Bucky Buckaw's Backyard Chicken Podcast: Small Flock Chickeners from Little Compton, Rhode Island

(Great episode profiling two girls who raise their own chickens)

Bucky Buckaw's Backyard Chicken Broadcast

Bucky Buckaw has an agenda to replace factory farming with backyard agriculture - one coop at a time. On this episode Bucky profiles two young flock small flock chickeners from Little Compton, Rhode Island.

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Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #7: Conversations and Theory in Practice

Journal of Aesthetics & Protest

Conversations and Theory in
practice. go practice!!!

issue 7editorial
Green is the New Red: An Interview with Journalist Will Potter: by Dara Greenwald

Food Justice Now! by Mark Vallianatos

Two Notes on Art and Class (Composition)

Never Art/work! by Stevphen Shukaitis & Erika Biddle

The Power Class: by Michael Parker

Notes for an Artist Run Credit League: by InCUBATE

Protests Past and Protest Futures: a conversation with Benj Gerdes, Gavin Grindon and Rodrigo Nunes

The Aaron Burr Society: by Jim Costanzo

Between Art and Anarchism; Horizontalism in New Social Practices: Revolutionary Autonomous Communities and Artists For Social Justice: by Sue Bell Yank

Gathering The Fruit Together: a conversation on gleaning with Hynden Walch and Asiya Wadud

The Free Store: by Salem Collo-Julin

Clump Camp, Real World and the web 2.0 Social Remix: a conversation with tobias c. van Veen, Kate Rich and Kayle Brandon

The Participant: Scenes from Time Banking: by Elana Mann

A Conversation: Scott Berzofsky(Participation Park Baltimore) & Jennifer Renteria

(Starlite Swap Meet LA)Coop 57; It Is Possible To Undertake Projects Outside The Market: by Amy Franceschini

web Special* Welcome to the Cultural Goodwill Revolution: On Class Composition in the Age of Classless Struggle: by Marc J Legerweb

Special* gardens of utopia: by Jennifer Breckner, Robin Hewlett, Mark Tribe

A critical look at issue seven: by our intern Lucy Dinnen

To Read Issue #7

Revolution By the Book: Learning from the Movement for a New Society -- An Interview with George Lakey

Learning from the Movement for a New Society: An Interview with George Lakey
Revolution by the Book

In 1971 a group of Philadelphia-based activists formed the Movement for a New Society, a network of collectives dedicated to radical pacifist, feminist, and libertarian socialist politics. Over the next 18 years the organization grew to a peak of approximately 300 members in more than a dozen U.S. cities and made important contributions to anti-nuclear, radical ecology, and gender and sexual liberation struggles. The Movement for a New Society (MNS) sought to combine organizing campaigns that utilized direct action tactics with a commitment by its members to “live the revolution now” by transforming themselves and their social relationships, as well as by living collectively and establishing alternative institutions such as food co-ops. Many movement norms and forms of activism that contemporary anti-authoritarians often take for granted—the consensus process, the use of spokescouncils, internal anti-oppression work, and a focus on prefiguring in daily life the world one hopes to win—were either pioneered or heavily promoted by MNS. In 1988 the group dissolved due to the inhospitable political climate and to conflicts and challenges that arose out of MNS’ own innovative group process and strategy. (Read an historical account of Movement for a New Society here.)

Though its experiences are directly relevant to challenges facing radical organizers today, MNS remains relatively unknown. In the summer of 2008 Andy Cornell and Andrew Willis-Garcés interviewed founding member George Lakey as part of an effort to begin evaluating the MNS experience and drawing out lessons for contemporary social justice struggles.

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