Okay, people, get ready: we are making Enough into a book! We’re looking for lots of new essays, so please get in touch if you are interested in submitting something.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism
We created the website Enough in 2008 in response to a yearning for discussion about radical approaches to day-to-day decisions about money and resource sharing. Enough has been a space where people have shared their stories, questions, and strategies about what it means to practice a politics of wealth redistribution in their day to day lives while being immersed in capitalism. We are now compiling additional essays to be published in book form.
We are seeking essays about how we conceive of and live a politics of interdependence, resource sharing, and wealth redistribution beyond and in resistance to capitalism.
Deadline: Feb 15, 2012
More details: Please visit www.enoughenough.org/about
Enough asks questions such as:
What are the various ways we are sharing resources to support community and movement-building?
What does a politics of wealth redistribution look like in the day-to-day, and what are the obstacles to developing conversations about this in political communities we belong to?
How can we build new models of collective support based in interdependence, care, and sustainability?
Topics could include (but are definitely not limited to):
- Strategies for collective income sharing within communities, community emergency funds, sharing of resources beyond money, etc.
- Local currencies.
- Collective, equitable approaches to land and real estate.
- Reparations.
- Fundraising strategies that directly challenge capitalist power dynamics.
- Community-based strategies for supporting mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
- How people who have inherited wealth are redistributing it equitably, and what challenges and opportunities they’ve encountered.
- How people who work together are creating methods and cultures of supporting each other as whole people.
- Exciting models of people dealing with money ethically in activist spaces and organizations.
- Anti-capitalist/anti-racist/anti-imperialist analysis of choices about saving for retirement, buying real estate, taking certain jobs, supporting our communities, etc.
Questions? Email info (at) enoughenough.org
Hi Tyrone – I just wanted to say that I’m really excited that you’re making this into a book and love the topics you’ve mentioned. Hope your move to Maine is going well. I’m not sure you know, but I left GIFT in June and moved to Southern California, also to be closer to my family. 🙂
Capitalism is freedom. Why do you folks hate freedom? What we see today in America is cronyism, not capitalism. You anti-freedom zealots are fighting for more cronyism, not less.
I am against you enemies of human freedom. I will not be your slave!
Think also about network thinking as a lever for massive change:
Y. Rumpala, Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project, 21st Century Society, Volume 4, Issue 3, November 2009, http://www.scribd.com/doc/85760369/Rumpala-Knowledge-and-Praxis-of-Networks-as-a-Political-Project-21st-Century-Society1