The Alchemy of Organizing: Turning Insecurity Into Solidarity

Описание: A lecture by Astra Taylor discussing the impact of insecurity on all aspects of life and the ways in which social movements can utilize shared precarity to transform the world.

She argues that seemingly disparate crises―rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism―originate from a social order built on insecurity. But social movements are beginning to fight back. Taylor shines a spotlight on new organizations, like the Debt Collective, which are developing innovative forms of collective action that offer hope for the future.

Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker, and organizer. She is the director of numerous documentaries and the author of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, and The People’s Platform (winner of an American Book Award), among other works. Her latest book is the co-authored Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, co-written with Leah Hunt-Hendrix. She was the 2023 CBC Massey Lecture and she cofounded the Debt Collective, a union of debtors.