Pan Africanism, Social Ecology, and Intimate Direct Democracy
Channel: Firestorm Books
Date: 22/06/2020

To celebrate the release of "Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy" we hosted a decentralized discussion with contributor Modibo Kadalie. In conversation with Andrew Zonneveld, Modibo reveals the often-overlooked thread of directly democratic politics within the Black civil rights, Black power, and pan-Africanist movements.

Modibo Kadalie has spent nearly six decades as an activist, organizer, teacher, and scholar in the civil rights, Black power, and Pan-African movements. In "Pan-African Social Ecology: Speeches, Conversations, and Essays," he reflects on the sit-ins, boycotts, strikes, urban rebellions, and anticolonial movements that have animated the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. Kadalie demonstrates how the forms of direct democracy that have evolved through these freedom struggles present the promise of a future defined by social liberation as well as ecological healing.

Andrew Zonneveld is an independent scholar, writer, and musician from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the editor of "The Commune: Paris, 1871" and "To Remain Silent is Impossible: Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman in Russia."

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Pan-African Social Ecology: https://firestorm.coop/products/13441-pan-african-social-ecology.html

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