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory, Adelante Street Theater; HealthGAP, Housing Works, SexPanic! and, of course, ACT UP itself.
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Stephen Duncombe, an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of New York University, is the author of Dream and Notes from Underground, editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader, and coeditor (with Maxwell Tremblay) of White Riot.
L.A. Kauffman is an activist and organizer.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at the Nation Institute and author of The Shock Doctrine.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword: Creating a new literature for a new era of community organizing
- Introductions: Urban protest and community building in the era of globalization
- Introductory notes on the trail from ACT UP to the WTO
- Part One: Glocal proclivities and the new social movements
- Target practice: community activism in a global era
- A short history of radical renewal
- This city is ours
- How we really shut down the WTO
- Community labor alliances: a new paradigm in the campaign to organize greengrocery workers in New York City
- Students, sweatshops, and local power
- Jubilee 2000 Northwest: breaking the chains of global debt
- An ACT UP founder "acts up" for Africa's access to AIDS
- Part Two: Sex, social justice, and the new queer community organizing
- Radical queers or queer radicals? Queer activism and the global justice movement
- Jail house rocks, "Matthew Shepard lives!"
- From Stonewall to Diallo
- The reproductive rights movement, ACT UP, and the Lesbian Avengers
- From WHAM! to ACT UP
- Beyond patient and polite: a call for direct action and civil disobedience on behalf of same-sex marriage
- Amanda Milan and the rebirth of the Street Trans Action Revolutionaries
- When private clubs serve the public
- Jacks of Color: an oral history
- The city as body politic / the body as city unto itself
- Part Three: Public versus private spaces, battlegrounds, and movements
- Culture jamming a SexPanic!
- Stepping off the sidewalk: Reclaim the Streets/NYC
- Saving Esperanza Garden: the struggle over community gardens in New York City
- At cross purposes: the Church Ladies for Choice
- The Adelante Street Theater Project: theatricalizing dissent in the streets of New York City
- Irony, meme warfare, and the extreme costume ball
- Kneel before Bush! The origin of Students for an Undemocratic Society
- Part Four: Media and the new social movements
- The vision thing: were the DC and Seattle protests unfocused, or are critics missing the point?
- Mayan technologies and the theory of electronic civil disobedience
- The birth and promise of the Indymedia revolution
- "So many alternatives" The alternative AIDS video movement
- Black August continues: an exemplary blend of hip-hop and political history for social justice
- Wednesday, July 12: invasions of three NYC Starbucks
- Part Five: Race, poverty, and world making
- From Los Angeles to Seattle: world city politics and the new global resistance
- Can Black radicalism speak the voice of Black workers?
- The fight for living wages
- Building a healing community from ACT UP to housing works
- Harm reduction in the USA: a movement toward social justice
- The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
- Community development and community organizing: Apples and oranges? Chicken and egg?
- Notes
- Conclusion: Joy, justice, and resistance to the new global apartheid
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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