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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Organizing for justice is an insecure activity. Because the things we are up against, movements for economic, political, or environmental justice, are huge industries, entrenched systems, and habits of thought. How can recognizing shared insecurity spur social change and create a strategy to redefine security?

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Baker believed that the chapters needed to be activated, and she set about transforming them into semiautonomous direct-action units that spontaneously mobilized around local and state issues of concern. involvement in the war in Vietnam, champion a new environmentalism, and further a variety of other public causes.