Friday, 23 Jan, 20:00
You are invited* to a discussion evening with Peter Gelderloos.
The ecological crisis is destroying entire ecosystems and triggering mass extinctions that could become the largest such events in the planet’s history. As a result, tens of millions of people are killed every year, and if we do not change course, billions will die in the coming decades.
Although over the past 15 years we have experienced mass uprisings and radical social movements from below across the world, today far more people remain submerged in despair and depression than are committed to revolution or social change.
At the height of our successes, we often watched in confusion and helplessness as many comrades with whom we shared the streets and assemblies turned to authoritarian or reformist strategies. Even though these have always ended in defeat and betrayal in the past. Many others withdrew from the struggle, too exhausted by poorly resolved conflicts, egos, invisible and never-questioned norms that favor middle-class values, and the lack of care in the face of serious health issues, trauma, and repression.
In the discussion evening we will open fundamental questions of organization, intergenerational continuity, and community relations that enable us to build ecosystems of resistance. Ecosystems that provide us with support and encourage effective strategies of struggle in a time of increasingly dangerous systemic ruptures and ecological crises.
At the event, one of Peter’s many publishers, Active Distribution, will also be present with books. The event is organized by SPA and will be non-smoking.
Peter Gelderloos is a comrade in struggle and the author of numerous books, including: Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below; How Nonviolence Protects the State; Anarchy Works; The Failure of Nonviolence; and Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation.