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Loading... Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collectiveby Scott Crow
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When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans in 2005, scott crow cofounded the Common Ground Collective. Without government, FEMA ot the Red Cross, this volunteer organisation built medical clinics, set up food and water distribution and created community gardens. They resisted home demolitions, white militias, police brutality and FEMA's incompetence. crow's vivid memoir maps the intertwining of his radical experience and ideas with Hurricane Katrina's reality, and community efforts to translate ideals into action and resist indifference. No library descriptions found. |
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This book is extremely accessible, even if you aren't very familiar with language used by many US anarchists - crow includes definitions of some radical terms he uses, and does a good job of providing some analysis while he relates his experiences. A fair portion of the last part of the book is used as an overview of what Common Ground was able to accomplish and some of the challenges it faced. At the same time, the heart of this book isn't analysis, but a personal narrative for a public audience. The book is light on critique of Common Ground, so if you're looking for that, look elsewhere. I walk away from this book with some inspiration for what radical projects could look like and some of the lessons learned by crow and his friends, but moreso, I was moved by the capacity an individual has for creating change in the face of extreme difficulty. ( )