New title from:AK PRESS Py Key Uses ofa Whirlwind Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States Team Colors Collective Uses oF a 5 Whirlwind Market: Politics, Protest Movements cet BIC Code: JPWF haat abe Report Code: NP Published: 4th November 2010 Extent: 252 pages,162mm x 228mm Binding: Paperback ISBN 13; 9781849050167 Price: £16.00 Aw ble: Europe From housing struggles to food politics, from poor people's movements to radical art projects, from the Right to the City Alliance to the US Social Forum, Uses of a Whirlwind explores the current composition of social movements in the United States. With equal emphasis placed on movement history and movement building, Whirlwind is 2 call to action for a new decade of organising Contributors include Robin DG Kelley, Grace Lee Boggs, Michael Hardt, Chris Carlsson, Take Back the Land, Domestic Workers United, the Starbucks Workers Union, Brian Tokar, Dorothy Kidd, and Ashanti Alston. Team Colors is a geographically dispersed militant research collective seeking to provide "strategic analysis for intervention into everyday life". Taking their cue from Debord, Foucault, and Freire among others in the radical academic tradition, their purpose Is to explore questions of everyday resistance, mutual aid, the imposition of work, social reproduction, class composition, community participation and the commons by creating engaging workshops and producing provocatively written documents and articles. Key Selling Points * Academia meets grassroots. « Situationist thought is of sustained interest, both for students and for activists. + Accessible collection with contributors from a wide range of organisations. Trade distribution through Turnaround: ‘Turnaround Publishing Services, Unit 3, Olympia Trading Estate, Coburg Road, London, N22 6TZ tel: 020-829-3000 fax: 020-8881-5088 www.turnaround-uk.com e-mail: orders@turnaround-uk.com