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Kevin Van Meter is an activist-scholar based in the Pacific Northwest. He is coeditor of Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States.

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A collection of essays and interviews centered around radical movements and organizing in the United States. This book was pretty engaging, and draws from a wide variety of groups, people and issues. I don't believe resistance needs to be organized to change the world, but there is certainly value in the work the people and groups they talk to are doing. Pick up this book and you'll hear from people active around justice for immigrant farmworkers, building takeovers for housing, homelessness, and more. However, echoing some other reviewers, I would have preferred less theoretical analysis and more of a look at how people and groups are doing what they're doing. The exceptional exception to this is Silvia Federici's piece on feminism and the destruction of common property. Not that the other analyses are bad - most of them are fine.

A word of warning - the first essay by a member of Bluestockings collective in NYC is incredibly dense and abstract. I'd recommend skipping it for the first one you read.
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