EAN: 9780525509707

THE PURPOSE OF POWER - ALICIA GARZA KARTONIERT ...

An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time 
from one of the country s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter Excellent
and provocative . . . a gateway [to] urgent debates. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor  The New Yorker
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time Marie Claire Kirkus Reviews In 2013  Alicia
Garza wrote what she called a love letter to Black people on Facebook  in the aftermath of the
acquittal of the man who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. Garza wrote: Black people.
I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. With the speed and networking capacities of social
media  #BlackLivesMatter became the hashtag heard round the world. But Garza knew even then
that hashtags don t start movements people do. Long before #BlackLivesMatter became a rallying
cry for this generation  Garza had spent the better part of two decades learning and unlearning
some hard lessons about organizing. The lessons she offers are different from the rules for
radicals that animated earlier generations of activists  and diverge from the charismatic 
patriarchal model of the American civil rights movement. She reflects instead on how making
room amongst the woke for those who are still awakening can inspire and activate more people to
fight for the world we all deserve. This is the story of one woman s lessons through years of
bringing people together to create change. Most of all  it is a new paradigm for change for a
new generation of changemakers  from the mind and heart behind one of the most important
movements of our time.

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