Wind(s) from below:

Radical Community Organizing

to Make a Revolution Possible
Team Colors Collective
In Wind(s) from below: Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution
Possible, we address current organizing in the U.S. in context of the class decomposition
of recent decades. Following the years of fire of the 1960s-1970s international
struggles, we find ourselves circulating through winds and whirlwinds, which are
struggling to intensify and connect amongst historically-specific forms of repression,
capture, and capitulation. Through an inquiry into and analysis of contemporary social
struggles, we argue that the social field is populated with a rich set of organizational
possibilities, all of which are potential and becoming. We argue for a renewed
emphasis on radical community organizing that challenges the non-profit industrial
complex, the self-imposed limitations of activist identity, professionalized organizing,
the limitations of the Alinsky organizing model, and urban-centrism. In their place we
seek to amplify struggles that form through the substance of our own lives and our
own reproduction, create concrete mechanisms and procedures for organizing, and
highlight the importance of becoming-other and becoming-revolutionary to build
movements. It is through these movements that we build a new world, one in which
many worlds fit.

About the Author

Team Colors Collective (Conor Cash, Craig Hughes, Stevie Peace, Kevin Van Meter, and friends)
is a collective engaged in militant research to provide strategic analysis for the intervention into
everyday life. Our purpose is to explore questions of everyday resistance, mutual aid, the imposition
of work, social reproduction, class composition, community participation, movement building, and
the commons by creating engaging workshops and producing provocative written documents and
articles. Currently, Team Colors operates in the United States with members based in the Mid-Atlantic
Region, Midwest, Northwest, and Southwest. Our approach has developed out of our involvement in Published by Team Colors in
community organizing projects, community dialogs, and resistance activities for more than a decade. Association with Eberhardt Press.
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